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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Metabolism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Microorganisms,Microbial Ecology and Applied Microbiology |
| Keywords | Bacteria, Actinomycetes, Bioinformatics, Plasmids, DNA, Metagenomics, Metabolomics, PAHs, Pesticide, Crude Oil, PCBs, PCR, Gene annotation, Cloning, Phagenomics, Biodegradation, Biofertilizers, Bioremediation |
| Honours and awards | 2023: FELLOW OF THE AFRICAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 2019: FELLOW OF THE NIGERIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 2018: EXEMPLARY LEADERSHIP AWARD - ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, NIGERIA 2013: DAAD INTERNATIONAL DEAN'S COURSE - GERMANY, GHANA, ETHIOPIA 2007: FULBRIGHT AFRICAN RESEARCH SCHOLAR FELLOWSHIP - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, USA 2003: ROYAL SOCIETY DEVELOPING WORLD FELLOWSHIP - UNIVERSITY OF KENT 2000: ALEXANDER von HUMBOLDT FELLOWSHIP - RWTH AACHEN 1997: UNESCO FELLOWSHIP IN BIOTECHNOLOGY - UNIVERSITY OF KENT, UK |
Current contact address
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Lagos |
| Institution | University of Lagos |
| Institute | Department of Microbiology |
| Homepage | www.unilag.edu.ng |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Ingolf Schuphan | Institut für Umweltforschung (Biologie V) - Ökologie, Ökotoxikologie, Ökochemie -, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), Aachen |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2000 |
Programme(s)
| 1999 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2018 | Elizabeth Okpalanozie, Sunday Adebusoye, Federica Troiano, Matthew Ilori and Francesca Cappitelli: Assessment of indoor air environment of a Nigerian museum library and its biodeteriorated books using culture-dependent and -independent techniques. In: International Biodeteriorated & Biodegradation, 2018, 139-149 |
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| 2018 | Lateef Salam, Matthew Ilori, Olukayode Amund, Yee LiiMien and Hideaki Nojiri: Characterisation of bacterial community structure in a hydrocarbon contaminated tropical African soil. In: Environmental Technology, 2018, 939-951 |
| 2017 | Ganiyu Oyetibo, Mei-Fang Chien, Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo, Hitoshi Suzuki, Olufemi Obayori, Sunday Adebusoye, Matthew Ilori, Olukayode Amund and Ginro Endo. Biodegradation of crude oil and Phenanthrene by Heavy Metal Resistant Bacillus subtilis isolated from a Multi-Polluted Industrial Wastewater Creek . In: International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation , 2017, 143-151 |
| 2017 | Ganiyu Oyetibo, Keisuke Miyauchi, Yi Huang, Mei-Fang Chien, Matthew Ilori, Olukayode Amund and Ginro Endo: Biotechnological remedies for the estuarine environment polluted with heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants. In: International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2017, 614-625 |
| 2017 | Lateef Salam, Matthew Ilori and Olukayode Amund: Properties, environmental fate and biodegradation of carbazole. In: 3 Biotech, 2017, 1-14 |
| 2017 | Chioma Obi, Sunday Adebusoye, Olukayode Amund, Esther Ugoji, Matthew Ilori, Curtis Hedman and William Hickey. Structural dynamics of microbial communities in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated tropical estuarine sediments undergoing simulated aerobic biotreatment. In: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017, 4299-4314 |
| 2017 | Olanike Buraimoh, Matthew Ilori, Olukayode Amund, Chukwuemeka Isanbor and Frederick Michel The degradation of coniferyl alcohol and the complementary production of chlorogenic acids in the growth culture of Streptomyces albogriseolus KF977548 isolated from decaying wood residues. In: Process Biochemistry, 2017, 22-29 |
| 2016 | Ogechukwu Okpalanozie, Sunday Adebusoye, Federica Troiano, Andrea Polo, Francesca Cappitelli and Matthew Ilori: Evaluating the microbial risk to a contemporary Nigerian painting: Molecular and biodegradative studies. . In: International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, 2016, 184-192 |
| 2016 | Chioma Obi, Sunday Adebusoye, Esther Ugoji, Matthew Ilori, Olukayode Amund and William Hickey: Microbial Communities in Sediments of Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria: Elucidation of Community Structure and Potential Impacts of Contamination by Municipal and Industrial Wastes. In: Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016, 1-16 |
| 2015 | Ganiyu Oyetibo, Matthew Ilori, Olufemi Obayori and Olukayode Amund Metal biouptake by actively growing cells of metal tolerant bacterial strains. . In: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2015, 1-11 |
| 2008 | Adebusoye Sunday Adekunle, Picardal Flynn, Ilori Matthew Olusoji, Amund Olukayode Oladipupo, Fuqua Clay : Characterization of multiple novel aerobic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) utilizing bacterial strains indigenous to contaminated tropical African soils . In: Biodegradation, 2008, 145-159 |
| 2008 | Adebusoye Sunday Adekunle, Ilori Matthew Olusoji, Picardal Flynn, Amund Olukayode Oladipupo: Cometabolic degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)by axenic cultures of Ralstonia sp. strain SA-5 and Pseudomonas sp. strain SA-6 obtained from Nigerian contaminated soils. . In: World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology , 2008, 61-68 |
| 2008 | Adebusoye Sunday Adekunle, Ilori Matthew Olusoji, Picardal Flynn, Amund Olukayode Oladipupo Metabolism of polychlorinated biphenyls: Use of 3,3¿ and 3,5 dichlorobiphenyl as sole sources of carbon by natural species of Ralstonia and Pseudomonas . In: Chemosphere, 2008, 656-663 |
| 2007 | Adebusoye Sunday Adekunle, Picardal Flynn, Ilori Matthew Olusoji, Amund Olukayode Oladipupo, Fuqua Clay, Grindle Nathan : Aerobic degradation of dichloro and trichlorobenzenes by two novel PCB degrading bacterial strains isolated from polluted tropical soils . In: Chemosphere, 2007, 1939-1946 |
| 2007 | Adebusoye Sunday Adekunle, Picardal Flynn, Ilori Matthew Olusoji, Amund Olukayode Oladipupo, Fuqua Clay, Grindle Nathan : Growth on Dichlorobiphenyls with Chlorine Substitution on each Ring by Bacteria Isolated from Contaminated African soils . In: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2007, 484-492 |
| 2007 | Adebusoye Sunday Adekunle, Ilori Matthew Olusoji, Amund Olukayode Oladipupo, Teniola Olakunle David,Olatope Olakitan : Microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in a polluted tropical stream. . In: World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology , 2007, 1149-1159 |
| 2005 | Matthew Olusoji Ilori, C. J. Amobi, A. C. Odocha: Factors affecting biosurfactant production by oil degrading Aeromonas spp. isolated from a tropical environment. In: Chemosphere, 2005, 985-992 |
| 2002 | Adolphus Monkiedje, Matthew Olusoji Ilori, Michael Spiteller : Soil quality changes resulting from the application of the fungicides mefenoxam and metalaxyl to a sandy loam soil . In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry , 2002, 1939-1948 |