Staff Profiles

Prof. Sununguko Wata Mpoloka

Prof. S.W. Mpoloka

Faculty of Science

Biological Science

Associate Professor

Location: Block 235 Room 228
Phone: +267 355 2594
Email Prof. Sununguko Wata Mpoloka

BSc (Biology and Environmental Science)

MSc Plant Molecular Biology

PhD Molecular and Cell Biology

Prof Mpoloka graduated from the University of Botswana in October 1992 with a BSc in Biology and Environmental Sciences after which he joined the Dept of Wildlife and National Parks as an Assistant Wildlife Biologist before joining UB as a Staff Development Fellow. He then completed a 2 year MSc program in Plant Molecular Biology at the University of East Anglia in the UK where he was attached to the John Innes Centre for Plant Molecular Biology. Mpoloka then proceeded to UCT on a USHEPiA Fellowship to pursue PhD studies in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology under Prof Thomsom. He returned to UB in 2001 and has been teaching a number of courses such as Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Responses to Environmental Stress, Biotechnology, and Molecular Genetics. He has supervised a number of graduate students.

Bio 111 - Principles of Biology

Bio 212 - Genetics

Bio 308 - Molecular Biology

Bio 417 - Biotechnology

Bio 613 - Molecular Genetics

Population Genetics

Vaccine Development

DNA damage and Repair

 

Vaccine Development - Lumpy Skin Disease, and FMD

Host Genomic factors influencing pedreatic HIV and TB

 

1. Tiroyamodimo Tau, A. Wally, T.P. Fanie, G.L. Ngono, S.W. Mpoloka, Sean Davison, and María Eugenia D’Amato (2017). Genetic variation and population 5 structure of Botswana populations as identified with AmpFLSTR Identifiler short tandem repeat (STR) loci. (Scientific Reports 7: 6768). doi:10.1038/s41598-017- 06365-y

2. Busisiwe Mlotshwa, Savannah Mwesigwa, , Gerald Mboowa, Lesedi Williams, Gaone Retshabile, Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Chester W. Brown, , Neil Hanchard, Graeme Mardon, Samuel Kyobe, Moses Joloba, Gabriel Anabwani, Sununguko Wata Mpoloka (2017). The Collaborative African Genomics Network Training Program: A Training Model for the Next Generation of African Scientists. Genetics in Medicine doi:10.1038/gim.2016.177

In pursuit of academic excellence