Anne Thairu-Muigai

Prof. Anne Muigai is a molecular population geneticist with over 15 years of experience in research, academic and administrative management in the Kenyan public university sector. She is currently a Professor of Genetics at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry from JKUAT, an MSc and B. Ed (Science) from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Her research has focused on the characterization and conservation of the indigenous farm animal genetic resources of Africa with a special focus on small ruminants. She has also worked in western Kenya on a project to assist rural communities mitigate the devastating effects of climate change, currently being experienced in the area, using sheep and goats. She is also a collaborator with the IN-AFRICA project in Kenya whose publication in Nature ,(Lahr et al., Nature 529:2016), documents the earliest scientifically dated evidence of human-group conflict in a hunter gather population over 10,000 years ago, in West Turkana, Kenya. She has served as the Chief Judge for Young Scientists Kenya, a Commissioner in the Commission for University Education and a Director with the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services, which are State Corporations in the Republic of Kenya regulating the university education and agriculture sectors respectively.