Laboratory of Algal, Synthetic, and Systems Biology
Research group of Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani at New York University Abu Dhabi
Research group of Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani at New York University Abu Dhabi
Invited talks, Keynote talks, Oral presentations & Poster presentations etc.
- Dr. Weiqi Fu has given an invited talk at 8th East Lake International Forum for Outstanding Young Scholars (Dec. 25th - 28th, 2019); Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. (title: "Microalgae resourcization: From carbon biofixation to blue biotechnology").
- Prof. Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani has given an invited talk at National University of Singapore Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI), Singapore, Singapore, Oct 11-12, 2019 (title: Synthetic biology-enabled future in Asia – Opportunities and Challenges in West Asia).
- Dr. Weiqi Fu has given an invited talk at "International Forum on Engineering Science (15th – 18th March, 2019)", Peking University, Beijing, China. (title" Biofixing CO2 by microalgae and maximizing resource utilization through photosynthesis enhancement).
- Dr. Alexandra Mystikou has given conference talk at "GP-write & Sc2.0 Meeting - Trainee Workshop, New York, USA, November 11-14, 2019".
(title: Development of a CRISPR-mediated methodology to re-write microalgal genomes).
- Dr. David R. Nelson has given an Invited lecture on "The algallCODE project" to the members of Joint Genome Institute (JGI, Department Of Energy (DOE)) and extended community from Berkeley on June 27th 2019; Walnut Creek, CA, USA.
- Dr. David R. Nelson has given an Oral presentation about "The algallCODE project titled "100+ genomes show the influence of salt and viruses on microalgal evolution" at The 9th International Congress on Algal Biomass, Biofuels, and Bioproducts Meeting [June 16th-June 19th, 2019] in Boulder, CO, USA.
- American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Feb 3, 2019 (title: Genomes and metabolomes of coastal UAE microalgae), workshop talk.(Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani)
- Multi-omics analysis of glycosylation and immuno-modulatory glycan epitopes in Brugia malayi : A model for filarial parasites, 3rd NYC parasitology meeting, Hunter College, NY.USA. December 3rd, 2018, (Joseph Koussa).
- A synthetic-systems approach to the host-parasite interface: immunomodulation by parasitic nematodes. Integrating Systems Biology: From Networks to Mechanisms to Models. April 15th, 2018. EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. (Joseph Koussa).
- UAEU, Khalifa Center, UAE, Nov 4, 2018 (title: Improvement of algal productivity through design-based approaches), invited symposium talk.(Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani)
- Institute for Network Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Germany, Sept. 24, 2018 (title:Algae: Algae: Genomics, systems, and synthetic biology), invited seminar. (Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani)
- Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, Aug 22, 2018 (title: Algae: Systems biology, genomics and strain engineering), Invited departmental seminar.(Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani
- 18th international conference on the cell and molecular biology of Chlamydomonas" in Washington DC, USA from 17-21st June 2018(David Nelson)
- The 8th International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels & Bioproducts, 11 - 13 June 2018 | Seattle, WA (Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani: Genomes of subtropical microalgae reveal heightened oxidation response signatures; session talk).
- The 8th International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels & Bioproducts, 11 - 13 June 2018 | Seattle, WA (Weiqi Fu: Enhancement of algal biomass productivity through intracellular spectral recompositioning of light; session talk).
- 2018 Synthetic Biology (SEED), 3-7June 2018, Scottsdale, AZ (Amphun Chaiboonchoe: Adaptive Laboratory Evolution Generates a Fast-Growing Chlamydomonas Mutant That Accumulates Lipids; session talk)
- "Desert Algae Genomics" talk given by David Nelson at BITS Pilani Dubai Campus on May 2nd 2018.
