Growing up in Nigeria, I witnessed the ecological devastation caused by oil spills across the country. And this led me after my first degree in the sciences to work with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. This is the state-owned company that is responsible for the production, exploration, and marketing of petroleum products.During that time, I served a team that was remediating oil spills across the country. And I realized the role that microbiology could play in the remediation of oil spill ...