The H3ABioNet-Fogarty Seminar

Sounkou Mahamane Toure is a student with a background in mathematics and computer sciences acquired during a bachelor degree in applied mathematics and Informatics at the Cadi Ayyad University in Morocco. He has coding experience in several programming languages including R and Python and systems administration acquired through scientific projects for during his bachelor and subsequent internships. He is currently a Masters student in Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of the University of Science, Techniques and Technology in Bamako in the African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics of Bamako during which he was awarded an NIH Fogarty International training fellowship at Tulane University department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Data Science under the mentorship of Dr Jaffrey Shaffer. For his masters training, he practiced clinical database management systems like Redcap working as an intern in a NIH funded project on the genetics of familial neuro-muscular pathologies in Neurology Department at Point G hospital in Mali. His interests include: genetic epidemiology, population genetics and data science. For his Master thesis project, he applies multivariate genome-wide association techniques to discover and replicate genetic loci associated with blood lipid levels in different populations of African origins for which several manuscripts are in preparation. As a visiting research trainee at Tulane University, he acquired additional research skills through collaborations on several projects around malaria epidemiology and statistical modeling for which manuscripts for publication are in preparation.