Search relates to :	Action A (classic collaboration research projects)
Looking for :	a partner (for my project)
Title :	Prof
Name :	Kenneth Yongabi
Country :	Nigeria, West Africa
Institute name :	Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki
Department / section :	Biotechnology
E-mail :	yongabika@yahoo.com
Telephone :	+237 675266162
Web address :	https://www.ebsu.edu.ng/ACE-Staff/visual_logo.php
Link to research gate or equivalent :	https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kenneth_Yongabi2
My expertise / skills :	Professor of Biotechnology in the Department of Biotechnology Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. He is currently the Director and founder of Phytobiotechnology Research Foundation Institute, Cameroon for close to 11 years, which has a strategic educational, research and development partnership with Ebonyi State University. Professor Yongabi obtained his B.Sc Tech. and M.Sc in Medical/Clinical Microbiology at AbubakarTafawaBalewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria in 1999. A Ph.D holder in Public Health and Tropical Infectiology, Honululu, USA and PhD in Biological and Public Health Engineering from the school of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia under the Australian International Post Graduate Scholarship award. In 2002, he was awarded an Australian Crawford fellowship award and he studied Integrated Biosystems and anaerobic digester biotechnology for 3 months. In 2008, Yongabi was admitted as a practicing Naturopathic medicine doctor and member of the American Naturopathic Medical Association with license to practice Alternative and Complementary Medicine. In 2013, he was appointed honorary fellow at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, for 3 months, in the department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, school of Medicine and Public Health where he worked on Toxoplasma and plasmodium mouse models. He has more than 100 publications which include 95 refereed peer review journal articles, 2 books and 6 book chapters in Springer and in the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support systems (EOLSS) describing his pioneering work and Founder of Phytobiotechnology.
Disciplines the partner(s) should work on :	Biotechnology
Keywords :	bioactiva, bryophyte, bryobiotechnology, human, animal, plant, diseases.
Project description :	The “BioActivaAfrika” project, a mega cross country, multiregional project that seek to exploit endangered and orphan bioresources (Bryophytes and edible insects) uses through bio-products development for improved lives, job creation, biodiversity conservation, capacity building and sustainable development in Africa. It seeks to establish a huge network of muldisciplinary research in Central, West Africa and Europe on bryophytes (Lower plants) and edible insect (entomophagy) exploitation across Africa and Europe. To contribute to Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, the exploitation of bryophytes and edible insects and development of novel bio-products holds a huge potential to improve agriculture (food and feed), health, creates jobs and catalyze ecological development in both resource limited and developed countries while charting a new route for biodiversity conservation. Statistics reveal more than 70% of people in sub Saharan Africa practice subsistent agriculture while in Europe, ecological agriculture is yet to reach 50%. More than 35% of the crops are affected by pests and pathogens with more than 75% of crops lost due to poor preservation and post harvest losses. In the animal husbandry sector, small scale poultry farming and pork is widespread, but farmers do not make significant profit due to high cost of feed and disease epidemic in animals that bring about losses due to high mortality. Significant expenditure in the purchase of antibiotics and feed also exacerbates the animal husbandry the world over. In the western countries, most human and a
Networking opportunities :	Third International Biotechonology Conference on Biotechnology, Dubai, April 2019.