UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
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STELA GILBERT TEMU

Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (MBB), College Of Natural And Applied Sciences
Education:

PhD

Teaching:

  • Microbiology
  • Biotechnology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Phylogenetic analysis
  • Ecology

Research:

Research interests: Fungal taxonomy and biodiversity, Lichenology, Fungal biotechnology, Bioactive compounds and ethnomycology

Projects:

  1. Investigator: Diversity of Marine Microalgae and their bioactive metabolites for industrial application.
  2. Investigator: Investigations of Cashew Wilt Disease an Emerging Threat Caused by Fusarium oxysporum in Tanzania

 

Publications:

  • Temu, S.G., Clerc, P., Tibell, Nadel M.N., L., Tibuhwa, D.D., Tibell, S. (2022). Molecular, morphological and chemical variation in Usnea pectinata aggregate from Tanzania, São Tomé and Príncipe. Lichenologist, 54: 291–298.
  • Gilbert Temu, S. (2020). Lichens in Mountain Rainforests of Tanzania: Studies of Usnea and Calicioids (Doctoral dissertation, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis)
  • Temu, S.G., Clerc, P., Tibell, L., Tibuhwa, D.D., Tibell, S. (2019). Phylogeny of the subgenus Eumitria in Tanzania. Mycology, 1–11.
  • Temu, S.G., Tibell, S., Tibuhwa, D.D., Tibell, L. (2019). Crustose Calicioid Lichens and Fungi in Mountain Cloud Forests of Tanzania. Microorganisms,7(11):491.
  • Temu, S.G., Moshi, A.P., Nges,  I.A., Mshandete, A.M., Kivaisi, A.K.,  Mattiasson B. (2016). Effect of biological and physicochemical pre-treatments on methane yield of mixed palm oil wastes. British Biotechnology Journal 11(4): 1–12.
  • Moshi, A.P.,Temu, S.G., Nges, I.A., Gashaw, M., Hosea K.M.M, Elisante E., Mattiason, B. (2015). Combined Production of Bioethanol and Biogas from Peels of wild cassava Manihot glaziovii. Chemical Engineering Journal, 279: 297–306
  • Temu, S.G., Mshandete, A.M., Kivaisi. A.K. (2014). Tanzania Palm Oil Industry: Auditing and Characterization of Oil Palm Wastes Potential Bio- resource for Valorization. Journal of Chemical, Biological and Physical Sciences, 4:804-811