Dr. Ali Hassan Ali Elbehery

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsMicrobial Ecology and Applied Microbiology,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
Keywordsbacteriophages, contaminated groundwater, horizontal gene transfer, metagenomics, bioremediation
Honours and awards

2017: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

2016: Conference-support grant, supporting travel expenses to ISMB 2016, The American University in Cairo

2015: Conference-support grant, supporting travel expenses to EDAR 2015, The American University in Cairo

2015: Study-abroad grant, supporting a research visit to the University of Bath, The American University in Cairo

2014: Highest GPA Award, Graduate Honors Assembly, The American University in Cairo

2013: Yousef Jameel PhD fellowship, Yousef Jameel Academic Program

2009: Master Grant for Students from Developing Countries, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

2006: Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences with honors, Ain Shams University

Current contact address

CountryEgypt
CitySadat City
InstitutionUniversity of Sadat City
InstituteFaculty of Pharmacy Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Li DengInstitut für Virologie, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), Oberschleißheim
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2017

Programme(s)

2017Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2018Lukas M Simon, Sebastian Karg, Alexander J Westermann, Marion Engel, Ali HA Elbehery, Burkhard Hense, Matthias Heinig, Li Deng, Fabian J Theis: MetaMap: An atlas of metatranscriptomic reads in human disease-related RNA-seq data. In: GigaScience, 2018, 1-8
2018Ali H. A. Elbehery, Judith Feichtmayer, Dave Singh, Christian Griebler and Li Deng: The Human Virome Protein Cluster Database (HVPC): A Human Viral Metagenomic Database for Diversity and Function Annotation. In: Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018, 1110