Junrey Amas currently is a Doctor of Philosophy Student, and a Research Fellow at the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture (Plant Pathology) and Master of Science in Plant Breeding minor in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Central Mindanao University and the University of the Philippines Los Banos in 2010 and 2017, respectively. He worked as a researcher in the salinity and problem soils tolerance breeding team at the International Rice Research Institute for 5 years before moving to the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture as a senior science research specialist. His current projects focus on the Mining for novel resistance against Blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans) in diverse Brassica germplasm
Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Batley is a Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia. She gained a BSc (Hons) in Biology from the University of Bristol, and an MSc from the University of Durham. She undertook her PhD studies at Long Ashton Research Station and was awarded a PhD from the University of Bristol, UK in 2001. In 2002, she worked as a senior research scientist at DPI-Victoria. She joined the University of Queensland as an ARC QEII Research Fellow in 2007. In 2014 she moved to the University of Western Australia to undertake her ARC Future Fellowship. She was awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship in 2023 and currently leads a research group in crop genetics and genomics in the School of Biological Sciences, with a focus on disease resistance in Brassicas. She is a Clarivate highly cited researcher. She serves on the Editorial boards of BMC Genomics, Genes, Frontiers in Plant Science, Agronomy, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Theoretical and Applied Genetics and Biotechnology Advances.
