Reproductive biology of male laboratory animals, reproductive biology of male wildlife, reproductive biology of male birds, reproductive toxicology in laboratory animals and birds.

Science Association of Nigeria (SAN), Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA), Nigerian Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR), Anatomical Society of West Africa, World Association of Veterinary Anatomists (WAVA), Anatomical Society of Southern Africa (ASSA), Microscopy Society of Southern Africa (MSSA)

Dr. Aire holds the degrees of D.V.M. and Ph.D. (University of Ibadan), and did postdoctoral studies in Sweden and the United States of America. He is a Foundation Fellow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons of Nigeria (FCVSN), and was recently inducted into the Fellowship of the Academy of Sciences (FAS).

He has taught veterinary anatomy in various universities: University of Ibadan, University of Illinois, USA, University of Zimbabwe, University of Pretoria and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, and has had research visits to Universities of Minnesota, Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph, Canada, and The University of Liverpool, England.

Dr. Aire has had considerable administrative experience at Head of Department and Deanship levels, as well as serving in several committees in several universities, and also at the national level. He is a National Research Foundation-rated scientist in South Africa, and he has had the honor of being the representative for Animal Sciences and Veterinary Science in the Rating Assessment Committee of that Foundation, 2004 to 2006. He is currently Professor of Anatomy, Program Director, Anatomy & Physiology Academic Program, School of Veterinary Medicine, and an Associate Dean, School of Veterinary. Before coming to the Caribbean, he was Professor of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Pretoria (1996-2006), where he is Professor Emeritus.

His research activities are in reproductive biology of animals, with particular reference to male reproduction in birds, wildlife and laboratory animals. His publications, well over a hundred, have received good international acceptability and respect, and have generally been well cited in journal articles as well as in text and reference books. He has won a number of publication and paper-presentation awards, including, but not limited to, the 2nd Prize of the European Academy of Andrology, 1997, for a publication in 1996 in the International Journal of Andrology, Researcher of the Year, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, 2003. He has written chapters in three state-of-the-art books in his area of research specialty. He was nominated in 2000 to serve in the Nomina Anatomica Avium Committee which is responsible, globally, for avian structural nomenclature.

Dr. Aire has supervised eight Ph.D. degree theses and several M.Sc. degree dissertations, and he is currently supervising two Ph.D. students, based in South Africa.

Professionally, he has, at different times, served as Secretary and then President, Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA); Council Member, Commonwealth Veterinary Association (CVA); National Representative, World Veterinary Association (WVA) and Pan African Veterinary Association. He received the Livestock Feeds (Nigeria) Award for contributions to Veterinary Medicine, 1996.

Aire, T.A., Ozegbe, P.C., Soley, J.T. and Madekurozwa, M.-C. (2008) Structural and immunohistochemical features of the epididymal duct unit of the ostrich (Struthio camelus). Anat. Histol. Embryol. 37, 296-302.

Mbajiorgu, E.F., Aire, T.A., Volk, W., Albert, M. (2008) Low protein diet enhances the toxicity of combined ethanol and chloroquine administration on gonadal weight, seminiferous tubular diameter and epithelial height of  male Sprague-Dawley rats: a morphometric study, International Journal of Health Science 1: 120-126.

Aire, T.A. and Ozegbe, P.C. (2008) Immunohistochemistry of the cytoskeleton in the excurrent ducts of the testis in birds of the Galloanserae monophyly. Cell and Tissue Research 333, 311-321.

Elias, M.Z., Aire, T.A. and Soley, J.T. (2008) Macroscopic features of the venous drainage of the reproductive system of the male ostrich (Struthio camelus). Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 75, 289-298.

Ozegbe, P.C., Kimaro, W., Madekurozwa, M.C., Soley, J.T. & Aire, T.A. (2009) The excurrent ducts of the testis of the emu (Dromaius  novaehollandiae) and ostrich (Struthio camelus): microstereology of the epididymis and immunohistochemistry of its cytoskeletal systems. Anatomy Histology Embryology Oct. 28 (doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2009.00969)

Some aspects of the normal structure - histological and ultrastructural - of the epididymides and endocrine glands of birds (domestic fowl, Japanese quail, guinea-fowl, ostrich, etc). A long-term, on-going, project. Published work cited in several text-books and reference texts. Sponsored by the University of Ibadan Senate Research Committee, Wellcome Trust (Nigeria); Commonwealth Interchange Fund, Medunsa Research, Board and University of Pretoria. (A Postdoctoral Fellow [Dr. P. C. Ozegbe] joined the research area in 2005/2006)

The effects of the widely-used agricultural fungicide, carbendazim, on the reproductive organs of the male bird, with particular reference to the Japanese quail. (University of Pretoria research grant, 2004).