Project Title : "Study and test of new targets for the diagnosis of animal trypanosomoses."

Project PI : Loïc Rivière, Frédéric Bringaud and Adrien Belem

Lab : Virulence pathogenicity factors in African trypanosomes: from the parasite to the animal - MFP, CNRS-University of Bordeaux, France

Thesis defense : 05/07/2021 

BACKGROUND

• 2016-2017: Master 2 Microbiology-Immunology, University of Bordeaux, France
• 2015-2017: Master 1 Structural and molecular biology/Biochemistry, University of Lille, France
• 2014-2015: Bachelor in Biochemistry, University of Lille, France
• 2011-2014: Bachelor in Physiology and Health, University Mohammed the first, Oujda, Morocco

POSITION AFTER PARAFRAP TRAINING

• Since 2021: Postdoc in Derrick Robinson and Mélanie Bonhivers Team : Protist Parasite Cytoskeleton, MFP Lab, Bordeaux, France

PUBLICATIONS

Tounkara, Magamba, Boulangé, A., Thonnus, M., Bringaud, F., Bélem, A.M.G., Bengaly, Z., Thévenon, S., Berthier, D., Rivière, L., (2021). Novel protein candidates for serodiagnosis of African animal trypanosomosis: Evaluation of the diagnostic potential of lysophospholipase and glycerol kinase from Trypanosoma brucei. PLoS Negl Trop Dis [4.4] 15, e0009985. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009985

Tounkara, M., Boulange, A., Bringaud, F., Thonnus, M., Belem, A.M.G., Bengaly, Z., Thévenon, S., Berthier, D., Rivière, L., (2021). Les méthodes de diagnostic des trypanosomiases animales africaines : avantages, limites et nouvelles pistes d’amélioration. Bulletin de l’Association des Anciens Elèves de l’Institut Pasteur 63, 31–38.