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02/04/2025
KT would like to wish Petra Raitaniemi the best of luck as she leaves us to start a new job! Petra was Project Officer for the charity's African Cowpea Program (ACP).
17/03/2025
The Kirkhouse Trust (KT) is pleased to announce the publication of the Tepary Bean (Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray) monograph. The authors are Dr Saul Eric Mwale and Dr Travis Parker.
This marks the completion of the Stress Tolerant Orphan Legumes (STOL) Monograph series. We extend our sincere gratitude to the authors, and to Dr. Prem N. Mathur and Dr. Robert Koebner, for making this achievement possible.
14/03/2025
The Kirkhouse Trust (KT) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Presidor Kendabie as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Timko’s lab at the University of Virginia (UVA). Dr Kendabie will be contributing to projects both on cowpea and Bambara groundnut. We wish the best of luck to him!
14/03/2025
The Kirkhouse Trust (KT) is pleased to announce that Mr Ba-Ada Sawil, a MSc graduate student from Dr Sobda Gonné's research group in Cameroon, has started his 6-month lab training in Prof Timko’s lab in University of Virginia (UVA). We wish the best of luck to him!
13/03/2025
Many congratulations to Ms Prossy Namuli on her graduation and being awarded the degree of Master of Science in Plant Breeding and Seed Systems from Makerere University. Her thesis is entitled, ‘Identification of new sources of resistance to common bean Anthracnose (Colletotrichum lindemuthianum) among the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris l.) germplasm in Uganda’.
03/02/2025
Congratulations to Dr Lydia Horn and Professor Barbara Reinhold-Hurek on winning the 2024 German African Innovation Incentive Award (GAIIA) Prize, presented by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The GAIIA projects, a collaboration between German and African scientists, focus on developing innovative solutions across a range of areas, including agriculture. Learn more about SPINOFFBam here.
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