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Souhaila Al Khodor
Joint Associate Professor
Phone
+974 40037397Office location
Sidra Medicine, OPC, 5th Floor, Room 321
Souhaila Al Khodor
Joint Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology
M.Sc. in Microbiology and Immunology
Entity
College of Health and Life Sciences
Biography
Dr. Al Khodor has been the Director of the Maternal and Child Health program in the research department at Sidra Medicine, Qatar, since July 2019 and an investigator since January 2015. Dr. Al Khodor received her bachelor’s degree in Medical Lab. Technology from the Faculty of Public Health at the Lebanese University in 2001. Soon after, she started her master’s degree in Microbiology and Immunology at the American University of Beirut. Dr. Al Khodor received her second master’s degree and PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
She is a Joint Associate Professor at the College of Health and Life Sciences (CHLS), and an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Science, Qatar University.
Dr. Al Khodor has over 36 peer-reviewed publications, a membership of the American Society of Microbiology (since 2005), and is a member of the editorial board of the Frontiers in Microbiology (since 2015).
Dr. Al Khodor currently acts as a guest associate editor for Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology and has been the associate editor for the Journal of Translational Medicine since 2017.
Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
2005 - 2008
M.Sc. in Microbiology and Immunology
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
2006
M.Sc. in Microbiology and Immunology
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
2004
B.Sc. in Medical Lab Technology
Universite Libanaise, FSP V, Saida, Lebanon
2001
- Microbiome in Health and Disease
- Interaction Between Human Microbiome and Immunogenome
- Host-Microbe Interaction
- Cell Signaling
- Use Metagenomics as a Tool to Predict Disease Onset or Disease Progression
- Maternal and Child Health
- Dynamics of Microbiome in Pregnancy
- Multiomics for Biomarker Prediction
Postdoctoral Research Fellow- Advisor name: Dr. Iain Fraser
Laboratory of Systems Biology: Cell Signaling Unit. NIH, NIAID, Bethesda, MD.
2/2010 - 8/2014
Postdoctoral Researcher- Advisor name: Dr. Yousef Abu Kwaik
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
12/2008 - 2/2010
Graduate Student and Research Assistant- Advisor name: Dr. Yousef Abu Kwaik
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
2008 - 2010
Senior Microbiology and Medical lab technologist in charge of Blood bank and Microbiology Sections
Hammoud Hospital, Saida, Lebanon
11/2001 - 6/2005
- François Nosten, Daniel H Paris, Rose McGready, Damien Chaussabel: A prospective cohort for the investigation of alteration in temporal transcriptional and microbiome trajectories preceding preterm birth: a study protocol. BMJ Open 2018;9: e023417. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2018-023417
- DS86760016, a leucyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitor, with activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2019 Jan 22. pii: AAC.02122-18. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02122-18. [Epub ahead of print]
- Vitamin D Deficiency in the Gulf Cooperation Council: Exploring the Triad of Genetic Predisposition, the Gut Microbiome and the Immune System. 2019 April 24. Front. Immunol. 10:1042. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.01042
- Evaluation of Methods for the Extraction of Microbial DNA From Vaginal Swabs Used for Microbiome Studies. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2019 Jun 6;9:197. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2019.00197. eCollection 2019.
- Integrating omics for a better understanding of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a step towards personalized medicine. J Transl Med 17, 419 (2019) doi:10.1186/s12967-019-02174-1
- Profiling the Salivary microbiome of the Qatari population. J Transl Med. 2020 Mar 14;18(1):127. doi: 10.1186/s12967-020-02291-2.
- Corneal Nerve Loss in Children With Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Without Retinopathy or Microalbuminuria. J Diabetes Investig. 2020 Jun 3. doi: 10.1111/jdi.13313. Online ahead of print.
Cell. Microbiol. 12: 16040-1621, 2010
Al-Khodor, S., and Kwaik, Y. A.
- A literature-based approach for curating gene signatures in multifaceted diseases. J Transl Med. 2020-DOI: 10.1186/s12967-020-02408-7
- Role of the gut microbiota in the pathogenesis of coeliac disease and potential therapeutic implications. European Journal of Nutrition. 2020-07-10. DOI: 10.1007/s00394-020-02324-y
- Darawan Rinchai, Damien Chaussabel, Mathieu Garand: Annexin A3 in sepsis: novel perspectives from an exploration of public transcriptome data. Immunology. 2020 Jul 18. doi: 10.1111/imm.13239.
- The role of Polymorphyisms in Vitamin D-related Genes in Response to Vitamin D supplementation. Nutrients 2020, 12(9), 2608; DOI: 10.3390/nu12092608
- Pathophysiology and treatment strategies for COVID-19. J Transl Med. 2020 Sep 15;18(1):353. doi: 10.1186/s12967-020-02520-8
- Corneal confocal microscopy demonstrates minimal evidence of distal neuropathy in children with celiac disease. PLoS One. 2020 Sep 21;15(9):e0238859. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238859. eCollection 2020.
- Cohort profile: molecular signature in pregnancy (MSP): longitudinal high-frequency sampling to characterise cross-omic trajectories in pregnancy in a resource-constrained setting. BMJ Open. 2020 Oct 10;10(10): e041631. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041631
Infect. Immun. 77: 374-386, 2009
Al-Khodor, S., Kalachikov, S., Morozova, I., Price, C. T., and Kwaik. Y. A.
- The potential role of vitamin D supplementation as a gut microbiota modifier in healthy individuals. Sci Rep. 2020 Dec 10;10(1):21641. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-77806-4. PMID: 33303854.
- Graduate Dean’s Citation: the University of Louisville for the superior accomplishment of the Ph.D. publications and dissertations, December 2008.
- First prize-winning poster: 6th International Tularemia Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 2009.
- Second award-winning abstract (as a Senior Author) in CUDOS 2018, Doha, Qatar