My name is Ruth Schaffer and I'll be keeping you updated on the latest news and developments in Biotechnology. Shortly after finishing my Bachelor's Degree in biology, I spent two years teaching General Biology, General Microbiology and Food Microbiology laboratory courses at the University of the Philippines. After a short stint working in the industry as a quality control analyst, I spent more than five years at the International Rice Research Institute, doing microbiological and biochemical studies of rice paddy soils. Simultaneousl with my job at IRRI, I worked on my Masters Degree in Microbiology, which was awarded in 2001. Currently, I am with the Institute of Applied Microbiology at the Justus Liebig University in Germany, working on a project which aims to identify and characterize iron-reducing bacteria from marine sediments.

Although I am a scientist by profession, I am also a wife and a mother to a precocious 3 yr-old, an editor of a webzine and an Asian travel blogger.

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