About me
Samir Debnath, Ph.D., P.Ag. Dr. Samir C. Debnath, a Research Scientist of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and an Adjunct Professor of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, has authored and co-authored around 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals including review papers and book chapters. He has been a keynote speaker and an invited speaker at a number of international and national conferences and meetings and is the IAPB Editor-in-Chief of In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology – Plant. Dr. Debnath was the President of the Newfoundland and Labrador Institute of Agrologists (P.Ag.) and the Canadian Society for Horticultural Science and the Editor-in-Chief of Scientia Horticulturae. He was the Country Representative for Canada and the Council Member of the International Society for Horticultural Science. His research concerns biotechnology-based value-added small fruit and medicinal plant propagation and improvement. Much of his current work focuses on micropropagation, biodiversity and genetic enhancement for high antioxidant containing berry crops using in vitro and molecular techniques combined with conventional methods.