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Education
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Publications
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Ph.D, Chemistry
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Souhaila Bouatra

Edmonton,Canada

Summary

Experienced professional instructor in secondary education with expertise in creating engaging and effective learning environments. Skilled in curriculum development, classroom management, and fostering collaborative atmospheres among students and staff. Recognized for adaptability and delivering results, with strong communication and problem-solving abilities. Demonstrated ability to inspire students and contribute to school-wide initiatives.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Secondary School Teacher

Edmonton Public School Division
09.2019 - Current
  • Promoted a positive classroom environment by establishing clear expectations and fostering mutual respect among students.
  • Actively participated in school-wide initiatives aimed at improving overall student success rates and fostering a sense of community among staff members.
  • Established strong relationships with parents through regular communication, promoting family involvement in students'' education.
  • Organized extracurricular activities such as clubs and field trips to enrich students'' educational experiences outside of the classroom setting.
  • Provided one-on-one tutoring sessions for students needing additional assistance, improving their overall academic performance.
  • Developed and implemented creative teaching strategies to accommodate various learning styles.
  • Used computers, audio-visual aids and other equipment to supplement presentations.
  • Distributed and collected classroom materials such as worksheets, quizzes, and tests.
  • Assessed and improved lesson plans through implementation and experimentation.

Analytical Chemist

Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
08.2008 - 12.2013
  • Screening of the chemical composition of biofluids
  • Screening of the chemical composition of biofluids
    Development of analytical methods for the separation and quantification of lipids
  • Troubleshot equipment adjustments to meet and maintain safety, output and quality expectations.
  • Mentored junior chemists on best practices, contributing to their professional growth and success within the organization.
  • Developed innovative analytical methods for characterizing new materials, aiding in successful product launches.

Postdoctoral fellow

Biofluids Group, Pan-Alberta Metabolomics Platform (PANAMP) Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
10.2007 - 09.2011
  • Postdoctoral fellow in Biofluids Group, Pan-Alberta Metabolomics Platform (PANAMP) Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, (Edmonton, Canada)

Postdoctoral fellow

Supramolecular Nanoscale Assembly, NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), University of Alberta
03.2007 - 09.2007
  • Postdoctoral fellow in Supramolecular Nanoscale Assembly, NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), University of Alberta, (Edmonton, Canada)

Education

Permanent Teaching Certificate

Minister of Education And Childcare
11-2023

Bachelor of Education After Degree - Secondary Education

Campus Saint Jean
University Of Alberta, Edmonton
06-2019

Ph.D - Organic Chemistry

Université Paul Sabatier
10.2006

Master Degree - Applied Chemistry; Organic Chemistry, Catalysis and Environment

University of Poitiers
06.2002

Bachelor Degree - license es-science

University Chouaib Doukkali
06.2001

Skills

  • Undergraduate student supervision in organic chemistry
  • Student supervision in metabolomics research
  • NMR spectroscopy expertise
  • Proficient in chemical drawing software
  • Research protocols
  • Scientific writing
  • Qualitative analysis
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Lab experiment coordination
  • Organic and analytical chemistry
    ● Nanotechnology and biotechnology
    ● Metabolomic and biomarkers studies
  • Attention to detail
  • Multitasking

