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Irin ajo mi si Nigeria | My journey to Nigeria

  • In Mimi
  • 2020-12-19
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This year I had a unique experience arising from my PhD – 2 weeks giving training in Nigeria, by invitation of Prof. Amos Abolaji from the University of Ibadan.

Amos established one the first Drosophila labs in Nigeria in 2014, and in 2017 he co-organized workshop with DrosAfrica – a charity I collaborate with and that you should check out.
I met him after we invited him to our EMBL PhD symposium in 2018. He kindly invited me to be a trainer at a Drosophila workshop he was organizing in Abuja in March last year, and to visit his lab in Ibadan too – to do embryo collections and stainings together, but also to prepare science outreach activities and visit two schools. In this article, I am going to share my experience and perhaps convince you to take on a similar adventure too.

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17.04.2020