Dr. Alina Wagiran

Alina Wagiran is associate professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Her research focuses on the plant sciences area, covering plant tissue culture and micropropagation, especially for rice and other medicinal plants for genetic transformation. She is also interested in the application of plant DNA barcoding and high-resolution melting analysis on the authentication of herbal medicinal products from Eurcyoma longifolia, Labisia pumila, Ficus spp. and Phaleria macrocarpa and several other plants for biodiversity and conservation studies. The application of molecular phylogeny and secondary structure prediction using DNA barcodes are also a new area that she is interested in. In both of areas, she has published more than 30 journals and several book chapters. When she is not busy reading about plant sciences research, she enjoys gardening and doing artwork with dried plants.