Haoues Alout, Ph.D
Adaptation and Vectorial Capacity
My research interests focus on the evolutionary ecology of infectious diseases. I study how vector adaptation to environmental changes affect their ability to transmit pathogens in natural systems.
During my Ph.D. at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier (ISEM, France), I've been studying the evolution of the organophosphate insecticide resistance confered by the ace-1 gene in Culex mosquitoes and Anopheles gambiae.
I realized my postdoctoral project at the «Institut de Recherche pour le Développement» in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) to study the impact of insecticide resistance on the vector competence of An. gambiae to Plasmodium falciparum and on malaria transmission.
My research at the Arthropod-borne Infectious Disease Laboratory (Colorado State University, USA) focuses on studying the impact of mass drug administration of ivermectin on the vectorial capacity of Anopheles gambiae s.l. populations in West Africa.
Currently, I am investigating the consequence of vector adaptations on arbovirus transmission at ISEM. I am studying specifically the impact of insecticide resistance and Wolbachia interaction on Chikungunya transmssion by Aedes albopictus.
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