Biography

Moez Hanin obtained his Ph.D. in Biology in the Department of Botany and Plant Biology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 1998. From 1998-2002, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel (Switzerland), working on plant genomic recombination. He is also the director of the Functional Genomics and Plant Physiology Research Unit.

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Research Interest

His research focuses on molecular mechanisms controlling plant tolerance to abiotic stresses, mainly drought, salinity and phosphate deficiency.