Diane M. Beckles is a Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Her research aims to discover genes that influence the postharvest quality of fruit, vegetables, and cereals.
Her expertise ranges from biotechnology, biochemistry and molecular physiology to the structural and chemical analysis of starch as a biomaterial. Dr. Beckles received her BSc. in Biotechnology from University of Sheffield, (UK) with First Class Hons., and her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (UK), followed by postdoctoral training at John Innes Center, (UK), and DuPont Agricultural Biotechnology (USA).
Dr Beckles is from Barbados and is happiest swimming with the green turtles that live in Carlisle Bay, Barbados. (dmbeckles@ucdavis.edu)
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