VALUE OF AWARD FELLOWSHIPS (BRIDGET AITO BOBADOYE)
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VALUE OF AWARD FELLOWSHIPS (BRIDGET AITO BOBADOYE)
- 1. IMPACT OF AWARD ON AFRICAN WOMEN SCIENTISTS Bridget Bobadoye 2011 AWARD FELLOW
- 2. A Career-development Program That equips top women agricultural scientists by strengthening science and leadership skills.
- 3. AWARD is Bridging the Gap by: Empowering and equipping women agricultural scientists by: • • • • Fostering mentoring relationships Building science skills Developing leadership Tracking learning, monitoring, and evaluation
- 4. AWARD Fellowship Winner • Between 2008 and 2013, 2,960 women from more than 450 institutions in 11 countries competed for 325 AWARD Fellowships. • I am one of 73 Nigerian winners to date.
- 5. Providing fellowships in 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
- 6. Ripple effects: 707 scientists in 200+ organizations 270 mentors 112 mentees 325 fellows
- 8. 2. Fostering Mentoring Partnerships
- 9. 3. Fostering Mentoring Partnerships Professor Baldwyn Torto AWARD Mentor Dr. Lucy Kananu Murungi AWARD Fellow
- 11. 3:Building Presentation & Writing Skills.
- 15. Fig 7:Visibility and Networking.
- 16. Advanced science training at world-class research institutions
- 17. 4. Developing Leadership Capacity
- 18. 5: Developing Leadership Capacity.
- 19. ADVANCED SCIENCE TRAINING AT ICIPE APRIL- NOVEMBER, 2013.
- 20. Training Program and Activities. MONTH RESEARCH ACTIVITY APRIL Pollen analysis/ molecular isolation & identification of viral diseases in Honey bees. MAY Field Sampling for honey bee pests & diseases / field and Laboratory Bioassays set up with SHBs/ volatile collection / GC-MS AND GC-EAD analysis. JUNE Rearing of honey bee pests /Pesticide residue analysis. JULY/AUGUS T Bioassay set-ups with stingless bees/ Running of experiments SEPT/OCT Field trips to kakamega forests & kitui for trial experiments NOVEMBER Report writing/ Manuscript preparation
- 21. Activity 1 (April): IDENTIFICATION OF VIRAL DISEASES IN AHBs. DWV is an RNA virus, one of the 18 known viruses affecting bees (Iqbal et al,2007). Viral diseases of AHBs include BQCV, DWV. Honey bee samples were sourced from kitui. RNA isolation was done using the trisol method, phase separation, RNA precipitation and solubilization. Virus strains were identified using cDNA synthesis. Results showed that about 70% of honey bee samples had strains of the virus.
- 22. Fig 8: AHBs infected with DWV.
- 23. Activity 2( May): ATTRACTIVENESS OF BANANA VOLATILES TO SHBs Small Hive beetle Aethina tumida are scavengers found in feral and managed colonies of honey bees (Ellis et al,2006). SHBs feed on bee brood, honey and pollen but will feed on fruits and decaying meat as alternate hosts. Alarm pheromones are volatile compounds released by worker bees in response to a threat. Alarm pheromones (Isopentyl acetate) from bees smells like bananas.
- 24. Fig 11a: Aethina tumida Adults.
- 25. Fig 10: Rearing of SHBs Larvae.
- 26. Fig 11b:Sexing of Aethina tumida adults.
- 27. Fig 12:Volatile collection set-up.
- 28. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- Added five francophone from five countries in pilot program that began this yearIn partnership with AgropolisFondation and CORAF/WECARD
- Currently 320 fellows… but AWARD doesn’t stop there….
- Each AWARD Fellow matched with senior scientist for 1-2 years Access to professional advice on career growth, role modelCreates wide networks Fellows learn to mentor; pass knowledge forwardDr. Elizabeth Ekpo, Director,Forestry Institute of Nigeria How have you benefitted from the mentoring relationship together?
- Wonderful to see more AWARD Fellows/Mentors from ICIPE…Mentors benefit from the AWARD
- Was a cultural experience, too!
- For AWARD’s top performing post-graduates, we conduct an additional competition based on the fellows’ research proposals for attachments to world-class institutions. Thanks to USAID and BMGF, and the in-kind contributions of AgropolisFondation and corporate partners such as Novus, Dow, and Pioneer, African women have the opportunity to learn cutting edge technology and methods, sometimes here in the USA. These opportunities, ranging 4 to 9 months, are game changers, making a difference not only to individual African women researchers, but also to their institutions, and possibly their countries.
- Cultivating a new generation of African leaders in food and agriculture is strategically important. That leadership will be all the more effective when women are highly represented, especially by those technically competent and strategically well placed to generate and promote the innovations needed by rural women and other smallholder farmers. Attending the first Global Conference on Women in Agriculture in India, sponsored by AWARD, helped to build my leadership skills.