Chercheur

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slimane.khayi@inra.ma

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Recruitement year at INRA

Research Unit

Scientific Department

Regional Center

Brief Biography and or accomplishements

I'm currently working as researcher at the Moroccan National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). During my doctoral and postdoctoral stages, I worked on the soft rot pathogens Pectobacterium and Dickeya exploring multiple aspects such as genomics, evolution, virulence and ecology. My current projects are focused on the genomics of endemic species Argania spinosa and the date palm pathogen Fusarium oxysporum. For the first area of research, we are taking advantages of the development of NGS technologies and genome-based approaches to highlight the genome patrimony of this precious species. wherase for the FOA, we are building a whole genome reference sequence of the pathogen in order to understant the molecular mechanisms underpinning pathogenicity on the host and to developp effecient diagnosis tools.

List of the recent publications