Languages

French & English: writing, speaking and reading: fluent

Publications

PUBLICATIONS
1) Solladie, Nathalie; Rein, Regis; Bouatra, Souhaila; Merkas, Sonja; Sooambar,
Chloe; Piantanida, Ivo; Zinic, Mladen “Nucleosides as organizing agents'',
Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (2020), 24(5/7), 636-645.
DOI:10.1142/s1088424620300013
2) Merkas, Sonja; Bouatra, Souhaila; Rein, Regis; Piantanida, Ivo; Zinic, Mladen;
Solladie, Nathalie “Great efficiency of nucleosides as organizing tools”, Croatica
Chemica Acta (2017), 90(4), 1-8. DOI:10.5562/cca3247
3) Merkas, Sonja; Bouatra, Souhaila; Rein, Regis; Piantanida, Ivo; Zinic, Mladen;
Solladie, Nathalie “Efficiency of dinucleosides as the backbone to pre-organize
multi-porphyrins and enhance their stability as sandwich type complexes with
DABCO” Molecules (2017), 22(7), 1112/1-1112/14.
DOI:10.3390/molecules22071112
4) Fenniri Hicham; Tikhomirov Grigory; Brouwer Darren; Bouatra Souhaila; El
Bakkari Mounir; Yan Zhimin; Cho Jae-Young; Yamazaki Takeshi “High Field
Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Investigation of 15N-Labeled Rosette Nanotubes:
Hydrogen Bond Network and Channel-Bound Water”, Journal of the American
Chemical Society (2016), 138(19), 6115-6118. DOI:10.1021/jacs.6b02420
5) Zerihun T. Dame; Farid Aziat; Rupasri Mandal; Ramanarayan Krishnamurthy;
Souhaila Bouatra; Shima Borzouie; An Chi Guo; Tanvir Sajed; Lu Deng; Hong
Lin; Philip Liu; Edison Dong and David S. Wishart “The Human Saliva
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Metabolome”, Metabolomics (2015), 11(6), 1864-1883.
DOI:10.1007/s11306-015-0840-5
6) Sonja Merkas; Souhaila Bouatra; Regis Rein; Ivo Piantanida; Mladen Zinic;
Nathalie Solladié “Pre-organized dinucleosides with pendant porphyrins for the
formation of sandwich type complexes with DABCO with high association
constants”, Journal of Porphyrins and Phtalocyanines. 2015, 19(1/3), 535-546.
DOI:10.1142/S1088424615500431
7) Zordoky, Beshay N; Sung, Miranda M; Ezekowitz, Justin; Mandal, Rupasri; Han,
Beomsoo; Bjorndahl, Trent C; Bouatra, Souhaila; Anderson, Todd; Oudit,
GavinY; Wishart, David S; et al “Metabolomic fingerprint of heart failure with
preserved ejection fraction”. PLoS One (2015), 10(5). 10(5),
e0124844/1-e0124844/19. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0124844
8) Souhaila Bouatra; Farid Aziat; Rupasri Mandal; An Chi Guo; Michael R.
Wilson; Craig Knox; Trent C. Bjorndahl; Ramanarayan Krishnamurthy; Fozia
Saleem; Philip Liu; Zerihun T. Dame; Jenna Poelzer; Jessica Huynh; Faizath S.
Yallou; Nick Psychogios; Edison Dong; Ralf Bogumil; Cornelia Roehring and
David S. Wishart “The Human Urine Metabolome”, PLoS ONE. 2013, 8
(9):e73076. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0073076
9) Wishart, David; Jewison, Tim; Guo, An Chi; Wilson, Michael.; Knox, Craig; Liu,
Yifeng; Djoumbou, Yannick; Mandal, Rupasri; Aziat, Farid; Dong, Edison;
Bouatra, Souhaila; Sinelnikov, Igor; Arndt, David; Xia, Jianguo; Liu, Philip;
Yallou, Faizath; Bjorndahl, Trent; Perez-Pineiro, Rolando; Eisner, Roman; Allen,
Felicity; Neveu, Vanessa; Greiner, Russ; Scalbert, Augustin “HMDB 3.0 – The
Human Metabolome Database in 2013”, Nucleic Acids Research, 2013, Vol. 37,
Database issue D603–D610. DOI:10.1093/nar/gks1065
10) Thomas Canam, Xiang Li, Jennifer Holowachuk, Min Yu, Jianguo Xia, Rupasri
Mandal, Ramanarayan Krishnamurthy, Souhaila Bouatra, Igor Sinelnikov,
Bianyun Yu, Larry Grenkow, David S. Wishart, Harold Steppuhn, Kevin C. Falk,
Tim J. Dumonceaux, and Margaret Y. Gruber “Differential metabolite profiles
and salinity tolerance between two genetically related brown-seeded and
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yellow-seeded Brassica carinata lines”, Plant Science, 2013, 198: 17-26.
DOI:10.1016/j.plantsci.2012.09.011
11) F. Saleem, B. N. Ametaj, S. Bouatra, R. Mandal, Q. Zebeli, S. M. Dunn and D.
S. Wishart “A metabolomics approach to uncover the effects of grain diets on
rumen health in dairy cows”, Journal of Dairy Science, 2012, 95(11): 6606-23.
DOI:10.3168/jds.2012-5403
12) Fozia Saleem, Souhaila Bouatra, An Chi Guo, Nikolaos Psychogios, Rupasri
Mandal Suzanna M. Dunn, Burim N. Ametaj, David S. Wishart “The Bovine
Ruminal Fluid Metabolome”, Metabolomics, 2013, 9(2): 360-378.
DOI:10.3168/jds.2012-5403
13) Rupasri Mandal, Palak Kathiria, Nikolaos Psychogios, Souhaila Bouatra,
Ramanarayan Krishnamurthy, David Wishart, Igor Kovalchuk “Progeny of
tobacco mosaic virus-infected Nicotiana tabacum plants exhibit
trans-generational changes in metabolic profiles”, Journal of Biocatalysis and
Agricultural Biotechnology 1, 2012, 115-123. DOI:10.1016/j.bcab.2012.01.004
14) Psychogios, N., Hau, D.D., Peng, J., Guo, A.C., Mandal, R., Bouatra, S.,
Sinelnikov, I., Krishnamurthy, R., Eisner, R., Gautam, B., Young, N., Xia, J.,
Knox, C, Dong, E., Huang, P., Hollander, Z, Pedersen, T.L., Smith S.R.,
Bamforth, F., Greiner, R., McManus, B., Newman, J.W., Goodfriend, T., Wishart,
D.S. “The Human Serum Metabolome”, PLoS ONE, 2011, 6(2):e16957.
DOI:10.1142/S1088424603000367
15) David S. Wishart, Craig Knox, An Chi Guo, Roman Eisner, Nelson Young,
Bijaya Gautam, David D. Hau, Nick Psychogios, Edison Dong, Souhaila
Bouatra, Rupasri Mandal, Igor Sinelnikov, Jianguo Xia, Leslie Jia, Joseph A.
Cruz, Emilia Lim, Constance A. Sobsey, Savita Shrivastava, Paul Huang, Philip
Liu, Lydia Fang, Jun Peng, Ryan Fradette, Dean Cheng, Dan Tzur, Melisa
Clements, Avalyn Lewis, Andrea De Souza, Azaret Zuniga, Margot Dawe,
Yeping Xiong, Derrick Clive, Russ Greiner, Alsu Nazyrova, Rustem
Shaykhutdinov, Liang Li, Hans J. Vogel, and Ian Forsythe “HMDB: a
knowledgebase for the human metabolome”, Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, 37,
Database issue D603–D610. DOI:10.1142/S1088424603000367
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16) By Fenniri, Hicham; Tikhomirov, Grigory A.; Brouwer, Darren H.; Bouatra,
Souhaila; El Bakkari, Mounir; Yan, Zhimin; Cho, Jae-Young; Yamazaki, Takeshi
“High Field Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Investigation of 15N-Labeled
Rosette Nanotubes: Hydrogen Bond Network and Channel-Bound Water”,
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2016), 138(19), 6115-6118.
DOI:10.1021/jacs.6b02420
17) Nathalie Solladié, Farid Aziat, Souhaila Bouatra, Régis Rein “Bis-porphyrins
Tweezers: Rigid or flexible linkers for better adjustment of the cavity to bidentate
bases of various siz”, Journal of Porphyrins and Phtalocyanines. 2008, 12,
1232-1241. DOI:10.1142/S1088424608000637
18) Nathalie Solladié, Souhaila Bouatra, Sonja Merkas Régis Rein and Jérôme
Roeser “Influence of the spacer in bis-porphyrinic tweezers on the association
constant for host/guest complexes”, Journal of Porphyrins and Phtalocyanines,
2005, 9, 779-787. DOI:10.1142/S1088424608000637
19) Nathalie Solladié, Nicolas Aubert, Souhaila Bouatra, Cyril Bourgogne,
Frédérique Bregier, Julie Brettar, Jean-Paul Gisselbrecht, Maurice Gross, Régis
Rein, Chloé Sooambar, Vincent Troiani, Mathieu Walther “Structure-reactivity
correlations in extended multi-porphyrinic architecture”, Journal of Porphyrins

