Nojood A. Aalismail

Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected Publications

  • Aalismail, N.A., Díaz-Rúa, R., Geraldi, N. et al. Diversity and Sources of Airborne Eukaryotic Communities (AEC) in the Global Dust Belt over the Red Sea. Earth Syst Environ (2021).https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-021-00219-4
  • Cziesielski, M., Duarte, C.M., Aalismail, N.A., et al. (2020). Investing in Blue Natural Capital to secure a future for the Red Sea ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science.
  • Alam, I., Aalismail, N.A., Martin, C., Kamau, A., Guzmán-Vega, F.J., Jamil, T., Momin, A.A., Acinas, S., Gasol, J.M., Arold, S.T., Gojobori, T., Agusti, S., Duarte, C.M. (2020). Rapid Evolution of Plastic- degrading Enzymes Prevalent in the Global Ocean.
  • Aalismail, N.A., Díaz-Rúa, R., Ngugi, D.K., Cusack, M., and Duarte, C.M. (2020). Aeolian Prokaryotic Communities of the Global Dust Belt Over the Red Sea. Frontiers in Microbiology 11.
  • Aalismail, N.A., Ngugi, D.K., Diaz-Rua, R., Alam, I., Cusack, M., and Duarte, C.M. (2019). Functional metagenomic analysis of dust- associated microbiomes above the Red Sea. Sci Rep 9(1), 13741. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50194-0. 

Education

  • Ph.D. Marine Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 2016–2020.
  • MS Bioscience, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 2014–2016.
  • B.S. Genomics and Biotechnology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2008-2012.

Awards

  • Higher Education Teaching Certificate - Harvard University (2021)

Research Interests Keywords

Astrobiology Extremophiles Aerobiology