Dr Junji Miyazaki: revealing host plant resistance to cotton pests

Dr Junji Miyazaki's research focus is on the defence mechanisms against cotton pests.

• 22 February 2010 | Updated 24 November 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications

Current activities

Dr Junji Miyazaki's current activities include:

• developing rapid screening techniques for pest resistance
• investigating defence response mechanisms against pest attacks
• identifying induced and constitutive biochemical components in host plants.

Background

Dr Miyazaki began his research career working on tissue culture of mulberry for his Master’s degree at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1998.

He came to Australia to work on bacterial endophytes in Macropidia fuliginosa as a Doctorate candidate at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, in 2002.

In 2006, he joined the Floriculture group in Horticulture unit of the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, working on propagation of wax flowers.

In 2007, he moved to the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics to work on abiotic stress tolerance in cereal crops.

Since 2008 Dr Miyazaki has been a CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellow within the Cotton Management and Improvement team in Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia, working on host plant resistance in cotton.

Academic qualifications

Dr Miyazaki has been awarded a:

• Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan, 1998
• Master of Science in Agriculture, Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2000
• Doctor of Philosophy, Curtin University of Technology, 2006.

See Dr Miyazaki's scientific publications on the next page.