Professor Ezera Agwu is a Professor in Medical Microbiology and Immunology skilled in Medical Microbiology, Immunology, Medical Education and Molecular Biology, with a very strong medical laboratory diagnostic background. He 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 the generally disadvantaged populations. For Special Pathogens, he directs the operations and chair the director's committees. He also provides strategic leadership ensuring that many volunteers pride certain levels of services before being recognised.
Skills A: Medical Education: Health Sciences Education, Educational principles, Research scholarship and leadership.
Skills B. Molecular Biology and PCR: Genomic Cloning and DNA Sequencing, Genome Analysis, Gene Expression Analysis, cDNA Cloning and PCR Library Analysis, DNA Fingerprint Analysis and RNA Interference.
Skills C. Protein profiling: 2-D gel electrophoresis, multidimensional liquid chromatography and affinity purification of protein complexes; MALDI and ESI high-sensitivity mass spectrometry including peptide mass mapping and tandem mass spectrometry, quantification, and phosphor-proteomics.
Skills D. Functional proteomics: recombination cloning, high-throughput protein isolation, protein microarrays, use of robots to execute high-throughput methods including expression, purification and characterisation of proteins and also use of several bio-informatics tools in data analysis.
Skills E. 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), cataloguing and understanding diversity: (Bioinformatics approaches).
