Malaria, a protozoan vector-borne disease, is mainly prevalent in tropical areas, where nearly 40% of the world population is residing and remains one of the most concerns for public health worldwide. In Cambodia, the five Plasmodium species known to cause malaria in humans are present. The main feature of this country is that it is recognized as the epicenter of the emergence of multi-resistant P. falciparum parasites (to chloroquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, mefloquine, and artemisinin), a very significant menace to public health in the Mekong region that could impact the worldwide strategy to fight malaria. The thesis presented here, entitled “Genomics and Bioinformatics in the emergence and spread of resistant Plasmodium in Cambodia” aimed to develop new molecular and biological tools for:1) improving our understanding of the collateral impact of the strategies implemented to fight against falciparum malaria on the other Plasmodium species; 2) defining the molecular epidemiology of antimalarial resistant parasites, especially resistance to quinine and artemisinin derivatives;3) studying and defining the structure of P. falciparum parasite populations circulating in Cambodia to estimate areas at risk of spread of artemisinin resistance, using genomic approaches and bioinformatics. This thesis was carried out in the Malaria Molecular Epidemiology Unit at Pasteur Institute in Cambodia (IPC) under the co-direction of Dr. Didier Ménard (Head of the Unit, IP) and Pr. Emmanuel Cornillot (Professor, University of Montpellier I). The first objective of this work was to study the impact of drug used to treat falciparum malaria on the dynamics of other Plasmodium species. In a first step, we evaluated the polymorphism in gene associated to pyrimethamine resistance (dhfr gene, dihydrofolate reductase) in Plasmodium malariae and in Plasmodium ovale (article 1 and manuscript in preparation 1) and the polymorphism in mdr-1 gene (multidrug resistance 1 gene) associated to mefloquine resistance in P. vivax (article 2). Secondly, in collaboration with Pasteur Institute in Madagascar, we investigated the association between the polymorphism in Plasmodium falciparum Na + / H + exchanger gene (Pfnhe-1) and quinine resistance defined either by clinical or in vitro phenotypes (articles 3 and 4). The second objective was focused on the development of novel biological and molecular tools to assess the resistance of P. falciparum to artemisinin derivatives. The three papers presented (articles 5, 6 and 7) describe an original approach combining genomics, biological, clinical and epidemiological studies, which lead to the discovery of a molecular marker (mutations Kelch 13 gene) associated to artemisinin resistance.The third and final objective was devoted to the development of the PCR-LDR-FMA technology applied to the detection of a panel of 24 SNPs to characterize a "barcode" of P. falciparum isolates. This technic coupled with bioinformatics and statistical analysis allowed us to study and define the structure of the parasite populations circulating in Cambodia for estimating areas at risk of spread of artemisinin resistance (manuscript in preparation 2). Through this work, we have tried to show the usefulness of available molecular biology methods coupled with genomic and bioinformatics approaches to improve our understanding of the dynamics of the malaria parasite populations. This work has been mainly focused on the emergence and spread of antimalarial resistant parasites, keeping in mind that the ultimate goal of this work was to improve strategies implemented to achieve the ambitious goal of malaria elimination.