- Plant genomics and gene editing congress: Asia workshop in Bangkok, Thailand, from 26-27th March 2018(David Nelson)
- SB7.0: The seventh Internatioinal Meeting on Synthetic Biology, Singapore, June 13-16, 2017 (Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani; ISR: A design-based approach to increase photosynthetic efficiency in diatoms; session talk)
- NYU Biomedical and Biosystems Conference, Abu Dhabi, 2017(Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani: Intracellular spectral recompositioning of light: A design-based approach to increase photosynthetic efficiency in diatoms; invited talk)
- International conference on gas, oil and petroleum engineering, Las Vegas, Nov. 14-16, 2016 (Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani: Development of a Genetic Screen for Isolation of Lipid Accumulating Algae; session Chair and invited talk)
- 17th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, Kyoto, Japan, June 2016 (Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani: Iterative cycles of mutagenesis and selection generates a lipid accumulating C. reinhardtii mutant without compromising growth kinetics; oral presentation)
- May 12, 2016, Title: "Challenges and Solutions for Improving Algal Productivity" at Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. (Koursoh Salehi-Ashtiani : Invited Departmental Seminar)
- April 26th – 29th, 2016, Title:"Intracellular spectral recompositioning of Light: A novel strategy for improving photosynthetic efficiency of diatoms. at European Networks Conference on Algal and Plant Photosynthesi, Qawra, Malta. (Weiqi Fu: Invited Talk)
- April 4-7, 2016, Title: "Biomass Productivity Optimization through Synthetic Biology and Genetic Approaches", at EMN meeting on Bioenergy, Phuket, Thailand,. (Koursoh Salehi-Ashtiani : Session Chair and invited talk)
- March 16-18, 2016, Ttitle: "Genetic and Synthetic Biology Approaches for Improving Algal Productivity", at iBIO 2016, Seoul, South Korea. (Koursoh Salehi-Ashtiani : Session Chair and invited talk)
- December 13-14, 2015, The Functional Genomics Symposium; " Genome-wide transcriptomic analysis of responses to abiotic stress in the moss Physcomitrella patens by RNA-seq" at Doha, Qatar., Amphun Chaiboonchoe, Basel Khraiwesh, Enas Qudeimat, Manjula Thimma, Kenan Jijakli, Amnah Alzahmi, Marc Arnoux and Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani. (Poster)
- November 22-25, 2015, CSBio 2015 : The 6th international conference on computational systems-biology and bioinformatics, at Bangkok, Thailand.
- November 6-8, 2015, “Challenges and solutions for optimizing algal productivity”, BIT’s 5th Annual World Congress of Marine Biotechnology, Qingdao, China, (Session Chair and invited talk Keynote session Chair and invited keynote forum talk: Koursoh Salehi-Ashtiani)
- November 6-8, 2015, “Development of an integrated workflow for a rapid and comprehensive metabolic characterization of microalgae: A case study with a Chloroidium species isolated from the United Arab Emirates”, BIT’s 5th Annual World Congress of Marine Biotechnology, Qingdao, China, (Session Chair and invited talk: Koursoh Salehi-Ashtiani)
- September 10-12, 2015, "An Integrated workflow for Genome-Scale Reconstruction of Algal Metabolic Networks", D. R. Nelson, A. Jaiswal, A. Chaiboonchoe, B. Dohai, W. Fu2, M. Arnoux, K. Jijakli and K. Salehi-Ashtiani. at Conference on Phenotype MicroArray Analysis of Cells, Santa Apollonia Auditorium - via San Gallo 25/a Florence- Italy
- August, 11-13, 2015, "4th International Symposium on Energy Challenges and Mechanics (ECM4)- working on small scales", at Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
- July 09-14, 2015, "International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)" at the Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland; Ashish K Jaiswal, K. Salehi-Ashtiani
- June 10-13, 2015, "Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED)" at Boston Park Plaza
- June 10-13, 2015, "Intracellular Spectral Recompositioning of Light for Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency in the Marine Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum" Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED)" at Boston Park Plaza (Poster by: Weiqi Fu)
- June 08-12, 2015, "Modeling carbon assimilation in a species of Chloroidium isolated from the United Arab Emirates"; David R. Nelson, Marc Arnoux, Ashish Jaiswal, Amphun Chaiboonchoe, Bushra Saeed Doha, Basel Khraiwesh and Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, at The Metabolic Pathways Analysis 2015, Braga, Portugal.(Poster)
