Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner

Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner

Head of Data and Research Methods

Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner is the Head of Data & Research Methods at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya. He joined ILRI in 2017 as a Bioinformatics scientist with the BecA-ILRI Hub. Prior to that, Jean-Baka was a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town, South Africa), and a postdoctoral fellow with the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI). As a postdoctoral fellow, Jean-Baka worked for the NIH-funded H3ABioNet project, part of the broader Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative.

With a formal education in computer science, mathematics and signal processing, Jean-Baka took a one-year sabbatical in 2006-2007 to lecture in Niamey (Niger) and Yaoundé (Cameroon), in the framework of a project aimed at developing higher education and research capacity in mathematics and computer science in Africa. Back in France, he conducted his PhD studies in Montpellier under the supervision of Prof. Olivier Gascuel, on a topic combining phylogenetics and statistical modelling of protein families.

Jean-Baka’s current responsibilities ILRI include overseeing its research data ecosystem, from data collection in the field or in the labs, through data analysis on desktops or on ILRI's High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure, all the way to  FAIR, open data dissemination. In particular, Jean-Baka leads ILRI's bioinformatics platform, providing support ILRI scientists and their collaborators in terms of computational analysis of their “omics” data (phenotypic or genomic in the broad sense), as well as designing and implementing capacity building activities in bioinformatics.

Born and raised in Paris, France, Jean-Baka is an alumnus of the prestigious École Normale Supérieure (ENS Cachan, France). Prior to his PhD (University of Montpellier, France), he obtained a BSc and an MSc in computer science from the University of Rennes (France), in addition to a BA in English studies also from the University of Rennes, and an MA in English studies from the University of Montpellier.

My Publications

The major histocompatibility complex region and diversity of the local chicken populations in Niger

  • Hassan Ousseini, M.
  • Machuka, Eunice M.
  • Kyallo, Martina M.
  • Tiambo, Christian K.
  • Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka
  • Pelle, Roger

Evaluation of genetic variability in four Nigerian locally-adapted chicken populations using major histocompatibility complex-linked LEI0258 microsatellite marker

  • Oladejo, O.A.
  • Oseni, S.O.
  • Kyallo, Martina M.
  • Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka
  • Tor, N.E.
  • Tiambo, Christian K.
  • Pelle, Roger

Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genomic resource to accelerate orphan crop lablab breeding

  • Njaci, Isaac
  • Waweru, Bernice
  • Kamal, N.
  • Muktar, Meki S.
  • Fisher, D.
  • Gundlach, H.
  • Muli, Collins
  • Muthui, Lucy
  • Maranga, M.
  • Kiambi, D.
  • Maass, Brigitte L.
  • Emmrich, P.M.F.
  • Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka
  • Spannag, M.
  • Chapman, M.A.
  • Shorinola, Oluwaseyi
  • Jones, Christopher S.

The first complete genome sequence of the African swine fever virus genotype X and serogroup 7 isolated in domestic pigs from the Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Bisimwa, P.N.
  • Ongus, J.R.
  • Steinaa, Lucilla
  • Bisimwa, E.B.
  • Bochere, Edwina
  • Machuka, Eunice M.
  • Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka
  • Okoth, Edward A.
  • Pelle, Roger

Comparative analysis of SLA-1, SLA-2, and DQB1 genetic diversity in locally-adapted Kenyan pigs and their wild relatives, warthogs

  • Machuka, Eunice M.
  • Muigai, A.W.T.
  • Amimo, J.O.
  • Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka
  • Lekolool, I.
  • Okoth, Edward A.
  • Pelle, Roger

Genome scan for variable genes involved in environmental adaptations of Nubian ibex

  • Chebii, V.J.
  • Mpolya, E.A.
  • Oyola, Samuel O.
  • Kotze, A.
  • Domelevo Entfellner, Jean-Baka
  • Mutuku, Josiah M.