Dr Mrs. Temitope O. Samuel, a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Botany is an articulate Mycologist/Plant Pathologist, with special interest in medical mycology. She had over 11 years of University teaching experience with an excellent track record in teaching, research and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her research areas are food safety (mycotoxins), taxonomy of medically important fungi (as this is an often neglected aspect of medical mycology) and Molecular Characterization of Fungi. Dr. Mrs. Temitope Samuel have over 20 publications in both international and national peer reviewed journals.