Lamia Aouini

I am a plant breeder and geneticist dedicated to enhancing the resilience of cereals against fungal diseases. I earned my PhD in Plant Breeding from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where I gained valuable expertise in quantitative genetics and QTL mapping in wheat. To further develop my skills, I took on a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Purdue University, focusing on GWAS and association mapping to investigate the genetic basis of Septoria tritici blotch (STB) resistance in US soft red wheat populations. I then transitioned to KAUST, where I am currently engaged in the molecular characterization of rust resistance modifiers in wheat.

· April 2011

Monsanto s Beachell-Borlaug Award

Iowa-USA

1. Athiyannan N, Aouini L, Wang Y, Krattinger SG (2022). Unconventional R proteins in the botanical tribe Triticeae. Essays in Biochemistry, 30;66(5):561-569.

2. Ferjaoui, S., Aouini, L.*, Slimane, R.B., Karim Ammar, Dreisigacker S., Schouten H.J., Sapkota S., Bahri B. A., Ben M’Barek S., Visser R. G. F., Kema G.H.J. & Hamza S.(2022). Deciphering resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici in the Tunisian durum wheat landrace accession ‘Agili39’. BMC Genomics 23, 372

* First Shared Author

3. Saintenac C., Cambon F., Aouini L., Verstappen E., Tabib Ghaffary S. M., Poucet T., Marande W., Berges H., Xu S., Jaouannet M., Favery B., Alassimone J., Sánchez-Vallet A., Faris J., Kema G., Robert O., Langin T.(2021). A wheat cysteine-rich receptor-like kinase confers broad-spectrum resistance against Septoria tritici blotch. Nature Communications, 12(1):433.

4. Ouaja, M., Bahri, B. A., Aouini, L., Ferjaoui, S., Medini, M., Marcel, T. C., & Hamza, S. (2021). Morphological characterization and genetic diversity analysis of Tunisian durum wheat (Triticum turgidum var. durum) accessions. BMC Genomic Data, 22(1), 1-17.

5. Ouaja M.*, Aouini L.*, Bahri B., Ferjaoui S., Medini M., Marcel T. C., Hamza S. (2020). Identification of valuable sources of resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici in the Tunisian durum wheat landraces.  European Journal of Plant Pathology, volume 156, pages 647–661

*First Shared author

6. Kema GHJ*, Mirzadi Gohari A*, Aouini L*,Gibriel HAY, Ware SB, Van den Bosch F, Manning-Smith R, Alonso-Chavez V, Helps J, Ben M’Barek S, Mehrabi R, Diaz-Trujillo C, Zamani E, Schouten HJ, Van der Lee TAJ, Waalwijk C, De Waard MA, De Wit PJGM, Verstappen ECP, Thomma BPHJ, Meijer HJG and Seidl MF (2018). Stress and sexual reproduction affect the dynamics of the wheat pathogen effector AvrStb6 and strobilurin resistance. Nature Genetics 50(3):375-380. doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0052-9

*First Shared author

7. Meamiche Neddaf H; Aouini L; Bouznad Z, and Kema GHJ. (2017). Equal distribution of mating type alleles and the presence of strobilurin resistance in Algerian Zymoseptoria tritici field populations. Plant Disease 101 (4):544-549. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-03-16-0298-RE

• Prof. Simon Krattinger, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,

     Plant Science Program Chair, 

      Email : simon.krattinger@kaust.edu.sa

• Prof. Stephen Goodwin, Crop Production and Pest Control Research, Botany and Plant Pathology- Purdue University.

     Email: steve.goodwin@usda.gov / sgoodwin@purdue.edu

• Prof. Kema G.H.J., Professor Of Phytopathology - Wageningen University

      Email : gert.kema@wur.nl