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Shady Amin, Associate Program Head for Undergraduate Studies of Biology; Associate Professor of Biology; Global Network Associate Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sa132@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara; MA Chemistry, San Diego State University; ...

Research Interests: Chemical Ecology, Biological Oceanography, Marine Biology, Symbiosis

Stéphane Boissinot, Professor of Biology; Global Network Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sb5272@nyu.edu
Education: BS and PhD Université Montpellier II

Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology

Dipesh Chaudhury, Associate Professor of Biology; Global Network Assistant Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dc151@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of London, School of Pharmacy; PhD Open University

Research Interests: Neural Circuits, Mood Disorders, Memory Loss

Amandine Cornille, Associate Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amandine.cornille@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université Paris Sud

Research Interests: Global changes, climate change, parasite outbreak, ecology, domestication, population genomics, epig...

Kirsten Sadler Edepli, Professor of Biology; Global Network Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kirsten.edepli@nyu.edu
Education: BA Mount Holyoke College (Biology and Anthropology); M Med Sci Harvard Medical School; PhD Harvard U...

Research Interests: Liver Regeneration, Epigenetics, ER Stress, Cancer, Fatty Liver, Zebrafish, Mice

Youssef Idaghdour, Associate Professor of Biology; Global Network Associate Professor of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: youssef.idaghdour@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Biology from Ibn Zohr in Agadir; MSc, University of Leicester; PhD, North Carolina State Un...

Research Interests: Population and Medical Genomics, Gene-environment Interactions

Aashish Jha, Assistant Professor of Biology; Global Network Assistant Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jhaar@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of California Berkeley, PhD The University of Chicago

Research Interests: Population Genetics, Microbiome, Metagenomics, ELSI, Heritage, Genomics

Ken-ichiro Kamei, Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Biology and Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kk4801@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Tokyo Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Stem Cell Biology; Organs-on-a-Chip; Nano/microtechnology; Drug discovery; Regenerative medicine

Dan Ohtan Wang, Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ok2108@nyu.edu
Education: BA Tokyo Institute of Technology; PhD University of Southern California

Research Interests: Synaptic organization; RNA biology; Post-transcriptional regulation

Piergiorgio Percipalle, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs; Program Head of Biology; Professor of Biology; Global Network Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pp69@nyu.edu
Education: MSc, Molecular Genetics, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy; PhD, Molecular G...

Research Interests: Molecular Genetics, Cell Biology

Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, Associate Professor of Biology; Global Network Associate Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ksa3@nyu.edu
Education: BS, MA, San Francisco State University (Advisor: Prof. Gregory A. Antipa); PhD, Northwestern Univers...

Research Interests: Evolution, Phenotype-genotype Relations, Metabolism of Algae