Yisa Bong

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">Research Project title:</span></strong><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt"> <span style="color:black">Characterization of the nutritional, antinutritional and therapeutic values of some selected edible insects from East Africa.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">Research goals:</span></strong><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">&nbsp; focuses on the nutritional and therapeutic aspects of edible insects commonly consumed in East Africa. Edible insects have been proposed by many researchers as a novel food source that could contribute in solving the problem of malnutrition and food insecurity plaguing especially the developing world. Hence it is of interest to nutritionally characterize these edible insects and seek ways of preserving them so that they could be available for human food.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">Host project and funding:</span></strong><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">&nbsp; <span style="color:black">BMZ and DAAD.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="color:black; font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">Supervisors:</span></strong><span style="color:black; font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">Prof Baldwyn Torto, Dr Sevgan Subramanian,Dr Sunday Ekesi, Dr Komi Fiaboe (<em><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif">icipe</span></em>) and Prof Gyebi K. Doudu, Prof Mohammad Naushad Emmambux (<em><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif">University</span></em>).</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><strong><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">Bio:</span></strong><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt">&nbsp; Yisa completed his undergraduate studies and obtained his MSc in biochemistry at the Univeristy of Yaunde.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>