Kai is a PhD student at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. She works with oats and aims to broaden the genetic base for oat breeding by phenotypic and genetic characterization of novel genetic diversity in agronomically improved historic recurrent selection oat populations. Prior to her PhD studies, she worked as a senior lab technician in the biotechnology department at the Estonian Centre for Rural Research and Knowledge. Her focus there was on marker-assisted selection in crop plants, but in addition, she could try her hands in many other areas such as gene editing with CRISPR-Cas. Her MSc and BSc were completed at the University of Tartu, where she worked on plant-fungal interactions.
Kai Ilves
