I trained in microbiology at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) in Ogbomoso, Nigeria, took my master's in pharmaceutical microbiology at the University of Ibadan, and my doctorate at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional's Centro de Biotecnología Genómica in Mexico. I held two postdocs — in sphingolipid biology at UNAM's Centro de Ciencias Genómicas and in foodborne-parasite genomics at USDA-ARS Beltsville — and I am currently seeking my next role: employment or collaboration in parasite / microbial genomics, NGS leadership, or a faculty position.
The through-line of my work is simple: most of the biology that matters to public health and agriculture is invisible to the naked eye, but sequencing lets us read it cleanly. I'm interested in the organisms we overlook — soil Stenotrophomonas, predatory Bdellovibrio, the bacteria hiding inside a beef carcase — and in what their genomes tell us about how to act.
In the lab, I assemble genomes, annotate them, and compare them against public reference sets to answer applied questions: which strain is this, what can it metabolise, does it carry antimicrobial resistance, how did it get here. In the field, I've worked with crude-oil-contaminated soil in Tabasco, with textile effluent in Tepetitla, and now with livestock samples from across the U.S.
I also teach. I believe the best way to train a new microbiologist is to run the pipeline in front of them with a real dataset and narrate every choice. My tutorial series on this site is the long-form version of that belief.
Status
Open to roles & collaboration — positions in parasite / microbial genomics, NGS leadership, bioinformatics faculty, or industry R&D
Postdoc II
ORISE Fellow (2024–2026) — USDA-ARS Environmental Microbiology and Food Safety Laboratory, Beltsville, MD. With Dr. Jenny Maloney on Cryptosporidium & Giardia duodenalis whole-genome sequence analysis.
Postdoc I
Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, UNAM (Cuernavaca, Mexico) — bacterial sphingolipid biology
Doctorate
Ph.D. — Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Biotecnología Genómica (Reynosa, Mexico)
Master's
M.Sc. Pharmaceutical Microbiology — University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Bachelor's
B.Tech. Microbiology — Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Languages
English · Yoruba · Spanish (working)
Affiliations
ASM · NSM · Bioinformatics.org
Availability
Collaborations · Tutorial co-authorship · Graduate mentoring
