Encapsulated Nanomaterial and Plant Interfaces

Dr. Renato currently Vice-Head of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at the São Paulo State University-UNESP, Brazil. He is also Head of the Laboratory of Environmental NanoChemistry at UNESP. He received his M.Sc. (2011) and Ph.D. (2014) in Biochemistry from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He did one year and a half post-doctoral positions at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory-INL (Portugal) and Federal University of ABC (Brazil). His primary research interests focus on environmental nanotechnology based on the development of advanced nano-enabled materials for agriculture, interactions of nanomaterials with natural colloids, exposure, and risk assessment.

Dr. Durgesh Kumar Tripathi is currently an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Organic Agriculture, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. He is the recipient of ‘Dr DS Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellowship’ of the UGC, New Delhi. Dr. Tripathi has received his D.Phil. in Science from University of Allahabad, India. During this period, Dr. Tripathi worked extensively on phytolith analysis, crop stress physiology, agro-nanotechnology and molecular biology. He has expertise on laser spectroscopy. His research interests encompass stress tolerance mechanisms in plants. Presently, he is working with nano-materials and their interactions with plants to find out their detoxification mechanisms, he is also working on Silicon, Nitric oxide and hormonal crosstalk against abiotic stress in plants.