Jerome Jourquin earned a Master in Cell Biology and Physiology from the University of Paris, France in 1997. His following graduate studies led to a Ph.D. in Neurosciences in 2003 from the University of Aix-Marseilles, France. Then, Jerome moved to Nashville, and has since been employed in the Department of Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt as a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Vito Quaranta (Vanderbilt Integrative Cancer Biology Center, VICBC). He has joined the MS/PhD Program in the Department of Biomedical Informatics as a part-time MS student in the fall 2007. As a biologist, Jerome's research interests include development/validation of mathematical models of breast cancer invasion (VICBC), and data analysis of microscopy data (BioSig).

Professional Memberships:

• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), since 2008
• American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), since 2008
• American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), since 2007
• American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB), since 2006

Awards:

• Travel Award to attend the 12th international meeting of the Society of Differentiation, 2002
• FENS travel award to attend the 3rd international meeting of the Society, 2002
• Travel fellowship from University at Paris XI for 6-month research in Buffalo, NY, 2001
• French government fellowship for PhD program, 1999-2002

• Chaillan FA, Rivera S, Marchetti E, Jourquin J, Werb Z, Soloway PD, Khrestchatisky M, Roman FS,Involvement of tissue inhibition of metalloproteinases-1 in learning and memory in mice, Behav Brain Res. 2006 Oct 16;173(2):191-8.
• Jourquin J, Yang N, Kam Y, Guess C, Quaranta V, Dispersal of Epithelial Cancer Cell Colonies by lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), J Cell Physiol, 2006 Feb;206(2):337-46.
• Jourquin J, Tremblay E, Bernard A, Charton G, Chaillan FA, Marchetti E, Roman FS, Soloway PD, Dive V, Yiotakis A, Khrestchatisky M, Rivera S, Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1) modulates neuronal death, axonal plasticity, and learning and memory, Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Nov;22(10):2569-78.
• Rivera S, Jourquin J, Ogier C, Charton G, Tremblay E et Khrestchatisky M, Médecine-Sciences, The MMP/TIMP system in the physiopathology of the nervous system, review in French, 2004, 20, 55-60.
• Khrestchatisky M, Jourquin J, Ogier C, Charton G, Tremblay E, Rivera S, The MMP/TIMP system in the physiopathology of the nervous system, review in French, J Soc Biol. 2003;197(2):133-44.
• Jourquin J, Tremblay E, Décanis N, Hanessian S, Chollet AM, Le Diguardher T, Khrestchatisky M and Rivera S, Neuronal activity-dependent increase of net MMP activity is associated with MMP-9 neurotoxicity, Eur J Neurosci. 2003 Sep;18(6):1507-1517.
• Rivera S, Ogier C, Jourquin J, Timsit S, Szklarczyk AW, Miller K, Gearing AJ, Kaczmarek L and Khrestchatisky M., Gelatinase B and TIMP-1 are regulated in a cell- and time-dependent manner in association with neuronal death and glial reactivity after global forebrain ischemia, Eur J Neurosci. 2002 Jan;15(1):19-32.