Excellence Fellow, Wellcome Sanger Institue & Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK
Youtube link: Dr. Oumie Kuyateh: A Science life of mentorship, consistency, and networking
Dr Oumie Kuyateh is an Excellence Fellow at The Wellcome Sanger Institue and a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She is interested in understanding childhood respiratory microbiome and how it is affected by environmental factors such as air pollution, disease incidence, and antibiotic exposure. Oumie holds a Biochemistry degree from University College London (UCL) that was jointly funded by the Medical Research Council and the Medical Research Foundation. She went on to do a PhD on the Wellcome Trust Hosts, Pathogens, and Global Health PhD programme at The University of Edinburgh where she used metagenomics to understand host-virus coevolution in insects. During her PhD, she was awarded a Varley-Gradwell Travelling Fellowship in Insect Ecology by the University of Oxford and a University of Edinburgh Student Experience grant to lead a bioinformatics workshop at the University of The Gambia. Outside of research, Oumie is interested in cooking, going on long walks, and reading. She is also quite passionate about increasing the representation of women and people of African descent in STEM.
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