Publications


• Hammoudi V (2025). How network science could revolutionize the pandemic vaccination strategies. Personal project for the “Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness” 2024/2025 course orgnized by Bluedot Impact (1st prize for “Best Qualitative Research Project”). Link. 


• Hammoudi V*, Goldbecker E, Herbst J, von Schaewen A, Linnenbrügger A and Kunze R (2024) SPPiDDRs: a new gene family in dicot plants involved in DNA-Damage Response. bioRxiv 2023.12.20.568739 – Invited to resubmit with modifications to Nature Communications (*: corresponding author). Link


• Hammoudi V (95%) & Kunze R (5%). New inducible systems for the production of recombinant proteins in plants. Patent filed by Freie Universität Berlin (WO/2025/109213). Link


• Hammoudi V (2023). Le pouvoir des plantes. Humensciences (EAN: 9791040300151) . Link



• Hammoudi V* and Bittner N. Identification of new transcriptional hubs in DNA-Damage Response in plants using Gene Co-expression Network. Manuscript in preparation (*: corresponding author).


• Vegesna N, Palos K, Kunze R, Nelson ADL, Law JA and Hammoudi V*. SOG1 directly targets lncRNA in Response to DNA damage. Manuscript in preparation (*: corresponding author).


• Hammoudi V, Beerens B, Jonker MJ, Helderman TA ,  Vlachakis G, Giesbers M, Kwaaitaal M, van den Burg HA (2021). The protein modifier SUMO is critical for Arabidopsis shoot meristem maintenance at warmer ambient temperatures, Journal of Experimental Botany doi: 10.1093/jxb/erab262. Link


• Hammoudi V (2021). Oxidative stress is H2O2 under the bridge without MED8. The Plant Cell 33(6) 1855–1856. Link


• Hammoudi V (2021). DNA-Damage Response priming by CK2: a matter of life or cell death in root apical meristems. The Plant Cell. 33(4) 1099–1100. Link


• Hammoudi V (2021). The art of passing unnoticed: pathogenic fungi remain incognito thanks to EWCA effectors. The Plant Cell. 33(4) 1097–1098. Link


• Hammoudi V (2018). Growth or defence: how plants regulate this choice. Amsterdam Science Magazine (Issue 7, Page 7). Link


• Hammoudi V, Fokkens L, Beerens B, Vlachakis G, Chatterjee S, Arroyo-Mateos MA, Wackers PFK, Jonker MJ and van den Burg HA (2018). The Arabidopsis SUMO E3 ligase SIZ1 mediates the temperature dependent trade-off between plant immunity and growth. PLoS Genet. 14(1): e1007157. Link


• Hammoudi V, Vlachakis G, de Jong R, Breit T and Van den Burg HA (2017). Genetic characterization of T-DNA insertions in the genome of the Arabidopsis thaliana sumo1/2 knock-down line. Plant Signaling & Behaviour. 12(3):e1293216. Link


• Hammoudi V (2016). Sumoylation in Arabidopsis : stress response, signaling & evolution. PhD thesis ISBN 9789402802764. Link


• Hammoudi V, Vlachakis G, Jillings S, Chatterjee S and van den Burg HA (2016) Arabidopsis SUMO3 conjugation evolves away from the SUMO E3 ligase SIZ1 conjugation pathway. ISBN 9789402802764 (published as a chapter of PhD thesis – did not go through a peer review process). Link


• Hammoudi V, Vlachakis G, Schranz E and Van den Burg HA (2016). Whole-genome duplications followed by tandem-duplications act as driver for SUMO paralog evolution in Angiosperms. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.13911. Link


• Dahan J*, Hammoudi V*, Wendehenne D, Bourque S. (2011). Type 2 histone deacetylases play a major role in control of elicitor-induced cell death in tobacco. Plant Signal Behavior. 6(11):1865-7. Link


• Bourque S, Dutartre A, Hammoudi V, Blanc S, Dahan J, Jeandroz S, Pichereaux C, Rossignol M, Wendehenne D. (2010). Type-2 histone deacetylases as new regulators of elicitor-induced cell death in plants. New Phytologist. 192(1): 127-39. Link