Staff Scientist

Saber Hamdani

Post-doctoral Associate

Room: 104

Tel: 54920490

Email: hamdanisaber@yahoo.fr

Date of Arrival: 2013-06-14

Education

B.S.-Agricultural engineering: University of Agriculture, Kef, Tunisia, June 2001

M.S.-National Institute of Agronomy, Tunis, Tunisia, December 2006

Ph.D.-University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, September 2011

Publications and Posters

Hamdani, S., Gauthier, A., Msilini, N., Carpentier, R. (2011) Positive charges of polyamines protect photosystem II in isolated thylakoid membranes during photoinhibitory conditions. Plant Cell Physiol. 52: 866-873.

Hamdani, S., Yaakoubi, H., Carpentier, R. (2011) Polyamines interaction with thylakoid proteins during stress. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology. 104: 314-319

Hasni, I., Bourassa, P., Hamdani, S., Samson, G., Carpentier, R., Tajmir-Riahi, H.A. (2011) Interaction of milk α and β caseins with tea polyphenols. Food Chem. 126: 630-639

Hamdani, S., Carpentier, R. (2009) Interaction of methylamine with extrinsic and intrinsic subunits of photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1787: 1223-1229.

Hamdani, S., Joli, D., Carpentier, R., Tajmir-Riahi, H.A. (2009) The effect of methylamine on the solution structures of human and bovine serum albumins. Journal of Molecular Structure. 936: 80-86.

Hamdani, S., Tajmir-Riahi, H.A., Carpentier, R. (2009) Methylamine interaction with proteins of photosystem II: A comparison with biogenic polyamines. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology. 96: 201-206

Research

The main purpose of my project is to identify the genetic marker causing the difference of photoprotection recovery in 200 accessions of rice. This project will be divided on three main parts:
1- Spectroscopic study of the fluorescence parameters under high and low light treatment on these different accessions of rice.
2- Identify the genetic marker causing the response difference of these different accessions of rice to the light treatment.
3- Genetic engineering approach to increase the efficiency of photoprotection recovery in rice