Dr. Samer Hussein is a researcher at the CHU Research Centre of Quebec – Laval University, and is part of the St-Patrick group of research in fundamental oncology. He is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology of the Faculty of Medicine, Laval University.

His research aims to understand the molecular mechanisms that establish and regulate pluripotent cell states, particularly the role of long non-coding RNAs in gene networks, as well as the transcriptional events responsible for cancer initiation and progression.

Defining gene networks and their interactions that govern pluripotent states

Pluripotency is defined as the ability of a cell to generate all the cell types found in an organism. The three transcription factors Oct4, Sox2, and Nanog represent the central pillars of the gene regulatory network associated with the maintenance of a pluripotent state. Through cellular models of pluripotency and reprogramming, and the use of high-throughput technologies (proteomics, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq), this project aims to understand how interactions between transcription factors of pluripotency and chromatin regulators determine cell fate and cell transition to specific lineages in embryonic development, as well as cancer development.

Defining the role of certain long non-coding RNAs in cell identity

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) constitute an entire class of RNA, characterized by the fact that they do not encode any known protein and that they are composed of at least 200 base pairs. LncRNAs are implicated in gene regulation and maintenance of cellular identity, but their mechanism of action involved in the establishment of pluripotency remains unknown. The objective of this project is to understand the role of lncRNAs in the regulation of pluripotent states and the reprogramming of embryonic stem cells.

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Long non-coding RNAs and transposable elements: A functional relationship

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Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res, 1868 (1), 2021.

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Isaev K, Jiang L, Wu S, Lee CA, Watters V, Fort V, Tsai R, Coutinho FJ, Hussein SMI, Zhang J, Wu J, Dirks PB, Schramek D, Reimand J

Pan-cancer analysis of non-coding transcripts reveals the prognostic onco-lncRNA HOXA10-AS in gliomas

Journal Article

Cell Rep, 37 (3), 2021.

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Khelifi G, Hussein SMI

A New View of Genome Organization Through RNA Directed Interactions

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Front Cell Dev Biol, 8 , 2020.

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Kim KH, Kim YH, Son JE, Lee JH, Kim S, Choe MS, Moon JH, Zhong J, Fu K, Lenglin F, Yoo JA, Bilan PJ, Klip A, Nagy A, Kim JR, Park JG, Hussein SM, Doh KO, Hui CC, Sung HK

Intermittent fasting promotes adipose thermogenesis and metabolic homeostasis via VEGF-mediated alternative activation of macrophage

Journal Article

Cell Res, 27 (11), 2017.

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Kim KH, Rosen A, Hussein SM, Puviindran V, Korogyi AS, Chiarello C, Nagy A, Hui CC, Backx PH

Irx3 is required for postnatal maturation of the mouse ventricular conduction system

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Sci Rep, 6 , 2016.

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Shakiba N, White CA, Lipsitz YY, Yachie-Kinoshita A, Tonge PD, Hussein SM, Puri MC, Elbaz J, Morrissey-Scoot J, Li M, Munoz J, Benevento M, Rogers IM, Hanna JH, Heck AJ, Wollscheid B, Nagy A, Zandstra PW

CD24 tracks divergent pluripotent states in mouse and human cells

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Nat Commun, 6 , 2015.

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Lee DS, Shin JY, Tonge PD, Puri MC, Lee S, Park H, Lee WC, Hussein SM, Bleazard T, Yun JY, Kim J, Li M, Cloonan N, Wood D, Clancy JL, Mosbergen R, Yi JH, Yang KS, Kim H, Rhee H, Wells CA, Preiss T, Grimmond SM, Rogers IM, Nagy A, Seo JS

An epigenomic roadmap to induced pluripotency reveals DNA methylation as a reprogramming modulator

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Nat Commun, 5 , 2014.

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Clancy JL, Patel HR, Hussein SM, Tonge PD, Cloonan N, Corso AJ, Li M, Lee DS, Shin JY, Wong JJ, Bailey CG, Benevento M, Munoz J, Chuah A, Wood D, Rasko JE, Heck AJ, Grimmond SM, Rogers IM, Seo JS, Wells CA, Puri MC, Nagy A, Preiss T

Small RNA changes en route to distinct cellular states of induced pluripotency

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Nat Commun, 5 , 2014.

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Benevento M, Tonge PD, Puri MC, Hussein SM, Cloonan N, Wood DL, Grimmond SM, Nagy A, Munoz J, Heck AJ

Proteome adaptation in cell reprogramming proceeds via distinct transcriptional networks

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Nat Commun, 5 , 2014.

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Michael IP, Westenskow PD, Hacibekiroglu S, Greenwald AC, Ballios BG, Kurihara T, Li Z, Warren CM, Zhang P, Aguilar E, Donaldson L, Marchetti V, Baba T, Hussein SM, Sung HK, Iruela-Arispe ML, Rini JM, van der Kooy D, Friedlander M, Nagy A

Local acting Sticky-trap inhibits vascular endothelial growth factor dependent pathological angiogenesis in the eye

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EMBO Mol Med, 6 (5), 2014.

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Active projects

  • Direct lineage reprogramming of astrocytes to new oligodendrocytes for the treatment of demyelinating disease, from 2022-04-01 to 2026-01-31
  • Exploration des interactions fonctionnelles des longs ARNs non-codants dans le développement embryonnaire et le cancer, from 2022-07-01 to 2025-06-30
  • Implications of RNA isoform diversity on gene function and cellular plasticity, from 2024-04-01 to 2029-03-31
  • Targeting the sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma metabolic program for therapeutic purposes, from 2024-09-01 to 2026-08-31
  • Unraveling the functional domains of a novel pluripotency-associated lncRNA, from 2023-04-01 to 2028-03-31

Recently finished projects

  • Conférence Signalisation Québec 2022, from 2022-06-01 to 2023-05-31
  • Repairing the dopaminergic circuits in Parkinson disease using synucleinopathy resistant neurones grafting, from 2022-04-01 to 2024-03-31
  • Transcription factor stoichiometry defines distinct pluripotent states, from 2016-04-01 to 2023-03-31
Data provided by the Université Laval research projects registery