Epernicus: Ahmed Moustafa, Ph.D.

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Ahmed Moustafa, Ph.D.

Positions:
Assistant Professor

Biology

Genomics and Bioinformatics

American University in Cairo

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Microbial and Environmental Genomics

The J. Craig Venter Institute (Rockville, MD)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Genetics, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)

B.S., Computer Science, Alexandria University (Alexandria, Egypt)
Past Advisors:

Debashish Bhattacharya (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:

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Ahmed Moustafa's Publications (13)

Sea slug kleptoplasty and plastid maintenance in a metazoan.
Pelletreau KN, Bhattacharya D, Price DC, Worful JM, Moustafa A, Rumpho ME

Plant physiology. 2011 Apr;155(4):1561-5
The making of a photosynthetic animal.
Rumpho ME, Pelletreau KN, Moustafa A, Bhattacharya D

The Journal of experimental biology. 2011 Jan 15;214(Pt 2):303-11
Differential gene retention in plastids of common recent origin.
Reyes-Prieto A, Yoon HS, Moustafa A, Yang EC, Andersen RA, Boo SM, Nakayama T, Ishida KI, Bhattacharya D

Molecular biology and evolution. 2010 Feb 1
iTree: A high-throughput phylogenomic pipeline
Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya, Andrew E Allen

Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC), 2010 5th Cairo International. 2010
Transcriptome profiling of a toxic dinoflagellate reveals a gene-rich protist and a potential impact on gene expression due to bacterial presence.
Moustafa A, Evans AN, Kulis DM, Hackett JD, Erdner DL, Anderson DM, Bhattacharya D

PloS one. 2010;5(3):e9688
Genomic footprints of a cryptic plastid endosymbiosis in diatoms.
Moustafa A, Beszteri B, Maier UG, Bowler C, Valentin K, Bhattacharya D

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2009 Jun 26;324(5935):1724-6
Origin of saxitoxin biosynthetic genes in cyanobacteria.
Moustafa A, Loram JE, Hackett JD, Anderson DM, Plumley FG, Bhattacharya D

PloS one. 2009;4(6):e5758
Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica.
Rumpho ME, Worful JM, Lee J, Kannan K, Tyler MS, Bhattacharya D, Moustafa A, Manhart JR

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Nov 18;105(46):17867-71
Multiple genes of apparent algal origin suggest ciliates may once have been photosynthetic.
Reyes-Prieto A, Moustafa A, Bhattacharya D

Current biology : CB. 2008 Jul 8;18(13):956-62
A phylogenomic approach for studying plastid endosymbiosis.
Moustafa A, Chan CX, Danforth M, Zear D, Ahmed H, Jadhav N, Savage T, Bhattacharya D

Genome informatics. International Conference on Genome Informatics. 2008;21:165-76
Chlamydiae has contributed at least 55 genes to Plantae with predominantly plastid functions.
Moustafa A, Reyes-Prieto A, Bhattacharya D

PloS one. 2008;3(5):e2205
EST analysis of Ostreococcus lucimarinus, the most compact eukaryotic genome, shows an excess of introns in highly expressed genes.
Lanier W, Moustafa A, Bhattacharya D, Comeron JM

PloS one. 2008;3(5):e2171
PhyloSort: a user-friendly phylogenetic sorting tool and its application to estimating the cyanobacterial contribution to the nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas.
Moustafa A, Bhattacharya D

BMC evolutionary biology. 2008;8:6

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Primary and secondary endosymbiosis events and the evolution of photosynthesis in eukaryotes

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