Best WISHES

Wild Host dIverSity: How to Estimate and detect pathogenS – 2 WHISHES  pilot project of HUM ANI project / back in the field.


The story restarts 10 years after the beginning of my PhD (Eve Miguel PI of the HUM ANI project). The time to get a permanent job and the funds to come back in Zimbabwe to answer to some questions still open at the end of my Phd including the role of biodiversity to pathogens transmission at the interface between protected and communal areas. Reactivation of the partner networks from animal health (DSV, UZ, conservation project as painted dogs, including new collaborators from my new team MIVEGEC, creation of new small team and be back in the field.

WHISHES Objectives : estimate the wild host community at the border of Hwange national park , at the fringe of communal areas and detect pathogens in feces or saliva of wildlife with a  new team in the field Mthabissi Ndlovu (attachment and after BSC student) and Dr Tawanda Tarakini from CUT.
Results from the WHISHES project are under publication…coming soon.

The project has involved students
Students : Jules Romieu, Madiou Bah Thierno,  Thibault Langlois, Florent Rumiano, Mthabissi Ndlovu

And researchers
Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, Hervé Fritz, Tawanda Tarakini, Franck Prugnolle, Alexandre Caron, Michel de Garine, Edson Gandiwa, Florian Liégeois, Anne Boissière, Céline Arnatheau, Virginie Rougeron,  Vladimir Grosbois, Eve Miguel