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  1. Successful insertion and expression of a tetracycline transactivator in Anopheles stephensi associated with increased egg production and decreased hatching rate

    Article • Parasites & Vectors, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  2. The UTRs of Leishmania donovani vary in length and are enriched in potential regulatory structures

    Article • September 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  3. Degradation of ribosomal RNA during Plasmodium falciparum gametocytogenesis

    Article • February 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  4. The in vivo RNA structurome of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, a protozoan with an A/U-rich transcriptome

    Article • PLOS One, September 2022, PLOS

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  5. Tackling Drug Resistance and Other Causes of Treatment Failure in Leishmaniasis

    Article • Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, May 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  6. G-quadruplex RNA motifs influence gene expression in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  7. The Absence of C-5 DNA Methylation in Leishmania donovani Allows DNA Enrichment from Complex Samples

    Article • Microorganisms, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  8. the absent of a DNA chemical modification allows to separate between the parasite and the host DNA

    Article • August 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  9. History of the discovery of guanine-quadruplexes: It all started with protozoan!

    Article • Molecules, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  10. Leishmania Genome Dynamics during Environmental Adaptation Reveal Strain-Specific Differences in Gene Copy Number Variation, Karyotype Instability, and Telomeric Amplification

    Article • mBio, November 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  11. A large majority of the Leishmania donovani isolates in the ISC are pre-adatapted to antimony

    Article • mSphere, April 2018, ASM Journals

    Dr Franck Dumetz, Dr Bart Cuypers, Hideo Imamura

  12. First integrative characterisation of the emerging ISC1 population of L. donovani

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Franck Dumetz, Dr Bart Cuypers, Hideo Imamura

  13. The Concept of Fitness in Leishmania

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  14. Haplotype selection as an adaptive mechanism in the protozoan pathogen Leishmania donovani

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, November 2017, Nature

    Dr Franck Dumetz, Hideo Imamura

  15. Direct in situ RNAseq for Leishmania and other Trypanosomatids

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2017, Nature

    Dr Franck Dumetz, Dr Bart Cuypers, Hideo Imamura

  16. Dynamic of Leishmania donovani karyotype during the life cycle

    Article • mBio, May 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Franck Dumetz, Hideo Imamura, Dr Bart Cuypers

  17. How two different lab strains of Leishmania donovani behave inside hamsters and mice

    Article • Parasite Immunology, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Franck Dumetz

  18. Evolutionary genomics of epidemic visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent

    Article • eLife, March 2016, eLife

    Dr Franck Dumetz, Dr Bart Cuypers, Hideo Imamura

  19. Treatment failure in leishmaniasis: drug-resistance or another (epi-) phenotype?

    Article • Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Franck Dumetz