Angela Alleyne is a Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Barbados. She is also the Program Coordinator of the M.Sc./Diploma in Biosafety at the UWI. She completed undergraduate studies in Biochemistry with Microbiology at the UWI Mona Campus, Jamaica, and postgraduate studies in 2000 at the UWI Cave Hill Campus, where she studied the molecular biology of yam anthracnose disease, a fungal disease in the Dioscorea (yam) species, in Barbados. This was followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Nebraskan Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in plant pathology and a period as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Edward Waters University in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2008, she returned to Cave Hill, where her current research involves the use of molecular markers in plant disease diagnosis.