Collins Osuo Omugar
Campus: Riseholme
E-mail: comugar@lincoln.ac.uk
Tel: 0044 (0)1522-895465
Collins joined the University from Hanover, Germany in 2003 to
work on a National
Health Services (NHS) funded collaborative research project
between the university
and the local NHS trust, the United Lincolnshire Hospitals.
Qualifications and Experience
BSc (Biology), Mohanlal Shukhadia (Udaipur) University Raj, India
MSc (Biochemistry), Allahabad University, UP, India
Senior Technologist, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and Kenya Medical Research Institute, (CDC/KEMRI): Cytokine production by intervillous blood mononuclear cells: the influence of gravidity and placental malaria
Research Internship, Institute of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rostock, Germany: “Transcriptional Repression Mediated by the KRAB Domain of the Human C2H2 Zinc Finger Protein (KOX1/ZNf10)”
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover, Germany: “Comparative immunological investigations into feline flea allergy dermatitis”
Current Position, Research Assistant / PhD Student:
Faculty of Health & Life sciences, The University of Lincoln, UK:
“Investigation of Sperm Volume Regulatory Mechanisms and their
Role in Normal and Abnormal Sperm Fertility”
under the supervision of
Dr.
Mark R. Curry.
Research Interests
Cytokines in Infectious Diseases
Flea Allergy Dermatitis
Cell Volume Regulation and Membrane Permeability
Cell responses to osmotic stress
Membership of Learned Societies
British Andrology Society
Society for Reproduction and Fertility
Publications
and Conference contributions
C. O., Omugar, A. J., Breeson, M. R., Curry
Investigation of Sperm Volume Regulatory Mechanisms and their Role in Normal
and Abnormal sperm fertility. (Oral presentation at the National Health Services
(NHS)
research evening, Boston, UK (2005)
C. O., Omugar, A. J., Breeson, M. R., Curry.
Investigation of rabbit sperm volume regulatory mechanisms” In: Book of abstracts
of the 4th Joint Meeting of BAS, BFS and SRF (Fertility 2005) Warwick, UK. 53