12: 00 pm
Lecture and visit by Prof Santhanakrishnan from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Prof Santhanakrishnan, an authority on soil microbiology, biofuels and food microbiology from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India, will visit Rothamsted Research on Friday 10th September to give a lecture on biofertilisers and meet relevant researchers.
To attend
Prof Santhanakrishnan’s lecture is open to the general public but places are limited. If you wish to attend, please contact Julia O’Rourke at j.orourke@uea.ac.uk or phone 01603 591 765 to reserve your place.
Santhanakrishnan is a Professor of Microbiology at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) and has 34 years of experience in soil microbiology, biofuels and food microbiology and has worked on Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for 25 years. He developed a consortium of nitrogen fixing and phosphorus solubilizing microorganisms for increasing the yield of horticultural crops and reducing the use of inorganic fertilizer in India. Prof Santhanakrishnan is now working with InCrops, a not-for-profit, spin-out company from the University of East Anglia, on the evaluation and development of biochar as an agricultural product for the UK.