Mohamed hijri montreal biography

Biologist

Dr. Mohamed Hijri is a biologist who studies arbuscular mycorrhizalfungi (AMF). He is a professor of biology and research at the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale at the University of Montreal.

Early life and education

Mohamed Hijri obtained his Bachelor’s of Science in Cell Biology in 1994 from the University of Burgundy in France.

He went on to earn his Master’s of Science in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Burgundy in 1995.^[1] In 1999, Hijri obtained his PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Burgundy.

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His PhD project studied the organization of the genetic polymorphism of the arbuscular mycorrhizalfungusScutellospora castanea. He completed his doctoral research at the INRA Dijon Centre in Dijon, France. In 1999, Hijri joined the lab of Ian Sanders at the University of Basel in Switzerland as a postdoctoral fellow. His work in Sanders’ lab focused on molecular gene