Djamel Nehar-Belaid

EDUCATION

EDUCATION

    2014: Ph.D. - Systems Immunology - Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
            Dissertation: “Systems biology approach to the 	study of tumor and uterine microenvironments”
            Thesis advisor: Pr. David Klatzmann
    2010: M.Sc.- Immunology - Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
    2009: B.Sc. - Molecular & Cellular Biology - Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

    10/2021 - present: Associate Research Scientist. The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, CT, USA. Mentor: Pr. Roel Verhaak
    09/2020 - 10/2021: Associate Research Scientist. The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, CT, USA. Mentor: Pr. Jacques Banchereau
    09/2016 - 09/2020: Postdoctoral Associate. The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, CT, USA. Mentor: Pr. Jacques Banchereau
    10/2015 - 09/2016: Postdoctoral Fellow. French national center for scientific research (CNRS), Paris, France. Mentor: Pr. David Klatzmann

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS

    Three years scholarship for Ph.D. studies. French National Center for Scientific Research

MENTORING EXPERIENCE

    1. Isabelle chen, intern. Now at Northwestern University. October 2018 - October 2021
    2. Rushil Yerrabelli, intern. Now at DUKE University. Sept 2019 - October 2021
    3. Summit Singhaviranon, MD-Ph.D rotation, UConn health, Sept 2020 - Dec 2020
    4. Dong JinHong, MD-Ph.D rotation, UConn health, Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
    5. James Seuch, Summer Student Program, The Jackson laboratory, summer 2010

ORAL PRESENTATIONS (in chronological order)

1- Invited seminars

    1. "2nd Meeting on Stochasticity and Control in Adaptive Immune Repertoires", Paris. France. October 2018
    2. “Graphical visualization methods of microarray data”, university of Patras, Greece, Spring 2015

2- Formal seminars

    1. “Human immune system heterogeneity across the lifespan at the single cell resolution”. 30th annual short course on Experimental Models
        of human cancer (Aug. 2021): short talk & session moderation (Next Generation Immunotherapies and Faculty Q&A).
    2. Session moderator in Systems Immunology in Aging and Complex Diseases (Infectious diseases session; Sept 2021).
    3. “Human immune system heterogeneity across the lifespan at the single cell resolution”, FOCIS meeting. Oct. 2020. Selected abstract oral presentation in
        thematic session & FOCIS Research Award 2020
    4. “Single immune cells from newborns to grandparents”, Systems Immunology in Aging and Complex Diseases. Sept. 2020. Selected from Attendee Abstract.
    5.“Different cell types contribute to unique components of the interferon signature in SLE PBMCs”, FOCIS meeting, Boston, MA, USA. June 2019. Selected
       abstract oral presentation in thematic session.
    6. “Signature discovery: a bridge between tumoral and materno-foetal tolerances”, Workshops: Translational Data Analysis, Hospital Pitié 
       Salpêtrière, Paris, France. 2016
    7. “Tregs orchestrate similar immune evasion of fetuses and tumors”, European Congress of Reproductive Immunology, Oxford, UK. 2015
    8. “Transcriptomics reveal an early immunological storm induced by tumor cells”, colloque Cancer- Vaccination. Nantes, France. 2014
    9. “Using systems immunology to the study of tumor microenvironment”, French Society of Immunology, Paris, France. 2014