Rosario G. Monsalud
Director, BIOTECH
University of the Philippines Los Baños
Philippines
Biography
She heads the Philippine National Collection of Microorganisms (PNCM), the position she holds since 2001. She is the chair of the Task Force on Human Resource Development (TF-HRD) of the Asian Consortium for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Microbial Resources (ACM). A fellow and former chair of the Council of Regents of the Philippine Academy of Microbiology (PAM), and former president of the Philippine Society for Microbiology, Inc. (PSM), Philippine Network of Microbial Culture Collections, Inc. (PNMCC) and Mycological Society of the Philippines, Inc. (MSP). She was the recipient of the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) award on Biological Sciences in 2013 and the University of the Philippines Alumni Association Distinguished Award for Science and Technology this year. She holds a PhD in Microbiology, MS in Forest Biological Science, and BS in Agriculture major in Soil Science from the University of the Philippines Los Baños.
Research Interest
Bacterial systematics
culture collection
biofertilizers