Mr. Aboge is currently a Tutorial Fellow in the Department of Plant, Animal and Food Sciences offering teaching, and research duties, and other academic roles including offering research support to postgraduate students in the department. He previously served as a Graduate Assistant in the school assisting in teaching, research and community service and worked closely with the chairman of the department in execution of various administrative and academic activities of the department. He is a published researcher in refereed journals and serves as a reviewer for three peer reviewed journals.

His research interests include sustainable food systems, food security, Nutrients, and Plant genetics. His current research project, which is a PhD project, is on the introduction of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) for a better food security in the Lake Victoria basin of Kenya, focusing on developing genetic resources for improved yield and quality of quinoa.  He has also undertaken various studies on edible insects for food and nutrition security, focusing on different aspects of their growth and nutritional quality for human and animal nutrition. Overall, his current research work seeks to promote novel, under-utilized and neglected food resources for food, nutrition and income security through research into their adaptability in local conditions, growth and nutritional characteristics and genes responsible for important traits.

Mr. Aboge has received two scholarship awards from the World Bank supported African Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Use of Insect as Food and Feed, and VLIR Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) for his masters and PhD studies respectively. Mr. Aboge  has also received two recognition  as a junior  and senior reviewer for African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development for his over 4 years of dedication as a peer reviewer on  food security topics. Previously, he was awarded recognition as the Valedictorian for his outstanding academic performance in his undergraduate studies at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology

Links to External profiles

Research Gate : https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danstone-Aboge-2

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WWIMwnMAAAAJ&hl=en

Linkin  : https://www.linkedin.com/in/danstone-aboge-30a615125/?originalSubdomain=be

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9605-7615