Berhanu Dagnaw Bekele

FULL NAME: Berhanu Dagnaw Bekele

ACADEMIC RANKs: Associate Professor

ADMINISTRATIVE/ACADEMIC POSITION: Department Head of Agricultural Biotechnology in Biotechnology Research Institute and Academic Staff at the Department of Biology, Science College

OFFICE ADDRESS: Wisdom Tower, 4TH Floor, Office No. 401

OFFICE PHONE NUMBER: +251- 934005392

E-MAIL ADDRESS: dberhanu2001@yahoo.com

FAX ADDRESS: None

EDUCATION

Degree

Year of Award

Awarding Institution

Ph.D

12/12/2012

University of Agricultural Sciences – Bangalore, India

M.Sc

15/07/2005

Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India

B.Ed

11/07/2000

Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

 

TRAINING (Selected most important trainings)

The Training Delivered by the staff:

Title of the Training

Organized by

Duration (aca.year)

Place

Hands- on short course on Molecular and Bioinformatics Analysis of Biological systems

University of Gondar and Calgary University, Canada

July 7 – 18, 2013.

 

University of Gondar

The Training the Staff Participated:

Title of the Training

Organized by

Duration (acad. year)

Place

Hands- on short course on Molecular and Bioinformatics Analysis of Biological systems

AHRI and Calgary University, Canada

June 30 – July 10

 2008

AHRI, Addis Ababa

TEEAL, AGORA and Reference Management training workshop

University of Gondar

 

December 05 – 06, 2015.

University of Gondar

           

AWARDS AND HONORS (include date and Awarding organ)

  • None

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Molecular Biology Techniques (Biol. 6512)
  • Techniques in Molecular Biology (Biol. 6033)
  • Advanced Biological Chemistry (Biot. 605)
  • Plant Genetic Engineering (Biot. 611)
  • Environmental Biotechnology (Biot. 621)
  • M.Sc Thesis (Biot.701)

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • Member of Ethiopian Biological Society

PUBLICATIONS

  • Berhanu D. Bekele, G. K. Naveen, S. Rakhi and H. E. Shashidhar (2013). Genetic evaluation of recombinant inbred lines of rice (Oryza sativa L.) for grain Zn concentrations, yield related traits and identification of associated SSR markers. Pak. J. Biol. Sci., 16 (23): 1714 -1721.
  • Berhanu D. Bekele, S. Rakhi, G. K. Naveen, K. J. Pavan and H. E. Shashidhar (2013). Estimation of genetic variability and correlation studies for grain zinc concentrations and yield related traits in selected rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes. Asian J. Exp. Biol. Sci., 4 (3): 391 – 397.
  • Shashidhar H. E., Adnan Kanbar, Mahmoud Toorchi, Raveendra G. M., Pavan Kundur, Vimarsh H. S., Rakhi Soman, Naveen G. Kumar, Berhanu Dagnaw Bekele and Bhavani P., (2012). A book Chapter on Breeding for Drought Resistance Using Whole Plant Architecture - Conventional and Molecular Approach. Plant Breeding Methods. INTECH, PP. 151- 166.
  • Tesfaye Debele and Berhanu D. Bekele (2015). Production of bioethanol from Impatiens trinctoria through microbial enzymatic hydrolysis. Biotechnol.  Int., 8(2): 44-57.
  • Eyob Kassaye and Berhanu D. Bekele (2015). In-vitro optimization of the protocol for micropropagation of plum (Prunus salicina L. var. Methley) from nodal explants. Biotechnol.  Int., 8(4): 132-136.
  • Naveen K. G, Berhanu D. Bekele, Rakhi S., Veeresh G., Kalmeshwar G. P. , Prakash N. B and Shashidhar H. E. (2014). Assessment of genetic variability for iron content in grain of rice (Oryza sativa L.) germplasm accessions and identification of transgressant lines. Indian J. Plant Genet. Resour., 27 (2): 117-122.
  • Naveen Kumar Gande, Berhanu Dagnaw Bekele, Pavan J. Kundur, Rakhi Soman, Rajeswari Ambati, Ashwathanarayana, R. and  Shashidhar H. E. (2014). Identification of putative candidate gene markers for grain zinc content using recombinant inbred lines (RIL) population of IRRI38 X Jeerigesanna. Afr. J. Biotechnol., 13(5): 657 - 663.
  • Naveen Kumar Gande, Berhanu Dagnaw Bekele, Rakhi Soman, Pavan J Kundur, Rajeswari Amabti and Shashidhar H. E., (2013). Evaluation of recombinant inbred lines of rice (Oryza sativa L.) for grain zinc content, yield related traits and identification of transgressant lines grown under aerobic conditions. Asian J. Exp. Biol. Sci., 4(4):  567-574.
  • Rakhi Soman, Naveen Kumar Gande, Berhanu Dagnaw Bekele, Rajeswari Ambati, Pavan J. Kundur, Ashwathanarayana, R. and  Shashidhar H. E. (2014). Genetic variability and correlation studies for grain iron concentration and yield related traits in recombinant inbred lines of rice (Oryza sativa. L) grown under aerobic condition. Int. J. Curr. Res., 6 (3): 5869-5874.
  • Muamba J. Kabeya, Uzoma C. Kabeya, Berhanu D. Bekele and Ivan L. Ingelbrecht (2012). Genetic analysis of selected cassava (Manihot esculenta) genetic pool in Africa assessed with simple sequence repeats. World J. Agric.  Sci., 8 (6): 637- 641.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Research in Plant Biotechnology (Tissue culture, Marker Assisted Breeding and Plant Genetic Engineering)

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

  • Computer literate