BIOGRAPHY

I- Research Topics

Parasitology and Medical Entomology with a focus on Microbial Biotechnologies: Mainly Fungal, Wolbachia and other symbionts / entomopathogenic based strategies for vector-borne Diseases Control.

II- Degrees

• 29^th March 2018: PhD, in Medical Entomology from l’Université Ouaga 1 Prof Joseph Ki-Zerbo in collaboration with IRSS-Centre Muraz, Bobo Dioulasso. Topic: “Contributions to the development of new tools and strategies for malaria vector controlling”
• 18^th June 2012: Master 2 with honors in Medical Entomology University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Host Institution: IRSS/Centre Muraz, Bobo Dioulasso. Topic: “Development of tools and methods in order to disseminate transgenic bacteria genus Asaia to wild mosquitoes in the paratransgenic concept against malaria.

III- Research Grants, Fellowships, Honors and Awards

III-1 Research Grants and Fellowships

• November 2022- October 2027: Principal Investigator of the ARISE Fellowship (GrantARISE-PP-FA-143); Innovative vector control strategies using entomopathogenic fungi for safe and reliable control of mosquitoes that transmit malaria and Dengue virus
• March 2020-February 2023: Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust International Training Fellowship (Grant Ref.UNS95039). Project title: “Developing native strains of insect-killing Metarhizium spp. fungi to prevent malaria transmission in Burkina Faso”
• February 2019-December 2021: Post-Doc researcher and Co-PI of ANTIVeC Pump-Priming Award AV/PP0025/1 “Effects of co-infection of Wolbachia an the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium pingshaense in Aedes aegypti”
• October 2019- September 2020: Principal Investigator of Medical Research Council Post-Doc Fellowship. Project: Preventing malaria transmission with entomopathogenic and parasite transmission- blocking fungi Metarhizium pingshaense

III-2 Honors and Awards

• 22^th October 2020: Best Young Scientific Researcher of Burkina Faso, Prix d’Excellence de la Recherche Scientifique / Minister of High Education and Research, A Trophy and 1 million CFA price
• 13^th February 2020: Co-Awardee of the American Association of Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the best scientific publication of the year 2019-2020 in the journal Sciences
• 7^th– 30^th October 2019 Grand Challenges rising stars travel award to attend to the 2019 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• The 2019 Antivec international Travel Award to attend upcoming PAMCA meeting. This is a award of £2,000 GBP to attend the meeting.
• The 2019 Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship. This Fellowship Program allows conference chairs to nominate graduate students and postdocs from China, Africa, India, Central America, South America, Russia, and Ukraine for a $1,250 award toward attending a Gordon Research Conference (GRC).
• The 2019 Antivec Meeting Travel Award. This award of 1,850 GBP is given to graduate students and postdocs to attend the ANTIVeC Annual meeting to present their works.
• 20^thApril 2018: The Brian Sharp Award for Young Investigator in integrated management and Vector Control at the 7th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) in Dakar, (Honor).
• The 2018 ANTI-VeC Network travel bursary to attend to the annual meeting at the University of Glasgow. Amount awarded £ 1,450

IV- Selection of Relevant-Peer-Reviewed Publications (Full list of Publication could be see in https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3z2xe9cAAAAJ&hl=en)

• 1) Huang W, Rodrigues J, Bilgo E, et al., Delftia tsuruhatensis TC1 symbiont suppresses malaria transmission by anopheline mosquitoes. Science. 2023 Aug 4;381(6657):533-540. doi: 1126/science.adf8141. Epub 2023 Aug 3. PMID: 37535741.
• 2) Jacques E Gnambani Etienne Bilgo et al. Infection of malaria vector Anopheles coluzzii with the entomopathogenic bacteria Chromobacterium violaceum reduces blood feeding propensity and fecundity, Malar J. 2020 Oct 2;19(1):352. doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-03420-4.PMID: 33008454
• 3) Lovett B, Bilgo E, et al. Transgenic Metarhizium rapidly kills mosquitoes in a malaria-endemic region of Burkina Faso.Science. 2019 May 31;364(6443):894-897. doi: 10.1126/science.aaw8737. PMID: 31147521
• 4) Etienne Bilgo, Amélie Vantaux, Antoine Sanon, Roch K Dabiré, Marcelo Jacobs Lorena and Abdoulaye Diabate. Field assessment of potential sugar feeding stations for disseminating bacteria in a Paratransgenic Approach to control malaria, Malar J. 2018 Oct 17; 17(1):367. doi: 10.1186/s12936-018-2516-x.PMID: 30333029 
• 5) Etienne Bilgo, Brian Lovett, Weiguo Fang, Niraj Bende, Glenn F. King, Abdoulaye Diabate and Raymond J. St. Leger, Improved efficacy of an arthropod toxin expressing fungus against insecticide-resistant malaria-vector mosquitoes. Scientific Reports | 7: 3433 | DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-03399-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03399-0

6) Etienne Bilgo, Brian Lovett, Raymond J. St. Leger , Roch K Dabiré, Antoine Sanon and Abdoulaye Diabaté. Native entomopathogenic Metarhizium spp. from Burkina Faso and their virulence against the malaria vector Anopheles coluzzii and off-target insects, Parasites & Vectors (2018) 11:209 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071- 018-2796-6