LUCY DALUSI MBUSI

Assistant Lecturer, College Of Natural And Applied Sciences

Education:

Bsc in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at Udsm from 2004 - 2007 Msc in Molecular Biology at Udsm from 2009 – 2012 PhD  in Microbiology at Udsm from April 2022 – Ongoing 

Teaching:

Molecular Biology and Microbiology

Research:

Environmental Microbiology, Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Biodiversity.

Projects:

Investigator: Antimicrobial activities of seagrass species from coastal waters of Tanzania against human pathogens

PhD studies: Phylogenetic Diversity and Bioprospecting of Actinobacteria from Seagrass Meadows: Case Study of Mjimwema, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Publications:

• Lucy Dalusi, Thomas J. Lyimo2, Charles Lugomela, Ken M.M. Hosea and Sara Sj¨oling et al. Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae identified in estuaries of Tanzania using PCR techniques. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 362, 2015.
•  Lucy Dalusi, Jatta Saarenheimo, Thomas J. Lyimo, Charles Lugomela et al. Genetic relationship between clinical and environmental Vibrio cholerae isolates in Tanzania: A comparison using repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) fingerprinting approach. Afr.J. Microbiol. Res Vol.9(7), pp. 455-462 ,2015.