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Community & teaching

Teaching, organising,
showing up.

I teach bioinformatics, mentor students, and help run health programmes in Lagos. Here are the communities I contribute to.

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In the community

Teaching & outreach.

Workshops, student mentoring, and public health programmes.

Programs Lead

The Health enLight Initiative

August 2025 - Present · Lagos, Nigeria

I coordinate monthly health webinars and school outreach, including training 20 student health ambassadors.

The Health enLight Initiative website homepage, showing a stack of upcoming event cards
Activities & outcomes: The Health enLight Initiative
  • Organise and coordinate the monthly health webinars on X Spaces and Google Meet, drawing 10-80 live attendees per session.
  • Design the flyers and assets, collaborating with media team, on improving social media engagement.
  • Ran a health outreach curriculum for secondary schools and trained 20 student health ambassadors.
  • Designed and built the initiative's website so the team can publish its own story.
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Lead Facilitator

The Bioinformatics Bridge (BioBridge) 1.0

Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Lagos

A two-day bioinformatics workshop for over 40 participants. I coordinated the facilitators and logistics, and taught two sessions.

Tomiwa presenting the KBase Narrative Navigator to participants at the BioBridge 1.0 workshop
Tomiwa pointing at a labelled KBase narrative dashboard during a BioBridge 1.0 session
Activities & outcomes: The Bioinformatics Bridge (BioBridge) 1.0
  • Coordinated the other facilitators and ran logistics for over 40 participants.
  • Designed the digital assets used across the workshop.

Sessions I led

  • Creating Reproducible and Reusable Genome Analysis Workflows with KBase
  • Python as a Computational Skill

Volunteer

End TB Outreach

Lagos, Nigeria

A schools outreach for World TB Day, run with the Lagos State TB and Leprosy Control Programme.

Tomiwa in a World TB Day volunteer vest beside a tuberculosis symptom-awareness poster at a Lagos school
Volunteers and pupils holding Zero TB materials outside a Lagos school on World TB Day
Activities & outcomes: End TB Outreach
  • Joined the volunteer team taking tuberculosis awareness into Lagos secondary schools.
  • The outreach pointed pupils and staff to free testing and treatment through the national TB hotline.

Student Mentor

National Association of Microbiology Students (NAMS), Southwest Region

July 2022 - August 2024 · Lagos, Nigeria

Mentoring, tutorials and talks for microbiology undergraduates at the University of Lagos.

Tomiwa with fellow NAMS executives at a University of Lagos microbiology student event
Activities & outcomes: National Association of Microbiology Students (NAMS), Southwest Region
  • Mentored several students, three of whom reached a first-class GPA in a semester - one of them a perfect 5.00.
  • Addressed 100+ first-year students at orientation with strategies for balancing academics with extracurriculars and putting technical skills to work in microbiology.
  • Organised and ran tutorials on coursework and statistical reporting methods, improving participants' exam performance.
  • Presented on environmental sustainability and the part microbiologists play in it.

Academic Student Secretary

GOFAMINT Student Fellowship (GSF)

July 2023 - July 2024

Led a 12-person team supporting the academic growth of more than 100 students.

Activities & outcomes: GOFAMINT Student Fellowship (GSF)
  • Organised four academic meetings, including a session to help first-year students settle into university.
  • Facilitated weekly talks on time management and study techniques, alongside individual mentorship.

Member

Education in Charlotte and Lagos (EDUCHALA)

October 2021 - August 2024

Collaborated with students at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, on soil microbiology research.

Activities & outcomes: Education in Charlotte and Lagos (EDUCHALA)
  • Characterised and compared microbial communities in soil samples from Lagos and Charlotte.
  • Led a team presentation introducing Nigerian culture, history, and traditions to students in Charlotte.
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Research & publications

Phage genomics, microbial communities, and the papers.

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Frontend engineering

Six years of products, and the architecture underneath.

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