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Research/ Initiative Title
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Cambridge & African Collaborators
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African Country
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| 1 |
Establishment of tissue culture and genetic transformation for scalable cowpea improvement in sub-Saharan Africa |
Dr Alison Bentley (Genetics & Breeding, NIAB) and Dr John Saviour Yaw Eleblu (University of Ghana) |
Ghana |
| 2 |
Re-Collecting the Missionary Road: Fieldwork at the Kuruman Moffat Mission |
Dr Chris Wingfield (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology) and Dr Jesmael Mataga (Sol Plaatje University) |
South Africa |
| 3 |
The conservation and livelihood impacts of Uganda's Sawlog Production Grant Scheme |
Dr Chris Sandbrook (Geography) and Dr David Mwesigye Tumusiime (Makerere University) |
Uganda |
| 4 |
Conservancies and Pastoralists in Northern Kenya: Land and Livelihoods in Transition |
Dr Elizabeth Emma Watson (Geography) and Dr Hussein Abdullahi Mahmoud (Technical University of Mombasa) |
Kenya |
| 5 |
Self-employment and family life: A study of workers in Ghana's informal sector |
Dr Brendan J Burchell (Sociology) and Dr Francis Annor (University of Ghana) |
Ghana |
| 6 |
Computational Linguistic skills training at Makerere University
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Dr Andrew Caines (Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics) and Dr Fridah Katushemererwe (Makerere University) |
Uganda |
| 7 |
Identity dilemma of the Rwandan-Kenyan or Kenyan-Rwandan community in Kericho, Kenya |
Dr Andrea Grant (Centre of African Studies) and Dr David Mwambari (United States International University-Africa-Kenya) |
Kenya |
| 8 |
Expansion of Teachers' Roles and Responsibilities in Inclusive Primary Schools in Kenya |
Dr Nidhi Singal (Education) and Dr Pamela Buhere (MMUST, Kenya) |
Kenya |
| 9 |
Epigenetic regulation of sex ratio and variant antigen expression in clinical isolates of Plasmodium falciparum |
Dr Oliver Billker (Wellcome Trust-Sanger Institute) and Dr Bismarck Dinko (University of Health and Allied Sciences) |
Ghana |
| 10 |
Pilot-analysis of Uganda's National Pharmacovigilance database and test-use of the Yellow Card Smartphone app of the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency |
Professor Sheila M. Bird (Cambridge Institute of Public Health) and Dr Ronald Kiguba (Makerere University) |
Uganda |
| 11 |
Targeting Theileria: Identification of novel drug targets against East Coast Fever |
Dr Paula MacGregor (Biochemistry) and Professor Luis Neves (University of Pretoria) |
South Africa |
| 12 |
Unravelling P. falciparum invasion of Red Blood Cells: Assay optimization and application workshop |
Dr Alejandro Marin-Menendez (Wellcome Trust-Sanger Institute) and Dr Silvia Njeri Kariuki (KEMRI) |
Kenya |
| 13 |
Training workshop on nutrition |
Dr Dora I.A. Pereira (Pathology) and Dr Mohammad Ilias Hossain (MRC Gambia) |
The Gambia |
| 14 |
Introductory course in next generation sequencing data analysis and machine learning |
Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Genetics) and Dr Bridget P. Bannerman (University of Sierra Leone) |
Sierra Leone |
| 15 |
Functional studies of a potential blood stage malaria vaccine candidate |
Dr Julian C. Rayner (Wellcome Trust-Sanger Institute) and Dr Jerome Nyhalah Dinga (University of Buea) |
Cameroon |
| 16 |
7th TReND course on insect neuroscience and neurogenetics |
Professor Steven Russell (Genetics) and Yunusa Mohammed Garba (Gombe State University) |
Nigeria |
| 17 |
Is biofilm formation correlated with antibiotic resistance in environmental isolates of Enterobacteriaceae harvested from Kenyan waste water? |
Dr Martin Welch (Biochemistry) and Anthony Waywire Sifuna (Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology) |
Kenya |
| 18 |
Whole Genome Sequencing for understanding food and waterborne pathogens in Africa |
Dr Ankur Mutreja (Medicine) and Dr Karen Keddy (National Institute for Communicable Diseases) |
Ghana, Nigeria, DRC, Senegal, South Africa, Togo, Kenya |
| 19 |
Do seasonal changes in the pharyngeal microbiome influence the risk of epidemic meningitis in the African meningitis belt? |
