Education

Positions and Employment

2004 - present Research Assistant Professor in Environmental Science/Bioinformatics, Jackson State University, Jackson Mississippi, USA1993-1994 Teaching Assistant (Computer Applications, Microbiology), Nigerian Breweries Plc, Lagos, Nigeria
2004- 2004 Visiting Scholar, Ellison Global Infectious Diseases Program, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA
2001-2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
2000-2001 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria1994-1997 Computer Systems Support Executive, Brain-work Computers & Equipment, Lagos, Nigeria 2000-2000 UNESCO Research Scholar, Martin Blaser Laboratory, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee1994-1997 Consultant Instructor (Computer Applications, Programming Languages), ICL (Nigeria) Limited
1999-1999 German Academic Exchange Service Research Scholar, Institute of Environmental and Animal Hygiene, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
1998-1999 Graduate/Research Assistant, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Awards and Honors

• 1992 Best Graduating Microbiology Student (1992 Session), Edo State University, Ekpoma, Nigeria

• 1992 Best Final Year Project (1992 Session), Edo State University, Ekpoma, Nigeria

• 1995 Best Student Medical Parasitology, Dept of Medical Microbiol., University of Lagos, Nigeria

• 1998 Graduate/Research Assistantship (PhD), University of Lagos, Nigeria

• 1999 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Short-Term Research Scholar

• 2000 UNESCO Short-Term Research Scholar

• 2001 National Research Foundation (South Africa) Postdoctoral Fellowship

• 2002-2003 Claude Harris Leon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

• 2003 Claude Harris Leon Foundation Inauguaral Lecturer. Held at South African Museum, Cape Town. Lecture Title: Facing the Malaria Giant’s African Roots: Exploiting the Genome of the Laverania Parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

• 2003 Invited Speaker, First Annual Meeting of African Society of Human Genetics, Accra Ghana

• 2004 Visiting Scholar, Ellison Program in Global Infectious Diseases, Marine Biological Laboratory

• 2004 Marine Biological Laboratory Scholarship to attend Genome Course

• 2004 Travel Grant to present a Talk at XV Molecular Parasitology Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Most Recent Publications (selected)

• Coker AO, Isokpehi, RD, Thomas BN, Fabgenro-Beyioku AF, Omilabu SA. Zoonotic infections in Nigeria. An overview from a medical perspective. Acta Tropica 2000; 76: 59-63.

• Isokpehi RD, Thomas BN, Ojo AK, Sofoluwe AB and Coker AO. Information technology literacy among Nigerian microbiology students and professionals. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2000; 5: 423-424.

• Thomas BN, Isokpehi RD, Fagbenro-Beyioku AF, Awodiji JA. Comparative evaluation of the Glasgow and Blantyre coma scales among Nigerian children with cerebral malaria. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2000; 62 (suppl): 273

• Amisu KO, Ogunsola FT, Isokpehi RD, Coker AO Investigation into the prevalence and antibacterial susceptibility patterns of Aeromonas and Plesiomonas species isolated from children with diarrhoea in Amuwo-odofin and Surulere Local Government areas of Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian Quarterly Journal of Hospital Medicine 2000; 10: 141-143.

• Thomas B N, Isokpehi RD, Fagbenro-Beyioku AF, Awodiji JA, Kimbi HK, Njunda AL Clinical correlates and emerging scenarios of cerebral malaria among pediatric patients from West and Central Africa. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2001; 65 (suppl): 168

• Thomas BN, Isokpehi RD, Fagbenro-Beyioku AF, Awodiji JA, Kimbi HK, Njunda AL Thrombocytopaenia among children with cerebral malaria in Nigeria and Cameroon and the implication for case management. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2001; 65 (suppl): 334

• Coker AO, Isokpehi RD, Thomas BN, Amisu KO, Obi CL. Human campylobacteriosis in developing countries. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2002; 8: 237-244.

• 8. Isokpehi RD, Hide WA. Integrative analysis of intraerythrocytic differentially expressed transcripts yields novel insights into the biology of Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria Journal 2003 2, 38. http://www.malariajournal.com/content/2/1/38

• Isokpehi RD Bioinformatics and drug target selection for malaria control. Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research 2003 2(1), 123-124. http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/archive/00000610/

• Isokpehi RD, Hide WA (2003). Processed datasets of Plasmodium falciparum functional genomics reagents. 14th Molecular Parasitology Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, USA. http://www.mbl.edu/mpm/mpm-2003/abstracts/abstract.php?id=133

• Hide WA, Isokpehi RD Positive selection of parasite DNA sequences. Methods in Molecular Biology 2004; 270:127-150

• Masiga DK, Isokpehi RD Opportunities in Africa for training in genome science. African Journal of
  Biotechnology 2004; 3: 117-122

• Isokpehi RD, Zehetner G, McArthur AG, Hide WA (2004). Enrichment of gene ontology molecular function terms among Plasmodium falciparum gene lists. 15th Molecular Parasitology Meeting, Woods Hole, MA, USA. http://www.mbl.edu/mpm/mpm-2004/abstracts/abstract.php?id=122

Current Research Projects

1. Transcriptomics of Giardia lamblia, an environmentally transmitted and early diverging protozoan parasite
2. Coding and Mining Orthologous Gene Group Databases
3. Integrated analysis of spliceosomal proteins
4. Binary-encoded integration of genome datasets