Investigators
Members from ICIPE, Kenya
18 results were found
Prof. Christian Borgemeister
Expertise: Entomology, biological control and IPM in temperate and tropical environments and biodiversity conservation.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: dg@icipe.org
Dr. Adenirin Chabi-Olaye
Expertise: An entomologist with research focus on the control of food and horticultural insect pests in the sub-Sahara Africa. Presently, working on the interactions between insect pests and their natural enemies as well as soil fertility properties in different agro-ecosystems. Involved in the development of IPM strategies to control pests with emphasis on forms of biological control (new association BC; expanding the geographic range of indigenous natural enemies’ species or strains, distribution maps of crop pests and their natural enemies), habitat management options (use of trap plants; management of natural habitats and soil nutrients). Additional research is on the impact of climate variability on the pest and their natural enemies, modeling the distribution and predicting the shift in the hosts of the major pests and the stability of the natural enemy activities in major crops.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: achabi@icipe.org
Dr Sunday Ekesi
Expertise: Agricultural entomologist with expertise in evaluation of commercially based attractants and development of fungal and bacterial pathogens for their incorporation into IPM program for suppression of African fruit flies. Mass rearing of fruit flies for use in bioecological studies. Development of an IPM program for fruit tree pests with a focus on mango and cashew to allow for production and export of quality fruits.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: sekesi@icipe.org
Dr John Githure
Expertise: Entomology, parasitology, vector ecology and control. My current focus is on community based malaria control in different ecological systems, project coordination and field evaluation of vector control tools.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: jgithure@icipe.org
Dr Fabian Haas
Expertise: An ABS specialist in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and an Insect taxonomist, with specialization in Dermaptera (earwigs). Working in CBD since 2003 as National Focal Point for the Global Taxonomy Initiative in Germany (NFP-GTI DE), and increasing interest in ABS issues since 2006, with an African Perspective.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: fhaas@icipe.org
Dr Zeyaur R. Khan
Expertise: Habitat management, insect behaviour, chemical ecology. Development and implementation of ‘push-pull’ habitat management strategies in eastern Africa (www.push-pull.net) for controlling stemborers and striga weed and improving soil fertility in cereal crops.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: zkhan@icipe.org
Dr Nguya Maniania
Expertise: Insect pathologist with interest on development of entomopathogenic fungi as biological control agents of insect pests and disease vectors; application technologies; tritrophic interactions host plant/pathogen/insect.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: nmaniania@icipe.org
Dr Daniel Masiga
Expertise: Molecular genetics of hosts, pathogens and vectors with a bias on infections diseases in Africa. My current research focus is on mosquito borne pathogens, and African trypanosomiasis.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: dmasiga@icipe.org
Dr. Samira A. Mohamed
Expertise: Mainly interested in managing the insect pests using IPM approach, with particular emphasis on biological control using parasitoids. Currently involved in developing an IPM package for management of fruit fly, using baiting techniques, fungal application, orchard sanitation and using of egg and larval parasitoids. Also exploring the use of weaver ant in tackling fruit fly problem.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: sfaris@icipe.org
Dr Peter G. N. Njagi
Expertise: An entomologist involved in research on insect behaviour and chemical ecology with regard to insect-insect, insect-host and non-host (plants, humans and animals) interactions. The work involves elucidating mainly the chemical cues that are involved in these interactions with a view to determining whether the cues can be exploited for monitoring and/or management of the target species. Previous and current work on multidisciplinary projects with colleagues has been on various insect species including locusts, mosquitoes, tsetse flies, and parasitoids of cereal stem borers.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: pnjagi@icipe.org
Dr Brigitte Nyambo
Expertise: An agricultural entomologist and IPM specialist in horticultural crops, coffee and cotton; training of trainers and farmers’ group in IPM; development of training modules and materials; and food safety in horticultural production system.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: bnyambo@icipe.org
Dr Remy Stephane Pasquet
Expertise: Everything related to cowpea wild relatives, including diversity and phylogeny, breeding applications, pollination, and ecological risk assessment linked to future GM cowpea.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: rpasquet@icipe.org
Prof. Suresh K. Raina
Expertise: Prof. Raina is a Gold medalist in entomology and genetics. Graduated from Nagpur University India, Conducted Post Doctoral research in Saskatoon, Canada and Montana USA and has many years taught post graduate and PhD level courses since 1971 in the Universities and Research Organizations in Canada, India and Africa. Has written many books, published research papers and project reports for International Donors. He is also engaged in consultancy work and farmer’s trainings for major donors.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: sraina@icipe.org
Dr Rajinder Saini
Expertise: Undertook research at the USDA-ARS-Insect attractants and basic biology research laboratories in Gainesville Florida USA. Specialisation is in insect behaviour and chemical ecology with a focus on bait development and repellents and vectors of zoonotic diseases. He has more than 30 years of working experience with tsetse and has coordinated several research projects funded by among others IFAD, EC, UNDP/World Bank, & Australian Development Corporation.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: rsaini@icipe.org
Dr Rosemary Sang
Expertise: Arbovirologist with special interest in the epidemiology of Arboviral diseases afflicting humans.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: rsang@icipe.org
Dr Abdurabi Seif Abdurabi
Expertise: Plant pathologist with expertise in diagnosis and management of diseases of horticultural crops, IPM training in horticultural crops, and development of training materials.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: aseif@icipe.org
Dr Subramanian Sevgan
Expertise: An entomologist by training and with expertise in the fields of insect virology, especially on baculoviruses and pest management in vegetable ecosystems with emphasis on management of diamondback moth in crucifers and thrips in vegetables like French bean, tomato, onion etc. Currently co-ordinating a program on thrips IPM in vegetable ecosystems of East Africa and aiming to understand the diversity of thrips and their natural enemies, evaluate the field ecology of thrips and develop ecologically sound integrated pest management options for thrips in East Africa.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Dr Baldwyn Torto
Expertise: The application of chemical ecological techniques to elucidate the signaling mechanisms underlying the interactions between arthropod pests and beneficials and their hosts, and to develop these chemical signals into farmer-acceptable tools for their integrated use in pest management.
Website: http://www.icipe.org/
Email: btorto@icipe.org
Africa College members from:
IITA, Tanzania
ICIPE, Kenya
Earth & Environment, University of Leeds
Biological Sciences, University of Leeds
Medicine and Health, University of Leeds