Adeyemi O O holds BSc (Hons), MSc and PhD degrees in Microbiology. He has been a recipient of awards, such as Postgraduate Fellowship Award, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1990-1992; United Nations University Fellowship (1998); UNESCO Biotechnology Action Council Fellowship (2000), as well as several grants from the NRF, MRC, WRC, ESKOM, RSDFID and ISRAR/APUA. He has 300 publications made of over 195 journal articles; several conference presentations and nucleotide sequences deposited in GenBank in his academic career of over two decades. In 2007, he established his research group called Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research Group (AEMREG) in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology of the University of Fort Hare, and the group is currently made up of about 30 research students at the Honours, Master’s and Doctoral levels. He is President of the South Africa Society for Microbiology (2011-2013), and in November 2013 he was appointed Leader of the Water Resources for Sustainable Development Niche Area at the University of Fort Hare for the next five years. He is also a member of the South Africa National Committee on IUMS, and also a C2 (Established Researcher) rated researcher. Adeyemi O O holds BSc (Hons), MSc and PhD degrees in Microbiology. He has been a recipient of awards, such as Postgraduate Fellowship Award, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1990-1992; United Nations University Fellowship (1998); UNESCO Biotechnology Action Council Fellowship (2000), as well as several grants from the NRF, MRC, WRC, ESKOM, RSDFID and ISRAR/APUA. He has 300 publications made of over 195 journal articles; several conference presentations and nucleotide sequences deposited in GenBank in his academic career of over two decades. In 2007, he established his research group called Applied and Environmental Microbiology Research Group (AEMREG) in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology of the University of Fort Hare, and the group is currently made up of about 30 research students at the Honours, Master’s and Doctoral levels. He is President of the South Africa Society for Microbiology (2011-2013), and in November 2013 he was appointed Leader of the Water Resources for Sustainable Development Niche Area at the University of Fort Hare for the next five years. He is also a member of the South Africa National Committee on IUMS, and also a C2 (Established Researcher) rated researcher.

Microbiology and immunology