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Monika Chandani Dayarathne

Editorial Board Member
University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka Member since 2022

Biography

Monika C. Dayarathne is a senior lecturer at Postgraduate institute of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and has obtained her Ph.D. from Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand, and as a visiting researcher at Kunming Institute of Botany, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her Ph.D. degree Ph.D. thesis entitled Taxonomy, phylogeny, and evolution of selected ascomycetes, with particular emphasis on saprobic fungi from marine habitats. She is a skilled and expert individual in fungal taxonomy, fungal plant pathology, fungal biodiversity, Fungal Biotechnology, Secondary metabolite extraction, DNA extraction and sequencing, PCR amplification, Phylogenetic analysis, Divergence time estimation. Accomplish in publishing more than 40 SCI papers during her journey regarding the fungal taxonomy, along with advanced molecular genetics, evolutionary studies vis-a-vis Mycology emphasizing fungi from marine habitats. Further she is a board member, co-topic editor, guest editor, and peer reviewer of number of leading scientific journals worldwide and a curator of the Marine Fungi website and the Sordariomycete Fungi website.

Research Interests

Plant Protection Fungal Taxonomy Plant Pathology Fungal Biodiversity Fungal Biotechnology Secondary Metabolite Extraction DNA Extraction and Sequencing PCR Amplification Phylogenetic Analysis Divergence Time Estimation

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