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Dr. Fanna Maina

@fanna_maina

@Kstate Alumnus. Genetics. Breeding. Agriculture. Crop Improvement. 🌍 Niger 🇳🇪

Joined November 2014
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Women and Agriculture .... And Feed the Future starts! Land, Crop, Food and Life!

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It’s a wrap! Thanks to all the speakers and participants of the 2024 TWAS Skill Building Workshop in 🇸🇳 and to our supporters @Sida & @BMBF_Bund We are confident that this meeting will spark longer-term partnerships and collaborations to build synergy between African scientists!

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#ScienceCommunication is a pivotal asset for researchers, and participants in the 2024 TWAS Skill Building Workshop are learning how to communicate about their research. The sessions include a hands-on session on photography and an overview of the TWAS Communications Ecosystem

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🧵What does it take to write a winning grant proposal? Victorien Dougnon, Professor at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, shares his advice with participants at our 2024 Skill Building Workshop, supported by @Sida and @BMBF_Bund "The project plan is key, he says 1/7

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"The impact of climate change is affecting our environment and has the potential to destroy our very existence," warns Nana Ama Browne Klutse, a distinguished climatologist at the Department of Physics, University of Ghana, where she also serves as the Head of department.

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"Communication is a game-changer in your career," says Elizabeth Rasekoala, President of @GongAfrican Good news, it is a skill you can learn, and participants in our Skill Building Workshop, supported by @Sida and @BMBF_Bund, will now engage in a communications exercise

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🌍The first networking exercise is underway: participants in our 2024 Skill Building Workshop, supported by @Sida and @BMBF_Bund, are getting to know each other, laying the foundations for fruitful collaborations across Africa Read the news: twas.org/article/connec…

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We are proud to announce the 2024 TWAS Skill Building Workshop in Dakar, Senegal, taking place this week! The event is designed to enhance the scientific skills of African scientists, fostering a stronger scientific community across the continent. twas.org/article/connec…

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We are in Senegal for the 2024 TWAS Skill Building Workshop! This event marks the first-ever combination of two of TWAS’s grant programmes: the TWAS Research Grants Programme, supported @Sida and the SG-NAPI Programme, supported by @BMBF_Bund

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"Get on that plane, girl!" says Elizabeth Rasekoala, President of African Gong: The Pan-African Network for the Popularization of Science & Technology and Science Communication, emphasizing the importance of encouraging women to pursue careers in STEM

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The GCSM and FOFIA teams have spent the last two days training the ADRA technical teams in Ampanihy in southern Madagascar. The training is both theoretical in the classroom and practical in farmers' demo plots. #sorghum #fofia #usaid

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I am hiring a postdoc to work on genomics of parasite adaptation to different hosts #Evolution psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j…


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J’ai l’insigne honneur de vous annoncer que je rejoins l’extraordinaire équipe des membres de @TheAcademy qui décernent les OSCARS. YA RABBI, merci pour cette grâce de plus 🤲Merci à tous ceux qui ont facilité cela.Impossible n’est pas Nigérien🇳🇪

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I am hiring a postdoc to work on sorghum resistance to the parasitic plant Striga. Gates Foundation funded project involving ecophys (especially roots) and genetics. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j…


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Globally deployed sorghum aphid resistance gene RMES1 is vulnerable to biotype shifts but is bolstered by RMES2 acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @UQuisqueyaHaiti @plantgenome @CropAdaptation @cheryvens @ricebrian06 @jevens86 @CropImprovement @EvensEmmanuel1


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🌾 Facing a rising threat from #sorghum aphids, new research tests global host plant resistance (HPR), discovering limited sources of HPR, crucial for fighting aphids. Greenhouse & field experiments + genetic analysis yield strategies for resistance. 🔗acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tp…

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POPULATION GENOMICS: @CropAdaptation from @ColoradoStateU talks genome discovery to smallholder farmers and if are we delivering at @AGBT Ag 2024. #AGBTAg

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GCSM’s support of women farmers, researchers, industry professionals, and business owners is unwavering. We celebrate the women developing creative solutions to global challenges on International Women’s Day and every day. #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion


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Clinique des plantes de l'#INRAN. Si vous avez des plantes malades ou attaquées par un ravageur, vous pouvez amener un échantillon de la plante où nos chercheurs vont faire un diagnostic et donner des conseils.


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Another happy new customer for Alex Kena's QRlabelR at the @CropImprovement @FeedtheFuture annual meeting in Costa Rica -- @isra_ceraas millet breeder Oumar Diack 🌾 Machine and human readable labels for higher quality breeding operations cran.r-project.org/web/packages/q…

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