Wellcome Trust Senior Renewal Fellowship project : elucidating the complex evolution of insecticide resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles funestus Africa-wide and its impact on control tools

Projects

Worrying cases of high resistance levels to insecticides are emerging in major malaria vectors such as Anopheles funestus leading to extensive loss of efficacy of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) including PBO-pyrethroid nets. Unless such super-resistance is managed, recent gains in reducing malaria transmission could be lost with terrible consequences. Unfortunately, the molecular drivers of…

Recruitment of a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Vector-parasites interactions

Vacancies

The CRID seeks to appoint 01 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant to work with Dr Ndo on a Wellcome Trust funded project that aims to investigate impact of metabolic resistance to pyrethroids on the vectorial competence of Anopheles funestus using various approaches such as experimental infections, transcriptomic (RNAseq, Gene Ontology and KEGG Pathways analysis), and functional genomics (RNAi and qRT-PCR). The suitable…

COMAL (Co-Infection Plasmodium Malariae)

Projects

COMAL (Co-Infection Plasmodium Malariae) This project aims to fully characterize the P. malariae parasites which is the least studied of the Plasmodium parasites and often reported as a benign malaria parasite due to the lack of data on this parasite. To fill this gap, Comal plans to determine the survival strategy of P. malariae through…