KAUST-SFDA First Joint International Conference
Trends in Microbiome and Digital One Health
October 30 - November 1, 2023
Executive Director, Reference Laboratories, Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), KSA
Professor, Bioscience, KAUST
Opening remarks to the conference will be given by Prof. Ian M. Young, Dean, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE).
This session will be chaired by Prof. Alexandre Rosado.
Deputy of User Programs, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Associate Professor, Food Microbiology, University of Naples Federico II (UNINA)
Professor, Marine Science Chair, Marine Science Program, KAUST
Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Associate Professor, Marine Science, KAUST
This session will be chaired by Dr. Salim Bougouffa
Professor, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, The University of Queensland, Australia
Lecturer, Discipline of Bacteriology, University of Galway, Ireland
Professor, Bioscience, KAUST
Principal Investigator and Director, Maternal and Child Health Department, Sidra Medicine, Qatar
Founder of AMR Insights, Netherlands
Professor, Medicine and Microbiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, USA
Moderator: Prof. Alexandre Rosado
Panelists: Sameera Johani, Nikos Kyrpides, Raquel Peixoto, Tanja Woyke
This session will be chaired by Prof. Stefan Arold.
Senior Research Scientist, NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Director of Genomic Technologies, University of Vermont USA, Leader Extreme Microbiome Project
Professor, Bioscience, KAUST
Associate Professor, RUSH Medical College, USA
Senior Scientist, Johnson Space Center, NASA, USA
University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil
This session will be chaired by Prof. Danesh Moradigaravand.
Chief Laboratory Researcher Expert, Antimicrobial Resistance Reference Lab, SFDA, KSA
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, KAUST
Moderator: Prof. Peiying Hong
Panelists: Suliman Alajel, Kasturi Venkateswaran, Satish Mehta, Stefan Green, and Dr. Souhaila Al Khodor.
Special documentary screening of “The Invisible Extinction: The race to save our vanishing microbiomes”
Professor, Medicine and Microbiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, USA
This session will be chaired by Prof. Daniele Daffonchio.
Adjunct Associate Professor, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (كيمارك KAIMRC)
Assistant Professor, Bioscience, KAUST
Associate Professor, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong
VP of Precision Medicine, BGI-Research
Chairman, Infectious Disease Research Department at King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (كيمارك KAIMRC), KSA
Microbiome Data Science Group Lead, Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LLNL), USA
This session will be chaired by Dr. Sulaiman Alajel.
Research Specialist, KAUST
Professor, Computer Science Director, Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center, KAUST
Research Scientist, KAUST
Automation and Workflow Lead, KAUST
Lecturer, University of Jeddah, KSA
Moderator: Salim Bougouffa
Panelists: Paulo Esteves-Verssimo, Calvin Wi Loon Ho, Danesh Moradigravand, and Mohammed Alarawi.
Founding Partner, AEON Strategy, Riyadh, KSA
Professor, Bioscience, KAUST
Executive Director, Reference Laboratories, Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), KSA