Dr El Hadji Amadou Niang

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

After a Ph.D. in Medical Entomology from Cheikh Anata Diop University (Dakar, Senegal). I visited LSTM in 2016 as a Visiting Scientist through the MRF (MRC) African Research Excellence Fund training fellowship. I joined the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Infection Méditerranéen in Marseille (France) in 2017 until 2019 as a PDRA on several Infection-pole funded projects on vector microbiome.

As a Research associate at Cheikh Anta Diop University, my research interest lies with better understanding vector bio-ecology and the behavior with regards to vector control interventions to better tailors and target current and future vector control measures. My work focuses on various aspects of insect vector ecology, population genetics and genomics, evolution with relation to their evolving environment, and applied consequences of insecticide resistance and the control of mosquito vectors of human disease, especially malaria's vectors. With the main interest in the speciation Anopheles gambiae s.l. species and Insecticide resistance in malaria vector. I am leading a project funded by the West African Network for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM2) / EDCTP-RegNet 2015-1049 (, tracking back target-site insecticide resistance mechanisms in An. gambiae s.l. populations from Senegal. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Weetman and Prof. Donnelly I am also currently carrying out a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine on the Landscape changes, genetics structure of malaria vectors and their parasites in Senegal-impact on malaria epidemiology and control.

Expertise: Vector bionomics, genetics and genomics Insecticide Resistance Vector Control

Professional memberships: Pan-African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA) Society for Vector Ecology (SOVE) African Association of Insect Scientists (AAIS)

Awards:

1. West African Network for TB, AIDS, and Malaria (WANETAM2) / EDCTP-RegNet 2015-1049 (2020): Tracking back target-site insecticide resistance mechanisms in An. gambiae s.l. populations from Senegal.

2. Wellcome Trust Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine (2019-2021): Landscape changes, genetics structure of malaria vectors, and their parasites in Senegal-impact on malaria epidemiology and control.

3. African Research Excellence Fund (AREF) MRF-MRC (2016) : Insecticide resistance and speciation in Senegalese Anopheles gambiae s.l.

Selected publications

  • Bassene, H., Niang, E. A., Fenollar, F., Doucoure, S., Faye, O., Raoult, D., Sokhna, C., & Mediannikov, O. (2020). Role of plants in the transmission of Asaia sp., which potentially inhibit the Plasmodium sporogenic cycle in Anopheles mosquitoes. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64163-5

    Sy, O., Nourdine, M. A., Ndiaye, M., Dia, A. K., Samb, B., Ndiaye, A., Sarr, P. C., Guèye, O. K., Konaté, L., Gaye, O., Faye, O., & Niang, E. A. (2020). Insecticides susceptibility of An. melas and its morphological discrimination with its sympatric siblings using the biometric palps technique. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42690-020-00138-3

    DePina, A. J., Moreira, A. L., Correia, A. J., Furtado, U. D., Seck, I., Faye, O., & Niang, E. A. (2019). National Strategy for Malaria Elimination in Cape Verde in 2020 Horizon OPEN ACCESS. Annals of Malaria Research, 1(1), 1002. http://www.remedypublications.com/open-access/national-strategy-for-mala...

    Depina, A. J., Dia, A. K., Ascenção, A. De, Martins, S., Ferreira, M. C., Moreira, A. L., Leal, S. V., Pires, C. M., Mira, J., Moreira, G., Tavares, M. F., Januário, A., Pereira, J. M., Faye, O. & Niang, E. A. (2019). Knowledge, attitudes and practices about malaria in Cabo Verde: a country in the pre-elimination context. BMC Public Health, 19(850), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7130-5

    Lo, C., Dia, A. K., Dia, I., Niang, E. A., Konaté, L., & Faye, O. (2019). Evaluation of the residual efficacy of indoor residual spraying with bendiocarb (FICAM WP 80) in six health districts in Senegal. Malaria Journal, 18(1), 198. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2829-4

    Niang, E. A., Konaté, L., Faye, O., Diallo, M., & Dia, I. (2018). Vector bionomics and malaria transmission in an area of sympatry of An. arabiensis, An. coluzzii and An. gambiae. Acta Tropica, 189, 129–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ACTATROPICA.2018.10.005

    Niang, E. A., Bassene, H., Fenollar, F., & Mediannikov, O. (2018). Biological Control of Mosquito-Borne Diseases : The Potential of Wolbachia-Based Interventions in an IVM Framework. JTM, 2018. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/1470459

    Niang, E. A., Bassene, H., Makoundou, P., Fenollar, F., Weill, M., & Mediannikov, O. (2018). First report of natural Wolbachia infection in wild Anopheles funestus population in Senegal. MMJ, 17(1), 408. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2559-z

    DePina, A. J., Niang, E. A., Barbosa Andrade, A. J., Dia, A. K., Moreira, A., Faye, O., & Seck, I. (2018). Achievement of malaria pre-elimination in Cape Verde according to the data collected from 2010 to 2016. MJ, 17(1), 236. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-018-2376-4

    Unwin, V. T., Ainsworth, S., Rippon, E. J., Hadji, E., Niang, E. A., Paine, M. J. I., Weetman, D., & Adams, E. R. (2018). Development of a rapid field-applicable molecular diagnostic for knockdown resistance ( kdr ) markers in An . gambiae. P&V, 1–7. https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-01...

    Niang, E. A., Konaté, L., Diallo, M., Faye, O., & Dia, I. (2016). Patterns of insecticide resistance and knockdown resistance (kdr) in malaria vectors An. arabiensis, An. coluzzii and An. gambiae from sympatric areas in Senegal. P&V, 9(1), 71. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-016-1354-3

    Niang, E. A., Konaté, L., Diallo, M., Faye, O., & Dia, I. (2014). Reproductive Isolation among Sympatric Molecular Forms of An. gambiae from Inland Areas of South-Eastern Senegal. PLoS ONE, 9(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104622

    Niang, E. A., Touré, A., Ngom, M., Konaté, L., Faye, O., Diallo, M., & Dia, I. (2013). Malaria Transmission Pattern in an Area Selected for Clinical Trials in the Sudanian Area of Senegal (West Africa). JTM, 7. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/907375 Full list of publications at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5611-1998