SIMEON KAYOWA OLATUNDE

Dr
SIMEON KAYOWA
OLATUNDE

Research Fellow
ALL SAINTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
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Biography

Dr Simeon Kayowa Olatunde (PhD) was born and brought up in an ancient town of Ogbomoso North Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria. He recently defended his Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D.) in Microbiology and Immunology at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Sciences, All Saints University School of Medicine, Dominica. West Indies (Caribbean). His Doctoral research focus on Life threatening issues of Antibiotics Resistance and Antigen Antibody Response. Also, he has served as a Graduate Assistant at the same university teaching courses in Microbiology such as Immunology, Bacteriology, Mycology and Parasitology from February, 2019 to April 2023

He bagged his Masters of Technology (M. Tech) Degree in Microbiology with distinction in the year 2018, at the Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Faculty of Science, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria.

He received a comprehensive training on the fundamental of Computational vaccinology & Structural biology for antigen-based therapeutics & diagnostics at the prestigious Helix Biogen Institute, Nigeria. Some of his research breakthrough includes and not limited to Vaccine design for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (MRSA), designing a diagnostic kit for Schistosoma haematobium infection etc.

As a dynamic early-career leader, he became an American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Young Ambassador of Science in 2021, and he is currently representing ASM in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies, facilitating networking, professional development and collaboration to strengthen science globally.

He is highly skilled in Molecular biology techniques such as Molecular analysis of DNA and RNA, Gel electrophoresis, PCR, Protein synthesis, Primer design, Spectrometry, Microscopy, Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, etc. His research interest focus on Microbiology (Immunology), Antibiotic resistance, Immunoinformatics for vaccine design, immunopeptidomics for Diagnostics peptide design. He is the Author of the famous “Identifying Research Gaps to pursue innovative research” currently selling on Amazon.  Being an early career researcher, hungry for academic development, he has published an appreciable number of Papers and Textbook in high impact factor international such as Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis etc., and local journals. He has been invited for lectures/Conference presentations. He is an advocate of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) using some set of coordinated strategies to improve the use of antimicrobials, to enhance patient outcomes, reduce antimicrobial resistance, and decrease unnecessary costs. 

Research interests

Dr Simeon Kayowa Olatunde is a highly motivated computational and structural biologist with a strong interest in applying computational approaches to study complex biological systems, particularly in the field of immunology. My research interests lie at the intersection of computational biology, systems biology, and immunology, with a focus on developing and applying computational methods to study the immune system at a systems level, such Exploration of antigen surface protein for immunogenicity, Construction of chimeric protein structure, Designing a novel Insilco multi-epitope vaccine, Insilco screening of Cytotoxic Cells, B-Cells and Helper T-Cells Epitopes, Immunoinformatics approach to designing new therapeutic peptides. Development of Lateral flow Diagnostic Kits

Projects you're working on

Designing a novel in-silico multi-epitope vaccine against penicillin-binding protein 2A in Staphylococcus aureus

 

Discipline
Bacteriology Bio-manufacturing Bioinformatics Clinical trials – efficacy Clinical trials – safety Epidemiology Immunology – B-cells Immunology – T-cells Immunology – innate Molecular biology Parasitology Protein biology Structural biology
Host species
Dogs Pigs Zoonoses
Pathogen
Bacteria BacteriaChlamydophila ParasitesTaenia solium VirusesHerpesvirus VirusesNairoviruses
Stage of vaccine development
Adjuvants