Arshni Sanjita Shandil enjoys tackling the challenges that her research assignments at the Pacific Community’s CePaCT bring. “I mainly work in the lab and screen house but would really love to work in the field,” says the married mother of one. Shandil’s research work involves the mass propagation of climate-ready crops for the Pacific Island countries and tissue culture conservation of banana, bele, breadfruit, ginger, taro, sweet potato, and yams.
I mainly work in the lab and screen house but would really love to work in the field,” says the married mother of one. Shandil’s research work involves the mass propagation of climate-ready crops for the Pacific Island countries and tissue culture conservation of banana, bele, breadfruit, ginger, taro, sweet potato, and yams.
Field of Research
Shandil’s research work involves the mass propagation of climateready crops for the Pacific Island countries and tissue culture conservation of banana, bele, breadfruit, ginger, taro, sweet potato, and yams.
Start of a New Journey: Arshni’s Path Towards Becoming a Mentor
Date: March 14, 2018
To kick-off the eighth round of the AWARD Fellowship, a mentoring orientation workshop for the selected fellows and their mentors was held on February 19-23, 2018. The current cohort of AWARD Fellows is truly global comprising 28 scientists drawn from 8 Francophone and 4 Anglophone African countries, Spain, Fiji and Bangladesh. Among the participants at this workshop were Arshni Shandil and her mentor Logotonu Waqainabete from Fiji.