The UKM Graduate Centre Public Lecture Series 7/2017: Plan to fail or fail to plan?

Syarahan Umum Pusat Siswazah UKM Siri 7/2017: Plan to fail or fail to plan?

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The UKM Graduate Centre Public Lecture Series 7/2017: Plan to fail or fail to plan?

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SYNOPSIS

Graduation on time or GOT reflects efficiency and productivity of Institutions of Higher Learning in human capacity building. GOT is also a measure of student’s excellence besides having conducted impactful research and having produced publications in indexed journals. The paths to successful and timely completion of a postgraduate degree by research involves making choices, decisions and plans to execute the study.  Choices include the research topic, institution, supervisory committee, peers and mentors. Decisions need to be made based on track record, funding and social needs. You can either fail to plan and plan to fail or be focused and follow the agreed plan to succeed.

BACKGROUND

Prof Dr. Wickneswari Ratnam FASc is a Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), with 30 years of experience in plant genetics and biotechnology. She serves as Head of University, Industry and Community Partnerships at the Faculty of Science and Technology, as well as Chair of Institutional Biosafety Committee at UKM. She is a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia since 2012.

Her research interests are on genetic diversity and inheritance of traits and genes. She has led nationally funded projects on plant genetic diversity, molecular biology of flowering in rattans and functional genomics of wood formation in Acacia hybrid. She has also led national and international research projects on QTL mapping in rice and the genetic improvement of biotic and abiotic stress in rice. She served on national panels, including the Panel for Evaluation and Monitoring of Projects for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Ministry of Agriculture since 2008. She was also among the Consultation on Agriculture Biotechnology for Promoting Food Security in Developing Countries delegates.

Prof Wickneswari is the Chief Editor of Malaysia Applied Biology and an Associate Editor of Tree Genetics and Genomes and of Forest Genetics. She is a life member of the Malaysian Society for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (MSMBB), the Genetics Society of Malaysia, and the Malaysian Society for Applied Biology.

Her publications include book and book chapters (6), journal papers (110) and proceedings (>100) with a H-index of 15 and total citation of 952. She has 6 IPs on New Plant Varieties of rice and one patent pending on lignin gene. Her postgraduate supervision includes 7 postdocs (6 completed), 28 PhD (20 completed) and 33 MSc (31 completed).