Dr Fatalmoudou Tandina
About me
The last year she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship under the Malaria Research Capacity Development in West and Central Africa (MARCAD-PLUS) on Tackling the residual transmission of Plasmodium falciparum during the dry season in malaria hyper-endemic area of Mali. This project will provide an updated list of different mosquito populations diversity at the study site as well as those sustaining malaria transmission and monitoring of insecticide resistance.
She is a young female researcher at the early stage of her career her long-term goal is to establish a research team focusing on emerging and re-emerging vector-borne infectious diseases of medical importance in our institution USTTB/PMRTC in Mali. She is currently group leader of the entomology sub-unit at the PMRTC. We support the malaria team to understand the interaction between host, vector, and Plasmodium parasite.
Her vision is to set up a platform for continuous monitoring of insecticide resistance and vector control in the context of malaria elimination in Mali.
I am medical entomologist and post-doctoral fellow at the Parasites and Microbes research and training center (PMRTC) of the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Mali. My early work focused on better understanding the relevant mechanisms underlying the biology of malaria vectors. During my thesis, I used an innovative tool, MALDI-TOF (Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization - Time of Flight) to identify mosquitoes, determine their blood meal and study their microbiota. Moreover, I have worked to identify mosquitoes collected in Mali and determine their blood meal source and digestive microbiota. These ongoing results are very promising and the recent acquisition of MALDI-TOF equipment by our laboratory would facilitate our future field studies. With colleagues we have updated the repertory of mosquitoes in Mali, from 88 species in 1961 to 106 species in nowadays. Since 2019, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the Malaria Research and Training Centre at the University of Technical Sciences and Technologies in Bamako. In this role, I have led and overseen the insectarium sub-unit. This has allowed me to supervise master's students, participate in scientific conferences and compete for funding to further my career.
Last year I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship under the Malaria Research Capacity Development in West and Central Africa (MARCAD-PLUS) on Tackling the residual transmission of Plasmodium falciparum during the dry season in malaria hyper-endemic area of Mali. This project will provide an updated list of different mosquito populations diversity at the study site as well as those sustaining malaria transmission.
In recent years, Mali has experienced outbreaks of dengue fever. My recently research work is understanding Aedes mosquitoes, potentials vectors of arboviruses in Mali. Preliminary data was obtained from the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)/UNESCO funding. This study provides information on the diversity of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes, with dominating by Aedes aegypti and some mosquitoes Aedes mosquito positive to the arboviruses using RT-PCR Pan-Flavivirus for the non-structural protein 5 (NS5) gene.
My long-term goal is to establish a research team focusing on emerging and re-emerging vector-borne infectious diseases of medical importance in our research center in Mali.
I am experienced in collecting and identifying mosquitoes in the field.
I have experience of breeding mosquitoes in the laboratory. I am familiar with mosquito feeding.
I integrate easily into a team.
Degrees:
2. Dara A, Dogga SK, Rop J, Ouologuem D, Tandina F, Talman AM, Djimdé A,
Lawniczak MKN. Tackling malaria transmission at a single cell level in an endemic setting in sub-Saharan Africa. Nat Commun. 2022 May 13;13(1):2679. PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC9106669.
3. Tandina F, Niare S, Almeras L, Davoust B, Doumbo OK, Raoult D, Parola P, Laroche M. Identification of mixed and successive blood meals of mosquitoes using MALDITOF MS protein profiling. Parasitology. 2020 Mar;147(3):329-339. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10317667.
4. Tandina F, Doumbo O, Yaro AS, Traoré SF, Parola P, Robert V. Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and mosquito-borne diseases in Mali, West Africa. Parasit Vectors. 2018 Aug 13;11(1):467. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6090629.
5. Tandina F, Niaré S, Laroche M, Koné AK, Diarra AZ, Ongoiba A, Berenger JM,
Doumbo OK, Raoult D, Parola P. Using MALDI-TOF MS to identify mosquitoes
collected in Mali and their blood meals. Parasitology. 2018 Aug;145(9):1170-1182.PubMed PMID: 29409547.
6. Tandina F, Laroche M, Davoust B, Doumbo OK, Parola P. Blood meal identification of cryptic species Anopheles gambiae Giles and Anopheles coluzzii using MALDI-TOF MS. Parasite. (2018), 25,40.
7. Niaré S, Tandina F, Davoust B, Doumbo O, Raoult D, Parola P, Almeras L. Accurate identification of Anopheles gambiae Giles trophic preferences by MALDI-TOF MS. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. (2017), S1567-1348(17)30315-5.
8. Niare S, Almeras L, Tandina F, Yssouf A, Bacar A, Toilibou A, Doumbo O, Raoult D, Parola P. MALDI-TOF MS identification of Anopheles gambiae Giles blood meal crushed on Whatman filter papers. Plos one. (2017), 12, e0183238.
9. Bardet L, Cimmino T, Buffet C, Michelle C, Rathored J, Tandina F, Lagier JC,
Khelaifia S, Abrahão J, Raoult D, Rolain JM. Microbial Culturomics Application for Global Health: Noncontiguous Finished Genome Sequence and Description of Pseudomonas massiliensis Strain CB-1T sp. nov. in Brazil. OMICS. (2017), doi:
10.1089/omi.2017.0027.
10. Tandina F, Almeras L, Koné AK, Doumbo OK, Raoult D, Parola P. Use of MALDITOF MS and culturomics to identify mosquitoes and their midgut microbiota. Parasit Vectors. 2016 Sep 10;9(1):495. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5018162.
11. Tandina F, Doumbo SN, Koné AK, Guindo D, Goita S, Sissoko M, Konaté S, Dabo A, Doumbo OK. Epidemiology of schistosomiasis in the periurban area of Sotuba, 10 years mass treatment began in Mali. Med Sante Trop. (2016), 26 (1):51-6.