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Research Publications Contact  Functional genomics of mosquito
vector/malaria parasite interactions  The Laboratory of Insect
Immunogenomics focuses on the study of the major vector of
malaria in Africa, Anopheles gambiae and particularly how its
innate immune system manipulates and is manipulated by the
malaria parasite during its passage through the mosquito.
Malaria is one of the main infectious causes of human mortality
world-wide, mainly among young children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Transmission of the malaria agent, the Plasmodium parasite,
requires its cyclical development in two organisms: the human
host and the Anopheles mosquito vector. Current disease control
methods that aim to either cure the disease in the human body or
to control the vector populations are hampered due to increase
in drug resistance of the parasite and insecticide resistance of
the mosquito. Our underlying conviction is that bringing the
power of functional genomics i