Ms. Doreen Dela Owusu-Ntumy is a Research Scientist of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Animal Research Institute, Ghana. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and a Master of Philosophy in Animal Science, with specialisation in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Ghana, Legon. Her research interest covers areas such as molecular microbiology, epidemiology of diseases that significantly reduce productivity in small and micro-livestock, anti-microbial resistance and zoonosis. Doreen enjoys training tertiary students in molecular biology and other laboratory techniques. She has trained tens of such students coming from major public universities in Ghana since 2009