Tunja Site
The Tunja Site is ascribed to the Tibaitatá Research Center and carries out work in different innovation projects that allow linking technologies to the agricultural sector, through the Innovation Networks of Livestock and Minor Species, Roots and Tubers, Fruit and Vegetables, and Aromatic Plants. Its objective is mainly focused on contributing to technical change in the agroindustrial sector of the department of Boyacá. Likewise, a network of agricultural technical assistants has been consolidated, using the approach of climate-smart agriculture.
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Director
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Juan Diego Palacio Mejía
- (+57) 60 1 9144677, Ext. 1201
- jpalacio@agrosavia.co
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Agricultural Engineer from the National University of Colombia, Medellín campus, M.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences with emphasis on Neotropical Plant Genetic Resources from the National University of Colombia, Palmira campus, and Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He worked as senior researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, where he founded and directed for 10 years the Tissue Collection. He was also director of ICA’s Laboratory of Genetically Modified Organisms (LOGM, from its name in Spanish), based in the Tibaitatá Research Center. He is currently a professor at the National University of Colombia, Palmira campus, and at the University of Córdoba, Colombia, where he teaches courses in molecular biology techniques, biodiversity, and evolution. Juan Diego has participated in the publication of more than 30 scientific articles.
