Ritah Nakayinga, PhD
My research focuses on developing cocktail phages for plant diseases in Uganda. Phage research is new in Uganda and it would be interesting to form collaborations for expertise, funding, research exchange with similar researchers world wide.
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- Protecting Uganda's banana crops with phages Can phages save Uganda’s banana crops? This week, Ritah Nakayinga, a lecturer and phage researcher at Kyambogo University, shares her work developing a phage cocktail to fight Banana Bacterial Wilt in Uganda's staple crop.
- Phages for Global Health: Building phage laboratory capacity in East Africa Dr. Ritah Nakayinga attended the 4th Phages for Global Health workshop in Tanzania this year. This week she shares her experience at the workshop, its impact on her research, and the importance of phage training like this in East Africa.
