Thierry vrain biography

Dr. Vrain is a retired soil biologist and genetic engineer. He spent his whole research career with the Department of Agriculture in Canada.
He was the head of a research group of 40 professionals in Biotechnology, the Vice President and President of national and international associations of soil biologists, and an Associate Editor of several scientific Journals in Europe and in the USA.
His research covered biological control, chemical control and resistance breeding, biochemistry, genetic engineering, and molecular taxonomy of nematodes.

He pioneered the use of non coding ribosomal DNA sequences to identify nematodes. His universal DNA primers were used to identify all plant parasitic nematodes, entomophagous nematodes, and even fungi.
He has published the results of his collaborations with 57 researchers from 14 countries and states in over 200 refereed publications, book chapters, conference abstracts, and technical summaries.
He left the public serv