Hafiz Muhammad Khalid Abbas
Hafiz Muhammad Khalid Abbas is a postdoctoral research associate working in the field of plant molecular biology at the University of Tennessee, USA. He earned his Ph.D. from Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, and then joined the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences as a postdoctoral Fellow. He has undertaken an extensive study of plant defense responses and plant nutrient quality and uses functional genomics and metabolomics to understand plant-pathogen interactions. He has won one research grant and has published 19 research articles in leading journals including the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, BMC Genomics, and Science China Life Sciences. His editorial and review activities for multiple impact factor journals have made him a distinctive and progressive figure among his peers.