I'm a microbiologist trained at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, and at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional's Centro de Biotecnología Genómica in Mexico. My work threads through three questions: what organisms live in places we overlook, what they can do for us (or to us), and how do we read that from their genomes. Today I sit at USDA-ARS Beltsville as an ORISE postdoc, running whole-genome sequence analyses on foodborne parasites — Cryptosporidium and Giardia duodenalis. I also teach — because a pipeline unused is a pipeline forgotten.
The cleanest way to understand my portfolio is through three ongoing projects. Each has grown into a distinct body of published work, but all three share a method: sequence first, ask questions once the data disagrees with you.
Whole-genome sequence analysis of Cryptosporidium and Giardia duodenalis — ORISE postdoctoral fellowship at the USDA-ARS Environmental Microbiology and Food Safety Laboratory, Beltsville, MD. Completed Feb 2026; actively looking for the next role.
Identifying the bacterial gene set required to synthesise sphingolipids that provoke virulence — with Otto Geiger's group (bioRxiv, 2024).
Discovery, genome analysis and PAH-degradation profile of Stenotrophomonas sp. Pemsol, isolated from contaminated Mexican soil.
Two Stenotrophomonas strains from a Tepetitla textile effluent that decolorize and degrade azo dyes — an industrial-biotech application in progress.
Naming Bdellovibrio reynosensis sp. nov. — a small predatory bacterium that hunts other Gram-negatives. Part of an ongoing exploration of bacterial predation as biocontrol.
Sequencing is now cheap. Sense-making is not. I write step-by-step tutorials that take a real dataset — often one of my own — from raw reads to an annotated genome, explained as if you were beside me at the bench. Start with Tutorial 01.
I'm open to collaboration on applied microbiology, NGS, comparative genomics and tutorial co-authorship. Students looking for help framing a sequencing project — also welcome.