Member Profile
Membership type: full
PhD Fellowship Alumna
Grace Birungi
Country of origin: Uganda Currently in: Uganda, Mbarara General field of specialization: Chemical SciencesPhD Fellowship Alumna
- Academic Background
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Degrees
Chemical Sciences - Research and Profession
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Current Research Activities
Chemical Sciences
Water pollution and remediation Determination Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in water systems Development of HPLC, GC and CE methods for determination of analytes . Metabolomic approaches for investigation of: boimarkers of disease, toxicity etcResearch Keywords:pharmaceuticals in wateranalytical methodsextraction methods
Publications resulting from Research:
Emmanuel Gakuba, Brenda Moodley*, Patrick Ndungu and Grace Birungi, Occurrence and significance of polychlorinated biphenyls in water, sediment pore water and surface sediments of Umgeni River, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 187(9):4790 • September 2015 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4790-1
Solomon Matongo, Grace Birungi*, , Brenda Moodley and Patrick Ndungu, Pharmaceutical Residues in Water and Sediment of Msunduzi River, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Chemosphere 134 (2015) 133–140
Solomon Matongo, Grace Birungi*, Brenda Moodley, Patrick Ndungu, Occurrence of Selected Pharmaceuticals in Water and Sediment of uMgeni River, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-4217-0
Grace Birungi, Sam Fong Yau Li*, Investigation of the Effect of Exposure to non Cytotoxic Amounts of Microcystins, Metabolomics, 2011, 7,485 – 499
Grace Birungi, Sheryl Meijie Chen, Boon Pheng Loy, Mah Lee Ng, and Sam Fong Yau Li*, Metabolomics Approach for Investigation of Effects of Dengue Virus Infection Using the EA.hy926 Cell Line, Journal of Proteome Research 2010, 9, 6523 – 6534
Grace Birungi, Sam Fong Yau Li*, Determination of cyanobacterial cyclic peptide hepatotoxins in drinking water using CE, Electrophoresis 2009, 30, 2737–2742
Current profession
Current professional activities type:ResearchTeachingHigher Education StudyTeaching Graduate and Undergraduate Chemistry; Supervision of graduate and undergraduate research projects in Chemistry, supervision of science education student teachers on school practice
Workshop and Conference Attended
6-8 March 2014 Nairobi, Kenya Humboldt Colloquium "The Power of Excellence in Science – Enhancing Academic Capacities in Africa" - Prizes, Grants and Awards
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TWAS Awards
Jan 2007FellowshipPhD Fellowship at National University of SingaporeOther Awards
Oct 2004ACU scholarshipMSc scholarship to the University of Leeds - Fellowship with OWSD
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Fellowship with OWSD
Fellowship with OWSD
Fellowship awarded 2005
