Alyaa Mohamed obtained her B.Sc. in Pharmacy and Biotechnology, 2008, and her M.Sc. in Pharmacology from the German University, Cairo, in 2010. She is currently a Ph.D. student in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and works in the comparative Genomics and Genetics (CGG) Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Takashi Gojobori. Her research interests include Genome-scale metabolic modeling, Gene expression analysis, Constraint-based modeling.