Dr. Cissé received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Lausanne in 2013 and completed a doctoral thesis in Life Sciences on Genome Reconstruction and Comparative Genomics of Pneumocystis jirovecii. Prior to obtaining his Ph.D., Dr. Cissé obtained his Pharm.D degree from the University of Bamako, Mali and served as a Research Scientist at the Laboratory of Applied Molecular Biology at the University of Bamako, Mali. Additionally, in 2006 Dr. Cissé was a Visiting fellow at the Tulane Center for Infectious Diseases and Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. After completing a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded postdoctoral fellowship focusing on fungal evolutionary genomics at the University of California Riverside (USA) from 2013 to 2015, he joined the US National Institutes of Health for a research postdoctoral fellowship, and currently serves as an Associate Scientist. His research interests lie in evolutionary microbiology, with a special interest in human fungal pathogens.