Gayandi Ekanayake
PhD student, Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Gayandi Ekanayake started her scientific career at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka where she received her BSc. (Honors) degree majoring in Botany (Plant Sciences) and MSc. degree in Crop Protection and Plant Biotechnology in 2018 and 2020 respectively. During her Masters´s studies, she worked on two India-Sri Lanka collaborative research projects namely, “High throughput genotyping to expedite the genetic characterization and dissection of important agronomic traits of tea” and “Genetic analysis of plant pigments of tea (Camellia Sinensis L.)” conducted by the Tea Research Institute of Sri Lanka.
Gayandi joined the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences as a doctoral student in 2021 for a joint PhD project between the ERA Chair of Combivet and the ERA Chair of Valortech under the supervision of Prof. Alireza Fazeli and Prof. Rajeev Bhat. She is also working as a junior research fellow at the Estonian University of Life sciences. Her doctoral studies are focused on the Purification and characterization of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from plant waste materials and their byproducts, specifically from fruits and vegetable wastes as a novel approach to the valorization of fruit and vegetable wastes.
Gayandi joined the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences as a doctoral student in 2021 for a joint PhD project between the ERA Chair of Combivet and the ERA Chair of Valortech under the supervision of Prof. Alireza Fazeli and Prof. Rajeev Bhat. She is also working as a junior research fellow at the Estonian University of Life sciences. Her doctoral studies are focused on the Purification and characterization of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from plant waste materials and their byproducts, specifically from fruits and vegetable wastes as a novel approach to the valorization of fruit and vegetable wastes.
