Bidur Chaulagain

Nepal Nepal

Co-Founder & Director, Research & Training Himalayan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (HICAST)

Education

~Research, teaching and popular science writing. >>>Works in molecular biology, synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, Fields- plant molecular biology and genetics-light signalling and miRNA biogenesis in arabidopsis, chromosome study in cassia; molecular microbiology and epidemiology of infectious disease: genetic engineering for artemisinin production in yeast cell, and systems biology and metabolic engineering in PUFA production in thraustochytrids and yeast. Worked in research and teaching in Nepal, Korea and Denmark in various fields of life sciences. Writes regular column on science topics for common readers.