My letter to Canada High Commission, South Africa

By Tosin 'Badeniyi, PhD
- June 28, 2023

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I wrote the letter below on the 19th of June

High Commission of Canada in South Africa,

Dear High Commissioner,

RE: Request for expedite action on consideration of Dr. Ekundayo Temitope Cyrus’ application

I am pleased to write this letter to kindly request prompt attention to Dr. Ekundayo Temitope Cyrus’s (Passport Number: XXXXXXXXX) application for a Canadian visa. He is representing our research team at the forthcoming International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) 2023 Meeting, to be held at The Metro Toronto Convention Centre– 715 in Toronto, Ontario Canada from July 16 to 20, 2023. International Conference presentation is one of the outputs required by the funder of current researcher that is going to be ending this year. We hope to justify this aspect by presenting our research at forthcoming IAFP conference.

Dr. Ekundayo will be presenting the following accepted abstracts at IAFP conference:

i. Ekundayo, T.C.; and Ijabadeniyi O.A. (2023). Salmonella Public Health Challenge and Its Near-Zero Detection Paradox in Low-Water Activity Food: A Linear Mixed Effects Modelling of 9656 Flours.

ii. Ekundayo, T.C.; Adewoyin, M.A. Ijabadeniyi O.A.; and Okoh, A.I. (2023). Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) and Random Forest (RF) Guided Machine Learning Prediction of Acinetobacter Density in Fresh Produce Irrigation Source Waters.

iii. Ndokweni, L.T.; Ekundayo, T.C.; and Ijabadeniyi O.A. (2023). Reduction of Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli O157:H7 on Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) and Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) by Hot Water and Vinegar Treatment.

Dr. Ekundayo has previously visited China (2018) and Germany (2019) for the underlisted events:

i. Synthetic Biotechnology Training Course for Developing Countries, jointly 1st TWAS Symposium on Plant Natural Product Synthesis by Microbes held at CAS-TWAS Centre of Excellence for Biotechnology (CoEBio), Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyag District, Beijing 100101; 15-19, January 2018.

ii. Ekundayo T. C. and Okoh A. I. (2019). Molecular characterisation and differential numerical delineation of computer-assisted analysis of DNA fingerprints of Plesiomonas shigelloides into strain clusters. 16th International Symposium “Horizons in Molecular Biology” held at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, in Göttingen, Germany, 9 – 12 September 2019 (Presenting Author).

Attached is a copy of his visas for the above countries (China and Germany). In addition, I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Ekundayo’s trip will be fully funded through generous support from both Durban University of Technology and my research grant. We greatly appreciate your anticipated favorable consideration of this request.

Yours sincerely,

Oluwatosin Ademola Ijabadeniyi, PhD

Professor

Department of Biotechnology and Food Science

Durban University of Technology

Steve Biko Campus

Berea, Durban

Tosin 'Badeniyi, PhD

Tosin ‘Badeniyi, a Professor at the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science at Durban University of Technology, South Africa, holds a doctoral degree in Food Science from University of Pretoria South Africa. Since 2001, he has conducted research and lectured internationally in the area of food quality and safety. He is the editor of Food Science and Technology: Trends and Future Prospects and has published numerous scientific publications as well as four inspirational books.