Events

February 24, 2022
Professor Marco Sandri, University of Padua, Italy
Mitochondria Network as a Central Hub in the Control of Proteostasis

February 28, 2022 
Post-doctoral Series
Dr. Dareen Almojli, Evolutionary Genomics Lab, NYUAD
Population Genomics of the Allotetraploid African Clawed Frog X. Laevis from South Africa

Dr. Priyam Narain, Chaudhury Lab, NYUAD
Mechanisms Underlying Rhythmic Excitability in Mammalian Clock Neurons

March 3, 2022
Professor Khalil Ramadi, NYUAD
Speaking to the Brain through Inorganic Interfaces

March 10, 2022
Dr. Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, IFOM, The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
Cellular Senescence in Aging: Telomere Biology Offers Novel Opportunities for Interventions

March 24, 2022
Professor Adrian Marchetti, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA
Shedding Light on the Phytoplankton Response to Ocean Upwelling Dynamics

March 28, 2022
Post-doctoral Series
Dr. Tiago Capote, Genetic Heritage Group, NYUAD
Date Palm and Wild-relatives Genome Sequencing: Towards Evolutionary Comparative Genomics in the Phoenix Genus

Dr. Ahmed Shibl, Marine Microbial Ecology Lab, NYUAD

May 12, 2022
Professor Jillian Banfield, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Unusual, Large and Alternatively Coded Phages, Obligate Symbionts and Other Intriguing Members of Human Microbiomes

Monday, September 20, 2021
Dr. Terry Harrison, Silver Professor, NYU
Human Evolution and the Importance of Paleoecology

Monday, September 27, 2021
Dr. Niti Dhutia, Visiting Assistant Professor, NYUAD
“Would you Like a Free Cardiac Assessment with your Cappuccino?”: Rapid, Reliable, Automated Quantification of EssentialCardiac Measurements

Thursday, September 30, 2021
Post-doctoral Series
Dr. Ashutosh Rastogi, Chaudhury Lab, NYUAD
Misalignment of Circadian Clock in the Mouse Model of Stress

Dr. Sebastian Kirchhof, Boissinot Lab, NYUAD
Adaptive Evolution in a Group of Mountain Frogs

Monday, October 4, 2021
Professor Luca Pagani, The University of Padua, Italy
West Eurasian Genomic Layers: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

Monday, October 11, 2021
Dr Joseph Azar, Reneco International Wildlife Consultants, LLC, UAE
Carryover Effect of Migration on Asian Houbara Breeding Performances in Central Asia

Monday, October 25, 2021
Professor Sanjairaj Vijayavenkataraman, NYUAD
3D Printing and Bioprinting for Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Drug Testing, and Medical Devices

Thursday, October 28, 2021
Post-doctoral Series
Dr. Anjana Ramdas Nair, Kirsten Sadler Edepli Lab, NYUAD
A Permissive Epigenetic Landscape Facilitates Distinct Transcriptional Signatures of Atf6 in the Liver

Dr. Carly Moreno, Shady Amin Lab, NYUAD
Molecularphysiology of Antarctic Diatom Natural Assemblages Reveal Multiple Strategies Contributing to their Ecological Success

Monday, November 1, 2021
Dr. Thierry Hoareau, Reneco International Wildlife Consultants LLC, UAE
Genetics in Conservation: A Case Study of the Houbara Bustard

Monday, November 15, 2021
Professor Janelle Thompson, Nanyang Technological University, USA
Wastewater-based Surveillance for COVID-19, and Beyond

Monday, November 22, 2021
Professor Marco Mangone, Arizona State University, USA
miRNAs and Alternative Polyadenylation

Monday, November 29, 2021
Post-doctoral Series
Dr. Nadine Hosny El Said, Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, NYUAD
Mechanisms of Chromatin Regulation during Differentiation

Dr. Daniele D'Agostino, Marine Biology Lab, NYUAD
Phenotypic Responses of Coral Reef Fishes to the Gulf’s Extreme Environment

Monday, February 8, 2021
Dr. Noa Shenkar, Tel Aviv University, Israel
When the Sea Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade!

