sel1   Dr. Selorme Adukpo

   Senior Lecturer

   Email: sadukpo@noguchi.ug.edu.gh / sadukpo@ug.edu.gh

   Academic Qualifications

  •    Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
  • Master of Philosophy in Zoology (Applied Parasitology), College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
  • Bachelor of Science in Zoology (BSc. Zoology), College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.

Dr. Selorme Adukpo is a lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Microbiology and an affiliate of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), University of Ghana. Before joining the Department of Pharmaceutics and Microbiology, he worked as an M.Phil. Research student from 2004 to 2006, after which he was retained as a Senior Research Assistant in the same department from 2007 to 2012. He left NMIMR in 2012 for the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 2017. He also has a B.Sc. (2001) degree in Zoology and an M.Phil. (2006) degree in Parasitology (Zoology) from the University of Ghana. Dr. Adukpo specializes in immunology and molecular biology, and his research focuses on immunological and genetic bases of infectious diseases. In addition to research activities, he currently teaches parasitology and immunology in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Microbiology.

Current Research

  • Cellular immune response during malaria and diabetes
  • Immunological correlates of protection against pregnancy-associated malaria
  • Anti-microbial properties of Ghanaian medicinal plants

Projects

  • Immunological correlates of protection against pregnancy-associated malaria.
  • Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (TREM-1) and malaria.

Publications

  • Adukpo, S., Adedoja, A., Esen, M., Theisen, M., Ntoumi, F., & Ojurongbe, O. (2022). Humoral antimalaria immune response in Nigerian children exposed to helminth and malaria parasites. Frontiers in immunology, 13, 979727. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.979727
  • Suurbaar, J., Moussiliou, A., Tahar, R., Olsen, R. W., Adams, Y., Dalgaard, N., Baafour, E. K., Adukpo, S., Hviid, L., Kusi, K. A., Alao, J., Ofori, M. F., Ndam, N. T., & Jensen, A. R. (2022). ICAM-1-binding Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 variants elicits opsonic-phagocytosis IgG responses in Beninese children. Scientific reports, 12(1), 12994. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16305-0
  • Adukpo, S., Elewosi, D., Asmah, R. H., Nyarko, A. K., Ekpe, P. K., Edoh, D. A., & Ofori, M. F. (2020). Antiplasmodial and Genotoxic Study of Selected Ghanaian Medicinal Plants. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2020, 1582724. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/1582724
  • Borrmann, S., Sulyok, Z., Müller, K., Fendel, R., Calle, C. L., Sulyok, M., Friesen, J., Lalremruata, A., Lucas Sandri, T., Nguyen, T. T., Knoblich, A., Sefried, S., Ibáñez, J., Lorenz, F. R., Heimann, H. L., Weller, D. M., Steuder, R., Adukpo, S, Bayon, P. G., Molnár, Z., Esen, M., Metzger, W., James, E. R., Ruben, A., Abebe, Y., Chakravarty, S., Manoj, A., Natasha, K. C., Murshedkar, T., Hafalla, J. C.R., Woldearegai, T. G. O’Rourke, F., Held, J., Billingsley, P., Sim, B. K. L., Richie, T. L., Hoffman, S. L., Kremsner, P. G., Matuschewski, K., Mordmüller. B. (2020). Mapping of safe and early chemo-attenuated live Plasmodium falciparum immunization identifies immune signature of vaccine efficacy. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.14.296152
  • Mbouamboua, Y., Koukouikila-Koussounda, F., Ntoumi, F., Adukpo, S., Kombo, M., Vouvoungui, C., van Helden, J., & Kobawila, S. C. (2019). Sub-microscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections in matched peripheral, placental and umbilical cord blood samples from asymptomatic Congolese women at delivery. Acta tropica, 193, 142–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2019.03.001
  • Adedoja, A., Hoan, N. X., van Tong, H., Adukpo, S., Tijani, D. B., Akanbi, A. A., 2nd, Meyer, C. G., Ojurongbe, O., & Velavan, T. P. (2018). Differential contribution of interleukin-10 promoter variants in malaria and schistosomiasis mono- and co-infections among Nigerian children. Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH, 23(1), 45–52. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13007
  • Lucas Sandri, T., Adukpo, S., Giang, D. P., Nguetse, C. N., Antunes Andrade, F., Tong, H. V., Toan, N. L., Song, L. H., Elumalai, P., Thangaraj, K., Valluri, V. L., Ntoumi, F., Meyer, C. G., Jose de Messias Reason, I., Kremsner, P. G., & Velavan, T. P. (2017). Geographical distribution of complement receptor type 1 variants and their associated disease risk. PloS one, 12(5), e0175973. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175973
  • Adukpo, S., Gyan, B. A., Ofori, M. F., Dodoo, D., Velavan, T. P., & Meyer, C. G. (2016). Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (TREM-1) and cytokine gene variants in complicated and uncomplicated malaria. Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH, 21(12), 1592–1601. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.12787
  • Amoako-Sakyi, D., Adukpo, S., Kusi, K. A., Dodoo, D., Ofori, M. F., Adjei, G. O., Edoh, D. E., Asmah, R. H., Brown, C., Adu, B., Obiri-Yeboah, D., Futagbi, G., Abubakari, S. B., Troye-Blomberg, M., Akanmori, B. D., Goka, B. Q., Arko-Mensah, J., & Gyan, B. A. (2016). A STAT6 Intronic Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism is Associated with Clinical Malaria in Ghanaian Children. Genetics & epigenetics, 8, 7–14. https://doi.org/10.4137/GEG.S38307
  • Asmah, R. H., Amoah, B.Y., Adukpo, S., Brown, C. A., Asare-Anane, H., Ofori, M. F., Adjei, D. N., Gyan, B. A., Wiredu, E. K. & Ayeh-Kumi, P. F. (2015). Uncomplicated malaria infection in pediatric patients in Ghana: relationship with superoxide dismutase. Oxid Antioxid Med Sci. 2015; 4: 133-137.
  • Ennin, I., Adzaku, F., Dodoo, D., Adukpo, S., Antwi-Boasiako, C., & Antwi D. 2018. A study of lung function indices of woodworkers at the Accra timber market in Ghana. Donnish Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences. 2: 120-124.
  • Port, J. R., Nguetse, C., Adukpo, S., & Velavan, T. P. (2014). A reliable and rapid method for molecular detection of malarial parasites using microwave irradiation and loop mediated isothermal amplification. Malaria journal, 13, 454. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-454
  • Adukpo, S., Kusi, K. A., Ofori, M. F., Tetteh, J. K., Amoako-Sakyi, D., Goka, B. Q., Adjei, G. O., Edoh, D. A., Akanmori, B. D., Gyan, B. A., & Dodoo, D. (2013). High plasma levels of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM)-1 are associated with cerebral malaria. PloS one, 8(12), e84181. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084181
  • Adu, B., Dodoo, D., Adukpo, S., Hedley, P. L., Arthur, F. K., Gerds, T. A., Larsen, S. O., Christiansen, M., & Theisen, M. (2012). Fc γ receptor IIIB (FcγRIIIB) polymorphisms are associated with clinical malaria in Ghanaian children. PloS one, 7(9), e46197. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046197
  • Adu, B., Dodoo, D., Adukpo, S., Gyan, B. A., Hedley, P. L., Goka, B., Adjei, G. O., Larsen, S. O., Christiansen, M., & Theisen, M. (2011). Polymorphisms in the RNASE3 gene are associated with susceptibility to cerebral malaria in Ghanaian children. PloS one, 6(12), e29465. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029465