Dr. Crispus Mbaluto (he/him) is a Senior Research Officer, at the School Life Sciences, University of Essex, UK. Crispus’s Journey So Far While his research focuses on how plants respond to biotic and abiotic stress, and generating knowledge useful to create sustainable […]
Author: Fatima Arshad 2nd Year BSc Microbiology student at the University of Leeds Introduction George Washington Carver is often remembered for his many contributions to utilizing sweet potatoes and peanuts and as a figurehead for African American resilience […]
Bernice Ngina Waweru (she/her) is a third-year PhD student registered at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and doing research at the John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, under […]
Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (she/her) is a Professor in Interdisciplinary Plant Sciences at the University of Leeds, where she is also a UKRI Future Leader Fellow. From Seed to SproutGrowing up in […]
Charlene Kunaka-Dambire, PhD (she/her) is a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is currently working in the lab of Professor Michael Holdsworth, with a focus on understanding […]
Mikhaela Neequaye (she/her) is a British-Ghanaian researcher, currently working as a Research Assistant at John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK). She is working on regulation of plant-pollinator interactions in the lab […]
My name is Dr Osita Williams Nwokeocha (He/Him), and I am a black African from the South-eastern part of Nigeria. I was a lecturer in Nigeria from 2013 – 2018, […]
I’m Maureen, a Black African, Igbo Mum originally from Nimo, Nigeria, and a first-generation highly skilled immigrant. Although there were difficulties at first, living in the UK became easier as […]
Nicola J. Patron (she/her) is a Black British group leader at the Earlham Institute (Norwich, UK). Nicola established her group in 2016 where they work on plant molecular and synthetic […]
My name is Sibongile Zimba (she/her), call me Sibo. I am a Black African, originally from Malawi, southern Africa. I have been in academia since 2012, when I completed my […]