University of Tunis el Manar – Tunisia

Consortium partner of the SAGA project

Principal Investigator

Photo of Prof. Faten Gorsane

Prof. Faten Gorsane

Prof. Faten Gorsane leads the research activities of the consortium partner at the University of Tunis el Manar. Her work focuses principally on genetics with expertise in genomics, biotechnology, plant-microbe/plant-pathogen/plant-environment interactions and plant engineering.

Research Team

Prof. Karim Ben Hamed

Professor at Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj Cédria, his expertise focuses on plant molecular physiology and biochemistry, development of culturing conditions for glycophytes and halophytes, development of new stress tolerant plants and quantitative methods to determine stress tolerance of plants, expertise in analytical methods to determine metabolites and secondary compounds

Prof. Hatem Fakhfakh

Professor at the faculty sciences of Bizerte his expertise is principally focused on Molecular genetics, immunology and biotechnology.

Dr. Sonia Gharsallah

expert in microbiology and molecular virology.

Dr. Tarek Slatni

expert in extremophiles plant and improvement of plant productivity under biotic and abiotic stress.