Dr. (Mrs) Adelowotan  is a Medical Microbiology specialist with focus on the transmission of virulence and antibiotic resistance genes among hospital bacterial pathogens, carriage and persistence of bacterial pathogens among patients on long hospital stay, risk factors for healthcare transmission of  staphylococcal infections, surveillance of staphylococcal mecC gene in Nigerian setting and screening for alternative antimicrobials among Nigerian plants. She has her undergraduate degree in Microbiology and graduated from the Lagos State University, Nigeria in 1990; Masters in Medical Microbiology from the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 2005 and a PhD in Medical Microbiology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2016. Over the period of ten years’ experience, she conducted research in Medical Microbiology, mentored 100s of students, worked in Nigeria and South Africa and achieved several membership of professional and academic groups including the Nigerian Society for Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology and Society for Applied Microbiology with several publications in textbooks and peered reviewed journals. She worked in the team that won and managed the University of Lagos CRC grants twice (CRC 2005/08) and won/managed the TETFUND study grant for foreign study as well as twice for learned conferences. She was the Principal investigator on one of the research studies that won and managed in part the Genomics Animal and Zoonotic Diseases Institutional Research Themes; Institute for Cellular and Molecular Medicine; National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa [Grant reference number (UID) 74426 at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.