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Fathima Shaffra Mohammed Refai
Research Associate
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BSc National University of Singapore; MSc Uppsala University Sweden
Research Areas: C. elegans; Antihelminths; Bacillus thuringienses; Screening
Fathima Shaffra Mohammed Refai is a part of the Centre for Genomics and Systems Biology at NYUAD. She has a Master’s degree from Uppsala University, Sweden, and joined NYUAD as a Research Associate in 2013. She works in Kris Gunsalus lab on several research projects, one of them being discovering novel anthelmintics and their possible targets using the free-living soil nematode C. elegans as a model organism.
Research
She is currently working on the following:
- High throughput chemical genomics in C. elegans to screen for novel anthelmintics and their targets.
- Characterization of microbial crystals from Bacillus thuringiensis in an attempt to find new biopesticides.