Felipe Sarmiento Salazar, PhD

Flowering modulation in Cannabis sp. by night
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June 19, 2024 11:00AM MT

Dr. Felipe Sarmiento Salazar is a biologist graduated from the Universidad de los Andes, doctor in Biology from the University of Freiburg and professor at the Department of Biology of the National University of Colombia since 2016. Professor Sarmiento has extensive experience in plant molecular biology and plant response to biotic and abiotic stimuli, in model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and in plants of commercial interest such as potato, cannabis, Passiflora and cassava. In Cannabis sp., he has supervised master’s theses and undergraduate projects on phenotypic and molecular characterization of Cannabis accessions and physiological and molecular responses of the plant to photoperiod. He currently coordinates the epigenetics discussion group and focuses his research on the analysis of priming and memory phenomena in plants in response to biotic and abiotic stimuli.

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