Dr. Olugbenga John Owojori

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsToxicology, Laboratory Medicine,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Soil Sciences
Keywordsclimate change, chlorpyrifos, soil organisms, environment, pollution
Honours and awards

2018: African Representative, Working Group on Pesticide Risk Assessment for Developing Countries organized by Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

2014: DAAD Fellowship for Visiting Lecturer, Department of Environmental Science, North West University

2014: The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Italy Research Award Fellowship in Basic Sciences ($17500)

2014: TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme to visit the Zentrum für Umweltforschung und Nachhaltige Technologien - UFT, Universität Bremen, Germany

2013: Alexander von Humboldt Return Fellowship (6000 Euro)

2011: Dapo Afolabi Most Productive Science Scholar, Faculty of Sience, OAU, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

2008: Best Student Presentation at International Conference on Contaminated Soils, Sediments and Water, University of Massachussett, USA

2008: KIC/2020 short term travel grant for international travel to USA, awarded by Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

2007: Department of Botany and Zoology Merit bursary for International postgraduate students, Stellenbosch University, Africa

2006: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship for Ph.D. study

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityIle-Ife
InstitutionObafemi Awolowo University
InstituteDepartment of Zoology

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Jörg RömbkeECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Flörsheim/Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2011

Programme(s)

2010Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2019Amy Gainer, Robyn Akre, Olugbenga J Owojori, Steven D Siciliano: Protecting vulnerable individuals in a population: is the avoidance response of juvenile soil invertebrates more sensitive than the adults response?. In: Chemosphere, 2019, 658-667
2019Owojori, O.J., Ademosu O.T, Fajana H.O., Jegede, O.O., Kehinde T.O, Badejo M.A.: Tropical oribatid mites in soil toxicity testing:Optimization of test protocol and the effect of two model chemicals (cadmium and dimethoate) on Muliercula inexpectata. In: Chemosphere , 2019, 948-954
2018Fajana, H.O., Amusan, B.O., Koleosho, A., Owojori, O.J., (2017): Acute toxicity of a household bleach, sodium hypochlorite to a whirligig beetle Orectogyrus alluaudi Regimbart, 1889 (Coleoptera:Gyrinidae). . In: Aquatic Insects, 2018, 93-100
2018Jaabiri Kamoun, I., Jegede,O.O., Owojori, O.J., Bouzid,J., Gargouri, R., Römbke, J.,: Effects of deltamethrin, dimethoate and chlorpyrifos on survival and reproduction of the Collembolan, Folsomia candida and the predatory mite, Hypoaspis aculeifer in two African and two European soils. . In: Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management , 2018, 1-13
2017Jegede, O.O., Owojori, O.J., Römbke, J., Temperature influences the toxicity of deltamethrin, chlorpyrifos and dimethoate to the predatory mite Hypoaspis aculeifer (Acari) and the springtail Folsomia candida (Collembola). . In: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety , 2017, 214-221
2015Olugbenga John Owojori, Steven Douglas Siciliano: Potentiation of zinc toxicity by soil moisture in a boreal forest ecosystem.. In: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, , 2015, 600-607
2015P Huguier, N Manier, OJ Owojori, P Bauda, P Pandard, J Römbke: The use of soil mites in ecotoxicology: a review. . In: Ecotoxicology, 2015, 1-18
2014OJ Owojori, K Waszak, J Roembke: Avoidance and reproduction tests with the predatory mite Hypoaspis aculeifer: effects of different chemical substances. . In: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2014, 230-237
2014Owojori, OJ, Reinecke AJ: Differences in ionic properties of salts affect saline toxicity to the earthworm Eisenia fetida. . In: Applied Soil Ecology, 2014, 247-252