Full Member
Ritah Nakayinga
Membership since:
2025
Field of activity:
Other Memberships/Affiliations
Kyambogo University Academic Staff Association (KYUASA), Kyambogo University
Kyambogo University, Biotechnology Club
Degrees:
2014
Doctorate Biological Systems and Organisms
The research focused on understanding the replication biology of Providence virus and elucidating the function of its non-structural proteins.
2006
Master Biological Systems and Organisms
The research focused on the identification of key protein targets for the development of
a vaccine against the resistant bacteria, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus.
2000
Undergraduate Biological Systems and Organisms
Publications resulting from Research
1. Nakayinga, R. (2019). Computational characterization of providence virus non-structural proteins: Evolutionary and functional implications. Journal of Bioinformatics and Sequence Analysis, 10(2), 15-31.
2. Tusuubira SK, Nakayinga, R, Mwambi B, Odda J, Kiconco S, Komuhangi A. Knowledge, perception and practices towards Sickle Cell Disease: a community survey among adults in Lubaga division, Kampala Uganda (2018). BMC Public Health. 561.
3. Short, J.R., Nakayinga, R., Hughes, E. G., Walter, C.T. and Dorrington, R. A. (2013). Providence virus (Family: Caromotetraviridae) replicates vRNA in association with the Golgi apparatus and secretory vesicles. J. Gen. Virol. 1073-8.
4. Walter, CT, Pringle, FM, Nakayinga, R, de Felipe, P, Ryan, MD, Ball, LA and RA Dorrington (2010). Genome organization and translation products of Providence virus: insight into a unique tetravirus. J. Gen. Virol. 2826-35.
2. Tusuubira SK, Nakayinga, R, Mwambi B, Odda J, Kiconco S, Komuhangi A. Knowledge, perception and practices towards Sickle Cell Disease: a community survey among adults in Lubaga division, Kampala Uganda (2018). BMC Public Health. 561.
3. Short, J.R., Nakayinga, R., Hughes, E. G., Walter, C.T. and Dorrington, R. A. (2013). Providence virus (Family: Caromotetraviridae) replicates vRNA in association with the Golgi apparatus and secretory vesicles. J. Gen. Virol. 1073-8.
4. Walter, CT, Pringle, FM, Nakayinga, R, de Felipe, P, Ryan, MD, Ball, LA and RA Dorrington (2010). Genome organization and translation products of Providence virus: insight into a unique tetravirus. J. Gen. Virol. 2826-35.
Congress of the South African Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2025
BloemfonteinPatents: Knowledge, searching and identification of patents for academic research and Innovation
2025
Imperial royale hotel, UgandaOnline training course for supervision of doctoral candidates at African Universities
2025
Stellenbosh University, South AfricaTeaching Approaches in Higher Education
2025
Cologne, GermanyProposal writing for research grants
2025
Karatina University, Nairobi, Kenya