JR Biotek Foundation
@JRbiotek
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A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting bioscience education, agricultural research and innovation for Africa's sustainable development
Joined November 2013
🌍 Celebrating 10 years of empowering African bioscientists! In 2014, we held our very first molecular biol workshop at IITA, Nigeria, uniting African scientists. Many now mentor others, amplifying our mission for food security & sustainability. Photo: JR Biotek 2014 workshop
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🗓️ Save the Date! 🌱 Roots of Resilience: A Decade of Empowering African Ag-Scientists for Food Security & Sustainability. Join us in March 2025 at Cambridge Uni to celebrate 10 years of impactful work strengthening ag-research capacity & fostering equitable partnerships
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Thank you so much, Paul. We appreciate your very kind words.
I was among the 2019 participants at Benin Republic, 2021 hands-on plant molecular biology lab training at Kano and 2022 Alumni Symposium at Ghana. Thank you @JRbiotek for the impact and contribution to building my capacity to function appropriately and fit into my role.
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🌍 In 2025, we celebrate 10 years of impact. 🎉 Roots of Resilience at @Cambridge_Uni will honour our journey empowering African scientists & launch AGRIIP: uniting 100 scientists + 3k farmers to tackle food insecurity with climate-resilient solutions.
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RT @CarolIbe8: Excited to see our work featured here. We're dedicated to empowering 100 African scientists & 3,000 smallholder farmers to c…
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RT @Gates_Cambridge: Congratulations to @CarolIbe8 featured in @Forbes for her work on food security in Africa - @J…
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RT @CarolIbe8: I'm so pleased to announce that I've joined the Cambridge Global Challenges @CambridgeGloba1 @Cambridge_Uni as Research Mana…
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RT @LifeScienceNG: Our spotlight today is on Carol Nkechi Ibe, a crop scientist and founder of JR Biotek Foundation. Click
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Happy to see our work featured in this beautiful article.
3 Scholars - @CarolIbe8, @ChiomaNgonadi12 and Albert Arhin - are collaborating on a project to address food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa @GatesAlumni @Newnham @EmmaCambridge @CamUniGeography @plantsci @UCamArchaeology @Newnham_College @Kings_College
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RT @spununderground: We partnered with @JRbiotek, @Csir_Crops, & @OxfordNano to co-host a Metagenomics Training Workshop in Kumasi, Ghana l…
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RT @CarolIbe8: A great pleasure to meet with Prof. Olayinka Nwachukwu, the Dean of the College of Crop & Soil Sciences & Dr Okoro @OKOROGEO…
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So good to see this.
From Ghana 🇬🇭 to Nigeria 🇳🇬. So happy to meet @OKOROGEORGE19, a brilliant soil scientist at the Michael Okpara Uni of Agriculture, Nigeria. George participated in @JRbiotek-@spununderground Workshop in Kumasi. Glad to meet in his home institution to discuss future opportunities.
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Special thanks to @Csir_Crops for being a fantastic host & collaborator, and to @KiersToby & @BethanFManley of @spununderground, @REXCHAS of @nanopore, @ChlOrland Dr Ruth Prempeh of @Csir_Crops & her team, @CarolIbe8 of JR Biotek and all the participants, supporters and sponsors
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RT @CarolIbe8: Many thanks to @Pat_best1, a brilliant scientist at CSIR-FORIG & @jrbiotek member for forging this link. We look forward to…
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RT @CarolIbe8: I had the honour of meeting the Director, Prof Ofori & Deputy Director, Prof Opuni-Frimpong of CSIR-Forestry Research Instit…
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From field to lab - gaining hands-on experience in the use of portable sequencing platforms to sequence soil microbial genomes. Many thanks to the fantastic facilitators @REXCHAS of @nanopore and @BethanFManley of @spununderground and the brilliant @Csir_Crops Biotech Lab staff.
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