Background
Judith Tchouomene Labou (married name DANDI) is a Post Doc research assistant at CRID and TWAS-UNESCO small grant fellow who earned her PhD in 2020 from the University of Yaoundé I (UY1) in Cameroon.
Her PhD studies were funded by the French government through the “Institut de Recherches pour le Développement” as part of the Aires Sud project, under the supervision of Prof. Flobert NJIOKOU. During her doctoral research, she gained expertise in mitochondrial DNA analysis at UMR172-IRD/CIRAD in Montpellier, France. Upon returning to her laboratory at UY1, she applied these techniques to study tsetse fly population genetics, phylogeny, bioecology, and parasite distribution. Her work has provided valuable insights for understanding and fight against sleeping sickness vectors in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Research:
- Areas of interest:
Vector borne disease, Vector control/surveillance, Insecticide resistance, Genomics, Structural variant
- Research Areas:
Since 2021, as a postdoctoral researcher at CRID, she has been investigating the molecular basis of insecticide resistance intending to develop diagnostic tools for field monitoring.
Her recently obtained TWAS-UNESCO Small Grant (2025-2027) supports research using long-read sequencing to understand the role of structural variants in resistance markers.
She also contributes to the bCUBE project funded by Gates foundation (PI Charles Wondji), where she evaluates a field-deployable, PCR-based insecticide resistance surveillance system throughout Cameroon.
- Department, member of research areas/research groups
–Member of the student appraisal committee at CRID
-Member of Ethics and discipline committee
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Master students
Supervising a Master Student. Njimbam Megna Jalil
- PUBLICATIONS
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2025 (under review). Judith Dandi-Labou*, Jonas A. Kengne-Ouafo, Leon Mugenzi, Magellan Tchouakui, Murielle Wondji, Charles S. Wondji. Susceptibility profile of Anopheles and target site resistance mechanism against organophosphates in Cameroon. Publications during her PHD study 2020: Judith Tchouomene-Labou*, Tito Trésor Melachio-Tanekou, Gustave Simo, Dramane Kaba, Sophie Ravel, Flobert Njiokou. (2020) Single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) of mitochondrial genes enables to estimate genetic differentiation, demographic parameters and phylogeny of Glossina palpalis palpalis populations from west and central Africa. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 82, 104303. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1567134820301349 Simo Gustave, Fongho Suh Pierre, Farikou Oumarou, Ndjeuto-tchouli Prosper Innocent, Tchouomene-Labou Judith., Njiokou Flobert, & Asonganyi, Tazoacha. (2015). Trypanosome infection rates in tsetse flies in the “silent” sleeping sickness focus of Bafia in the Centre Region in Cameroon. Parasites & Vectors, 8(528), 1–11. https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-015-1156-z Publication during her Master’s degree study Judith Tchouomene-Labou, Hugues Nana-Djeunga, Gustave Simo, Guy Roger Njitchouang, Gerard Cuny, Tazoacha Asonganyi, and Flobert Njiokou. (2013). Spatial and temporal variations relevant to tsetse control in the Bipindi focus of southern Cameroon. Parasites & Vectors, 6 :193. https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-3305-6-193 |
