محمد آيت طالب | جامعة حمد بن خليفة

محمد آيت طالب

عالم وباحث

البريد الإلكتروني

maittaleb@hbklu.edu.qa

الهاتف

44 546 695

موقع المكتب

C143, LAS Building

محمد آيت طالب

عالم وباحث

المؤهلات العلمية

PhD in Biochemistry

الكيان

كلية العلوم الصحية والحيوية

السيرة الذاتية

Dr. Aittaleb received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Liege in Belgium. His dissertation was on “molecular and structural adaptations to low temperatures of psychrophilic enzymes”.
As postdoctoral fellow at Florida State University’s Institute of Molecular Biophysics, he solved the crystal structure of tRNA methylation complex and demonstrated how snoRNA assemble into snoRNP to guide specific pre-tRNA methylation.

From 2004 to 2015, Dr. Aittaleb held different positions at the University of Michigan. As Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Associate, he applied the biomolecular fluorescent complementation (BiFC) approach to investigate histone ubiquitylation and the role of poly-glutamine ataxin-3 in neurodegenerative Ataxia disease. Then, he worked as Senior Research Scientist at the Life Sciences Institute and Department of Pharmacology, where he studied the structure and spatiotemporal dynamics of G-protein regulated RhoGEFs. He then worked, as Research Investigator at Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, on the regulation and trafficking of postsynaptic scaffold proteins at the neuromuscular junction.

In 2015, Dr. Aittaleb moved to University of Cincinnati’s Vontz Institute and Brain Tumor Center as Senior Scientist. He was investigating Drug resistance to EGFR therapy and survival pathways of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of glioblastoma metastatic patients.
 

 

 

PhD in Biochemistry

University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.

2000

Research Scientist

College of Health and Life Sciences - Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2018 - Present

Sr. Scientist

The Vontz Institute and Brain Tumor Center, Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of Cincinnati.

2015 - 2017

Research Investigator

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and developmental Biology, University of Michigan.

2011 - 2015

Sr. Postdoc fellow

Life Sciences and department of Pharmacology, University of Michigan.

2006 - 2011

HHMI Research Associate

HHMI and department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan.

2004 - 2006

Postdoc fellow

Kasha Laboratory and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University

2000 - 2004

  • “Genetic Mutations Associated with Lung Cancer Metastasis to the Brain”. Mutagenesis 2018 April 13; 33(2): 137-145
  • “Spatial distribution and molecular dynamics of dystrophin glycoprotein components at the neuromuscular junctions in vivo”. J. Cell Sc. 2017 March 15; 130(10): 1752-59
  • “Failure of lysosome clustering and positioning in the juxtanuclear region in cells deficient in rapsyn”. J. Cell. Sci. 2015 Oct 15; 128(20):3744-56.
  • “A role for the CaM-kinase II related anchoring protein alpha-Kap in maintaining the stability of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor” J. Neurosci. 2012 Apr 11; 32 (15): 5177-85
  • “Constitutive Plasma Membrane Association of p63RhoGEF is mediated by palmitoylation and required for basal activity in cells” J. Biol. Chem. 2011 Sep 30; 286(39): 34448-56
  • “Structure and Function of Heterotrimeric G protein-regulated Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors” Mol. Pharmacol. 2010 Feb;77(2):111-25. (Figure 1 from this article has been selected for the cover of this issue).
  • “A Conserved Hydrophobic Surface of the LARG Pleckstrin Homology Domain is Critical for RhoA Activation in Cells”. Cell Signal. 2009 Nov; 21(11):1569-78. (This article has been selected by Faculty of 1000).
  • “Structural and Thermodynamic Evidence for a Stabilizing Role of Nop5p in S-adenosyl-L-methionine Binding to Fibrillarin” J. Biol. Chem. 2004 Oct 1; 79(40): 41822-9
  • “Functional Requirement for Symmetric Assembly of Archaeal Box C/D Small Ribonucleoprotein Particles” J. Mol. Biol. 2003 Oct 17; 333(2): 295-306
  • “Structure and Function of Archaeal Box C/D sRNP Core Proteins”. Nat. Struct. Biol. 2003 Apr; 0(4):256-63 (This article has been previewed in Nat. Struct. Biol. 2003 Apr; 10(4): 237-9)

  • Recovery Act supplemental NIH grant in collaboration with Dr. John Tesmer at University of Michigan and Dr. Bary Willardson at Brigham Young University. Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 
  • University of Liege doctoral training fellowship, Liege, Belgium. 
  • Moroccan Education Ministry fellowship for graduate studies abroad. Liege, Belgium