I received my PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Lille, France in 2012, where I studied the nutrient-sensing O-GlcNAcylation in colorectal cancer development. After completing my degree, I completed a post-doctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, where I worked on different aspects of O-GlcNAcylation during development, including X-inactivation of the O-GlcNAc Transferase gene, O-GlcNAcase function in mouse KO models and the impact of sugar and artificial sweeteners consumption during pregnancy on the development of metabolic homeostasis. I established my lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2019 at the crossroads of sweeteners, pregnancy, development, and metabolism. Notably, my lab has developed several mouse models for studying O-GlcNAcylation and created the O-GlcNAc database, the reference catalog of O-GlcNAcylated proteins for all species. Some of the current lab projects include studies of (i) O-GlcNAcylation in the pathophysiology of the pituitary gland, (ii) O-GlcNAc transferase’s function in the sexual dimorphism of Gestational Diabetes, and (iii) artificial sweeteners’ impact on detoxification transporters.