Researcher
Gauthier DOBIGNY is researcher at the French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD) in the Center of Biology for Population Mamagement. He is currently based at the Ecole Polytechnique d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin, where he works on ecology of zoonotic diseases associated with urban rodents (e.g. leptospirosis, bartonellosis, toxoplasmosis, hantavirus-mediated fevers, antibiotic multiresistant bacteria). In particular, he is interested in public health risk related to invasive rodents (black and Norway rats, house mice) that may modify circulation, maintenance and transmission of human pathogens. He also leads the International Research Group "West African Network on Biological Invasions" (GDRI-Sud WAN@BI) which aims at scientific animation, capacity building as well as academic, politic, socio-economic stakeholders awareness increasing about biological invasion challenges in West Africa.
Email : gauthier.dobigny@ird.fr
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