Current Position (January 2021 – Present):
Senior Research Fellow, Biochemistry And Immunogenetics; Centre Coordinator, Malaria Genomics Research And Training. Postdoctoral Fellow, EDCTP Senior Fellowship (Trainee Fellow)
Adjunct Lecturer, Eko University of Medical and Health Sciences, Lagos, Nigeria.
NIMR Investigator, Biochemistry and Nutrition, Lagos, Nigeria.
Areas of Research:
Molecular Parasitology, experimental Biology and population genomics, Host-parasite Relationship and immunogenomics, Diagnostics and Intervention resistance studies, Pathogen genotyping including variant effect prediction, infection multiplicity and complexity, Human and pathogen genetics including genome-genome interactions, pharmacogenomics and drug discovery.
Responsibilities:
Study site preparation, advocacy, community entry and engagement, Design and implementation of field sampling of parasites, Molecular detection, speciation and genotyping of field isolates of malaria parasites, Plasmodium parasite culture, Ex vivo  and In vitro drug sensitivity testing and growth inhibition assay, manuscripts drafting, Training of Interns, graduate and post-graduate students, supervision of students dissertation and thesis, Project report drafting and SOP development, protocol development and validation.
Education
2017                            PhD, Biochemistry, University of Lagos, Nigeria
2007                            MSc, Biochemistry University of Lagos, Nigeria
2000                            BSc, Biochemistry, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Skills
Computation              R, Next Generation Amplicon sequencing, population genetics and molecular evolution analysis tools. Proficiency in windows, Mac OSx and Unix.
Laboratory                  Microscopy, Molecular biology, Sanger Sequencing, variants of PCR and qPCR, ELISA, PAGE, Western Blot, Flow cytometry, Library preparation for NGS, Drug Testing and invasion assays. 
Field                            In vivo follow up drug therapeutic efficacy Testing, Cross sectional and longitudinal surveys and sampling of infectious pathogens.  
 
Professional Memberships
Nigerian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular biology
Malaria Society of Nigeria (MSN)
African Society of Human Genetics (AfHG)
American Society of Microbiology (ASM)
                       
Consortia membership
West African Node of Excellence for TB, AIDS, and Malaria (WANETAM) Fellow,
Pathogen genomics Diversity Network Africa (PDNA)
DELGEME Plus
Current Research
Functtional Genomics Analysis, capacity development in malaria research, parasite culture and big data analysis in Nigeria; April 2023 to Date– African Research Excellence funds (AREF)
Malaria Omic correlates of antimalarial resistance survey in Nigeria. Period; April 2022 to March 2025—EDCTP
TES Malaria Molecular Analysis—-PMI/MSH
Previous Research
Increasing Adoption of Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) and malaria rapid diagnostic testing (mRDTs) in Nigeria; April 2013 to April 2014 — WHO/AFRO-TDR Small Grants Awards, (Project-AFHSS1408808)
Molecular Biology Capacity Development And Skills Acquisition in malaria molecular diagnosis West African Node of Excellence for TB, AIDS, and Malaria (WANETAM)–2019 to September 2020
Awards
2013 & 2014    NIMR Director-General’s Young Scientist Award
2000    Best Graduating biochemistry Student, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
 
Publication: Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ajibaye_Olusola/publications
My Bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/collections/mybibliography/