Please join us in welcoming new staff at Biotech, that joined in May 2011 …

Evelyn Katingi
Evelyn will devote 50% of her time to Biotech between May and December 2011 as the information and communication officer. Her main role is to facilitate the Theme web communications and working together with ILRI Public Awareness, draft and disseminate web and print communication products (flyers etc) for the Theme. Evelyn was previously working on the CGIAR ongoing research map http://ongoing-research.cgiar.org. She can be found in lab 8.

Stella Mazeri
Stella is an MSc student registered in the University of Edinburgh supervised by Mark Bronsvoort and Phil Toye. She is in ILRI for close to three weeks to screen samples from the IDEAL project for Brucellosis and Leptospirosis (zoonotic diseases).

William Ritchie
Dr. Ritchie is Steve Kemp’s collaborator on the project BREAD: Basic mechanisms underlying species specific to trypanosome resistance. He will be in ILRI from 9th May 2011 to 6th June 2011 and will be visiting frequently until the end of the project in April 2013. Dr. Ritchie is from Roslin Embroyology Limited (University of Edinburgh) and specialized in cloning and transgenic applications developing micromanipulation techniques. He is best known as the embryologist who, with a team of experts, produced the first cloned lambs from cultured cells, Morag and Megan. The following year he and his colleagues produced Dolly the first cloned animal from an adult cell (source: http://www.roslinembryology.co.uk/page2.html)

Abdul Jalil
Mr. Md. Abdul Jalil (using a micro pipetter), a Senior Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) will be at the CAAS-ILRI joint lab in Beijing for two-month (18th April to the 16th June 2011) training on Molecular characterization of ducks using DNA markers. This training is supported by the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council-BARC, Ministry of Agriculture, and People’s Republic of Bangladesh. In this picture he is assisted by Mr. Wu Zhenyang, an MSc student at the CAAS-ILRI joint lab in Beijing.

Gemeda Duguma
Gemeda is a consultant working with the Biotech Addis Ababa group on the ICARDA-ILRI-BOKU sheep project. He will be based in Bako Agricultural Research Center and will provide technical backstopping to both (Horro and Bonga) research sites. His main activities are to strengthen recording activities and correct record books in those sites.

Tadele Mirkena
Tadele is a consultant working with the Biotech Addis Ababa group on the ICARDA-ILRI-BOKU sheep project. His main activity is to coordinate operational activities of the Sheep project undertaken by the research teams in the study sites and oversee technical and administrative matters

Takele Taye, PhD student, CIDLID Poultry Project based in Addis Ababa
Takele is registered at the University of Nottingham. His PhD topic is “Genomic analysis of disease resistance in Ethiopian village chickens”. His work will be carried out in Jarso, Horro and Addis Ababa. Takele’s ILRI supervisor is Tadelle Dessie.