Djamel Nehar-Belaid

I received my Ph.D. in Immunology from Sorbonne University (Paris) under the mentorship of Dr. David Klatzmann. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at The Jackson laboratory for Genomic Medicine (CT, USA) under the mentorship of Dr. Jacques Banchereau. Within the Verhaak lab I led all efforts to dissect the tumor immune microenvironment in primary and recurrent brain tumors. My ongoing research in the Ucar lab focuses on using systems Immunology-driven approaches to explore human aging and immune disorders including pediatric COVID-19 and lupus.

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  1. Ravichandran S, Erra-Diaz F, Karakaslar O, Marches R, Kenyon-Pesce L, Rossi R, Chaussabel D, Nehar-Belaid D, Pascual V, [3 others], Kuchel GA, Banchereau J, Duygu D. Distinct baseline immune characteristics associated with responses to conjugated and unconjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines in older adults. Nature Immunology. 2024 Jan 5. doi:10.1038/s41590-023-01717-5. PMID:38182669.
  2. Nouri N#, Giacomelli Cao R#, Bunsow E#, Nehar-Belaid D#, Marches R, [7 others], Mejías A, Banchereau J, Pascual V, Ramilo R. Longitudinal Immune Profiling of Young Infants Initial Vaccinations Reveals Heterogeneous Serological Responses and Extensive but Reversible Transcriptional Changes in Most Immune Cell Types. Nature Communications. 2023 Dec 2;14(1):7976. doi:0.1038/s41467-023-43758-2. PMID:38042900.
  3. Nehar-Belaid D, Sokolowski M, Baarathi S, Banchereau J, Chaussabel D, Ucar D. Baseline immune states (BIS) associated with vaccine responsiveness and factors that shape the BIS. Seminars in Immunology. 2023 doi.org/10.1016/j.smim.2023.101842. PMID:37717525.
  4. Cheong J-G, Ravishankar A, Sharma S, Parkhurst C, Grassmann S, Wingert CK, Laurent P, Sai Ma, Paddock L, Miranda I, Karakaslar O, Nehar-Belaid D, [33 others], Pascual V, Elemento O, Schwartz RE, Buenrostro J, Niec RE, Barrat FJ, Lief L, Sun J, Ucar D, Josefowicz SZ. Epigenetic memory of coronavirus infection in innate immune cells and their progenitors. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.019. Cell. 2023. PMID:37597510.
  5. George PJ, Marches R, Nehar-Belaid D, Banchereau J, Lustigman S. The Th1/Tfh1-biased responses elicited by the rASP-1 innate adjuvant are dependent on TRIF and Type I IFN receptor pathways. 2022. doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.961094. Front. Immunol.
  6. Varn FS, Johnson KC, Martinek J, Huse JT, Nasrallah MP, Wesseling P, Cooper LAD, Malta TM, Wade TE, Sabedot TS, Brat D, Gould PV, Wöehrer A, Aldape K, Ismail A, Sivajothi SK, Barthel FP, Kim H, Kocakavuk E, Ahmed N, White K, Datta I, Moon HE, Pollock S, Goldfarb C, Lee GH, Garofano L, Anderson KJ, Nehar-Belaid D, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Bakas S, Byrne AT, D’Angelo F, Gan HK, Khasraw M, Migliozzi S, Ormond DR, Paek SH, Van Meir EG, Walenkamp AME, Watts C, Weiss T, Weller M, Palucka K, Stead LF, Poisson LM, Noushmehr H, Iavarone A, Verhaak RGW. Glioma progression is shaped by genetic evolution and microenvironment interactions. 2022 May 24. Cell .doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.038. PMID: 35649412
  7. Dérian N, Pham HP, Nehar-Belaid D, Tchitchek N, Klatzmann D, Eric V, Six A. The Tsallis generalized entropy enhances the interpretation of transcriptomics datasets. PLoS One. 2022; 17(4):e0266618. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266618. PMID: 35446844; PMCID: PMC9022844