Dr Caroline Trotter (Vet Med) and Kanny Diallo (University of Ghana) |
Ghana |
| 20 |
Development of low-cost Visible-Light Photocatalyts for degradation of emerging contaminants in water |
Dr Stuart Matthew Clarke (Chemistry and the BP Institute) and Dr Emmanuel Iyayi Unuabonah (Redeemer's University) |
Nigeria |
| 21 |
An assessment of etiology and co-infections in African children admitted with acute gastroenteritis after introduction of rotavirus vaccination |
Dr Barbara Ann Blacklaws (Vet Med) and Dr Charles Nyagoti Agoti (KEMRI) |
Kenya |
| 22 |
Genotyping of Local Ghanaian Pig Populations |
Dr Carole Anne Sargent (Pathology) and Dr Richard Osei-Amponsah (University of Ghana) |
Ghana |
| 23 |
Re-examining the contradictions: women's economic empowerment and vulnerability to Gender Based Violence in Uganda |
Dr Solava Ibrahim (Centre of Development Studies) and Dr Catherine Pauline Anena (School of women and Gender Studies) |
Uganda |
| 24 |
Comparative Bioethics: A framework for culturally-responsive implementation of ethical guidelines for international collaborative research |
Dr Stephen David John (History and Philosophy of Science) and Dr John Barugahare (Philosophy) |
Uganda |
| 25 |
Gendered Experiences; Nostalgia and Memory in Selected Written and Oral Ugandan War Narratives |
Dr Devon E. A. Curtis (Politics and International Studies) and Dr Florence Ebila (School of Women and Gender Studies) |
Uganda |
| 26 |
Legal and Institutional Constraints to the Development of Early Stage Enterprise Financing in Uganda |
Professor Simon Francis Deakin (Faculty of Law and Centre for Business Research) and Dr Winifred Mary Tarinyeba Kiryabwire (Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills) |
Uganda |
| 27 |
Deconstructing Al Shabaab and ISIS: a cross-cultural exploration of news reports on terrorism across the British and Ugandan press |
Dr Ella McPherson (Sociology) and Dr Levis Mugumya (Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills) |
Uganda |
| 28 |
Using advanced genomic analysis to identify viral pathogens in residual diagnostic specimens after routine laboratory testing for haemorrhagic fever causative agents. |
Dr Simon David William Frost (Vet med) and Dr Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney (Noguchi) |
Ghana |
| 29 |
Anti-Plasmodial mechanisms of mosquito gut bacteria isolated from field-caught malaria vectors. |
Dr Frank Jiggins (Genetics) and Dr Jewelna Akorli (Noguchi) |
Ghana |
| 30 |
Synthesis and Application of Visible Light Photocatalyt in Oil Spill Remediation |
Dr Ramachandran Vasant Kumar (Materials Science and Metallurgy) and Dr Emmanuel Nyankson (Materials Science and Engineering) |
Ghana |
| 31 |
Nano-Engineered Water Filter: Processing and Properties |
Dr Laura Torrente Murciano and Dr Michael De Volder (Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology / Institute for Manufacturing) and Dr Ebenezer Annan (Materials Science and Engineering) |
Ghana |
| 32 |
Transmission of infectious disease causing zoonotic pathogens by camel hippoboscids in northern Kenya |
Professor Mark Carrington (Biochemistry) and Dr Joel Ltilitan Bargul (ICIPE) |
Kenya |
| 33 |
Understanding the Roles of Traditional Health Practitioners in the control and care of breast and cervical cancer: Are they facilitators or barriers to early diagnosis? |
Dr Fiona Walter (Public Health and Primary Care) and Dr Amos Mwaka (School of Medicine) |
Uganda |
| 34 |
Integrated soil management to improve soil fertility and function for crop production |
Dr Lydia Smith, NIAB Innovation Farm and EA Innovation Hub and Dr Kingsley Chinyere Uzoma, Department of Soil Science and Meteorology, Michael Okpara, University of Agriculture, Umudike, Nigeria |
Nigeria |
| 35 |
Workshop at the University of Khartoum on Mathematical Research |
Dr Maciej Dunajski (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) |
Sudan |
| 36 |
Africa Science Week - Intensive Workshops at Abdou Moumouni University |
Dr Adam Branch (Centre of African Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies) and Professor Tidjani Alou (Faculty of Economics and Law, Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey) |
Niger |
