Ezera Agwu is a Associate Professor in Medical Microbiology and Immunology since September 2016 at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Kampala International University, Western Campus, Bushenyi District Uganda. His area of specialization is: Public Health Microbiology, Clinical (Bacteriology, Mycology and Parasitology), and Medical Education with emphasis on Curriculum development and new program design, monitoring and evaluation. Ezera Agwu has special skills in Microbial Molecular epidemiology research and good innovations is disease diagnosis and real-time investigation. Ezera Agwu is also specialist in Proteomics with emphasis in protein profiling and functional proteomics.
Ezera Agwu has written about 75 original peer reviewed manuscripts published in reputable journals including 7 professional edited books, 3 book chapters and 16 new publications since last assessment in 2015.
Ezera Agwu is an experienced Medical Microbiologist & Immunologist, Medical Educationist and Molecular Biologist, with very strong medical laboratory diagnostic background. Ezera Agwu is highly talented in the initiation of new programs and strengthening of existing ones, provision of strategic leadership in research, academics and administrative protocols and competent in making professionals out of generally disadvantaged population. For Special Pathogens Ezera Agwu directs the operations and chair the directors committees. Ezera Agwu also provide strategic leadership ensuring that many volunteers pride certain levels of services before being recognized.
Ezera Agwu is skilled in the following areas: Medical Education, Molecular Biology and PCR: Genomic Cloning and DNA Sequencing, Genome Analysis, Gene, Expression, cDNA Cloning & PCR Library, DNA Fingerprint & RNA Interference; Protein profiling: 2-D gel electrophoresis, multidimensional liquid chromatography and affinity purification of protein complexes; MALDI and ESI high-sensitivity mass spectrometry peptide mass mapping and tandem mass spec, quantification, and phosphor-proteomics. Functional proteomics: recombination cloning, high-throughput protein isolation, protein microarrays, use of robots to execute high-throughput methods including expression, purification and characterization of proteins, use of several bioinformatics tools in data analysis; Molecular Approaches to Clinical Microbiology skills include: understanding microbial diversity at the species level: (16sRNA) and diversity at the subspecies level: (MLST); indexing diversity of genetically monomorphic bacteria: (VNTR and SNPS), identifying the diversity in the laboratory: (Real-time PCR), cataloging and understanding diversity: (Bioinformatics).