KAUST Research Conference

Advances in Metagenomics & its Applications

May 23 - 25, 2022 Building 19, Level 3

Guest Speakers

Abdulmohsen Al-Humam

Senior Laboratory Scientist, Saudi Aramco, KSA

Abdulwahab A. Al-Ghamdi

Director, KAUST Upstream Research Center, Saudi Aramco, KSA

Alexander A Gregoryan

Lab Scientist, Saudi Aramco, KSA

Ahmed M. Albarrag

Chief Officer for Public Health Laboratory Public Health Authority (PHA)

Budoor Nasser

Lab Scientist, Saudi Aramco, KSA

George Tsiamis

Associate Professor, Environmental Microbiology, University of Patras, Greece

Jeff Bowman

Assistant Professor Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego, USA

Jill Banfield

Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Manuel Ferrer

Scientific Researcher, Applied Biocatalysis, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain

Nicola Segata

Professor, Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics, University of Trento, Italy

Nikos Kyrpides

Computational Biologist Senior Scientist, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA

Sulaiman Alajel

Director of Reference Laboratory for Microbiology, Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), KSA

Sharif Hala

Team Leader, Infectious Diseases Research Department, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), KSA

Torsten Thomas

Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

Vittorio Venturi

Group Leader, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Italy

Waleed Al-Jabr

Molecular Medical Virologist, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, KSA

KAUST Speakers

Alexandre Rosado

Professor, Bioscience

Arnab Pain

Professor, Bioscience

Carlos Duarte

Distinguished Professor, Marine Science

Daniele Daffonchio

Professor, Marine Science

Nadia Farhat

Research Scientist

Peiying Hong

Associate Professor, Bioscience

Ramona Marasco

Research Scientist

Raquel Peixoto

Associate Professor, Marine Science

Stefan Arold

Professor, Bioscience

Student Speakers

Changzhi Wang

PhD Student

Francisco Guzman Vega

PhD Student

Dr. Martin Ibarra

PhD Student

Rund Tawfiq

PhD Student

Sakhaa Alsaedi

PhD Student

Tahira Jamil

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Wenkai Han

PhD Student