Seethapathy G. Saroja, PhD
Pharmacognosist with interests in ethnobotany, plant identification, botanicals trade, and open access.
About Me
My current position is with National Center for Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi as Post-doctoral fellow. I work on the development of HPLTC and NMR fingerprints for botanicals.
Previous to this, I worked at Morgan State University, as a post-doc focusing on developing DNA barcodes for some of the selected medicinal plants. Before that I was a PhD student in University of Oslo, Norway. With a host of national and international colleagues, I worked on various aspects of botanicals i.e., ethnobotany, value chain, plant collection and identification, development of molecular and chemical methods for medicinal plants authentication.
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Before the start of my PhD, I was a researcher in Ashoka Trust For Research In Ecology and The Environment, and University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, India.