The mentors and minds behind IBRT
IBRT is a family, or a “phamilia”. Faculty mentors, student leaders, members and alumni all keep the work going.
Prof. Olusegun George Ademowo
Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training (IAMRAT), College of Medicine, University of Ibadan.
Prof. Ademowo wrote the proposal that brought SEA-PHAGES to the University of Ibadan. He chose Biomedical Laboratory Science students because their training suited the work best. He has led the faculty team ever since, and he is known to students as an approachable, father-like mentor.
Everybody should see themselves as people whose value is more than what they themselves think about them, or what others think about them.Prof. O.G. AdemowoInterview, PHAMILIA Vol. 1
Supervision from across the College of Medicine
The permanent faculty team is IBRT’s highest decision-making body. It supervises all research, approves programmes, and reviews collaborations and sponsorships.
Prof. J.I. Anetor
Dr. M.O. Adewumi
Dr. A.S. Bakarey
Dr. T.O.C. Faleye
Mrs. V.O. Ogunleye
Mrs. Ini Adebiyi
Mr. M.K. Raifu
Student leaders through the years
The Team Lead heads the Phage Leaders Forum, leads every SEA-PHAGES annotation and chairs the World Phage Week committee.
Tolulope J. Oduselu
Led the characterisation of six phage genomes and co-designed the virtual training course. He founded PHAMILIA and World Phage Week, was the youngest ESCMID “30 under 30” honoree, and was the pioneer lead of the BAMSSA Research Hub.
Oluwasegun Isaac Daramola
Expanded IBRT into four working groups. He also led the team into SEDRIC, started its Twitter Spaces series, hosted the 3rd World Phage Week and published PHAMILIA 2.0.
Akintade Temiloluwa
Leading the team as World Phage Week becomes a hybrid symposium, with PHAMILIA Vol. 3 due to launch at the event.
The Phage Leaders
Year 2 and Year 3 members chosen by the screening panel. They run the team day to day, deliver training and keep IBRT visible.
Opatola Abdulmujeeb
Adams David
Adediran Benjamin
Adebayo Emmanuel
Ojediran Mercy
Okunade Peace
Alabi Praise
Taiwo Jesutofunmi
Owoeye Williams
The leadership that expanded IBRT
Daramola Oluwasegun Isaac
Adedeji Roqeeb
Akomolafe Ayobami
Adediran Benjamin
Akinfemisoye Oluwaseun
Owoeye Williams
Ojediran Mercy Adedamola
Opatola Abdulmujeeb
The pioneer cohort (2k18)
Eleven 300-level students from the 2015/2016 BMLS class volunteered for the first SEA-PHAGES course. They annotated phage Idaho and laid the foundations that every later cohort has built on.
- Tolulope J. Oduselu (Team Lead)
- Taiwo Anjolaoluwa E.
- Oyebamiji Toba O.
- Ayodele Ifeoluwa E.
- Omolola Comfort M.
- Ojebola Babatunde M.
- Atoyebi Abigail N.
- Lazarus Favour U.
- Olatinwo Samuel O.
- Akinlolu Elijah A.
- Jose Lydia A.
Once IBRT, always IBRT
Graduates in good standing join the Alumni Body. They advise on the Group Development Plan, help with training, edit PHAMILIA, help find grants and sponsorship, and point current members to postgraduate opportunities.
Alumni: reconnect with usReady to start your research journey?
Recruitment opens each year for 300–500 level Biomedical Laboratory Science students at the University of Ibadan.