{"id":990,"date":"2026-01-02T04:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/?page_id=990"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:42:34","slug":"birhan-aynalem-ayele-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/?page_id=990","title":{"rendered":"Birhan Aynalem Ayele (PhD)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"166\" height=\"166\" src=\"http:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Birhan-Aynalem-Ayele-PhD.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Birhan-Aynalem-Ayele-PhD.png 166w, https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/Birhan-Aynalem-Ayele-PhD-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Full Name: <strong>Birhan Aynalem Ayele (PhD)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Academic Rank: <strong>Assistant Professor<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Institutional email: birhan_ayinalem@dmu.edu.et<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Google Scholar: https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=rDstHGsAAAAJ<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ORCID address https:\/\/orcid,org\/0000-0002-5827-2688<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Specialization: <strong>Biotechnology (Environmental Biotechnology unit)<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Courses taught: General Microbiology, Cell Biology, Environmental Biotechnology, Microbial Biodiversity and Ecology, Wastewater treatment, Bioremediation and Biodegradation, OMICs, Biotechnology Techniques, Molecular Biology, Microbial Biochemistry, Aquatic Biotechnology, Biodiversity and Management.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Achievements and awards:<ol><li>Recognition of outstanding performance in teaching in the Department of Biotechnology in the 2014\/2015 fiscal year<\/li><\/ol>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recognition certificates from journals such as Scientific African, Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, BMC Research Notes, All Life, Advance in Agriculture, and International Journal of Microbiology<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research interest: I am very enthusiastic about working to create a sustainable environment using eco-friendly bioproducts such as biopesticides, biofertilizers, plant-microbe interactions, and waste bioremediation, as well as developing policy and regulation for potential toxicity management. The main biological resources utilized will be microbes, entomopathogenic fungi, mycorrhiza, rhizosphere, and endophytic bacteria, with molecular data utilization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>List of Publications:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Birhan Aynalem<\/strong>,\u00a0Himani Negi,\u00a0Yigrem Alemu,\u00a0Nirmala Sehrawat\u00a0and\u00a0Amit Kumar (2023). Citric acid: fermentative production using organic wastes as feedstocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/journal\/key\/psr\/html\"><em>Physical Sciences Reviews<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>7:1-13.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/psr-2022-0158\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Birhan Aynalem (2022). <\/strong>Empirical Review of <em>Tuta absoluta<\/em> Meyrick Effect on the Tomato Production and Their Protection Attempts. <em>Advances in Agriculture<\/em>, 2022: 1 \u2013 9.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2022\/2595470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2022\/2595470<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Birhan Aynalem<\/strong>, Diriba Muleta, Mulissa Jida, Fekadu Shemekite, Fassil Aseffa <strong>(2022)<\/strong>. Biocontrol competence of <em>Beauveria bassiana<\/em>, <em>Metarhizium anisopliae<\/em> and <em>Bacillus thuringiensis<\/em> against tomato leaf miner, <em>Tuta absoluta<\/em> Meyrick 1917 under greenhouse and field conditions. <em>Heliyon<\/em>, <strong>8:<\/strong> e09694. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.heliyon.2022.e09694\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.heliyon.2022.e09694<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Birhan Aynalem<\/strong>, Diriba Muleta, Juan Venegas, Fassil Assefa (<strong>2021<\/strong>). Isolation, molecular characterization and pathogenicity of native <em>Bacillus thuringiensis<\/em>, from Ethiopia, against the tomato leafminer, <em>Tuta absoluta<\/em>: Detection of a new high lethal phylogenetic group. <em>Microbiological Research<\/em>, <strong>250:<\/strong> 126802. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.micres.2021.126802\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.micres.2021.126802<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Birhan Aynalem<\/strong> and Diriba Muleta (<strong>2021<\/strong>). Microbial biosensors as pesticide detector: An Overview. <em>Journal of Sensors<\/em>, 1- 9. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2021\/5538857\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2021\/5538857<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"6\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Aynalem+B&amp;cauthor_id=34436715\"><strong>Birhan Aynalem<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Muleta+D&amp;cauthor_id=34436715\">Diriba Muleta<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Venegas+J&amp;cauthor_id=34436715\">Juan Venegas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=Assefa+F&amp;cauthor_id=34436715\">Fassil Assefa<\/a>, (<strong>2021<\/strong>). Molecular phylogeny and pathogenicity of indigenous <em>Beauveria bassiana<\/em> against the tomato leafminer, <em>Tuta absoluta<\/em> Meyrick 1917 (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), in Ethiopia. <em>Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology<\/em>, <strong>19:<\/strong>1 \u2013 15. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s43141-021-00227-x\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s43141-021-00227-x<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"7\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Birhan Aynalem<\/strong>, Diriba Muleta, Juan Venegas and Fassil Assefa, (<strong>2020<\/strong>). Morphological, molecular, and pathogenicity characteristics of the native isolates of <em>Metarhizium anisopliae<\/em> against the tomato leafminer, <em>Tuta absoluta<\/em> (Meyrick 1917) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in Ethiopia. <em>Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control,<\/em> <strong>30:<\/strong>1- 11.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s41938-020-00261-w\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s41938-020-00261-w<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Birhan Aynalem<\/strong>, Tadele Temesgen, Yilkal Bezie, Seble W. Yohannis (<strong>2018<\/strong>). <a>Phenotypic characterization and symbiotic effectiveness test of chickpea (<em>Cicer arietinum<\/em> L.) rhizobia isolated from Dejen and Aneded Districts<\/a>, East Gojjam Zone, Amahara Region, Ethiopia. <em>African Journal of Biotechnology<\/em>, <em>17:<\/em> 730-738. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5897\/AJB2018.16434\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5897\/AJB2018.16434<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>B<\/strong><strong>irhan Aynalem (2018).<\/strong>Tomato leafminer [(<em>Tuta absoluta<\/em> Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)] and its current eco-friendly management strategies: A review. <em>J. Agric. Biotech. Sustain. Dev.<\/em>10(2):11-24.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5897\/JABSD2018.0306\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5897\/JABSD2018.0306<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>B<\/strong><strong>irhan Aynalem <\/strong>and Fassil Assefa (<strong>2017<\/strong>). Effect of glyphosate and mancozeb on the <em>Rhizobia<\/em> isolated from nodules of <em>Vicia<\/em><em> faba L.<\/em> \u00a0and on their N<sub>2<\/sub>&#8211; fixation, North Showa, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia. <em>Adv. Biol. <\/em><strong>1017: <\/strong>1-7.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2017\/5864598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2017\/5864598<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research and project information (completed and ongoing):<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Phenotypic characterization and symbiotic effectiveness test of chickpea (<em>Cicer arietinum<\/em> L.) rhizobia isolated from Dejen and Aneded Districts.\u00a0 Research funded by DMU (completed)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Promotion of organic fertilizers adoption\/application in the smallholder farming in East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia. Project funded by DMU (ongoing)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understanding the link between root microbial networks and grasslands for resilient agriculture and sustainable food production under flood and drought perturbation (ongoing post-doctoral research)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MSc and\/or PhD students advised (ongoing and Graduated):<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One MSc student (Graduated)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two MSc students (ongoing)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-990","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/990\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncs.dmu.edu.et\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}