Khalid Amari Baba
Leading Scientist
Dr. Khalid Amari is a senior research scientist at the JKI's Institute for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology and has extensive experience in the field of molecular communication between plants and pathogens. Since 2020, he leads the “Epigenetics and RNAi” team. Dr. Amari has expertise about how plants and pathogens use RNAi and epigenetics for their own purposes. Dr. Amari has been a member of the EPSO Plant Health Working Group since 2022 and the RNAi-based pesticides Expert Group for the OECD since 2021. Dr. Amari also takes part in the German Working Group on RNAi.
