Dr Yasmine Lam

Yasmine Lam is a researcher within the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation at the University of Queensland. Her main areas of interest are using biotehnological tools like gene editing to dissect key traits of interest in cereals to further understand the molecular mechanisms that underpin phenotypes. Currently she is focusses on integrative approaches for leveraging breeding data for biotechnological research and disseminating the influences of genes on various aspects of root system architecture in winter cereals. Overall, she endeavours to form more integrative approaches for crop improvement by looking at ways to harness biotechnlogical tools in a manner that can be utilised not only in crop research, but in crop breeding.