Professor
- B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
ikechukwu.agbagwa@uniport.edu.ng
+234 8037045315
Science
Plant Science and Biotechnology
Research, teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students of Plant Science & Biotechnology and related departments. The courses I teach are Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology (including Genomics & Bioinformatics, Biosafety, and Environmental Biotechnology), Genetics, Taxonomy, Plant Morphology and Anatomy, Bryology and Algology, Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment and Monitoring.
Plant Taxonomy/Molecular Systematics, Plant Biotechnology (Molecular Biology/Genomics), Biodiversity Studies, Ecology & Environmental Management
"1. University of Ibadan/University of Port Harcourt
WHO/TDR/MIM Africa Research Capability Strengthening Grant on Phytomedicine: ID980046 (1999 – 2001) - Co-Investigator
2. DBT-TWAS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biotechnology: Genomics & Plant Molecular Biology (Ref. 3240240270). Biotechnology Unit, Crop Improvement Division, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur India Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) 2011 - 2012
3. MacArthur Foundation Grant for establishment of “Institute of Natural Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development at University of Port Harcourt Nigeria” (co-investigator) 2011 - 2015
4. UNESCO-TWAS Associateship Fellowship in Plant Biotechnology: Genomics & Plant Molecular Biology (Ref. 32402714474) Chinese Academy of Sciences - Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Beijing China (2013 – 2015)
5. CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Visiting Scientists, Center for Molecular Agrobiology, Institute of Genetics & Developmental Biology, CAS, Beijing China (2015 – 2016)
6. Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)/
Carnegie Cooperation of New York – Postdoctoral Fellowship Mentor 2018 – 2020
7. Seeding Labs, Dorchester Avenue, Boston Massachusetts, USA. 2020
Seeding Labs Instrumental Access grant for Molecular Biology Laboratory equipment
support to Department of Plant Science & Biotechnology University of Port Harcourt.
8. TETFUND Institution-Based Research Intervention Grant 2020 – Lead Researcher
on the Morphology, Molecular Characterization, Identification and Domestication of
Mushrooms in the Niger Delta of Nigeria
9. TETFUND Institution-Based Research Intervention Grant 2020 – Co-Researcher
on Domestication of Gnetum africanum Welw. using classical plant breeding and tissue
culture techniques
10. TETFUND Institution-Based Research Intervention Grant 2020 – Co-Researcher
on Characteristics of Soil Seed bank in an Ecotone: Marginal Land and Riparian
Vegetation and their Dynamics in the Ecosystem
11. TETFUND Institution-Based Research Intervention Grant 2021 – Lead Researcher on Selection of African Yam Bean varieties for better culinary quality and adaptive capabilities to climate change using phenotypic and genotypic approaches
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