Aïssatou Diawara

Biography

Aïssatou Diawara, Postdoctoral Associate

PhD, McGill University

Aïssatou earned her PhD in Parasitology from McGill University in 2013 where she worked on the development of genetic markers to monitor drug resistance in human soil-transmitted helminths. Aïssatou is interested in questions of importance to public health and her research combines field work and experimentation. Her current research focuses on characterization of host-parasite interactions and immune response in malaria.