Name: Maryrose Nyakio Kithinji
Designation: assistant lecturer
Contact: +254729292403
Biography:
Academic qualification
January 2018- present: Masinde Muliro University of Science &Technology
Ph.D In Crop Protection – Molecular virology (On- going)
Sep 2009 – Dec 2012: Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology
Master of Science in Crop Protection
Sep 2010 – April 2011: Prifysgol Bangor University (United Kingdom)
Molecular Marker Technology for Plant Analysis & Breeding
Sep 2004 – Dec 2008: Masinde Muliro University of Science
Bachelor of Education (Sciences)
Jan 1999 – Nov 2002: Chogoria Girls High School
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Grade: A-
Work experience
September 2014 – Current: Assistant lecturer
Rongo University
March 2018 – Research assistant
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
September 2013 – August 2013: Part time lecturer
Rongo University College
September 2013- December 2013: Part time Lecturer, School of agriculture,
Kisii University
Honors and awards – NONE
Professional bodies affiliated to:
Community network for African vector- borne plant viruses (CONNECTED)
Organization for women in Science for the developing world (OWSD-Africa)
African Women in Science and Engineering (AWSE)
Research Interests
Food security and Climate Change
Applied molecular biology
Microbiology
Plant disease and control
Plant biotechnology
Bio waste management
3. On-going research projects:
2018 – 2022 – Evaluation of potato cultivars for earliness and for resistance to potato virus Y in main growing areas in Kenya. Areas of research were Tigoni, Meru, Molo, Bomet, West Pokot and Mount Elgon. Laboratory work done in James Hutton institute, Scotland.
Publications
Nyakio M.K., Steele K. and Palapala V.A.P. (2014). Genetic diversity of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) accessions of Kenya using AFLP Markers. Afr. J. Hort. Sci:12-23
Nyakio Kithinji Maryrose, Katherine Andrea Steele and Valerie A. P. Palapala. (2015). Assessment of genetic diversity in local and commercial Kenyan dry bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) using Simple sequence repeats (SSRs). American Journal of Experimental Agriculture 5(4): 306-319, 2015, Article no.AJEA.2015.030 ISSN: 2231-0606
Nyakio K. Maryrose, Valerie A. Palapala, Katherine A. Steele and Reuben Otsyula. (2015). Evaluation of AFLP markers for screening resistance to Common bean root rot (Pythium spp.) American Journal of Experimental Agriculture 5(4): 374-391, Article no.AJEA.2015.039 ISSN: 2231-0606
Nyakio K. Maryrose, Valerie A. Palapala, (2016) A situational analysis of dry bean farming in Kenya, conference proceedings 3rd International Interdisplinary Conference (IIC2016)