Dr Basem Al-Shayeb
Researcher at the University of California at Berkeley
Dr Basem Al-Shayeb
Dr Basem Al-Shayeb
About
Al-Shayeb is a researcher in Doudna Lab at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a PhD in microbiology from the University of California at Berkeley.
Current research
Al-Shayeb is furthering the discovery of novel biological systems and their development into gene-editing technologies with an eye toward applications in human health, agriculture, and the environment.
Future research vision
Key publications

Al-Shayeb, B et al. Borgs are Giant Archaeal Extrachromosomal Elements with the Potential to Augment Methane Oxidation. Nature, 2022.

Edgar, RC et al. Petabase-Scale Sequence Alignment Catalyzes Viral Discovery. Nature, 2022.

Pausch, P* and Al-Shayeb, B* et al. CRISPR-CasΦ from Huge Phages is a Hypercompact Genome Editor. Science, 2020.

Al-Shayeb, B et al. Clades of Huge Phages from Across Earth’s Ecosystems. Nature, 2020.

Key awards

Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF).

Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, Forbes Magazine.

Fellow, Stanford-Berkeley-UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium.

Arab America’s 30 Under 30, The Arab America Foundation.

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