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 Jean Paul Assam Assam is an attached research and teaching assistant in the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I in Cameroon. His duties involve working with both undergraduate and graduate students during research work in the laboratory. As a PhD student, Jean Paul has been trained in molecular biology in the Biotechnology Center of the Universityof Yaoundé I, the Biotechnology Unit of the University of Buea and as a lab Technician in the Mycobacteriology Laboratory of Centre Pasteur in Cameroon. He also holds a M.Sc. in Medical Microbiology (Bacteriology and Virology option) from the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Science of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. His has also served as a visiting lecturer for undergraduate programs in some private Universities in Cameroon including Central African Catholic University, Cosendai Adventist University and Protestant University,where he teaches Bacteriology and Virology. Dora Kilalo is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, Her PhD studies entail identification of viruses causing passion fruit woodiness disease and evaluation of management methods for viruses and their vectors. When carrying out her preliminary work, it quickly became apparent that clean planting material is essentially unavailable. Therefore, her studies have now evolved to include the optimization of passion fruit invitro regeneration to clean and mass produce disease-free planting material. Many small scale farmers in Dora has internalized leadership and mentoring skills taught by the program. Currently, AWARD is supporting her endeavours to advance her scientific skills at BecA-ILRI Hub. Her fellowship research is being conducted with guidance from Dr. Jagger
KehindeOlugboyega SOETAN, obtaineda veterinary degree from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2000. He did an Industrial Attachment with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Moniya, Ibadan, Nigeria in 1995. Kehinde did his mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at the Livestock Improvement and Production Programme Unit of the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Moor Plantation, Ibadan, Nigeria from 2000 to 2001. He obtained his Masters degree at the Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan,Nigeria in 2003. He is currently a Grade II Lecturer at the Department of Veterinary Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University of Ibadan,Nigeria. Kehinde is currently training at the ILRI-BecA Hub on Molecular and serological techniques for the diagnosis of livestock pathogens, genotyping methods and bioinformatics. He plans to use the skills acquired from the training to complement his teaching of the students at the University to take part in capacity building in biotechnology in Nigeria.  Abraham Mayoke is from Congo-Brazzaville, and has a BSc in Natural Sciences from Marien Ngouabi University where he was introduced to Biological Research Initiative and Teacher training. After his degree he was attached to a trypanosomiasis project at National Laboratory of Public Health (Louis PastorInstitute)-Brazzaville. Currently he is a post-graduate student doing an MSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, faculty of Sciences at Egerton University. His studies are funded by BecANet and he is attached to KARI-Trypanosomiasis Research Centre. He is currently undertaking his project research at the BecA-ILRI Hub under the supervision of Dr Rob Skilton from the BecA-ILRI Hub, Dr Paul Mireji from Egerton University and Dr Johnson Ouma and Dr Grace Murilla from KARI-TRC. Abraham's area of research is onTrypanosomiasis Eradication and Tsetse Control which is one of the goals for Biosciences Eastern and central Africa Network (BecANet) programme. His research project is to study the diversity of a gene encoding, anti microbial peptide in tsetse fly populations in Kenya and torelate peptide polymorphosis with trypanosome infections. Abraham hopes to learn new tools such as RT-PCR, gene cloning, gene sequencing, Trypanosome diagnosis using PCR, and bioinformatics.  Juliette Nahjella Nyonka is a M.Sc. student in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Faculty of Science,University of Buea, Cameroon. She is currently undertaking M.Sc. studies in Microbiology and doing research work on tuberculosis. She has served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for a year at the University of Buea. She has also received training in two different medical diagnostic laboratories in Buea giving her some experience in medical diagnostics procedures. Currently, she is at the ILRI-BecA Hub, to do genotyping of the DNA obtained from mycobacterium isolates. This work is under the supervision of Prof Vincent P. K. Titanji and Dr. Anyangwe Irene of the University of Buea. At the Hub; she is under the supervision of Dr. Rob Skilton and Dr. Roger Pelle. During her time at the Hub, Juliette will learn molecular methods used in genotyping of Mycobaterium tuberculosis complex strains among other molecular techniques. She hopes to finish up her masters degree and pursue doctoral studies in Mycobacteriology which will increase the available knowledge on tuberculosis, currently a serious public health problem and bring about strategies that will enable the problem to be better addressed.
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