Principal Investigator

Prof. Alexandre Soares Rosado

Professor of Bioscience

Research Interests: Molecular microbial ecology, Environmental biotechnology, Genetic diversity, Extreme environments, Microbial ecology, Bioremediation

Research Scientist

Diego Javier Jiménez Avella

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Engineering of microbial communities, Transformation of lignocellulose and plastics, Meta-omics characterization of microbial communities, Microbial ecology of marine and terrestrial ecosystems

Niketan Patel

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Analytical Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Sensors, Analytical Microbiology, Chemical Biology

Postdoctoral Fellows

Junia Schultz

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Extremophiles, Microbial ecology, Functional and comparative genomics, Microbial cultivation, Biotechnology of extremophiles, Astrobiology

Ph.D. Students

Sara M. Alromaih

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: Extremophile, Environmental Microbiology, Molecular biology, Plant microbial interactions

Wesam Bahitham

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: microbiome, Human pathogenic, Liver diseases

Nicholas R. Kontis

Ph.D. student

Ayman Farran

Ph.D. student

Farah M. Al Rammah

Ph.D. Students

Adam Barno

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Bacteria - Host Epigenome Interactions, Mangrove viromes

Sharifah M. Altalhi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Extreme environments, Antimicrobial resistance

Lila A. Aldakheel

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Molecular biology and Genetics, Structural Biology and Imaging, Microbiomes

Hanaa S. Allehaibi

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Stem Cells, oncology, drug delivery, organoids, host-pathogen interaction

Master's Students

Alexandra Rodriguez Cardenas

Master Student

Research Interests: Biosensors, Nanomaterials, Bioelectronics

Paula Garcia Martinez

Master Student

Research Interests: Astrobiology, Deep Sea Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Hydrothermal Systems, Methanogenesis

Tahani Faseh Alddin

Master Student

Research Interests: Microbial ecology, Environnmental Biotechnology, Extremophiles

Abdulaziz Alsuhaimi

Master Student

Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, Molecular biology, Biotechnology

Research Group Staff

Tahira Jamil

Research Specialist

Ping Xu

Research assistant

Visitors

Isabel K Diercks

Visiting PhD Student

Research Interests: molecular biology, Geochemistry, Hydrothermal Systems

Anderson S De Freitas

Visiting PhD Student

Research Interests: Microbial Ecology, Bioinformatics, Next-Generation Sequencing

Alumni

Salsabil Mohamed Makky

Visiting PhD student

Research Interests: Protein purification, Antimicrobial resistance, Biofilms, Virology, Biosynthesized nanoparticles

Wylerson Guimarães Nogueira

Visiting PhD Student

Research Interests: Immunobioinformatics, Vaccine development, Antimicrobial resistance, Metagenomics

Gabriel E Garau

Visiting PhD student

Isabella D Lopes

Visiting student

Arun Kumar Jaiswal

Visiting Researcher

Lucas G Gomes

Visiting student

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Immunoinformatics, Drug and Vaccine Development, Structural Biology and Imaging

Axel Mendoza Ortiz

Master's Student

Loie Bonnet

Visiting student

Sulamita Santos Correa

Visiting PhD student

Research Interests: Microbiology, Extremophile, molecular biology, Transcriptomic and Proteomic, Bacteria plant growth promotion

Alef dos Santos

Visiting PhD student

Research Interests: Astrobiology, Extremophile, Mass spectrometry, Secondary metabolites, Biotechnology

Hamad A. Albaqami

Master's Student

Research Interests: Bacteria, Extremophiles, Plant

Azad S. Baazeem

Master's Student

Research Interests: Environmental microbiology / biotechnology, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics

Andrii Romanenko

Master's Student

Research Interests: Microbiology, Extremophile microbiology, Biotechnology

Lera Shepard

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Astrobiology, Microbiology, Biophysics, Space exploration

Hanin S. Alzubaidy

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Microbiology, Metagenome, microbiome, molecular biology, plant-microbe interaction, plant science, transcriptome, Analytical Chemistry

Nojood A. Aalismail

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Astrobiology, Extremophiles, Aerobiology