
Dr. Happyness Gabriel Mollel
Position: Molecular Plant Virologist
Email: happynessgabriel83@yahoo.com
Happyness Gabriel Mollel, a Molecular Plant Virologist, is an Agricultural research
officer working for the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) based
in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She is the principal investigator for pineapple
project funded by Government of Tanzania through Commission for Science and
Technology (COSTECH). Happyness focuses her research studies on the
molecular epidemiology of plant viruses infecting plants, and biotechnology. In the past 10 years she
has been working on biology of viruses causing diseases of various crops; root
and tubers crops (sweet potato and cassava); grain crops (maize) and vegetable
viruses and their associated DNA satellites. She has been also working on
viruses infecting non-cultivated crops. Apart from plant viruses, Happyness has
been working on insect vector on understanding the biological
species boundaries of the African cassava whitefly, B. tabaci and Mediterranean Ipomea whitefly, B. tabaci. Additional, she is as well involved in supervising and screening
various imported seeds for the assurance of GMO elements free.