On February 24, 2026, Nelly Manuela Tchatchoua Tatchou successfully defended her PhD thesis in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Faculty of Science, University of Buea. Her work, titled “Validation of the Role of CYP6P4a and CYP6P4b Genes in Insecticide Resistance in the Major African Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus using Functional Genomics,”…
On February 20, 2026, Tagne Djoko Simeon Carlos successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in the Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science of the University of Bamenda. His research, titled “Genetic Diversity, Functional Validation and Cis-Regulatory Elements of Cytochrome P450 CYP9K1 in Resistance to Pyrethroid Insecticide in the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus,” received high…
From January 19 to 30, 2026, the NIH funded EMERGENTS-ICEMR- project (International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research – Enhancing Malaria Epidemiology Research through Genomics & Translational Systems Biology) hosted an intensive genomics training at CRID. The program focused on Nanopore Amplicon Sequencing and Molecular Inversion Probes (MIPs) for Plasmodium analyses, equipping scientists with cutting-edge…