Modou Séré is a teacher and researcher at the Polytechnic University Center of Dédougou, Burkina Faso. He received an Engineer degree in rural development (2009) and a MSc (2011) and a PhD (2015) in tropical animal health from the Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. During his engineer training, he performed a study on trypanosome resistance to trypanocidal drugs. His MSc and PhD research work was on the theoretical and applied population genetics of clonal and sexual organisms such as trypanosomes and their cyclical vectors, tsetse flies. He has collaborated with the Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology (University of Glasgow) on the genotyping of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2013). He has also genotyped tsetse flies from Guinea and Ivory Cost at CIRAD in Montpellier, France (2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017).