Sonia Gharsallah


Department of Biology

University of Science of Tunis

Molecular Biology Biotechnology and Immunology Laboratory , Tunisia

Sonia came to the Maxwell lab for the first time for five months during the summer of 2004.  Her intial research was very difficult and required additional experiments to complete.  Sonia returned to the Maxwell lab for the four months during the summer of 2005.  Sonia is hoping to create resistance to Geminivirus in tomato by inducing gene silencing. The specific virus she is using to test the method is Tomato Yellow Leaf Sardinia Curl Virus (TYLSCV).

Created: September 4, 2004 by Christopher Martin <ctmartin123@hotmail.com>

Updated: June16, 2005

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