1. Sarah Daakour
PhD in molecular biology
Brussels, Belgium
Mobile: +32.485.22.75.99
Email: sarah.daakour@gmail.com
Education
2010 - 2016: Ph. D. in Biochemistry, Molecular and cellular biology,
Bioinformatics and Modelling, University of Liege, Liege,
Belgium
2008 - 2009: MS in “Structure - Interaction of Macromolecules
and Functional Genomics”, faculty of science - Saint Joseph
university , Beirut, Lebanon
2004 - 2008: Maitrise in Biochemistry, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
Professional experience
2010 - 2015: Ph. D. Candidate, Laboratory of Protein Signaling and Interaction
- GIGA, Liège, Belgium
Topic: Perturbations of interactome networks in acute lymphoblastic
leukemia: identification of EXT-1 tumor suppressor as a Notch pathway
regulator
Dec. ’08 – Jun. ’09: MS Intern, Institut de Génétique Humaine
(IGH – CNRS UPR1142), Montpellier, France
Topic: Characterization of retrotransposon LINE-1
Ribonucleoprotein Particles.
Mar. - Jul. ’08: Maitrise final project, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
Topic: Molecular mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias.
Honors
2010 – 2015: Ph. D. fellowship (Télévie) from National Funds for Scientific
Research
(FRS-FNRS)
Ph. D. fellowship: Winner of the Léon Frédéricq Fund– 2014 projects

2. Services
Conference Organization
o 15th International Conference on Human Retrovirology : HTLV and Related
Retroviruses; June 2011; Leuven and Gembloux; Belgium.
Training Master graduates
o Training and guiding Master I student, for Master thesis project - Laboratory
of Protein Signaling and Interaction - GIGA, Liège, Belgium.
Technical skills
Ø Laboratory skills: High throughput yeast two-hybrid screening, western
blot analyses, immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy, PCR and
quantitative PCR, cloning, cell culture, protein network analyses.
Ø Software and tools: Microsoft, Cytoscape, Endnote, Photoshop,
ImagJ, Graphpad.
Ø Publishing: Office Suite
Ø Languages: Arabic, English, French.
Publications
Journal Publications
o Simonis N, Rual JF, Lemmens I, Boxus M, Hirozane-Kishikawa T, Gatot
JS, Dricot A, Hao T, Vertommen D, Legros S, Daakour S, Klitgord N, Martin
M, Willaert JF, Dequiedt F, Navratil V, Cusick ME, Burny A, Van Lint C, Hill
DE, Tavernier J, Kettmann R, Vidal M, Twizere JC; Host-pathogen
interactome mapping for HTLV-1 and -2 retroviruses. Retrovirology.
2012 Mar.
o Bergiers I, Lambert B, Daakour S, Twizere JC, Rezsohazy R; Hox protein
interactions: screening and network building, Methods Mol Biol. 2014.
o Hajingabo LJ, Daakour S, Martin M, Grausenburger R, Panzer-Grümayer R,
Dequiedt F, Simonis N, Twizere JC; Predicting interactome networks
perturbations in human cancer: application to gene fusions in acute
lymphoblastic leukemia. Mol Biol Cell. 2014 Dec.
o Mansour MR, Reed C, Eisenberg AR, Tseng JC, Twizere JC, Daakour S,
Yoda A, Rodig SJ, Tal N, Shochat C, Berezovskaya A, DeAngelo DJ, Sallan SE,

3. Weinstock DM, Izraeli S, Kung AL, Kentsis A, Look AT; Targeting oncogenic
interleukin-7 receptor signalling with N-acetylcysteine in T cell acute
lymphoblastic leukaemia. Br J Haematol. 2015 Jan.
o Daakour S, Hajingabo LJ, Kerselidou D, Devresse A, Kettmann R, Simonis N,
Dequiedt F, Twizere JC; Systematic interactome mapping of acute
lymphoblastic leukemia cancer gene products reveals EXT-1 tumor
suppressor as a Notch1 and FBWX7 common interactor. BMC Cancer. In press.
Conferences
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Protein network perturbations associated with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); “37ème Forum des jeunes chercheurs” (société
de biochimie et de biologie moléculaire); Strasbourg; France; December 2010.
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Protein network perturbations associated with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); 15th International Conference on Human
Retrovirology : HTLV and Related Retroviruses; June 2011; Leuven and
Gembloux; Belgium.
Communications and Workshops
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Protein network perturbations associated with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); Workshop : Interactomics: at the crossroads of
biology and bioinformatics ; Saint-Raphael; France; March 2010.
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Protein network perturbations associated with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); “37ème Forum des jeunes chercheurs” (société
de biochimie et de biologie moléculaire); Strasbourg; France; December 2010.
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Protein network perturbations associated with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); GIGA day Seminar; Liège; Belgium; January 2011.
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Protein network perturbations associated with acute
lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); IAP phase-VI program network 28 : Signal
integration mechanisms in health disease ; spring annual meeting; Belgium;
April 2011.

4. o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Systematic interactome mapping of acute lymphoblastic
leukemia cancer gene products reveals EXT-1 tumor suppressor as a
Notch1 and FBWX7 common interactor; Signal transduction seminar; Liège;
Belgium; May 2011.
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Systematic interactome mapping of acute lymphoblastic
leukemia cancer gene products reveals EXT-1 tumor suppressor as a
Notch1 and FBWX7 common interactor; «Séminaire de jeunes chercheurs -
Télévie 2012»; December 2011.
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Systematic interactome mapping of acute lymphoblastic
leukemia cancer gene products reveals EXT-1 tumor suppressor as a
Notch1 and FBWX7 common interactor; Proteomics and Interactomics in
Signaling Networks; Gent University ; may 2012.
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Systematic interactome mapping of acute lymphoblastic
leukemia cancer gene products reveals EXT-1 tumor suppressor as a
Notch1 and FBWX7 common interactor; «Signal Transduction Seminar»;
February 2013; Liège; Belgium.
o Sarah Daakour, Léon Hajingabo, Franck Dequiedt, Nicolas Simonis, and Jean-
Claude Twizere; Systematic interactome mapping of acute lymphoblastic
leukemia cancer gene products reveals EXT-1 tumor suppressor as a
Notch1 and FBWX7 common interactor; au “Séminaire de jeunes chercheurs
– Télévie”; 2013; Brussels, Belgium.
References
• Prof. Jean-Claude Twizere, Molecular Biology professor at Université de Liège;
Belgium.
Email: jean-claude.twizere@ulg.ac.be
• Prof. Frank Dequiedt, Molecular Biology professor at Université de Liège;
Belgium.
Email: fdequiedt@ulg.ac.be
• Dr. Nicolas Simonis, Bioinformatics scientist at Institut de Pathologie et de
Génétique, Brussels, Belgium.
Email: nicolassimonis@gmail.com