Grace Kagoro Rugunda (PhD) is a professor of Resources’ Ecology at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Uganda. She received her PhD from the same University and undertook a Post fellowship from Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife research in conjunction with the University of Hamburg, Germany, in which she collaborated with colleagues at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and wildlife research on a research project entitled Phytochemical and antimicrobial constituents of ethnobotanical plants eaten by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Kalinzu forest. She eventually earned her spot in the teaching and research supervision at the Department of Biology.  She specializes in teaching invertebrate zoology, animal behaviour and natural resources ecology, management and conservation. She has also trained in QGIS and Cybertracker methods of data collection. Her fifteen-year career as a professor has enabled building up of other collaborations such as Vrije Universiteit Brussel on research projects Digital citizen-science for community-based resilient environmental management and improved mechanisms for climate change adaptation for sustainable food production for small scale farmers. Other universities collaborated with include Liebig University, Giessen for fresh water... Show more
Grace Kagoro Rugunda (PhD) is a professor of Resources’ Ecology at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Uganda. She received her PhD from the same University and undertook a Post fellowship from Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife research in conjunction with the University of Hamburg, Germany, in which she collaborated with colleagues at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and wildlife research on a research project entitled Phytochemical and antimicrobial constituents of ethnobotanical plants eaten by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Kalinzu forest. She eventually earned her spot in the teaching and research supervision at the Department of Biology.  She specializes in teaching invertebrate zoology, animal behaviour and natural resources ecology, management and conservation. She has also trained in QGIS and Cybertracker methods of data collection. Her fifteen-year career as a professor has enabled building up of other collaborations such as Vrije Universiteit Brussel on research projects Digital citizen-science for community-based resilient environmental management and improved mechanisms for climate change adaptation for sustainable food production for small scale farmers. Other universities collaborated with include Liebig University, Giessen for fresh water ecology with special emphasis on fresh water molluscs, University of Kassel on a research project of reducing postharvest losses and adding value in East African fruits and vegetables and the Royal Museum for central Africa on a project entitled “Action Towards Reducing Aquatic snail-borne Parasitic diseases and “Contribution to reducing the incidence of natural hazards and associated risks in the Albertine Rift, in DRC, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. In other different capacities, she serves such a member of the Advisory committee of the National Agricultural Research organization and the Regional Network for Conservation Educators of the Albertine Rift in Uganda. She has published relevant manuscripts on Natural resources’ ecology, climate change, Biodiversity management and conservation, fresh water ecology, medicinal plant antimicrobial activity, Parasite ecology of tropical neglected diseases’ hosts, Agri-ecology and postharvest handling.
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