Felicitas Ambele

<p><strong>Research project:</strong> Biological control of soil-dwelling pests in cacao agroforests using encapsulated CO₂ impregnated with endophytic fungi</p> <p>Felicitas is an ARPPIS PhD Scholar supervised by Dr Sunday Ekesi (<em>icipe</em>). Her research interests include developing biological control strategies against soil dwelling insect pests. She is currently researching the potential of entomopathogenic fungi (<em>Metarhizium</em> and <em>Beauveria</em>) isolated from cacao leaves in combination with CO₂, which termites use to locate food sources, for termite control in cacao as an alternative to organochlorine (cyclodiene) insecticides. She is supported by a scholarship from DAAD.</p> <p>Felicitas holds a BSc Zoology from the University of Buea, Cameroon, and obtained a MSc in Entomology from the University of Ghana, Legon.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>