TEAM - Young Tunisian Researchers in Biology

Mohamed Jemaà: Lund University-Sweden
Mohamed Jemaà obtained his PhD in 2012 from the University of Paris 11 within the Guido Kroemer Laboratory. He performed several Pos.doc and worked on cell death, mitotic catastrophe, genomic instability, migration and invasion. Mohamed is being internationally recognized as an expert in the field of genomic instability, and in particular in the identification of antineoplastic strategies based on chromosomal instability. Actually Mohamed is Post.doc in Medicon Village Lund University in Sweden. Dr Jemaà has published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals (current H-index: 19) (especially EMBO, Cell Death Differ, Oncotarget, PNAS, Cell Cycle, etc…). (Research Profile)

Walid Elfalleh: University of Gabes, Gabes-Tunisia
Walid obtained his Ph.D. in 2012 from the University of Tunis El Manar, FST. He works as an assistant professor at ISSAT Gabes. During his Ph.D., he conducted his research projects as a member of Arid and Oases Cropping Laboratory, IRA, Medenine. His Ph.D. was done in the framework of a collaborative project between Tunisia and China. He visited the School of Food Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology for one year (2009) as a senior scholar and a second year to conduct a post-doctoral project in 2012. After this postdoctoral experience, research equipment worth 150,000 Yuan was donated to Walid by The Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST) through the China-Africa Science and Technology Partnership Program (CASTEP). (Research Profile)

Chamseddine Kifagi: Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen-Denmark
Chamseddine KIFAGI graduate from the University of Sfax and the University of Montpellier with a “co-tutelle” PhD in biological and health sciences in 2012. He was a postdoctoral researcher from May 2012 to February 2015 at “Oncogenesis and Immunotherapy” (Piechaczyk group) at the “Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier” IGMM (France). His postdoctoral project concerns the study of the transcriptomic and epigenetic involvement of ROS/SUMO axis in the drug sensitivity in AML (acute leukemia amyloid). He was recruited from April 2015 at the Clinical Genetics department at BMC_Lund University (Sweden) as postdoctoral researcher to study the genetic and epigenetic of MLL_leukemias. (Research Profile)

Myriam Fezai: Eberhard-Karls-Universität/ Universität-Klinikum Tübingen, Germany
Myriam Fezai’s research focus is the electrophysiology of ion transport in physiology and pathophysiology. She's been wroking on biophysics, trafficking, and molecular regulation of ion channels and transporters. Myriam is graduated with her Ph.D. from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany in March 2018. Her PhD projct was carried out at the Institute of Physiology I, Faculty of Medicine. Her PhD project is a pure electrophysiology characterization and regulation of ions transport in (SLC family Na+/co-transporters and K+ Channels). With previous experience in triggering erythrocytes´ apoptosis via Ca2+ pathway. Myriam performed her Master´s research project at Pasteur Institute of Tunis, in biochemistry and pharmacology of neurotoxins. She graduated a Bachelor of Life Sciences (Maitrise) from the Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, University of Carthage, Tunisia. (Research Profile)

Ons Mamaï: Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF, CA-USA
Ons Mamaï graduate from the University of Monastir (Tunisia,2015)with a PhD in biological sciences and biotechnology. She collaborate during her PhD project to identify rare genodermatosis implicated genes, with international research groups (IGBMC, Strasbourg-France, CNG-CEA, Evry-France and IMB-A*STAR, Singapore). After the identification of two gene implicated in Keratinocytes proliferation regulation, her postdoctoral research project in The Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCSF, Ca-USA) is focused in the immunity in skin cancer: proliferation and auto-regression. (Research Profile)

Fakher Frikha: Faculté des Sciences de Sfax (FSS), University of Sfax, Sfax. Tunisia
Fakher obtained his Ph.D. in 2011 from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Sfax. (ENIS), University of Sfax. He works as an assistant professor in bioinformatics and biostatistics at FSS, Sfax. During his PhD, he has conducted research as a member of Laboratory of Biochemistry and enzyme engineering lipases (LBGEL), ENIS, Sfax. His research is mainly in the field of structural bioinformatics and biostatistics: 3D structures molecular modeling of proteins, molecular dynamics, molecular docking, study of the structure-function relationship, methodology of experimental design. (Research Profile)

Imen Chamkha: Lund University, Lund-Sweden
Imen obtained her PhD in 2014 in Biology Sciences from the University of Sfax (Tunisia). Her PhD project concerned the genetic and molecular study of mitochondrial diseases. She did a part of her PhD project in the “Joint Research Unit UPXI8621” at the Institute of Genetics and Microbiology of Orsay_France to introduce and study the effect of a mitochondrial mutation in the Saccharomyces cerevisae model. She started her postdoctoral research activity from June 2015 on developing treatment for mitochondrial disorders in the Mitochondrial Medicine lab in Biomedical Center at Lund University (Sweden). (Research Profile)

Radhouene Doggui: National Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology of Tunis -Tunisia
Radhouene Doggui obtained his Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Carthage. He has realized his thesis in the Nutrition Surveillance and Epidemiology in Tunisia Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology of Tunisia (INNTA). His thesis was on the evaluation of nutritional iodine status of school-age children in Tunisia and the prevalence of related pathologies (Iodine Deficiency Disorders). Currently, Radhouene is Post.doc in the same laboratory and he is working on the trace elements status of Tunisian population and on the consumption of both Palm oil and hydrogenated fats in Tunisia. He has an expertise in the area of clinical chemistry and biochemistry (protocol realization, analytical and statistical method validation) (Research Profile)

Abdelaziz Tlili: College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, UAE
Abdelaziz received his Ph.D. in biology engineering from National Engineering School of Sfax, Sfax University, Sfax-TUNISIA in 2007. During his Ph.D., he worked on genetic of deafness in Tunisian population. In 2009, He joined Pasteur Institute at Paris (France) for two year post-doctoral fellowship. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Department at University of Sharjah. Dr. Tlili has published several scientific papers through different research proposals granted as principal and associate investigator, in different abstracted, refereed and indexed Journals. Most of these papers were in the area of Human Molecular Genetics. (Research Profile)

Chaker Slaymi: University of Montpellier, France
Chaker SLAYMI graduate from the University of Montpellier in France with a PhD in biological and health sciences in 2014. Chaker investigate the function of the atypical GTPase Wrch1/ RhoU in the intestinal homeostasis and colorectal tumorigenesis within the Philippe FORT laboratory. The PhD work consisted in the construction of recombinant line mice with a conditional invalidation of RhoU in the intestinal epithelium. He collaborate with Professor Kamel Hamzaoui (Faculty of Medecine, Tunis) to decrypt the involvement of RhoU in the regulation of cell morphology, invasion, cell proliferation, migration, differentiation, and apoptosis. Currently, Chaker create a company in the fields of Bio-valorization and Biotechnology in Tunisia. (Research Profile)

Nourhene Fendri: High Institute of Applied Biology of Medenine, Tunisia
Nourhene Fendri-Kriaa is a member of the Laboratory of human molecular genetics of Sfax (Faculty of Medicine) since 2002. She obtained her Ph.D. on 2009 in Biology Engineering from National School of Engineering of Sfax (TUNISIA). She is a neuroscientist and molecular biologist specialized in hereditary disorders of the nervous system (Epilepsy, dravet syndrome, west syndrome and rett syndrome). She works as an assistant professor in genetics at High Institute of Applied Biology of Medenine (ISBAM) since 2011. (Research Profile)