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Noureddine Bouaïcha
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Noureddine BOUAÏCHA studied biology and biotechnology at the University of Sfax (Tunisia), where he obtained his engineering degree in 1987. From 1988 to 1992, he studied toxicology at the University of Paris 7 (France) where he obtained his Master’s degree in 1989 and his PhD degree in 1992 on fundamental and applied toxicology. In 1993, he was postdoctoral researcher at INSERM U303 Mer and Santé (France) for studying purification and pharmacological studies of marine natural products. In 1994, he was postdoctoral researcher at National Institute of Agriculture Research (INRA), laboratory of toxicology and pharmacology for studying in vitro (cultures of hepatocytes) metabolism of veterinary drugs. In 1995, he was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gent (Belgium), laboratory of analytical chemistry for studying analysis of cyanotoxins and phycotoxins by capillary electrophoresis technique. In 1997, he was research scientist at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris (France), laboratory of cryptogam for studying biodiversity of toxic cyanobacteria in aquatic ecosystem and their consequences on animal and human health and for the development of a serine/threonine protein phosphatase (PP2A) inhibition assay for the detection of cyanotoxins type microcystin in surface and drinking waters. In 2001, he obtained at the University of Paris-Sud, Faculty of pharmacy his habilitation to direction of reearch (HDR) on Environmental toxicology: Mechanisms of action of cyanobacterial toxins and their estrogenic and genotoxic potentials. Since 1998, he is Associate Professor in public health-environment at the University Paris-Saclay, Faculty of pharmacy. His current research at Laboratory Ecology, Systematic and Evolution, Univ. Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech (UMR8079) focuses on toxicology and ecotoxicology of cyanobacterial toxins. In particular in: (1) Biodiversity of toxic cyanobacteria and their toxins in aquatic ecosystems, (2) Environmental factors affecting cyanobacterial blooms formation and toxins production, (3) Mechanisms of action and estrogenic potential of cyanobacterial toxins, and (4) Bioaccumulation of cyanobacterial toxins in seafood and its impact in human and animal health. He Supervised 15 MSC, 8 PhD students and 25 doctoral thesis of pharmacy; and is co-author on over 70 papers and book chapters ranging (>1400 citations, h-index 23).