Monday, February 15, 2021
Dr. Moni Nader, Khalifa University, UAE
The STRN/Cav-3/CaM Complex in Cardiomyocyte Contraction and Cardiac Hypertrophy

Monday, February 22, 2021
Post-doctoral Series
Dr. David Nelson, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, NYUAD
AlgalCODE: Opening the Pandora’s Box of Microalgal Genomics

Dr. Bhavani Madakashira Pranesh, Sadler Edepli Lab, NYUAD
Uhrf1 Loss Restricts Organ Expansion during Zebrafish Development

Monday, March 1, 2021
Dr. Sumeet Pal Singh, MISU Fellow, IRIBHM ULB, Belgium
Diversity in Endocrine Communities

Monday, March 8, 2021
Dr. Arnab Barik, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Supraspinal Circuits in Nocifensive Behaviors

Monday, March 22, 2021
Dr. Jorge Rodriguez, Khalifa University UAE
Microbial Prospecting from Pathway Modelling and Bioenergetics

Monday, March 29, 2021
Dr. Reem Khalil, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Development of Visual Cortical Circuits in Ferrets

Monday, April 12, 2021
Dr. Thulani Makhalanyane, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Disentangling Microbial Ecology and Functional Processes in Hyperarid Deserts

Monday, April 19, 2021
Dr. Hiroki Ueda, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
Systems Biology of Mammalian Sleep/Wake Cycles

Monday, April 26, 2021
Instructors of Biology, NYUAD, UAE
Ashley Isaac, NYUAD
Ecological Niches of Algal Bloom Associated Roseobacters
Mona Kalmouni, NYUAD
pH-Responsive Nanocarriers for Therapy

Monday, May 3, 2021
Professor Daniel Sher, University of Haifa, Israel
Mortality – and Survival through Microbial Interactions - in Abundant Marine Cyanobacteria

Monday, May 10, 2021
PhD Student Seminars
Wael Said Abdrabou, NYUAD
Metabolome Modulation of the Host Adaptive Immunity in Human Malaria
Raza Mahmood, NYUAD
Understanding the Role of β-actin in Genome Organization
Patrice Delaney, NYUAD
Novel Insights into Arsenite Methyltransferase Activity

Monday, October 5, 2020
Professor Timothy Dore, Associate Professor of Chemistry, NYUAD, UAE
Ras Converting Enzyme (Rce1) and Other Adventures in Target-Based Discovery

Monday, October 12, 2020
Professor Kartik Sreenivasan, NYUAD, UAE
Towards a Distributed Component Model of Human Working Memory

Monday, October 19, 2020
Dr. Maryam R. Al Shehhi, Khalifa University, UAE
Identifying Algal-bloom ‘Hotspots’ in the Indian Ocean

Monday, October 26, 2020
Dr. Yassir T Makkawi, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Potentials of Waste-to-Energy in the UAE

Monday, November 2, 2020
Professor Mohammed Uddin, Mohammed Bin Rashid University Of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE
Single Cell OMICs and Their Role in Neurological Diseases

Monday, November 16, 2020
Post-doctoral Seminar Series
Dr Diana Charles El Assal, Laboratory of Algal, Synthetic, and Systems Biology, NYUAD
Repurposing Drugs to Treat COVID-19 by Reversing the Metabolic Phenotype in Computational Models of SARS-CoV2 Infected Cell Lines
Dr. Sandra Goutte, Evolutionary Genomics Lab, NYUAD
Coloring Inside the Lines: The Genomic Architecture of Stripe Polymorphism in Frogs

Monday, November 23, 2020
Professor Lijian Hui, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China
Cell Plasticity and Liver Regeneration

Monday, November 30, 2020
NYUAD Post-doctoral Seminar Series
Elena Magnani, Sadler Edepli Lab, NYUAD
UHRF1 Overexpression Causes Liver Cancer Through Senescence Escape
Bushra Saeed Dohai, Laboratory of Algal, Synthetic, and Systems Biology, NYUAD
Combinatorial Drug Repositioning Predictions to Rescue SARS-CoV2 Infected Cells

Monday, December 7, 2020
Professor Rafael Song, NYUAD, UAE
Biophysical Phenotyping of C. elegans in a Microfluidic Chip

Monday, December 14, 2020
Post-doctoral Seminar Series
Dr. Matthew Mitchell, Marine Biology Lab, NYUAD
Swimming in Hot Water. How do Fish Cope with Living on the World's Hottest Coral Reefs?
Dr. Palanikumar Loganathan, Magzoub Lab, NYUAD
pH Sensitive Peptide Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Targeted Photodynamic and Photothermal Cancer Therapy