Meet Karlia Meitha, learn how to grow grapevine successfully

I did both my degrees in Indonesia for undergraduate I did Biology and for my Masters degree I did biotechnology both working in banana My research area now is plant production. I am doing my research on grapevine, the buds, so I am looking why are some buds are not bursting when Spring comes. During Winter they are both - as you can see no leaves at all. But sometimes when Spring comes they are still both - some are not turning into shoots so I would like to know what happened to those -why they are not turning into shoots I chose UWA because basically I like to work in Plant Biology and in fruiting plants and then I searched the whole of Australia and there were two candidate supervisors that I liked but my supervisor here Michael Considine he was very friendly and very supportive from the beginning so I decided to come here The facilities here are very good for example even though not every lab or facilities are in the same place and I sometimes have to go to a hospital but it is very easy to access what they have there even though I am not from that School and overall people are also very helpful here.

I had a very good opportunity last year so because collaboration here is really good so we have lots of adjunct professors coming from overseas universities, well known universities and then my supervisor he also has a good collaboration with prominent scientist from Leeds University Christine Foyer so last year I was invited to visit her lab for 4 months at Leeds Univerrsity which was really good for me because then it expanded my network and then I have more opportunities to experience working in different labs. After finishing my PhD I would like to do some more postdoc research to make myself more mature in Biology research My dream job is to be a lecturer as well as a researcher especially because I'd like to invite more young women to study in science so I think they have to see an example first and then maybe they can be inspired to do the same as myself.

And for science itself the matter that we need to provide more food I think to work with plants, which is the main producer of food is the best thing to do so that maybe later we can feed the world to produce more food for the people. .

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