Michelle Riehle, PhD
Assistant Professor
Locations
- Microbiology & Immunology
BSB B2920
Contact Information
Education
Research Experience
- Anopheles
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Host-Parasite Interactions
- Immunity, Innate
- Insect Vectors
- Malaria, Falciparum
Educational Expertise
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetics
- Microbiology
Research Interests
Our main areas of scientific investigation revolve around understanding differential susceptibility to infection with malaria parasites in the mosquito vector population.
We are taking an approach grounded in genetics to understand how natural variation affects a mosquito’s ability to be infected with Plasmodium parasites. Our current focus is on querying the non-coding genome; specifically enhancers, small RNAs and long non-coding RNAs. We complement our genetics approaches with functional investigations employing microbiological, biochemical, cell biological and molecular biology approaches.
We are also interested in how the prokaryotic and micro eukaryotic members of the mosquito microbiome influence to the mosquito immune response and how specific bacterial or microeukaryotic taxa affect mosquito gene expression and the innate immune response to infection with Plasmodium falciparum.
All of our work leverages approaches across many scientific disciplines including genetics, molecular biology, microbiology, cell biology, and computational biology to address important outstanding questions in malaria transmission and human health.
Publications
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(Cuesta EB, Coulibaly B, Bukhari T, Eiglmeier K, Kone R, Coulibaly MB, Zongo S, Barry M, Gneme A, Guelbeogo WM, Beavogui AH, Traore SF, Sagnon N, Vernick KD, Riehle MM.) Frontiers in Microbiology. 12 May 2021;12 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85107059364 05/12/2021
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Filtering the Junk: Assigning Function to the Mosquito Non-Coding Genome.
(Farley EJ, Eggleston H, Riehle MM.) Insects. 2021 Feb 22;12(2) PMID: 33671692 PMCID: PMC7926655 03/07/2021
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Anopheles ecology, genetics and malaria transmission in northern Cambodia
(Vantaux A, Riehle MM, Piv E, Farley EJ, Chy S, Kim S, Corbett AG, Fehrman RL, Pepey A, Eiglmeier K, Lek D, Siv S, Mueller I, Vernick KD, Witkowski B.) Scientific Reports. December 2021;11(1) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85102850695 12/01/2021
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(Vantaux A, Riehle MM, Piv E, Farley EJ, Chy S, Kim S, Corbett AG, Fehrman RL, Pepey A, Eiglmeier K, Lek D, Siv S, Mueller I, Vernick KD, Witkowski B.) Scientific Reports. December 2021;11(1) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85107408524 12/01/2021
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(Grau-Bové X, Lucas E, Pipini D, Rippon E, van ‘t Hof AE, Constant E, Dadzie S, Egyir-Yawson A, Essandoh J, Chabi J, Djogbénou L, Harding NJ, Miles A, Kwiatkowski D, Donnelly MJ, Weetman D, Amaya-Romero JE, Ayala D, Battey CJ, Bejon P, Besansky NJ, Burt A, Cano J, Caputo B, Constant E, Costantini C, Coulibaly B, della Torre A, Diabaté A, Dinis J, Donnelly MJ, Drury E, Edouardo J, Elissa N, Essandoh J, Fontaine MC, Godfray CHJ, Hahn MW, Harding NJ, Henrichs C, Hubbart C, Isaacs AT, Jawara M, Jeffreys AE, Jyothi D, Kamali M, Kern AD, Kwiatkowski DP, Clarkson CS, Lawniczak MKN, Le Goff G, Lucas E, Malangone C, Mawejje HD, Mbogo C, Mead D, Midega J, Miles A, Nwakanma DC, O’Loughlin S, Pinto J, Riehle MM, Robert V, Rockett KA, Rohatgi KR, Rowlands K, Schrider DR, Sharakhov I, Simpson V, Stalker J, Troco AD, Vernick KD, Weetman D, Bradley J.) PLoS Genetics. 21 January 2021;17(1) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85099805834 01/21/2021
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(Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes Consortium.) Genome Res. 2020 10;30(10):1533-1546 PMID: 32989001 PMCID: PMC7605271 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85092682445 09/30/2020
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(Dieme C, Zmarlak NM, Brito-Fravallo E, Travaillé C, Pain A, Cherrier F, Genève C, Calvo-Alvarez E, Riehle MM, Vernick KD, Rotureau B, Mitri C.) PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 02;14(2):e0008059 PMID: 32032359 PMCID: PMC7032731 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85081144453 02/08/2020
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Gene copy number and function of the APL1 immune factor changed during Anopheles evolution.
(Mitri C, Bischoff E, Eiglmeier K, Holm I, Dieme C, Brito-Fravallo E, Raz A, Zakeri S, Nejad MIK, Djadid ND, Vernick KD, Riehle MM.) Parasit Vectors. 2020 Jan 13;13(1):18 PMID: 31931885 PMCID: PMC6958605 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85077786231 01/15/2020
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(Mitri C, Bischoff E, Belda Cuesta E, Volant S, Ghozlane A, Eiglmeier K, Holm I, Dieme C, Brito-Fravallo E, Guelbeogo WM, Sagnon N, Riehle MM, Vernick KD.) Front Microbiol. 2020;11:306 PMID: 32174902 PMCID: PMC7054466 03/17/2020
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(Nardini L, Holm I, Pain A, Bischoff E, Gohl DM, Zongo S, Guelbeogo WM, Sagnon N, Vernick KD, Riehle MM.) Sci Rep. 2019 10 24;9(1):15275 PMID: 31649293 PMCID: PMC6813320 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074074218 10/28/2019
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Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.
(Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes Consortium, Data analysis group, Partner working group, Sample collections—Angola:, Burkina Faso:, Cameroon:, Gabon:, Guinea:, Guinea-Bissau:, Kenya:, Uganda:, Crosses:, Sequencing and data production, Web application development, Project coordination.) Nature. 2017 12 07;552(7683):96-100 PMID: 29186111 PMCID: PMC6026373 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85038811995 12/01/2017
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(Riehle MM, Bukhari T, Gneme A, Guelbeogo WM, Coulibaly B, Fofana A, Pain A, Bischoff E, Renaud F, Beavogui AH, Traore SF, Sagnon N, Vernick KD.) Elife. 2017 06 23;6 PMID: 28643631 PMCID: PMC5482571 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85021397890 06/24/2017