James Wainaina

James Wainaina

James Wainaina

Postdoctoral Scholar

wainaina.4@osu.edu

614-247-1623

Room 944, Riffe Building
496 W 12th Ave,
Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Phylogenetics
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Genomics

Education

  • B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Nairobi, Kenya 2007
  • M.S. in Biotechnology, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya, 2011
  • Ph.D., University of Western Australia, 2019

Lab: Matthew Sullivan

 

Awards

  • American Society of Naturalists Travel grant. To attend the II Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology Montpellier, France, August 18-22, 2018
  • PhD Scholarship. The University of Western Australia, 2015-2018

 

Selected Publications

Zhong., Rapp, JZ., Wainaina, JM, Solonenko, NE., Maughan, H., Carpenter, SD., Cooper, ZS., Jang, HB., Bolduc, B., Deming, JW., Sullivan,MB 2020. Viral Ecogenomics of Arctic Cryopeg Brine and Sea Ice. mSystems 5: e00246-20

Wainaina JM, Kubatko, L., Harvey, J., Ateka, E., Makori, T., Karanja, D., Boykin, LM., Kehoe, MA 2019 Evolutionary insights into Bean common mosaic necrosis virus and Cowpea aphid borne mosaic virus. PeerJ 7: e6297 

Wainaina JM, Ateka E, Makori T, Kehoe MA, Boykin LM. 2019. A metagenomic study of DNA viruses from samples of local varieties of common bean in KenyaPeerJ 7: e6465 

Wainaina JM, Ateka, E., Makori, T., Kehoe, M. Boykin, L. M., 2018 Phylogenomic relationship and evolutionary insights of sweet potato viruses from the western highlands of Kenya PeerJ 6: e5254

Wainaina, JM, Ateka, E., Makori, T., Kehoe, M. Boykin, L. M., 2018. Genomic characterization and evolutionary relationships of groundnut rosette virus from the western highlands of Kenya. Journal of Plant Pathology 43: 583–585.

 

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