Biography:
Rod Eyles is a Post-Doctoral fellow at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and is based in Nairobi, Kenya. His PhD, completed in 2014, focused on profiling and functional analysis of microRNA involvement in root organogenesis in Medicago truncatula. He is currently working on a collaborative project, with DMSZ in Germany, on development of a VIGS system for cassava for the study of resistance to cassava brown streak disease and cassava mosaic disease. His research interests include plant physiology and disease and in particular the use of RNAi based approaches to plant research.
Title : DeBaser: An online tool for fast RNA-Seq data assembly and polymorphism discovery