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Sheila Okoth

Email: dorisokoth@yahoo.com

Senior Lecturer ,School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi

Sheila Okoth is a mycologist whose research interests include capacity building in mycology for sustainable utilization and development, promoting sustainable land use and biodiversity through utilization of fungal bio-stimulants and bio-control agents in agriculture and forest landscapes, and biosafety from fungal metaobolites in plant and animal products. 

 

Dr. Okoth has worked as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nairobi, Kenya since 2002.  She also holds the position of National Coordinator of the GEF Global project on “Conservation and Sustainable Management of Below-ground Biodiversity Project (CSM-BGBD).”  In addition to this work, Dr. Okoth is a researcher in the Safe Food Safe Dairy Project, funded by the government of Finland.

 

She is a Fellow of the Society of Biology in the United Kingdom, as well as a member of the Kenya National Academy of Sciences.  Dr. Okoth is also a recipient of an African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) competitive fellowship.

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Name: Dr. Sheila Okoth

Country of birth: Kenya

Nationality:  Kenyan

Position Title: Senior Lecturer

Institution: School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi

Contact Address:

School of Biological Sciences University of Nairobi PO Box 30197 Nairobi, Kenya 00100

Email: dorisokoth@yahoo.com

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Specialty Area:

-          Mycology

 

Education:

1999  Ph.D., Mycology, University of Nairobi, Kenya

 

Positions held (since terminal degree):

 

2002 to date  Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi, Kenya

 

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Honors and Awards (since terminal degree):

 

0  Fellow of Society of Biology (FSB), United Kingdom .

0  Fellow of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Competitive Fellowship .

 

A selection of major research accomplishments: Discoveries and first reports

 

 

 

A Selection of refereed journal publications (2002-present)

 

Okoth S. A. and E. Siameto. 2010. Suppression of Fusarium spp. in maize and beans by soil fertility management. Journal of Yeast and Fungal Research. 1(2): 35-43.

 

Maina P. K., S. Okoth, C. N. Njoroge and E. Monda. 2009. Genetic relatedness among Fusarium species isolated from Taita Taveta region, Kenya. Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems. 11(2):337 - 345.

 

Maina, P. K., S. Okoth, and E. Monda. 2009. Impact of land use on distribution and diversity of Fusarium species in Taita Taveta, Kenya. Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems. 11(2):323 - 335.

 

Wasonga C, Okoth S, Mukuria JC and Omwandho CA. 2008. Mushroom polysaccharide extracts delay progression of carcinogenesis in mice. Journal of Experimental Therapeutics and Oncology. 7:147-152.

 

Okoth, S. A. and Ohingo M. 2004. Dietary aflatoxin exposure and impaired growth in young children from Kisumu District, Kenya: Cross sectional study. Afr J Health Sci. 11: 43 - 54.

 

 

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Invited presentations at major international conferences (2002-present-Maximum 8)

 

Research Grants (2004 – present):

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