Marilou Boddé

[Marilou Boddé @mariloubodde]

This work is the result of a fantastic collaboration between @d_ayalag & team, Dadzie & team, @richard_durbin , @LizetteKoekemo3 & team,
@marakat & team, @flygirlNHM, @eochomo & team, @Fredros_Inc & team, Paaijmans & team, Tchouassi & team, @cwondji & team and @GSUGenomics. 8/8

[Marilou Boddé @mariloubodde]

Preprint is out! We investigated the genomic diversity and evolutionary history of Anopheles funestus mosquitoes, one of the main species transmitting human malaria across Africa. Here’s a visual summary. Art by @petrathepostdoc . 1/8

https://t.co/D08iLpuIGG

[Marilou Boddé @mariloubodde]

We find that the doublesex gene drive target site is highly conserved within our dataset, which bodes well for using the same population suppression gene drive approach in An. funestus as is underway for An. gambiae. 7/8

[Marilou Boddé @mariloubodde]

Portrait of the artist on the foreground @petrathepostdoc #kolymbari #neandersquito #frogshirt

[Marilou Boddé @mariloubodde]

Thanks to all co-authors for their help and @petrathepostdoc for letting me use her drawings! 9/9

[Marilou Boddé @mariloubodde]

Our new preprint on species assignment of malaria mosquitoes is out! NNoVAE (for Nearest Neighbours and Variational Autoencoders) uses k-mers on targeted sequences to assign species to all mosquitoes in the Anopheles genus. 1/9

[bioRxiv Evobio @biorxiv_evobio]

High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences https://t.co/TAbz8mIRMV #biorxiv_evobio

[Marilou Boddé @mariloubodde]

If you want to collaborate with us on ANOSPP and NNoVAE to monitor mosquito populations from your study site or if you would like to contribute sample to increase species representation in our reference database - get in touch with me or @marakat. 8/9