Suha Jabaji

Biography

Suha Jabaji obtained her PhD in 1985 from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada following undergraduate studies at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and graduate studies at Guelph University, Ontario, Canada. Between 1987-1992, she held post-doctoral and Research Associate positions at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Suha Jabaji joined McGill in 1992 and her research expertise deals with genomics and metabolomics of fungal pathogens. Between 2005-2015, she served as the Associate Dean Research of the Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and represented her faculty on many university advisory or task force committees that report to the VP-RIR. She currently serves as Past-President of the International Rhizoctonia Subject Matter Committee whose mandate is to coordinate international effort towards effective communication among Rhizoctonia scientists and promote exchange of resources and ideas among scientists. She also serves on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology.

Research Interest

My research is focused on understanding how plant pathogens invade their hosts on one hand and on the other how they defend themselves when they are exposed to abiotic stress conditions such as oxidative stress. These interactions are interesting in terms of protein and metabolite richness and can serve as models for the development and standardization of high-throughput “omics” methods. This new area of research involves bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics-based methods and is beginning to provide new insights into many fundamental research questions. The ultimate goal of my research program is to generate knowledge that will result in the deployment of improved approaches to reduce economic losses to plant disease while promoting increased productivity and sustainability.