Research Assistant Professor, Biology department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. (2012-2016) Research Associate, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School (2011-2012) Postdoctoral Research fellow, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School (2007-2011) Research scientist, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (2005-2007) Research scholar (Ph.D. Dissertation Research), Donald Danforth Plant Science Center St-Louis, Missouri (2001-2004)

HIV/AIDS vaccine, SIV/macaque model of AIDS, Phage Display and Antibody Engineering, Virus evolution and escape of antibody responses

Sergio Ita, Mayara R. Agostinho, Katherine Sullivan, Seung Yub Han, Rana Akleh, Welkin E. Johnson and Ismael Ben F. Fofana (2017). Analysis of SIVmac Envelope-specific antibodies selected via phage display. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. (Accepted) Fofana IBF, AD Colantonio, RK Reeves, MA Connole, JM Gillis, LR Hall, S Sato, DT Evans, RP Johnson and WE Johnson. 2011. Flow-cytometry Based Identification of SIV Env-specific B Lymphocytes. J Immunol Methods. 370: 75-85 Jia B, Serra-Moreno R, Neidemyer W, Jr., Rahmberg A, Mackey J, Fofana IB, Johnson W, Westmoreland S, Evans D. 2009. Species-specific Activity of SIV Nef and HIV-1 Vpu in Overcoming Restriction by Tetherin/BST2. PLoS Pathog. 2009 May; 5(5):e1000429. McNatt MW, Zang T, Hatziioannou T, Bartlett M, Fofana IB, Johnson WE, Neil SJD and Bieniasz P 2009. Species-specific activity of HIV-1 Vpu and positive selection of tetherin transmembrane domain variants. PLoS Pathog. 2009 Feb; 5 (2), e1000300. Okada H, Zhang X, Fofana IB, Nagai M, Suzuki H, Ohashi T, and Shida H (2009). Synergistic effect of human-CycT1 and -CRM1 on HIV-1 propagation in rat T cells and macrophages. Retrovirology, 6:43. Suzuki H, Kidokoro M, Fofana IB, Ohashi T, Okamura T, Matsuo K, Yamamoto N, Shida H (2008). Immunogenicity of newly constructed attenuated vaccinia strain LC16m8∆ that expresses SIV Gag protein. Vaccine, 27(7): 966-71. Ndunguru, J, Legg, J.P., Fofana, I.B.F., Aveling, T.A.S, Thompson, G. and Fauquet, C.M. (2006).). Identification of a defective molecule derived from DNA-A of the bipartite begomovirus of East African cassava mosaic virus. Plant Pathology. 55, 2-10 Fofana IBF, Sangaré A, Collier R, Taylor C and Fauquet C (2004). A geminivirus-Induced gene silencing system for gene function validation in cassava. Pant Mol Biology, 56: 613–624 I.B.F Fofana, A. Sangaré, J. Ndunguru, K. Kahn and C.M. Fauquet, (2003). Principle of control of virus diseases in developing countries. In: Virus and Virus-like Diseases of Major Crops in Developing Countries. Gad Loebenstein and George Thottappilly (eds). Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp 31-54 A Kouassi, IBF Fofana, F Bois and J Labarère, 2000. Collection and Preservation of Mushrooms genetic resources in Ivory Coast, for their utilization for food and Agriculture. In: Mushroom Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Labarère and Menini (eds.). Global Network on Mushrooms under the aegis of F.A.O. pp 173-185