Love Odunlami

I am a John Innes Foundation-funded PhD student in Prof. Anthony Hall’s group at the Earlham Institute. 

My PhD project is focused on uncovering the genetic basis of gene expression in elite wheat varieties underlying key agronomic traits.

I hold a BSc in Crop Production and Protection from Obafemi Awolowo University, where I worked on developing maize hybrids, and an MPhil in Seed Science and Technology from WACCI, University of Ghana, focused on evaluating soybean genotypes.

I later completed an MSc in Global Plant Health at The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), working in Jonathan Jones’ group on stacking resistance genes against tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV). 

Prior to commencing my PhD, I joined Dan MacLean’s Bioinformatics team at TSL as a predoctoral intern, where I developed machine learning models for effector prediction.