Emmanuel Ogbadoyi

Summary

Emmanuel O. Ogbadoyi, after a B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees in Biochemistry from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom under the supervision of Professor Keith Gull, a leading international expert in trypanosome biology, in a thesis titled "Structural Studies of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Segregation in Trypanosoma brucei". Dr Emmanuel Ogbadoyi is currently a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. A 2015/2016 Fulbright Visiting Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Viginia University, Morgantown, USA, Dr. Ogbadoyi has developed new lines of research in the fields of nanodrug formulations and delivery across the blood-brain barrier and MTT analysis in cancer cells. Main areas of current research interests include drug discovery, regulation of cell death in human cancer and beta cell dysfunction in type 2 diabetes. A Visiting Scholar to the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory of the Kurume University School of medicine, Japan; UNESCO Fellow under the Molecular Cell Biology Program (University of Georgia, USA); Ellison Medical Foundation Fellow twice under the Global Infectious Diseases Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA and then the Training Innovation in Parasitologic Studies, University of Georgia, USA. Selected international training courses/Meetings attended include: Vaccinology in Africa, Accra, Ghana; Nanomedicine in Pretoria, South Africa; Drug discovery at the Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Abuja, Nigeria; New Vaccines for Global Health, London, UK; Accelerating Vaccine Development, Buckinghamshire, UK;Biology of Disease Vectors, Fiocruz, Manaus, Brazil; EMBO Course on RNA Interference and Reverse Genetics in trypanosomes, Nairobi, Kenya; Advanced Course on Bioinformatics and Post Genomic Molecular Cell Biology of African Trypanosomes and Malaria, Kampala, Uganda; Low Temperature Immunocytochemistry and Quantitation in Biological Electron Microscopy at the University of Oslo, Norway. Research supports have come from numerous research grants, including a 5.5 million USD award from the World Bank for the establishment of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, where Professor Ogbadoyi currently leads the drug discovery division. Skills acquired include: Analytical and quantitative PCR, transformation, transfection, plasmid preparation, and DNA/RNA preparation. Others include: Nucleic acid electrophoresis, Southern and Northern blotting, Protein electrophoresis, Western blotting, Various chromatographic techniques, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Fluorescence microscopy, Cell culture (suspension and adhesion cell culture), Good knowledge of aspects of computer. Research accomplishment is evidenced by 70 journal publications (one of which is cited in the publication of the genomes of the three human trypanosomatid pathogens, Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania major by an international consortium that worked on the TriTryp genome project: Berriman et al., 2005, Science 309: 416-422), four invited talks (one in South Africa and three in the USA) and 38 conference abstracts, 25 of which are at the international level. Professor Ogbadoyi has twenty-six years of teaching and administrative experience in the university, including supervision and mentoring of graduate students. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Society for Medicinal Plants and Natural Product Research, International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Nigerian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

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Skills

Basic techniques of recombinant DNA technology which include: Analytical and quantitative PCR, transformation, transfection, plasmid preparation, and DNA/RNA preparation. Others include: Nucleic acid electrophoresis, Southern and Northern blotting, Protein electrophoresis, Western blotting, Various chromatographic techniques, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Fluorescence microscopy, Cell culture (suspension and adhesion cell culture), Good knowledge of aspects of computer.

Professional interests

Drug discovery, Drug delivery, Cancer, Diabetes, Natural products

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