KAUST-SFDA First Joint International Conference

Trends in Microbiome and Digital One Health

October 30 - November 1, 2023

Guest Speakers

Alaa Ali

Postdoctoral Researcher, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA

Calvin Wai-Loon Ho

Associate Professor, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, University of Hong Kong

Dalal Alkuraythi

Lecturer, University of Jeddah, KSA

Francesca De Filippis

Associate Professor, Food Microbiology, University of Naples Federico II (UNINA)

Georgios Miliotis

Lecturer, Discipline of Bacteriology, University of Galway, Ireland

HH Princess Mashael bint Saud Al-Shalan

Founding Partner, AEON Strategy, Riyadh, KSA

Kasthuri Venkateswaran

Senior Research Scientist, NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Lenah Mukhtar

Chief Laboratory Researcher Expert, Antimicrobial Resistance Reference Lab, SFDA, KSA

Maarten Van Dongen

Founder of AMR Insights, Netherlands

Majed Alghoribi

Chairman, Infectious Disease Research Department at King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (كيمارك KAIMRC), KSA

Marcus de Melo Teixeira

University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil

Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, USA

Martin Blaser

Professor, Medicine and Microbiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA

Nikos Kyrpides

Microbiome Data Science Group Lead, Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LLNL), USA

Niranjan Nagarajan

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore

Phil Hugenholtz

Professor, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, The University of Queensland, Australia

Sameera Mohamed Johani

Adjunct Associate Professor, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (كيمارك KAIMRC)

Satish K Mehta

Senior Scientist, Johnson Space Center, NASA, USA

Scott Tighe

Director of Genomic Technologies, University of Vermont USA, Leader Extreme Microbiome Project

Shi-Da Zhu

VP of Precision Medicine, BGI-Research

Souhaila Al Khodor

Principal Investigator and Director, Maternal and Child Health Department, Sidra Medicine, Qatar

Stefan Green

Associate Professor, RUSH Medical College, USA

Sulaiman Alajel

Executive Director, Reference Laboratories, Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), KSA

Sunil Mundra

Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Tanja Woyke

Deputy of User Programs, DOE Joint Genome Institute

KAUST Speakers

Alexandre Rosado

Professor, Bioscience, KAUST

Arnab Pain

Professor, Bioscience, KAUST

Danesh Moradigaravand

Assistant Professor, Bioscience, KAUST

Daniele Daffonchio

Professor, Marine Science Chair, Marine Science Program, KAUST

Di Wang

Assistant Professor, Computer Science, KAUST

Hassan Alzahrani

Automation and Workflow Lead, KAUST

Maxat Kulmanov

Research Scientist, KAUST

Mohammed Alarawi

Research Specialist, KAUST

Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo

Professor, Computer Science Director, Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center, KAUST

Peiying Hong

Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, KAUST

Raquel Peixoto

Associate Professor, Marine Science, KAUST