Position
Director of Research class 1
Contact Information
Location
Nelson Mandela University (George Campus), Madiba Rd, Glenwood AH, George, 6529
PhD in Ecology and Evolution (University of Montpellier, France).
Franck Prugnolle’s projects historically focused on adaptation to the environment of pathogens, population genomics and pathogens of wild animals. Since he joined the IRL REHABS in December 2021, his research has been more focused on prey-predator interactions, their dynamics in different environmental contexts (for instance in anthropisation gradients), on the factors that can influence these interactions (abiotic and biotic factors like pathogens … ) and the analysis of anti-predator responses in multiple predator environments.
ORCID number: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8519-1253
Population genetics and genomics, evolution, metabarcoding
Mwakasungula, S., Rougeron, V., Arnathau, C., Boundenga, L., Miguel, E., Boissière, A., Jiolle, D., Durand, P., Msigwa, A., Mswata, S., Olotu, A., Sterkers, Y., Roche, B., Killeen, G., Cerqueira, F., Bitome-Essono, P.Y., Bretagnolle, F., Masanja, H., Paupy, C., Sumaye, R., Prugnolle, F., 2022. Using haematophagous fly blood meals to study the diversity of blood-borne pathogens infecting wild mammals. Mol. Ecol. Resour. 22, 2915–2927.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796008/
Rougeron, V., Boundenga, L., Arnathau, C., Durand, P., Renaud, F., Prugnolle, F., 2022. A population genetic perspective on the origin, spread and adaptation of the human malaria agents Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 46.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34550355/
Daron, J., Boissière, A., Boundenga, L., Ngoubangoye, B., Houze, S., Arnathau, C., Sidobre, C., Trape, J.F., Durand, P., Renaud, F., Fontaine, M.C., Prugnolle, F., Rougeron, V., 2021. Population genomic evidence of Plasmodium vivax Southeast Asian origin. Sci. Adv. 7.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33910900/
Galal, L., Ariey, F., Gouilh, M.A., Dardé, M.-L., Hamidović, A., Letourneur, F., Prugnolle, F., Mercier, A., 2022. A unique Toxoplasma gondii haplotype accompanied the global expansion of cats. Nat. Commun. 13, 5778.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33556-7
Galaway, F., Yu, R., Constantinou, A., Prugnolle, F., Wright, G.J., 2019. Resurrection of the ancestral RH5 invasion ligand provides a molecular explanation for the origin of P. falciparum malaria in humans. PLoS Biol. 17, 1–16.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000490