Ramasamy Perumal

Teaching

• Offered one Short course to 21 graduate students on “Transition from classical to molecular breeding” (Two weeks June 18 to July 04, 2025) at TNAU, India

Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas (since 2015)

·       Offered/offering guest lectures:

-        AGRON 630: Crop Improvement and Biotechnology

-        AGRON 860 – Applied Plant Breeding  

·       Organized Molecular Plant Breeding: Functional genomics, phenomics, and association genetics workshop in collaboration with Drs. Nimmakayala and Reddy, Department of Biology, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV. Arranged travel grants for three graduate students (Kinde Nouh Ketema, Yemane Belayneh and Diriba Chere, Department of Agronomy, KSU, Manhattan) (June 28 to 30, 2017).  (NIFA-USDA funded project)

• Offered a summer short course hands on training for three weeks on principles of plant breeding and genetics to undergraduate students to strengthen Indo-US collaboration and capacity building through institutional Development Program (IDP) (World Bank funded project)

-        Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST):  12students (June, 2022)

-        Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, India: 11students (June, 2019)

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

·       PLPA 616 (guest lectures): Methods in molecular biology of plant-microbe interactions (2008 and 2009) Topics covered - Molecular markers, genetic mapping, QTL analysis, map-based cloning and marker assisted selection.

·       PLPA 623 (guest lectures): Diseases of field crops (2009) - Topics covered: Sorghum diseases, inoculation methods and molecular disease diagnostics.

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India

·       Undergraduate courses (1987-1993): Systematic Botany and Crop Ecology (AGB 101), Economic Botany (AGB 201), Genetics (AGB202), Cytogenetics (AGB 300), Principles & methods of plant breeding (AGB 302) & Methods of plant breeding for pulses, cereals & oilseeds (AGB 401).

·       Graduate courses (1994-1997): Quantitative and biometrical genetics (PBG605) and Advances in quantitative and biometrical genetics (PBG803).