Partners

Epigenesis project is coordinated by CIRAD Guadeloupe, animal health research team (UMR CMAEE), located on the Duclos site, in Guadeloupe. It has been developped with outstanding research partners from Europe, considered as leading centers in the area of microbiology, biotechnology, epidemiology and entomology. The project also involves research institutes from Guadeloupe and veterinary services, laboratories, research institutes from the Caribbean via the Caribbean Animal Health Network.

The project intends to build bridges and enhance collaboration with Europe at the Carrefour of the Americas with Guadeloupe being an ideal location as it is located in the middle of the Leward Antilles and also where is based the headquarters of CaribVET.

European partners

• Centre de Recherce en Sanitat Animal (CReSA) - SPain. Medical entomology, vaccine development and genomics, molecular diagnostic, Biosecurity laboratory level 3, epidemiology, modelling, surveillance and risk assessment
• Instituto de Biologia Experimental Tecnologica (iBET) - Portugal. Vaccine development, metabolomics, Intellectual property rights
• Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica et Biologica (ITQB) - Portugal. Proteomics, mass spectrometry platform
• Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Biologie, Epidémiologie et Analyse de Risque en santé animale (INRA-Bioepar) - France. Epidemiology and population dynamics modelling.
• Ecole des Hautes études en Santé Publique (EHESP) - France. Sociology of animal and human health, public health, prevention of vector-borne diseases.
• Agriculture and Veterinary Information and Analysis (Avia-GIS) - Belgium. Spatial epidemiology, risk mapping, medical entomology surveillance, tools development

Local partners in Guadeloupe

• Université des Antilles (UA)
• Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe (IPG): mosquito population dynamics, vector competence, experimental infection, resistance of mosquitoes to insecticides, ...
• Agence Régionale de Santé, Service de Lutte anti vectorielle (SAV-ARS): mosquito control, vector-borne diseases control, vector surveillance
• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Guadeloupe (CHU): microbiology laboratory, human infectious diseases and zoonosis, diagnostic

Caribbean partners

Within the wider Caribean Region, the members of the Caribbean Animal Health Network CaribVET are included in the project: veterinary services and veterinary diagnostic laboratories, veterinary or agricultural universities, research institues, regional and international organization in agriculture, animal and public health.