Training

  • 10/2007 - 10/2009 Postdoctoral fellow in Biofluids Group, Pan-Alberta Metabolomics Platform (PANAMP) Biological Sciences, University of Alberta under the supervision of Prof. David WISHART Title: Operation of HPLC, GC-MS and NMR; Extraction and Purification of Metabolites from Biological Samples
  • 03/2007 - 09/2007 Postdoctoral fellow in Supramolecular Nanoscale Assembly Group NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology under the supervision of Prof. Hicham FENNIRI, University of Alberta Title: the Synthesis of Peptide-Functionalized and/or 15N-Labeled Nanotubes for Characterization by High Field NMR Spectroscopy
  • 03/2003 - 10/2006 Ph.D in Organic Chemistry, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC), Université Paul Sabatier under the supervision of Dr.Nathalie SOLLADIE Title: Elaboration of Bis-Porphyrinic Tweezers bearing Nucleosidic Linkers for Molecular Recognition
  • 02/2002- 06/2002 Master in the Laboratory of Catalysis in Organic Chemistry under, Ecole Superieur d'Ingénieur de Poitiers (ESIP), University of Poitiers under the supervision of Prof. Joel BARRAULT and Dr. Yannick POUILLOUX Title: Synthesis of Sterols Esters in the presence of Basic Solid Catalysts

Ph.D, Chemistry

  • Metabolomic studies using GC-MS, LC-MS and NMR
  • Lipidomics for biofluids and plant materials
  • Quantitative analysis of metabolites for biofluids and plant materials
  • Data entry for The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
  • Writing Standards Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • Labeling of metabolites by using fluorescent reagents using HPLC/FID
  • Molecular and supramolecular chemistry
  • Porphyrin synthesis, photochemistry studies, coordination chemistry
  • Multistep-organic synthesis, catalysis
  • Synthesis of isotopes nanotubes

Timeline

Secondary School Teacher

Edmonton Public School Division
09.2019 - Current

Analytical Chemist

Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
08.2008 - 12.2013

Postdoctoral fellow

Biofluids Group, Pan-Alberta Metabolomics Platform (PANAMP) Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
10.2007 - 09.2011

Postdoctoral fellow

Supramolecular Nanoscale Assembly, NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), University of Alberta
03.2007 - 09.2007

Master Degree - Applied Chemistry; Organic Chemistry, Catalysis and Environment

University of Poitiers

Bachelor Degree - license es-science

University Chouaib Doukkali

Permanent Teaching Certificate

Minister of Education And Childcare

Bachelor of Education After Degree - Secondary Education

Campus Saint Jean

Ph.D - Organic Chemistry

Université Paul Sabatier
Souhaila Bouatra