  8. Thibodeau A, Eroglu A, McGinnis CS, Lawlor N, Nehar-Belaid D, Kursawe R, Marches R, Conrad DN, Kuchel GA, Gartner ZJ, Banchereau J, Stitzel ML, Cicek AE, Ucar D. AMULET: a novel read count-based method for effective multiplet detection from single nucleus ATAC-seq data. Genome Biol. 2021 Sep 1;22(1):252. doi: 10.1186/s13059-021-02469-x. PMID:34465366
  9. Lawlor N, Nehar-Belaid D, Grassmann JDS, Stoeckius M, Smibert P, Stitzel ML, Pascual V, Banchereau J, Williams A, Ucar D. Single Cell Analysis of Blood Mononuclear Cells Stimulated Through Either LPS or Anti-CD3 and Anti-CD28. 2021 Mar 17; Front. Immunol . 12:636720. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.636720. PMID:33815388
  10. Nehar-Belaid D, Hong S, Marches R, Chen G, Bolisetty M, Baisch J, Walters L, Punaro M, Rossi R, Chung C-H, Huynh R, Singh P, Flynn W.F, Tabanor J-A, Kuchipudi N, Mejias A, Collet M, Lucido A-L, Palucka K, Robson P, Lakshminarayanan S, Ramilo O, Wright T, Pascual V and Banchereau J. Mapping SLE heterogeneity at the single cell level. Nature Immunology. 2020 Aug 3. doi: 10.1038/s41590-020-0743-0. PMID:32747814
  11. Pereira BI#, De Maeyer RPH#, Covre LP#, Nehar-Belaid D#, Lanna A, Ward S, Marches R, Chambers ES, Gomes DCO, Riddell NE, Maini MK, Teixeira VH, Janes SM, Gilroy DW, Larbi A, Mabbott NA, Ucar D, Kuchel GA, Henson SM, Strid J, Lee JH, Banchereau J, Akbar AN. Sestrins Induce Natural Killer Function In Senescent-like CD8+ T Cells. Nature Immunology. 2020 Mar 30. doi: 10.1038/s41590-020-0643-3. PMID:32231301
  12. Márquez EJ, Chung C-H, Marches R, Rossi RJ, Nehar-Belaid D, Mellert DJ, Kuchel GA, Banchereau J, Ucar D. Sexual-dimorphism in human immune system aging. Nature Communications. 2020 Feb 6;11(1):751. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14396-9. PMID: 32029736
  13. Hong S, Banchereau R, Maslow BL, Guerra MM, Cardenas J, Baisch J, Branch DW, Porter TF, Sawitzke A, Laskin CA, Buyon JP, Merrill J, Sammaritano LR, Petri M, Gatewood E, Cepika AM, Ohouo M, Obermoser G, Anguiano E, Kim TW, Nulsen J, Nehar-Belaid D, Blankenship D, Turner J, Banchereau J, Salmon JE, Pascual V. Longitudinal profiling of human blood transcriptome in healthy and lupus pregnancy. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2019 May 6;216(5):1154-1169. doi: 10.1084/jem.20190185. PMID:30962246
  14. Pitoiset F, Vazquez T, Levacher B, Nehar-Belaid D, Vigneron J, Torrieri-Dramard L, Klatzmann D and Bellier B. Retrovirus-based Virus-Like Particle Immunogenicity and its Modulation by Toll-Like Receptor Activation. Journal of Virology. 2017 Oct 13;91(21). pii: e01230-17. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01230-17. PMID:28794025
  15. Nordor AV, Nehar-Belaid D, Richon S, Klatzmann D, Bellet D, Fournier T, Dangles-Marie V and Aryee MJ. The early pregnancy placenta foreshadows DNA methylation alterations of solid tumors. Epigenetics. 2017 Sep;12(9):793-803. doi: 10.1080/15592294.2017.1342912. PMID:28678605
  16. Courau T, Nehar-Belaid D, Florez LM, Levacher B, Vazquez T, Brimaud F, Bellier B and Klatzmann D. TGFβ and VEGF cooperatively control the immunotolerant tumor environment and the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies. The Journal of Clinical Investigation Insights. 2016;1(9):e85974. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight. 85974. PMID:27699271
  17. Nehar-Belaid D, Courau T, Dérian N, Florez ML, Ruocco MG and Klatzmann D. Regulatory T cells similarly orchestrate tolerance to fetuses and tumors. The Journal of Immunology. January 15, 2016, 196 (2) 678- 690; doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1501834. PMID:26643476