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…
On January 16, 2026, Tatiane Assatse Matakafo, Research Assistant at CRID, successfully defended her Ph.D thesis in Parasitology and Ecology at the Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé I. Her research focused on characterising the molecular basis of resistance to neonicotinoids (a novel insecticide class recommended by WHO for vector control) in the main African…