{"id":12355,"date":"2026-06-09T18:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/staff\/sansa-olakunle-opeyemi\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:31:49","slug":"sansa-olakunle-opeyemi","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/staff\/sansa-olakunle-opeyemi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sansa, Olakunle Opeyemi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le Dr Olakunle Sansa est chercheur postdoctoral au Centre de ressources g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques (CRG), \u00e0 l'IITA. Ses travaux portent sur l'am\u00e9lioration de la photosynth\u00e8se et la s\u00e9lection pour la r\u00e9silience climatique chez le ni\u00e9b\u00e9. Le Dr Sansa est sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans les m\u00e9thodes de pr\u00e9-am\u00e9lioration, d'am\u00e9lioration, de d\u00e9couverte de traits et d'am\u00e9lioration assist\u00e9e par la g\u00e9nomique pour acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le d\u00e9veloppement de nouvelles vari\u00e9t\u00e9s de ni\u00e9b\u00e9 face \u00e0 un climat en \u00e9volution rapide en Afrique subsaharienne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Il est titulaire d'un baccalaur\u00e9at en agriculture sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 en am\u00e9lioration des plantes et technologie des semences, d'une ma\u00eetrise en agriculture et d'un doctorat en am\u00e9lioration des plantes de la Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le Dr Sansa a d'abord rejoint le GRC en tant que boursier de recherche doctoral en 2020 et en 2021, il a obtenu la bourse de doctorat partag\u00e9e du Commonwealth UK\/FCDO pour mener une partie de sa recherche doctorale au Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Royaume-Uni. Apr\u00e8s avoir termin\u00e9 son doctorat, il a rejoint le John Innes Center, Royaume-Uni, en tant que chercheur invit\u00e9. Le Dr Sansa b\u00e9n\u00e9ficie actuellement de subventions de recherche du fonds Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA et de la Fondation MasterCard, o\u00f9 il occupe le poste d'investigateur principal pour l'Afrique. Son projet actuel financ\u00e9 par Gates AgOne vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer la photosynth\u00e8se ainsi qu'\u00e0 renforcer la r\u00e9silience et la productivit\u00e9 du ni\u00e9b\u00e9 pour une production alimentaire durable et l'am\u00e9lioration des moyens de subsistance des petits exploitants agricoles en Afrique.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Olakunle Sansa is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Genetic Resources Center (GRC), IITA. 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