Fofana, Ismael Ben - Boston College - Department of Biology

个人简介

Research Assistant Professor, Biology department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. (2012-2016) Research Associate, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School (2011-2012) Postdoctoral Research fellow, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School (2007-2011) Research scientist, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (2005-2007) Research scholar (Ph.D. Dissertation Research), Donald Danforth Plant Science Center St-Louis, Missouri (2001-2004)

研究领域

HIV/AIDS vaccine, SIV/macaque model of AIDS, Phage Display and Antibody Engineering, Virus evolution and escape of antibody responses

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Sergio Ita, Mayara R. Agostinho, Katherine Sullivan, Seung Yub Han, Rana Akleh, Welkin E. Johnson and Ismael Ben F. Fofana (2017). Analysis of SIVmac Envelope-specific antibodies selected via phage display. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. (Accepted) Fofana IBF, AD Colantonio, RK Reeves, MA Connole, JM Gillis, LR Hall, S Sato, DT Evans, RP Johnson and WE Johnson. 2011. Flow-cytometry Based Identification of SIV Env-specific B Lymphocytes. J Immunol Methods. 370: 75-85 Jia B, Serra-Moreno R, Neidemyer W, Jr., Rahmberg A, Mackey J, Fofana IB, Johnson W, Westmoreland S, Evans D. 2009. Species-specific Activity of SIV Nef and HIV-1 Vpu in Overcoming Restriction by Tetherin/BST2. PLoS Pathog. 2009 May; 5(5):e1000429. McNatt MW, Zang T, Hatziioannou T, Bartlett M, Fofana IB, Johnson WE, Neil SJD and Bieniasz P 2009. Species-specific activity of HIV-1 Vpu and positive selection of tetherin transmembrane domain variants. PLoS Pathog. 2009 Feb; 5 (2), e1000300. Okada H, Zhang X, Fofana IB, Nagai M, Suzuki H, Ohashi T, and Shida H (2009). Synergistic effect of human-CycT1 and -CRM1 on HIV-1 propagation in rat T cells and macrophages. Retrovirology, 6:43. Suzuki H, Kidokoro M, Fofana IB, Ohashi T, Okamura T, Matsuo K, Yamamoto N, Shida H (2008). Immunogenicity of newly constructed attenuated vaccinia strain LC16m8∆ that expresses SIV Gag protein. Vaccine, 27(7): 966-71. Ndunguru, J, Legg, J.P., Fofana, I.B.F., Aveling, T.A.S, Thompson, G. and Fauquet, C.M. (2006).). Identification of a defective molecule derived from DNA-A of the bipartite begomovirus of East African cassava mosaic virus. Plant Pathology. 55, 2-10 Fofana IBF, Sangaré A, Collier R, Taylor C and Fauquet C (2004). A geminivirus-Induced gene silencing system for gene function validation in cassava. Pant Mol Biology, 56: 613–624 I.B.F Fofana, A. Sangaré, J. Ndunguru, K. Kahn and C.M. Fauquet, (2003). Principle of control of virus diseases in developing countries. In: Virus and Virus-like Diseases of Major Crops in Developing Countries. Gad Loebenstein and George Thottappilly (eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp 31-54 A Kouassi, IBF Fofana, F Bois and J Labarère, 2000. Collection and Preservation of Mushrooms genetic resources in Ivory Coast, for their utilization for food and Agriculture. In: Mushroom Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Labarère and Menini (eds.). Global Network on Mushrooms under the aegis of F.A.O. pp 173-185