Kemal Kazan

Dr Kemal Kazan is a group leader in CSIRO Agriculture Flagship and an honorary professor at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) of the University of Queensland. He holds a PhD from Washington State University USA and has been working on the genetics of host-plant interactions for nearly thirty years. Since 1994, Dr Kazan has been a research scientist in CSIRO, working on plant defence signalling and host resistance against necrotrophic fungal pathogens. Dr Kazan was also a project leader during the terms of the two Cooperative Research Centres; CRC for Tropical Plant Pathology and CRC Tropical Plant Protection of the University of Queensland. He has published more than 100 research and review papers in international journals and is a Highly Cited Researchers in Plant and Animal Sciences