Mathilde completed her PhD on Drosophila immunity at CNRS (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) and EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) under the supervision of Prof Bruno Lemaitre. She then performed a postdoc in the laboratory of Prof George Christophides at Imperial College (London, UK) on the tripartite interactions between Anopheles mosquitoes, their microbiota and malaria parasites. In 2017, she joined Institut Pasteur to start the Microbiota of Insect Vectors research group at Institut Pasteur de la Guyane.

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Estelle graduated in 2016 from Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, a French bioengineering school, and then worked in Research and Development. She joined the team in September 2019 as a PhD student to study the effects of different bacterial cohorts on the malaria vector Anopheles darlingi and their influence on infection with Plasmodium falciparum.

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Yanouk completed his PhD in 2015 on the effects of pesticides on marine bivalves at Ifremer (Brest, France). After a postdoc position at Institut Pasteur de la Guyane on insecticide resistance in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, Yanouk joined the team as a research engineer in 2021 to coordinate our field missions and lab experiments on mosquito microbiota.

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Gabrielle has obtained her Master in Systematic and Evolution from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in 2021 and then worked on the taxonomy and insecticide resistance of mosquitoes from French Guiana in the Collectivité territoriale de Guyane. She has joined the team as an engineer in May 2023 to study the impact of bacteria on the mosquito genome.

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