Nazanin Afsharyan

M.Sc. Project: Genetic diversity of cannabis populations belongs to Iran using molecular markers, 2011-2013.
PhD researcher at University of Bonn

Leila Riahi

M.Sc. Project: Genetic diversity of native cannabis land races and foreign accessions from whole world using morphological and molecular markers, 2012-2014.

Neda Arad

B.Sc. Project: Expression profile of key cannabinoid genes in different tissues and various developmental stages of Drug-type and-non-Drug type cannabis, 2011-2013.
M.Sc. Project: Effect of a pilot drought stress on relative expression of some key genes involved in cannabinoids biosynthesis pathway in a medical cannabis accession, 2013-2015.
GRA at University of Arizona, USA


Maryam Rashidzadeh

M.Sc. Project: Morphological and phytochemical evaluation of Iranian Cannabis sativa accessions, 2013-2015.
RS at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Mahboubeh Mostafaei

M.Sc. Project: Polymorphisms and relative expression of THCAS and CBDAS genes in Drug-type and-non-Drug type cannabis, 2013-2015.
PhD. Project: Putting OMICS data at work towards cannabis breeding, 2015-2020.
RS at University of California, Davis

Nafiseh Skandari

M.Sc. Project: Somatic embryogenesis in cannabis, 2013-2015.
PhD. Project: Genetic manipulation and gene editing in cannabis, 2016-2021.

Maryam Rahimi

M.Sc. Project: Review on molecular markers linked to sex in cannabis, 2013-2015.


Aboozar Soorni

PhD. Project: Genotyping of fiber and drug type cannabis accessions by genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and transcriptome (RNA-Seq) data, 2013-2017.
RS at University of Virginia-Tech

Sara Jalali

M.Sc. Project: Effect of signal compounds on gene expression and related secondary metabolite production in cannabis, 2014-2016.

Tahereh Borna

PhD. Project: Structure, polymorphisms, expression and function of key genes involved in cannabinoids biosynthesis, 2013-2017.


Sakineh Mehrani

PhD. Project: Anatomy of bark and wood fibers and study the Structure, polymorphisms and expression of key genes involved in phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathway in hemp, 2015-2019.



Narges Nemati

M.Sc. Project: Cannabis sex genetics: New molecular markers linked to F/M loci, 2016-2019.


Paniz Parandakhteh

B.Sc. Project: Digital catalog of cannabis germplasm from Iran, 2016-2018.

Shadab Panahi

PhD. Project: Screening selected cannabis/hemp populations towards breeding purposes, 2018-2022.

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