DJAMILA LEKHAL-ALI HAIMOUD
Deputy Director of Research & Research Professor
Research department
Animal Sciences and Livestock Systems Department
Laboratories / platforms
Living Lab. Dairy cows & Poultry
Areas of Research / Development / Consulting
- Understanding and controlling gut microbiomes
- Rethinking food and nutrition strategies
Identifiers:
ORCID: 0000-0002-0770-4559
IDHAL: djamila-alihaimoud-lekhal
Responsibility
- Since 2025: In charge of corporate relations at the University of Toulouse
- Since 2024: Assistant Research Manager
Training
- Agricultural engineer specializing in animal science
- PhD in dairy cow nutrition
Professional experience
- Since 2023: Project Manager with the Purpan General Management “Promoting research to companies”
- 2017–2020: Director of the Animal, Agri-Food, Nutrition and Health Sciences Department
- 2008–2017: Director of the Agronomy and Agri-Food Sciences Department
- 2015–2017: Scientific coordinator of the “Agricultural Production Systems” research team
- 2008–2012: Scientific coordinator of the “Regional Produce, Livestock and Product Quality” research team
- 2002–2008: Fifth year academic advisor and pre-professional advising
- Since 1996: Scientific project manager for dairy cow trials on the Lamothe campus
Publications
- A. Zened, C. Julien, L. Cauquil, G. Pascal, C. Canlet, M. Tremblay-Franco, D. Ali-Haimoud-
- Lekhal, F. Enjalbert, C. Bayourthe, and S. Combes. 2024. Milk replacer feeding once or twice a day did not change the ruminal metabolomic profile and the microbial diversity of dairy calves from birth to weaning. Journal of Dairy Science DOI:https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2023-24327.
- ZIßLER E., MARTHOLD D., PIRON A., ALI HAIMOUD-LEKHAL D, SCHEIDEMANN C. 2023.
- Evaluierung eines Vorhersagemodells zur Wirkung von Saccharomyces cerevisiae I-1077 auf die Milchleistung von Milchkühen. BOKU, February 29, Vienna Austria.
- COUVREUR S., PETIT T. Le GUEN R., BEN ARFA N, JACQUERIE V., SIGWALT A., ALI HAIMOUD-LEKHAL D., CHAIB K., DEFOIS J., MARTEL G. 2019. Déterminants techniques et sociologiques du maintien des prairies dans les élevages laitiers de plaine. INRA Productions Animales, 32 (3), 399-416.
- YVON S., SCHWEBEL L., BELAHCEN L., TORMO H., PETER M., ALI HAIMOUD-LEKHAL D., EUTAMENE H., JARD G. 2019. Effects of thermized donkey milk with lysozyme activity on altered gut barrier in mice exposed to water avoidance stress. Journal of Dairy Science, 102 (9), 7697–7706
- ZENED A., SAUZET C., BAYOURTHE C., PASCAL G., CAUQUIL FOUCRAS G., ALI HAIMOUD-LEKHAL D. 2017. Whole milk versus milk replacer in preweaning: Effects on gut microbiota of dairy calves. 6th Beneficial Microbes Conference, Amsterdam (October 9–11), the Netherlands.
UMR (Joint Research Unit)
UMR INRAE(National Agricultural, Food and Environment Research Institute)GenPySe (Genetics, Physiology and Breeding Systems)