Ashraf El Kereamy
Director of Lindcove REC and Assistant CE Specialist
M.Sc. Pomology, Ain Shams university, Cairo-Egypt. 1996
B.Sc Horticulture, Ain Shams university, Cairo-Egypt. 1991
Biography:
Dr. Ashraf El-Kereamy joined UCCE on August 1, 2014 as Area Viticulture Advisor serving Kern, Tulare and Kings counties. On February 1, 2019, El-Kereamy was appointed Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at UC Riverside.
El-Kereamy earned his Ph.D. in Agriculture with emphasis in Grape Physiology and Molecular Biology from INP-ENSAT, Toulouse University, Toulouse, France, and a M.Sc. in Pomology and B.Sc. in Horticulture, both from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Prior to joining UCCE, El-Kereamy worked as a post-doc / research associate on two occasions in the College of Biological Sciences at University of Guelph from 2013 to 2014, studying plant drought and heat stress tolerance in plants, and from 2008 to 2012, studying the genotypes variation in nitrogen use efficiency and plant heat stress tolerance. From July 2012 to October 2013, he held the position of assistant / associate professor in the Department of Horticulture, Ain Shams University, Egypt, where he taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses for horticultural science and served as PI for USA-Egypt joint collaborative research grant between Wyoming University and Ain Shams University (Improving grapevine tolerance to drought and heat stress using safe and eco-friendly technologies). El-Kereamy also worked as post-doctoral scientist in the Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Vineland (April 2006 to February 2008), where he studied the pathogenesis related proteins during plum fruit ripening. Further, he worked as a post-doc at the Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba (2004 to 2006), studying the physiological role of ABA in plants.