Students

DRIP PhD scholar
Human Health Theme

Research project: Applying Individual (agent) Based Modelling to develop an integrated model for spread of Plasmodium transmission blocking symbionts and effects on malaria inciden

Kimutai Bett (Kenya)
DRIP MSc scholar
Plant Health Theme

Stakeholders’ knowledge, attitudes and willingness to adopt insects as feed for poultry and fish in Kenya.

Yisa Bong (Cameroon)
ARPPIS PhD scholar
Plant Health Theme

Characterization of the nutritional, antinutritional and therapeutic values of some selected edible insects

DRIP MSc scholar
Plant Health Theme

Research project: Comparing the economic viability of different business models in Kenya's emerging insect feed value chain

Hellen Butungi (Uganda)
ARPPIS PhD scholar
Human Health Theme

Insect-endosymbiotic spiroplasmas of anopheline mosquitoes and their effects on host vectorial capacity

DRIP MSc scholar
Animal Health Theme

Research Project: Comparing mitochondrial genes of Aedes aegypti strains in East Africa to strictly anthropophagic strains in other continents

DRIP PhD scholar
Human Health Theme

Research project: Assessment of animal and human health risk of a novel sandfly-borne virus and other co-circulating arboviruses in diverse ecologies in Kenya.

DRIP MSc scholar
Plant Health Theme

Research Project: Effects of potent fungal-based bio-pesticide on promising indigenous Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) (J.E.

DRIP MSc scholar
Human Health Theme

Research project: Investigating the effects of endosymbiont Microsporidia MB infection on Anopheles arabiensis behavior in Kenya.

ARPPIS PhD scholar
Human Health Theme

Risk of transmission of yellow fever and dengue viruses by Aedes mosquitos in northern Kenya