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Fogarty International Student
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I have a master's degree in biology (Biochemical- Microbiology applied) from the Faculty of Science and Technical, University of Bamako, Mali.
I have been involved in many studies in field carried in Mali (Leishmaniasis, Malaria) for the Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC) at University of Bamako.
I am interested in studying the vector, reservoir and parasite impliqued in cutaneous leishmaniasis transmission in Mali at MRTC.
I am presently a student of Shirley Luckhart, a co-principal invesigator on the Fogarty International Training Grant. I am interested in interaction vector parasite of malaria: To Identify Anopheles gambiae immune gene alleles that are more frequently associated with parasite infection than with the absence of parasite infection.
- Medical Entomology research, Malaria Center- Bamako
- Parasitology research, Malaria Center
- Bacteriology research, Veterinary Laboratory Center (LCV), Bamako
Medical entomologist Shirley Luckhart, associate professor of medical microbiology and immunology, UC Davis School of Medicine, relates information about Cheick's research, as of November 2006:
"Cheick is working on association mapping of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) with parasite infection in An. gambiae. The SNPs were identified initially in silico in a large variety of signal transduction pathway genes and effector genes that we have previously associated with the immune response to parasite infection in the mosquito. Right now, Cheick is in the process of confirming that these SNPs are present in Greg Lanzaro's colony mosquitoes that were recently established from Kenya (to learn all of the techniques) and also in some of our field-collected mosquitoes from Mali. He has already screened all of the mosquitoes for P. falciparum infection using a quantitative ELISA.
When he has finished confirming that the SNPs are present, and perhaps identifying others that we didn't find in the databases, then he will start the high-throughput genomics mapping of the large pool of SNPs in infected and paired, uninfected mosquitoes collected in the same village on the same day."
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