Eunice Machuka

Eunice Machuka is a Research associate at the BecA-ILRI Hub supporting capacity building and training of visiting scientists. She has vast experience in molecular biology, bioinformatics and biochemical techniques gained during her durations of employment, research, attachment and internships at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, icipe, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute-Trypanosomiasis Research Centre (KARI-TRC), South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) and Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI).

Eunice has been rigorously involved with regional capacity building activities particularly the Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses on ‘Molecular Approaches to Clinical Microbiology in Africa’. She has a BSc in Biochemistry and an MSc in Biotechnology funded in part by a World Federation of Scientists scholarship and the Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa Network (BecANet) Competitive Graduate Fellowship. She participated in the International Glossina Genome Initiative (IGGI), a consortium of scientists assembling the Glossina genome and has also worked at the KEMRI and Regal Pharmaceutical Limited in Nairobi.

Eunice intends to reinforce her career by following on her research interests to investigate host-pathogen interactions with a view of developing new and/or better intervention methods.