TITLE (PROF/DR/): PROF.

NAME: GANIYU OLADUNJOYE OYETIBO

POSITION: PROFESSOR                 SPECIALISATION: Geomicrobiology & Environmental Biotechnology

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with Bachelor’s degree or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.)

Personal Statement

Dr. Ganiyu O. Oyetibo is a Professor of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Biotechnology with more than 15 years’ experience in developing various microbial-based strategies to decommissioning environmental matrixes polluted with organic and inorganic ecological toxicants. His research program is projected towards incorporating deep and broad knowledge of microbial biochemistry and physiology through microbial genetics episteme to decipher metabolism and bio-catalysis of various microorganisms that would be useful for bioremediation technology, waste management, and value-added chain of agricultural products. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed scholarly articles in reputable academic journals whose impact factors ranged 1.8 to 12.2 culminating to h-index ranking of 17 (Web of Science), 17 (Scopus) and 20 (ResearchGate), and over 1100 citations in Research Gate. He won the highly competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship of the prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2012 through 2014, which afforded him to embark on research expeditions in Tagajo, Sendai, Japan and also participated in the mega-project on bioremediation of agricultural soils impacted with toxic metals of March 11, 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster. Nevertheless, in a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) sponsored Phage Academy, Dr Oyetibo acquired deep knowledge in using high-throughput technologies to hunt bacteriophages from environmental vagaries that would be exploited as sustainable alternative to chemotherapeutic agents against etiologies of debilitating diseases of global concern. He has variously participated in environmental impact assessment, bioremediation of polluted environments, value-added chains of food crops, waste management, and waste-to-wealth programs in Nigeria with many local and international grants to his credit. His recent activities in Green Economy, Bio-economy and Blue Economy have been rewarded with multi-million-naira research grants from Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in 2019, and 2020. Nevertheless, Dr. Oyetibo recently won the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in 2022 through 2024, where he engaged in the research project titled: Mass Spectrometry-Guided Genomic Elucidation of Autochthonous Bacteria Community Ecophysiology for Green Economic Management of Acid Mine Drainages” with promising remediation of agricultural soils impacted with uranium mining activities at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. He has been invited to speak in international conferences spanning United Kingdom, Canada, USA, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Italy, Germany and Nigeria. He is a member of professional bodies in Nigeria and overseas.

Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honours

• 2022 – 2024: Award of the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers by Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Jean-Paul Str., Bonn, Germany. Research Title is “Mass Spectrometry-Guided Genome Elucidation of Autochthonous Bacteria Community Ecophysiology for Green Economic Management of Acid Mine Drainages” at Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
• 2012 – 2014: Award of the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), FY2012. Research titled: Biotechnological Remedy of Mercury Pollution, at Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku-Gakuin University, Tagajo, Japan.
• 2004 – 2007: PhD Student Fellowship of the SPGS, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
• 1988: Best graduating student in Chemistry, Independence Grammar School, Ondo, Nigeria.

 Selected Most Recent Publications /Contributions to Knowledge

1. Momoh-Salami, T.M., Akinyemi, N.M., Oyetibo, G.O., Ajiboye, G.A., Adams, L.A., Ogunkanmi, L.A., Ilori, M.O. (2025). Ecological biogeography of maize rhizosphere underpins spatial variation of bacteriome and phylotypes for maize productivity. Applied Soil Ecology, 206, 105889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.105889.
2. Adefiranye, O.O., Adeniji, A.A., Akinjogunla, O.J., Obidi, O.F., Oyetibo, G.O., Ilori, M.O., Babalola, O.O (2024). Draft genome sequence of Staphylococcus auricularis PAPLE_T1 isolate of Carica papaya revealing biosynthetic clusters for beneficial metabolites. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 13, e01201-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01201-23. 
3. Saibu, S., Adebusoye, S.A., Oyetibo, G.O., Rodrigues, D.F. (2023). Geochemistry and metagenomics analyses of bacterial community structure in selected waste dumpsites in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria. Front. Environ. Sci., 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1304033.
4. Saibu, S., Adebusoye, S.A., Oyetibo, G.O. (2023). Soil microbiome response to 2-chlorodibenzo-p-dioxin during bioremediation of contaminated tropical soil in a microcosm-based study. Journal of Hazardous Materials; 451: 131105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.131105.
5. Oyetibo, G.O., Ige, O.O., Obinani, P.K., Amund, O.O (2021). Ecological risk potentials of petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals shape the bacterial communities of marine hydrosphere at Atlantic Ocean, Atlas Cove, Nigeria. Journal of Environmental Management, 289, 112563. https://doi/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112563

Collaborators/ Networks (International inclusive)

1. Dr. Erika Kothe, Institute for Microbiology, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
2. Dr. habil. Thorsten Schäfer, Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
3. Ginro Endo, Biotechnology Research Common, Tohoku-Gakuin University, Tagajo, Japan
4. Keisuke Miyauchi, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku-Gakuin University, Tagajo, Japan.
5. Oluwafemi S. Obayori, Dept. of Microbiology, Lagos State University, Ojoo, Lagos, Nigeria.