Mohamed Emam
PhD Student at the Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (CIIMAR)
Mohamed Emam
Mohamed Emam
About
Emam is a PhD Student at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research. He holds a masters degree in bioinformatics from the Nile University.
Current research
Emam is interested in Evolutionary genomics using multi-omics integration approach, from understanding microbiome and host omics interaction to human diseases.
Future research vision
Emam would like to develop a deep learning model which will enable him to deal with the large number of SARS-CoV-2 genomes to assess signatures of adaptive evolution and simulate the ongoing selection pressure, providing us a better understanding of the virulent pathogenicity of the virus and potentially allowing the identification of promising natural drugs, such as marine biomolecules and vaccine strategy designs.
Key publications

Bhasin, SS et al. Analysis of Single Cell Transcriptomics in Paired Pediatric T-ALL Samples Collected at Diagnosis and Following End of Induction Therapy Reveals an MRD-Associated Stem Cell Signature. Blood, 2021.

Emam, M et al. Positive Selection as a Key Player for SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenicity: Insights into ORF1ab, S and E genes. Virus Research Journal, 2021.

Emam, M et al. Evolutionary Genomics of Mammalian Lung Cancer Genes Reveals Signatures of Positive Selection in APC, RB1 and TP53. Genomics, 2020.

Emam, M et al. Detection of Mammalian Coding Sequences Using a Hybrid Approach of Chaos Game Representation and Machine Learning. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2020.

Key awards

PhD Scholarship, La Caixa Foundation.

Best Oral Presentation, Youth Empowerment in Science.

Best Scientific Poster, Human Genome and Genetic Conference.

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