Dr. Irene Nafula Ogali

Research Officer

Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KARLO)

Veterinary Science Research Institute (VSRI),

Muguga, Kenya

Dr. Irene Nafula Ogali has a PhD in Biotechnology (Microbiology option) from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya. She holds a Master of Science degree in Tropical Animal Health from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Belgium. Irene undertook her Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Nairobi between 1999 and 2004. She joined Kenya Agriculture Research Institute (KARI) as a research assistant in 2005. Irene is currently a Research Officer at KALRO and the In-charge of Molecular Laboratory at the Veterinary Science Research Institute-KALRO for which she has been charged with the responsibility of strengthening and improvement of laboratory-based research at VSRI.

For the past 6 years, Irene has been actively involved in research in avian viral diseases. Irene working as an assistant poultry advisor of the International Network for Family Poultry Development researched on disease constraints affecting commercialized family poultry enterprises on Pemba Island, Tanzania. Latter she was involved in testing the efficacy of the thermostable, I2 vaccine in rural smallholder poultry in Western Kenya. Her PhD project, involved characterization of the molecular diversity of avian paramyxoviruses in Kenya, a project funded by IFS and NACOSTI. Irene has also worked on “Metagenomic Characterization of Viral Diversity in domestic pigeons in Kilifi, Kenya as an African Bioscience Challenge Fund Fellow at BeCA/ILRI Hub.

Irene has interest in the development of vaccines against viral poultry diseases for their effective control. Specifically, Dr. Ogali is interested in development of genotype-matched vaccines against Newcastle disease and Infectious bursal disease

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