Guest seminar – Understanding Host-Parasite interactions: Genetic and immunological insights into Toxoplasma-host coevolution Presenter – Dr. Musa Hassan is currently a Wellcome Trust funded fellow at the University of Glasgow. His research uses methods in genetics, genomics, immunology and computational biology to elucidate the mechanisms that underlie susceptibility to infectious diseases. Currently, his work focuses … Continue reading
Category Archives: Kenya
Registration for ILRI IPM 2016 Nairobi: Dates 4 – 7 October 2016.
Registration for ILRI IPM 2016 Nairobi: Dates 4 – 7 October 2016. # Better Science; Better Lives (Sayansi Bora; Maisha Bora) If you plan to attend the IPM, we urgently need you to: 1. Complete a pre-IPM survey to help us enrich the IPM agenda: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ilri-ipm2016 2. REGISTER to attend the IPM at: https://ipm2016.eventbrite.com · … Continue reading
Contribute to IPM – Take the survey!
ILRI’s internal planning meeting takes place in Nairobi from 4 to 7 October (more information) Help make it relevant and respond to your needs – take the survey! Continue reading
Directorate / Ethiopia / ILRI / Kenya / Official
IPM 2016 4th – 7th October 2016; Registration information
Dear Colleagues Greetings. As indicated earlier in a message by Iain Wright, ILRI will hold its Institutional Planning Meeting (IPM) in Nairobi from 4 – 7 October 2016. The IPM presents a great opportunity for all “ILRI” to know what “ILRI” is doing around the globe. In 2016, the IPM will focus on ILRI’s science … Continue reading
Announcing the 2016 Norman E. Borlaug Field Award Winner!
Dr. Andrew Mude 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation Recipient Dr. Andrew Mude was announced today as the winner of the 2016 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, for his work in developing insurance for never-before-insured communities whose livelihoods depend … Continue reading
Impending changes to your ILRI login
To facilitate improvements to ICT services, the ICT team will be making a change in the way that you login to ILRI systems. The change for users will be, using CGIARAD\Username or your email address instead of ILRI\Username to all services e.g. Email, Intranet, OCS and all other services and systems requiring network authentication. We … Continue reading
Appointment of Assistant Director General, Biosciences – Dr. Dieter Josef Schillinger
It is my pleasure to introduce Dr. Dieter Josef Schillinger, who will be joining ILRI on 1st September 2016 as Assistant Director General, Biosciences. Dieter’s remit will include leading ILRI’s upstream research in animal and human health (including vaccines and diagnostics development), animal breeding and genetics, and feed resources development. Dieter Schillinger is a veterinarian … Continue reading
ILRI / Kenya / Unofficial
Sad news – Demise of ILRI Colleague Dr Alok Jha – Regional Representative, South Asia
It is with deep sadness that I convey to you the heartbreaking news of the demise of our colleague and friend, Dr Alok Jha, ILRI Regional Representative, South Asia. Dr Jha passed on at 3.00 a.m. this morning in his Delhi home. The indication is that Dr Jha died of a heart attack. This is … Continue reading
ILRI / Kenya / Unofficial
KATIN-EJE Presents ALL REQUEST NIGHT – Friday 26th August, 2016
At the ILRI Enkare Club from 4:30 p.m. till late Join us on Friday, 26th August, 2016 Music by QH The DJ Everyone ……… invite your friends Mary Atieno Continue reading
ILRI NEWS BLOG: No one dietary choice is the answer to sustainable development ILRI/Jimmy Smith in ‘The Guardian’ yesterday
Illustration via Twitter. The following opinion piece, by Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), was first published in The Guardian on 16 Aug 2016, in response to an opinion piece published by environmental reporter George Monbiot in the same paper on 9 Aug 2016 (I’ve converted to veganism to reduce … Continue reading
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