Dr. Appolinarie Djikeng

Director of the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Helath (CTLGH) and with close to twenty years of experience leading multi-disciplinary, multi institutional and global research and development programs focusing on agricultural development and human health. Conducted research at Yale University and the J. Craig Venter Institute focusing on infectious diseases, regulation of gene expression, mechanism of RNA interference, functional genomics of African trypanosomes, infections and zoonotic diseases, technology development for multiplex viral genome sequencing and metagenomics.