- June 08-12, 2015, "Phylogenomic signature fluidity in metabolic network of a key species with plant and animal affinities"; Amphun Chaiboonchoe, Lila Ghamsari, Bushra Dohai, Patrick Ng, Ashish Jaiswal, Kenan Jijakli, Joseph Koussa, David R. Nelson, Hong Cai, Xinping Yang, Roger L. Chang, Basel Khraiwesh, Jason Papin, Haiyuan Yu, Santhanam Balaji, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, at The Metabolic Pathways Analysis 2015, Braga, Portugal.(Poster)
- February 28 - March 01, 2015, "Genome-wide analysis of abiotic stress responses in the moss Physcomitrella patens by RNAseq" , at NYUAD Annual Research Conference, at New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Campus.(by: Basel Khraiwesh)
- February 17-19, 2015, "Evolutionary dynamics of Physcomitrella patens stress response", at Genomics and Systems Biology V Symposium, at New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Campus.(by: Basel Khraiwesh)
- February 15, 2015, "The First Annual LASSB Mini-symposium on Systems and Synthetic Biology" at Laboratory of Algal Systems and Synthetic Biology, New York University Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
- September 14-18, 2014, "Systems analysis of C. reinhardtii metabolic network", The International Conference on Systems Biology , Melbourne, Australia.(Poster)
- July 14-18, 2014, "Integrated high throughput phenotype profiling for metabolic network refinement of C. reinhardtii", The 22nd Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Boston, USA (Poster)
- June 08-13, 2014, "High Throuput Phenotyping of New Chlamydomonas Species Isolated from Musaffah, UAE and New York, USA", The 16th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California.(Poster)
- June 8, 2015, “ A rapid and integrated platform for full genomic and metabolic characterization of algae: A case study with a species of Chloroidium isolated from the UAE” The 5th International conference by Algal Biofuels and The 5th International Conference on Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts (Oral presentation: Koursoh Salehi-Ashtiani)
- June 4, 2015, "How to deal with new algae: Integrated experimental and computational approaches" at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, USA.(Invited Talk: Koursoh Salehi-Ashtiani)
- May 20-23, 2014, "Integrated metabolic-phylogenomic analyses of C. reinhardtii metabolic network" at "COBRA 2014 - 3rd Conference on Constraint-Based Reconstruction and Analysis" at Wintergreen Resort, Charlottesville, VA, USA.(Poster)
- May 07-09, 2014, Lipid accumulation phenotypes and genotypes of algae isolated in the United Arab Emirates" at The 3ed International Congress on Natural Sciences and Engineering (ICNSE 2014), Kyoto, Japan.(Oral resentation: by David Nelson)
- 2014-NYUAD Annual Research Conference:
- 2014-NYUAD Annual Research Conference: "Exploration of algal metabolism and evolution through network analysis and metabolic modeling", Bushra Saeed Dohai, Amphun Chaiboonchoe, Ashish Jaiswal, Hong Cai, David R. Nelson, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani.(Oral Presentation)
- 2014-NYUAD Annual Research Conference: "Isolation and characterization of lipid producing algal species from the United Arab Emirates", David R. Nelson, Hong Cai, Ashish Jaiswal, Rasha Abdrabu, Amphun Chaiboonchoe, Marc Arnoux, Sachin D Khapli, Ramesh Jagannathan, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani. (Oral Presentation)
- 2014-NYUAD Annual Research Conference:"Phenotype Microarray Profiling of Microalgae: Establishing the Missing Links between Genomics and Metabolomics", Hong Cai, Amphun Chaiboonchoe, Kelly Dougherty, Ashish Jaiswal, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani.(Oral Presentation)
- 2014-NYUAD Annual Research Conference: "Mussaffah v. New York: A high throughput phenotype-genotype study to explore adaptive evolution in green algae", Kelly Dougherty (Senior, Biology), Hong Cai, Amphun Chiaboonchoe, Ashish Jaiswal, Tayebeh Bahmani, Rasha AbdRabu, Kamela Al Qubaisi, Marc Arnoux, Sachin D Khapli, Ramesh Jagannathan, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani. (Oral Presentation)
- January 15, 2014, NYUAD Biology Seminar, "Putting it all together: using interactome networks to understand evolution and human disease" by Haiyuan Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-7202
In media
- theguardian 29 Sep 2017
- The National 21 Aug 2017
- Gulf News 21 Aug 2017
- Khaleej Times 21 Aug 2017
- Abu Dhabi students' mosquito-killing device earns international prize
- Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani interview at DubaiMdia TV Channel
- TheNational News paper Sunday 19 Aug 2012
- Gulf News.com 03 Feb 2012
- natureMiddle East 14 Sep 2011
- Biorefining magazine 17 Aug 2011
- TheNational news paper 14 Aug 2011
- Science 12 Aug 2011
- New Enery and Fuel 10 Aug 2011
- BiofulesDigest 05 Aug 2011
- BIODIESEL MAGAZINE
- Algae Industry Magazine.com
- Al Khaleej.ae
