Dr. Odong attained his PhD, Statistical Genetics in Wageningen University, Netherlands in 2007. His areas of expertise include Biometry (Applied Statistics), Research Methods, Statistical genetics and Bioinformatics. He has over 10 years of extensive experience in Biometry/statistical consulting and lecturing. He has been providing technical backstopping in areas of study design and data analysis to several local and international researchers.   At the moment, Dr. Odong is a lecturer at the School of Agricultural Sciences, Makerere University where he teaches applied statistics, Population and Quantitative Genetics. Five papers have been published from his PhD thesis (Quantitative Sampling of Germplasm Collections – Getting the best out of molecular markers when creating core collections) in peer-reviewed journals. One of these papers won “The 2014 Outstanding Paper in Plant Genetic Resources award” of the American Crop Science Society. From December 2011 to June 2013, Dr. Odong was awarded a post-doctoral research fellowship under Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomic Project at the Laboratory of Bioinformatics at Wageningen University. As a Post-doc, he worked on SNP discovery using Next Generation Sequencing Data.