Dr Abou Abdallah Malick Diouara holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology obtained in 2014, carried out jointly between the University of Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal and University of Montpellier, France. After a postdoctoral position in Bioinformatics at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, he joined in 2018 the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Biology, Advanced School of Engineering, UCAD as an Assistant Professor. Dr Diouara’s research interests focus on Health & Environment interface. As a group leader at the Applied Biotechnologies and Environmental Bioprocesses Research Group (GRBA-BE), he conducts researches on antimicrobial resistance, viral hepatitis (B, C, D, and E), enteroviruses, HIV and coronaviruses. His current work takes a One Health approach to investigate bacterial and viral pathogens on humans, food matrices (fruits, vegetables, meat products), domestic animals, and the environment (wastewater, rainwater, flood). Dr Diouara is in charge of teaching Molecular Biology and Genomics.