Education

UNILORIN students win $7,500 ISAG grant

Three students of the Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), have won travel grants worth $2,500 each from the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG).

The ISAG grant is to enable the recipients to attend the 39th International Conference of the society slated for July 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.

According to the university’s bulletin issued on Monday, April 24, the supervisor of the students, Dr Foluke Sola-Ojo, said an aspect of the student project won the award for presentation at the conference, adding that the students will be celebrated during the opening ceremony of the event.

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Sola-Ojo stated that two of the awardees, Yusuf Akinkunmi and Abubakar Atolagbe, are Ph.D students, while the third, Owolabi Ayodele, is a newly graduated student.

“Akinkunmi’s award winning abstract is entitled ‘Genetic Diversity and Relationship between Nigerian Muscovy Duck Populations Using the Mitochondria Cytochrome b gene’, while Atolagbe’s abstract is entitled ‘Genetic Diversity in Nigeria Laughing Dove Population Using the Mitochondria Cytochrome C Oxidase gene’.

“Ayodele’s abstract is entitled, ‘Characterisation of Chicken Strains in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State Based on their Phenotypic Parameters, Blood Protein Polymorphism and 18s Mitochondria Genes’,” she noted.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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