Houda Chelaifa

Experienced Scientist and Project Manager with a 15-year track record in the academic research sector, I bring a comprehensive skill set that includes expertise in Laboratory Management and Safety. My background is further enriched by a profound knowledge of Laboratory Equipment and Life Sciences.
Renowned for my ability to oversee diverse projects, I am an adept communicator and supervisor with extensive experience in both research and laboratory management. My publication history in peer-reviewed journals underscores my dedication and proficiency in research.

• Plant and Animal Genomics- PAG USA and Asia
• Cytogenetics and polyploidy in Europe
• Plant red list -UAE
• Lab accreditation/ Molecular biology

• French ministry PhD fellowship
• Very honorable with jury congratulations PhD

• Chelaifa (H.) & al. 2020 Beyond the greenhouse: coupling environmental and salt stress response reveals unexpected global transcriptional regulatory networks in Salicornia bigelovii doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.17.995720
• AlYammahi (J), Chelaifa (H.) & al. 2020 Morphological and molecular analysis of Salicornia bigelovii (Chenopodiaceae) seed germplasm. Under preparation
• Ferreira (J), Chelaifa (H.), & al. 2018 Gene expression variation in natural populations of hexaploid and allododecaploid Spartina species. Plant Systematics & Evolution
• Chalhoub. B, Chelaifa (H.), & al. 2015. Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome. Science 345, 950.
• Rousseau M., Bellot S., Chelaifa (H.), & al. 2015. The chloroplast genome of the hexaploid Spartina maritima (Poaceae, Chloridoideae): Comparative analyses and molecular dating. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
• Ainouche (M.L.), Chelaifa (H.), Salmon (A.) & al Genome merger as evolutionary springboard: Insights from recurrent hybridization and polyploidy in Spartina
• Chelaifa (H.), Chagué (V.), Chalabi (S.) & al. 2014. Prevalence of gene expression additivity in genetically stable wheat allohexaploids. New Phytologist - 197(3), 730-736.
• Chelaifa (H.), Chalabi (S.), Chagué (V.) & al. 2014. Unraveling effects of re-increasing alloploidy levels on gene expression in wheat allohexaploid. New Phytologist.
• Chelaifa (H.), Salmon (A.) & al. 2012. Polyploid evolution in Spartina: Dealing with highly redundant hybrid genomes In Polyploidy and Genome Evolution (P. S. Soltis and D. E. Soltis, Eds). Springer, New York
• Arnaud (D), Chelaifa (H.), Chalhoub (B).2013. Dynamics of duplicated gene expression in polyploid Wheat. In Polyploid and Hybrid Genomics (Z. J. Chen and J. Birchler, Eds.), Wiley Blackwell.
• Ferreira (J), Chelaifa (H.) & al. 2013. Ferreira (J), Chelaifa (H.) & al. 2013. Exploring the genome of the salt-marsh species Spartina maritima (Poaceae, Chloridoideae) through BAC end sequence analysis. Plant.Mol.Biol. 83:591–606.
• Chelaifa (H.), Mahe (F.) & Ainouche (M.L.) .2010. Transcriptome divergence between the hexaploid salt-marsh sister species Spartina maritima and Spartina alterniflora (Poaceae). Mol. Ecol. - 19(10).
• Chelaifa (H.), Monnier (A.) & Ainouche (M.L.) .2010. Transcriptomic changes following recent natural hybridization and allopolyploidy in the salt marsh species Spartina x townsendii and Spartina anglica (Poaceae). New Phytologist - 186(1), 161-174. Ainouche (M.L.).

• Sequencing and Scientechnic Nanopore technology
• Illumina Hiseq sequencing
• Agilent Fragment Analyzer
• Molecular Biolagy Lab management