Lassane Koala

Glad to share with you our last publication on Entomological surveillance of onchocerciasis in Burkina Faso: Progress... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @IrssDro @LSTMnews @DabireRoch @ako_gilles #onchocerciasis, #MolecularXenomonitoring, #elimination,#transmission,#Persistance

Congratulations to Niger and partners for this amazing achievement. Very well done

Congratulations Prof on this selection @Diabate17699096

Prof. Abdoulaye DIABATE, Africa's leading champion of gene drive technologies for malaria control, has won the 2023 Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year Award for Science & Innovation Management ~ Prof. Diabate works at the Institute de Recherche en Sciences De la Sante, Burkina Faso and co-leads @TargetMalaria group ~ Breaking the Wall to Ownership within Malaria Elimination falling-walls.com/science-innova… @Diabate17699096

The @WHO released a new entomological manual for the elimination of onchocerciasis. A comprehensive manual that will support oncho programs and the entire NTD community. Pleased to be given an opportunity to contribute to such an important document. thx who.int/publications/i…

A special issue on Sustainable Vector Biology Research Systems in Africa is now available in @MedVet_Ent featuring evidence generated by PIIVeC researchers @HyacintheTOE @TitoTresorMT @Lass_Koala @Billy_Tene @SadoYousseu @SandeuMarcel. Check it out! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111…

@PIIVeC , @LSTM, @IrssDro

@hilary_ranson @PIIVeC @philipmccall11 @InakiTirados @IrssDro @DabireRoch Many thanks for all your support Prof @hilary_ranson. Thanks

Happy to share with you our last work on #targets for #Simulium collection, #onchocerciasis vectors. Thanks to al coauthors @philipmccall11 @InakiTirados @PIIVeC @IrssDro @DabireRoch

Register for our webinar on #Vector #Biology #Research Systems in #Africa book now: royensoc.co.uk/event/vbrafric… @PIIVeC @lstm_ccr @LSTMnews @GCRF @cam_crid @IrssDro @CNRFP @TitoTresorMT @hilary_ranson @HuguetteSimo @Lass_Koala @HyacintheTOE @SadoYousseu @SandeuMarcel #VBRAfrica22

Prospects for developing efficient targets for the xenomonitoring and control of Simulium damnosum s.l., the major vectors of onchocerciasis in Africa resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mv…

@TheENDFund Great, congratulations

Daniel Boakye has worked to end river blindness for 45 years. He's seen the progress firsthand, "We've graduated from merely trying to control onchocerciasis to trying to render it insignificant as a public health problem to trying to eliminate it-period." gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles…

Win a copy of Parasitic Diseases! Written by some of the top parasitologists & ID doctors in the field & an educational resource covering all aspects of parasitic diseases. Follow @pwb_global & @womeninmalaria, like this post & Retweet to enter. Giveaway ends 4/11/22 @ 12pm EST.

Drs @InakiTirados E. Thomsen, E. Worrall @Lass_Koala @TitoTresorMT & M.-G. Basáñez review vector control & entomological capacity for #onchocerciasis elimination. @PIIVeC @LSTMnews @LSTMvector @MRC_Outbreak @NTDResearch @ImperialSPH @imperialcollege cell.com/trends/parasit…

A shame!

@OwsdSecretariat @LizBandason @ISC @BBCStoryWorks Congratulations @LizBandason

We couldn’t be more thrilled to finally share this fantastic short film of our Early Career Fellow @LizBandason, produced for OWSD as part of the @ISC #UnlockingScience project by @BBCStoryworks. We hope you will find her story as beautiful and inspiring as we do.

@philipmccall11 @TheWaltonCentre I wish you all the best dear Philip. I’m sure you will win this. Take care

Had second attempt [following last years infection) at #DBS Deep Brain Stimulation surgery to treat #Parkinsonsdisease, last week Jan 12th, at the @theWaltonCentre Liverpool. Four brain surgeries in <6 months is heavy going and recovery taking far longer than before…

@philipmccall11 @WaltonCentre Good to hear from you. Wishing all the best for the recovery dear Philip!

So that was #DBS surgery… it was pretty rough and painful but hopefully it will prove to have been worth it. Many thanks to Mr. Farah and team @WaltonCentre for their attention and care. Too soon to draw any conclusions (it’s not even fitted yet) but…

@the_gnatwork @framaha Great work @framaha and team!

To end this session we now have @framaha presenting on behalf of her team on the use of host decoy traps to collect sandflies and blackflies as an alternative to traditional surveillance methods. More information on the project can be found here: gnatwork.ac.uk/test-a-novel-t…