{"cpt":"team","style":"1","columns":"3","show":10,"from_category":["postgraduate"],"order":"DESC","orderby":"none"}
Our Alumni Students
Our Alumni Students
| Name | University | Year | Research Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annet Babiye | KwaZulu Natal University | 2019 – 2023 | Interactive effects of silicon and bacteriophages in control of banana Xanthomonas wilt in East African Highland Bananas |
| Sundy Akello Otieno | Egerton University | 2018-2023 | Molecular Evaluation of Fusarium Wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense) and resistance response in chemically induced banana (Musa spp.) variants from major growing counties of Kenya |
| Mark Adero | Kenyatta University | 2017-2022 | Genetic Engineering of Banana Against Bacterial and Fungal Diseases, Kenyatta University, IITA and Kenyatta University, Kenya. |
| Easter Syombua David | Kenyatta University | 2017-2021 | Establishment of a Platform for Targeted Editing of the Yam (Dioscorea spp.) Genome Using the CRISPR-Cas System |
| Dancun Muchira | Kenyatta University | 2016-2021 | Risk Assessment Studies for Xanthomonas wilt Resistant Banana that Expresses Hrap and Pflp Genes from Sweet Pepper |
| Francis Onyilo | Makerere University | 2015-2020 | RNA interference mediated gene silencing in ascomycete Mycosphaerella fijiensis (black Sigatoka) in banana |
| Temitope Arinola Jekayinoluwa | University of Nairobi | 2015-2020 | Control of Banana aphids through RNAi technology |
| Ibsa Fite Merga | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | 2014-2021 | Transformation and regeneration of Enset (Ensete ventricosum) |
| Esther Wanja Kahariri | Kenyatta University | 2011-2016 | Optimisation of genetic transformation protocol for broad range of banana and plantain cultivars preferred in Africa |
| Kenneth Njuguna Mburu | Kenyatta University | 2011-2015 | Development of bacterial wilt resistant transgenic bananas via Agrobacterium mediated transformation |
| Samuel Muiruri Kariuki | University of Nairobi | 2011-2015 | Development of double haploid bananas through modification of centromere-mediated histone 3 (CENH3) protein |
| Joshua Mugendi Njiru | Kenyatta University | 2011-2015 | Engineering cassava brown streak virus (Potyviridae) resistance in cassava (Manihot esculenta) |
| Abubaker Muwonge | University of Pretoria | 2008-2015 | Enhancing resistance against Xanthomonas Campestris pv musacearum in bananas by co-expressing Pflp and Hrap genes |
| Evans Nyaega Nyaboga | ETH Zurich and the University of Nairobi | 2010-2013 | Analysis of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) stress-inducible promoters and generation of abiotic stress resistance through modulation of antioxidant expression in cassava storage roots |
| Stephen Odhiambo Onyango | Kenyatta University | 2010 – 2103 | Nematode resistant plantain for African subsistence growers |
| Betty Namukwaya | Makerere University | 2007-2010 | Expression of Amphipathic Protein (ap1) as a potential source of resistance against Banana Xanthomonas Wilt |
| John Odipio | Makerere University | 2005-2008 | Development of in-vitro screening technique for banana bacterial wilt (Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum) and establishment of the genetic diversity of the pathogen |
| Catherine Oluwakemi Esuola | University of Ibadan | 2002-2004 | Effects of various strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens on genetic transformation of banana (Musa acuminata L.) cultivar Williams |
| Roseline Tolulope Oso | University of Ibadan | 2000-2002 | In vitro regeneration and propagation of African cultivars of banana and plantain |