Jihad OMAR - IAB and LBFA
Thesis: Subcellular NMR Metabolomics
Abstract :"Utilizing advanced cell fractionation and innovative NMR spectroscopy techniques, my project deciphers eukaryotic cell subcellular metabolomes, enabling organelle-specific metabolite profiling for insights into compartmentalized metabolism.

As a highly curious and detail-oriented individual, I earned my Bachelor of Science in Biology in Lebanon, followed by a master's degree at the University Grenoble Alpes, specializing in epigenetics and metabolism. Throughout this journey, I actively contributed to studies on induced pluripotent stem cells, playing a key role in uncovering the involvement of a bromodomain-containing factor in cellular reprogramming and the regulation of key stemness markers. Before starting my Ph.D. at UGA's CBH graduate school, I worked at INRAe in Paris for one year, making a significant co-author contribution to a research project on developmental-metabolic biology, published in the PNAS journal. Motivated by a quest to tackle the challenge of understanding the sub-cellular compartmentalization of metabolites, I started my Ph.D. funded by CBH which was a perfect fit for my interdisciplinary project. This endeavour aims to overcome current limitations in reliable observation and quantification of sub-cellular metabolites, offering a novel analytical and spectroscopic framework for deciphering sub-cellular compartmentalization of the metabolome in eukaryotic cells."