James Wainaina
Postdoctoral Scholar
Room 944, Riffe Building
496 W 12th Ave,
Columbus, OH 43210
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 Kenya. PeerJ 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.