Dr. Ravi Bodampalli Anjanappa is a senior assistant with Prof. Dr. Sam Zeeman, Plant Biochemistry group (formaly Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Gruissem, Plant Biotechnology group), Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, ETH Zurich. He holds a BSc (Agriculture) and a MSc (Plant Biotechnology) from the University of Agriculture Sciences, Bangalore, India. He obtained his PhD from the Plant Biotechnology, Department of Biology, ETHZ Zurich, Switzerland. During his PhD, he identified cassava varieties that are resistant to cassava brown streak viruses (CBSVs), and characterized the transcriptome response at an early time point of CBSVs infection to identify virus-host interactions. Ravi is an expert in plant tissue culture and leads the high-throughput cassava transformation pipeline. Besides his interests in producing larger storage roots of cassava, he has an interest in improving carbohydrate storage capacity and increase nutritional value.