Publications

Journal articles, preprints, and conference proceedings

Publications are grouped by broad research area and listed in reverse chronological order within each section. For an up-to-date, complete citation record, see Google Scholar or the PubMed bibliography. Selected highlights appear on the home page.

Population Genomics and Precision Medicine

EGP1K: Whole-Genome Sequencing of 1,024 Egyptians Characterizes Population Structure and Genetic Diversity
Khaled Amer, Ahmed Moustafa, Wael A. Hassan, et al.
bioRxiv. 2 April 2026
doi: 10.64898/2026.04.02.715521
Whole genome sequencing identifies monogenic disease in 56.1% of families with early-onset steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome
Neveen A Soliman, Mohamed A Elmonem, Ahmed F El-Sayed, Eman Ramadan, Ahmed M Badr, Fatma M Atia, Rasha Helmy, May O Amer, Ahmed Abd El-Raouf, Fadya M El-Garhy, Omnia M Abdel-Haseb, Tokka M Hassan, Yasmeen K Farouk, Ahmed El-Hosseiny, Usama Bakry, Asmaa Ali, Sheri Saleeb, Tasnim A Ghanim, Mahynour Albarbary, Ahmed Elmahy, Tarek Elnagdy, Amira Ragheb, Wael A Hassan, Ahmed Moustafa, Khaled Amer
Human Genetics. 22 May 2025
doi: 10.1007/s00439-025-02752-y | pmid: 40402239
Egypt Genome: Towards an African new genomic era
Khaled Amer, Neveen A Soliman, Sameh Soror, Yehia Z Gad, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed A Elmonem, May Amer, Ameera Ragheb, Amira Kotb, Tarek Taha, Wael Ali, Mahmoud Sakr, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar; Scientific Committee Consortium
Journal of Advanced Research. 4 June 2024
doi: 10.1016/j.jare.2024.06.003 | pmid: 38844121
The Egypt Genome Project
Mohamed A Elmonem, Neveen A Soliman, Ahmed Moustafa, Yehia Z Gad, Wael A Hassan, Tarek Taha, Gina El-Feky, Mahmoud Sakr, Khaled Amer
Nature Genetics. 29 April 2024
doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01739-1 | pmid: 38684896
New Variant With a Previously Unrecognized Mechanism of Pathogenicity in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Yasmine Aguib, Mona Allouba, Roddy Walsh, Ayman M. Ibrahim, Sarah Halawa, Alaa Afify, Mohammed Hosny, Pantazis I. Theotokis, Aya Galal, Sara Elshorbagy, Mohamed Roshdy, Heba S. Kassem, Amany Ellithy, Rachel Buchan, Nicola Whiffin, Shehab Anwer, Stuart A. Cook, Ahmed Moustafa, Ahmed ElGuindy, James S. Ware, Paul J.R. Barton, Magdi H. Yacoub
Circulation. 30 August 2021
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.048295 | pmid: 34460321
Toward Colorectal Cancer Biomarkers: The Role of Genetic Variation, Wnt Pathway, and Long Noncoding RNAs
Amany I. Abdel-Motaleb, Hassan M. Azzazy, Ahmed Moustafa
OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology. 22 April 2021
doi: 10.1089/omi.2020.0231 | pmid: 33891491
Deep Next Generation Sequencing Identifies Somatic Mutational Signature in Egyptian Colorectal Cancer Patients
Amira Youssef, Mohamed A. Abdel-Fattah, Ahmed O. Touny, Zeinab K. Hassan, Auhood Nassar, Mai M. Lotfy, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohammed Mohey Eldin, Abeer Bahnassy, Abdel-Rahman N. Zekri
Research Square. 18 December 2020
doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-125305/v1
Deep Sequencing of 10,000 Human Genomes
Amalio Telenti, Levi T Pierce, William H Biggs, Julia di Iulio, Emily H.M. Wong, Martin M Fabani, Ewen F Kirkness, Ahmed Moustafa, Naisha Shah, Chao Xie, Suzanne C Brewerton, Nadeem Bulsara, Chad Garner, Gary Metzker, Efren Sandoval, Brad A Perkins, Franz J Och, Yaron Turpaz, J. Craig Venter
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 4 October 2016
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1613365113 | pmid: 27702888

