Biography:
Dr. Svitek studied Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Montreal, Canada, and graduated with an MSc in 2004. He then joined Prof. von Messling's research group at the INRS-Centre Armand-Frappier Santé-Biotechnologie (University of Quebec/Institut Pasteur International Network), Canada. He received his PhD degree in Virology and Immunology in 2010 at that institution. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in Virology at the Duke-NUS Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme in Singapore, he joined Prof. Vish Nene’s group in 2011 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya, as a postdoctoral fellow in Cellular Immunology and Reverse Vaccinology. In 2014, he became a scientist and, in 2019, a senior scientist at that same institution. He has published more than 30 research articles in SCI(E) journals and contributed to more than 35 papers presented at international scientific conferences.
Title : CRISPR-Cas-powered pen-side diagnostic tests for the early detection of the tick-borne pathogens Theileria parva, Anaplasma marginale and Babesia bigemina
Title : Harnessing bacteriophages as an alternative to antibiotics for Mastitis prevention in goats in Kenya