Why cassava is a poverty fighter | Laura Boykin | TEDxPerth

Laura uses genetic data to combat a major cause of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. By understanding the whitefly’s evolution and discovering genetic variations in the whitefly species, Laura has developed ways to combat their damaging effect on cassava.

Using genomics and supercomputing, Laura helps smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa protect this most important crop. She also works to equip African scientists with the tools to tackle future outbreaks.

Laura Boykin is an American computational biologist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Australia. She is also a TED Fellow.

Laura completed her PhD in Biology at the University of New Mexico while working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group.

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