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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Toxicology, Laboratory Medicine,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Soil Sciences |
| Keywords | climate 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
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Ile-Ife |
| Institution | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| Institute | Department of Zoology |
Host during sponsorship
| Dr. Jörg Römbke | ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Flörsheim/Main |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/11/2011 |
Programme(s)
| 2010 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2019 | Amy 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 |
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| 2019 | Owojori, 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 |
| 2018 | Fajana, 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 |
| 2018 | Jaabiri 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 |
| 2017 | Jegede, 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 |
| 2015 | Olugbenga 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 |
| 2015 | P 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 |
| 2014 | OJ 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 |
| 2014 | Owojori, OJ, Reinecke AJ: Differences in ionic properties of salts affect saline toxicity to the earthworm Eisenia fetida. . In: Applied Soil Ecology, 2014, 247-252 |