Wadzani Dauda Palnam, (PhD)'s Linkedin Analytics

Dr Wadzani Dauda Palnam is an academician, mentor, and life coach. He is passionate about research and has over 100 publications to his name. He is currently a faculty member at Federal University, Gashua, Nigeria, where he applies biological, bioinformatics techniques and microbial bioprocesses to actualize sustainable development goals and Agrarian revolution through quality teaching, research, and community development. He has won several scientific awards and grants from renowned academic bodies, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Regeneron, American Phytopathological Society (APS), American Society of Microbiology (ASM), Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India, World Academy of Science (TWAS) Italy and the M.J. Thirumalachar Merit Awards for Young Scientists. Wadzani current research interests cut across plant disease detection and diagnostics, mycotoxicology, isolation and formulation of plants/fungal natural metabolites, agricultural microbiology/biotechnology, multi-omics dissection of microbe-microbe and plant-microbe interactions, novel genes identification and characterization, genome editing and applied bioinformatics. He is a member of many scientific and professional bodies including the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI), Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM), American Phytopathological Society (APS), Nigerian Society of Plant Protection (NSPP), the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and was recently elected as a member, Nigerian Young Academy (NYA) and Royal Society of Biology (RSB), UK. Over the last ten years, he has built strong working collaborations with reputable research groups in numerous and leading Universities across the globe.