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JUMA MAHMUD HUSSEIN

Lecturer, College Of Natural And Applied Sciences
Education:

• BSc General (Major in MC & CH) at UDSM from 2008-2011 • MSc Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at from UDSM 2012-2015 • PhD in Biology with Specialization in Systematics at Uppsala University (Sweden) from 2016-2020

Teaching:

  • Microbiology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Biotechnology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Phylogenetic analysis

Research:

Research interests: Fungal taxonomy and biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Pharmacognosy, Biomolecular NMR, Fungal biotechnology and ethnomycology

Projects:

  1. Investigator: Screening for Novel Molecular Markers of Antimicrobial Resistance From the Microbiome of Broiler Chicken in Tanzania
  2. Investigator: Investigations of Cashew Wilt Disease an Emerging Threat Caused by Fusarium oxysporum in Tanzania
  3. Fungal community in Mangrove areas along the shores of Dar es Salaam

Publications:

  • Tibuhwa DD, Hussein JM, Sijaona MER, Ryvaden L. and Tibell S. (2020) A phylogeny for the plant pathogen Piptoporellus baudonii using a multigene data set, Mycologia, https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2020.1801303 
  • Hussein JM. (2020). Polyporoid fungi of Tanzania: Taxonomy, transcriptomics and biochemical analyses of Kusaghiporia usambarensis and Piptoporellus baudonii (Doctoral dissertation, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis).
  • Hussein JM, and Tibuhwa, DD (2020). Edible mushrooms in Tanzania: enlightening human health and improved livelihood.  Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., 9(1): 33-39.
  • Hussein JM, Tibuhwa DD and Tibell S. (2018). Phylogenetic position and taxonomy of Kusaghiporia usambarensis gen. et sp. nov. (Polyporales). Mycol. 1-9. doi.org/10.1080/21501203.2018.1461142
  • Hussein, JM, Tibuhwa, DD, Mshandete, AM and Kivaisi, AK. (2016). Successful domestication of Lentinus sajor-caju from an indigenous forest in Tanzania. Journal of Applied Biosciences. 108(1):10507-10518. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jab.v108i1.4
  • Hussein, JM, Tibuhwa, DD, Mshandete, AM and Kivaisi, AK, (2015).  Antioxidant properties of seven wild edible mushrooms from Tanzania. African Journal of Food Science. 9(9):471-479.  https://doi.org/10.5897/AJFS2015.1328
  • Hussein, JM, Tibuhwa, DD, Mshandete, AM and Kivaisi, AK. (2014). Molecular phylogeny of Saprophytic Wild Edible Mushroom (SWEM) Species Based on ITS and nLSU rDNA Sequences. Current Research in Environmental and Applied Mycology.  4 (2): 250–260. https://www.creamjournal.org/pdf/Cream_4_2_12.pdf