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Dr Dante Adorada

Dr Dante Adorada
Name Dante Adorada
Pronoun He/Him/His
Position Research Fellow (Summer Crop Pathology)
Section Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment (Research)
Office P22-111
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1262
Extension 1262
Email
Qualifications BScAg UPLB , MSc New Mexico SU , PhD Charles Sturt
Languages Filipino (accredited translator)

Dr. Adorada is a Research Fellow in Plant Pathology at the Centre for Crop Health, Institute of Life Sciences and the Environment at the University of Southern Queensland Australia.

He has BSc degree in Agriculture (Plant Pathology) from the University of the Philippines at Los BaƱos (UPLB) in 1987, MSc degree in Agricultural Biology (Plant Pathology) from the New Mexico State University (NMSU) USA in 1994, PhD degree in Plant Pathology from the Charles Sturt University (CSU) NSW Australia in 2013.

He worked at: UPLB, the Philippine Rice Research Institute, NMSU, CSU, NSW-Department of Primary Industries and University of Southern Queensland in plant pathology; the Los Alamos National Laboratory USA in environmental microbiology; Plantek Inc. in hybrid maize breeding; the International Rice Research Institute in abiotic stress tolerance breeding; at NMSU and CSU in teaching plant pathology, entomology and microbiology courses. He is currently at UniSQ doing research and supervising students in plant pathology.


  • Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds) ( 070308 )
  • Crop And Pasture Protection (incl. Pests ( 300409 )
  • Crop And Pasture Production ( 300400 )
  • Microbiology ( 310700 )
  • Mycology ( 310705 )
  • Virology ( 310706 )
  • Microbial Ecology ( 310703 )
  • Microbial Genetics ( 310704 )
  • Bacteriology ( 310701 )

Disease resistance, molecular diagnostics, mycology, bacteriology, crop breeding, plant pathology, environmental molecular microbiology


Australasian Plant Pathology Society
American Phytopathological Society
American Society for Microbiology
Crop Science Society of the Philippines
Philippine Phytopathological Society
National Plant Biosecurity Diagnostic Netwrok


  • Centre for Crop Health (CCH)

  • Crop and Pasture Protection (Pests, Diseases and Weeds) ( 070308 )
  • Crop And Pasture Protection (incl. Pests ( 300409 )
  • Crop And Pasture Production ( 300400 )
  • Microbiology ( 310700 )
  • Mycology ( 310705 )
  • Virology ( 310706 )
  • Microbial Ecology ( 310703 )
  • Microbial Genetics ( 310704 )
  • Bacteriology ( 310701 )