Member Profile
Membership type: full
Aminatou Kone
Country of origin: Mali Currently in: Mali, Bamako General field of specialization: Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology-
Degrees
2014 Doctorate Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences -
Current Research Activities
Medical and Health Sciences incl Neurosciences
Molecular determinant of malaria drug resistance Malaria parasite genomics and transciptomics
Publications resulting from Research:
Aminatou Kone, Sekou Sissoko, Bakary Fofana, Cheick O. Sangare, Demba Dembele, Aboubecrine Sedhigh Haidara, Nouhoum Diallo, Aoua Coulibaly, Aliou Traore, Sekou Toure, Kadidia Haidara, Kassim Sanogo, Issaka Sagara, Khalid B. Beshir, José P. Gil, Ogobara K. Doumbo, Abdoulaye A. Djimde. Different Plasmodium falciparum clearance times in two Malian villages following artesunate monotherapy. Accepted in IJID in April 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.03.082
Amed Ouattara ; Aminatou Kone ; Matthew Adams ; Bakary Fofana ; Amelia Walling Maiga ; Shay Hampton ; Drissa Coulibaly ; Mahamadou A Thera ; Nouhoum Diallo ; Antoine Dara ; Issaka Sagara ; Jose Pedro Gil ; Anders Bjorkman ; Shannon Takala-Harrison ; Ogobara K Doumbo ; Christopher V Plowe et Abdoulaye A Djimde. Polymorphisms in the K13-Propeller Gene in Artemisinin-Susceptible Plasmodium falciparum Parasites from Bougoula-Hameau and Bandiagara, Mali. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 92(6), 2015, pp. 1202–1206.
Aminatou Kone; Jianbing Mu; Hamma Maiga; Abdoul H. Beavogui; Omar Yattara; Issaka Sagara; Mamadou M. Tekete; Oumar B. Traore; Antoine Dara; Souleymane Dama; Nouhoum Diallo; Aly Kodio; Aliou Traoré; Anders Björkman ; Jose P. Gil ; Ogobara K. Doumbo ; Thomas E. Wellems and Abdoulaye A. Djimde. Quinine Treatment selects the pfnhe–1 ms4760–1 Polymorphism in Malian Patients with Falciparum Malaria. JID 2013:207 (1 February)
A.W. Maiga, B. Fofana, I.Sagara, D.Dembele, A.Dara, O.B.Traore, S.Toure, K.Sanogo, S.Dama, B.Sidibe, A.Kone, M.A. Thera, C.V. Plowe, O.K. Doumbo, A.A.Djimde. No Evidence of Delayed Parasite Clearance after Oral Artesunate Treatment of Uncomplicated Falciparum Malaria in Mali. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 87(1), 2012, pp. 23–28.
Veiga MI, Ferreira PE, Jörnhagen L, Malmberg M, Kone A, Schmidt BA, Petzold M, Björkman A, Nosten F, Gil JP. Novel polymorphisms in Plasmodium falciparum ABC transporter genes are associated with major ACT antimalarial drug resistance.
PLoS One. 2011; 6(5):e20212. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020212. Epub 2011 May 25. PMID:21633513
Aminatou Kone, van de Vegte-Bolmer M, Siebelink-Stoter R, van Gemert GJ, Dara A, Niangaly H, Luty A, Doumbo OK, Sauerwein R, Djimde AA
Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine impairs Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte infectivity and Anopheles mosquito survival. Int J Parasitol. 2010 Aug 15; 40(10):1221-8. Epub 2010 Jun 2.
Beavogui AH, Djimde AA, Gregson A, Toure AM, Dao A, Coulibaly B, Ouologuem D, Fofana B, Sacko A, Tekete M, Kone A, Niare O, Wele M, Plowe CV, Picot S, Doumbo OK Low infectivity of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes to Anopheles gambiae following treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in Mali.. Int J Parasitol. 2010 Aug 15; 40(10):1213-20. Epub 2010 May 9.
Djimde AA, Barger B, Kone A, Beavogui AH, Tekete M, Fofana B, Dara A, Maiga H, Dembele D, Toure S, Dama S, Ouologuem D, Sangare CP, Dolo A, Sogoba N, Nimaga K, Kone Y, Doumbo OK. A molecular map of chloroquine resistance in Mali. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2010 Feb; 58(1):113-8. Epub 2009 Nov
Tekete M, Djimde AA, Beavogui AH, Maiga H, Sagara I, Fofana B, Ouologuem D, Dama S, Kone A, Dembele D, Wele M, Dicko A, Doumbo OK. Efficacy of chloroquine, amodiaquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria: revisiting molecular markers in an area of emerging AQ and SP resistance in Mali. Malar J. 2009 Feb 26;8:34.
Kaddouri H, Djimdé A, Dama S, Kodio A, Tekete M, Hubert V, Koné A, Maiga H, Yattara O, Fofana B, Sidibe B, Sangaré CP, Doumbo O, Le Bras J. Baseline in vitro efficacy of ACT component drugs on Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates from Mali. Int J Parasitol. 2008 Jun; 38 (7):791-8. Epub 2008 Jan 3.
Current profession
Current professional activities type:ResearchAssistant Professor in Molecular Biology at University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali Post-doc position in a Malian research institution on Malaria research and Training. Principal investigator on the post-doc project
Workshop and Conference Attended
2005 Washington, USA ASTMH2006 Atlanta, USA ASTMH2009 Nairobie, Kenya MIM2012 Stockholm, Sweden Severe Malaria Conference2012 Dakar, senegal SOAP conference2016 Lusaka, Zambia EDTCP conference2016 Bamako, Mali SOAP conference2017 Baltimore, USA ASTMH2018 Cotonou in Benin Societé Africaine de Parasitologie conference2018 New-Orleans, USA ASTMH conference2018 Dakar, Senegal Multilateral Initiative on Malaria conference2019 Dakar, Senegal DELTA Africa- AAS conference2019 Bamako, Mali West African Network for Clinical trials of Antimalarial drugs conference2019 Addis, Ethiopia Keystone symposia "Malaria endgame"2019 Kigali, Rwanda Woman Leaders in Global Health conference in Kigali2019 Washington, USA ASTMH conference in Washington, USAAffiliations
ASTMHOrganization for Woman in Sciences for the Developing worldSociété Malienne de Contrôle des Résistances aux AntimicrobiensSocieté Africaine de ParasitologiePresentation given
2012Molecular and cellular biology as tool for Malaria epidemiologistGhanaEvent: Institute of Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IIDP) workshop, Accra, Ghana 20122019Research opportunities for young African researchers - where and how to access to themKigali, RwandaEvent: The Women Leaders in Global Health meeting, November 9-10, 2019
