Yousry A. El-Kassaby
Yousry A. El-Kassaby
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Faculty of Forestry
University of British
Columbia Vancouver
BC
Canada
Tel: +1-(604)822-1821
Yousry A El-Kassaby is working in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada. Yousry is Head of the Department of Forest Resources Management at UBC, and the holder an NSERC Industry Senior Research Chair (IRC) in Applied Forest Genetics and Biotechnology. Yousry graduated with a PhD from UBC and has returned here with over 20 years of extensive research and applied forest industry/biotechnology start-up experience under his belt. Yousry’s research focuses on forest tree improvement delivery systems and the use of modern biotechnology and genomics tools to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. He collaborates extensively with BC Ministry of Forests and Range scientists, forest industry practitioners and forest genetics researchers nationally and internationally.
His main research of interest Forestry, Forest Genetics and Biotechnology.