Human Microbiome, Metagenomics, and Viromes

Association between the subcellular localization of host proteins and gut microbiome and metabolome in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a pilot study
Shereen A. El Sobky, Nada El-Ekiaby, Injie O. Fawzy, Amira Khaled Abdelhamid, Heba Attia, Ibrahim H. Fayed, Yasser Badr, Mohammed Emadeldeen, Ahmed Nagy, Mohamed Negm, Mohamed Sherif Negm, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed El-Kassas, Mohamed A. Farag, Ramy K. Aziz, Ahmed I. Abdelaziz
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 2 July 2026
doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2026.1703547
Metagenomic profiling of gut microbiome signatures across liver disease stages and HCV-related hepatocellular carcinoma in Egyptian patients
Marwa Zahra, Amged Ouf, Hassan M. E. Azzazy, Ahmed Moustafa
Frontiers in Microbiology. 28 April 2026
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2026.1758563 | pmid: 42131203
Gut microbial shifts toward inflammation in Parkinson’s disease: Insights from pilot shotgun metagenomics Egyptian cohort
Ali Shalash, Shahd Ezzeldin, Sara Hashish, Yara Salah, Noha L. Dawood, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed Salama
Journal of Parkinson’s Disease. 17 September 2025
doi: 10.1177/1877718x251370156 | pmid: 40961238
SARS-CoV-2 Variants Associated with Vaccine Breakthrough in the Delaware Valley through Summer 2021
Andrew D. Marques, Scott Sherrill-Mix, John K. Everett, Shantan Reddy, Pascha Hokama, Aoife M. Roche, Young Hwang, Abigail Glascock, Samantha A. Whiteside, Jevon Graham-Wooten, Layla A. Khatib, Ayannah S. Fitzgerald, Ahmed M. Moustafa, Colleen Bianco, Swetha Rajagopal, Jenna Helton, Regan Deming, Lidiya Denu, Azad Ahmed, Eimear Kitt, Susan E. Coffin, Claire Newbern, Josh Chang Mell, Paul J. Planet, Nitika Badjatia, Bonnie Richards, Zi-Xuan Wang, Carolyn C. Cannuscio, Katherine M. Strelau, Anne Jaskowiak-Barr, Leigh Cressman, Sean Loughrey, Arupa Ganguly, Michael D. Feldman, Ronald G. Collman, Kyle G. Rodino, Brendan J. Kelly, Frederic D. Bushman
mBio. 8 February 2022
doi: 10.1128/mbio.03788-21 | pmid: 35130727
Traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Peripheral Blood Cells of Patients with COVID-19
Ahmed Moustafa, Rana Salah Khalel, Ramy K. Aziz
OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology. 19 July 2021
doi: 10.1089/omi.2021.0068 | pmid: 34280038
Gut microbiome differences between amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients and spouse controls
Vicki S. Hertzberg, Harinder Singh, Christina N. Fournier, Ahmed Moustafa, Meraida Polak,Claire A. Kuelbs, Manolito G. Torralba, Malú G. Tansey, Karen E. Nelson, Jonathan D. Glass
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. 5 April 2021
doi: 10.1080/21678421.2021.1904994 | pmid: 33818222
Traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Blood of COVID-19 Patients
Ahmed Moustafa, Ramy K Aziz
medRxiv. 18 May 2020
doi: 10.1101/2020.05.10.20097055
Longitudinal Study of Oral Microbiome Variation in Twins
Marcelo Freire, Ahmed Moustafa, Derek M. Harkins, Manolito G. Torralba, Yun Zhang, Pamela Leong, Richard Saffery, Michelle Bockmann, Claire Kuelbs, Toby Hughes, Jeffrey M. Craig, Karen E. Nelson
Scientific Reports. 14 May 2020
doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64747-1 | pmid: 32409670
Effect of Radiotherapy on the Gut Microbiome in Pediatric Cancer Patients: A Pilot Study
Nourhan Sahly, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed Zaghloul, Tamer Z Salem
PeerJ. 23 September 2019
doi: 10.7717/peerj.7683 | pmid: 31579590
Xylitol and Sorbitol effects on the microbiome of saliva and plaque
Reisha Rafeek, Christine V. F. Carrington, Andres Gomez, Derek Harkins, Manolito Torralba, Claire Kuelbs, Jonas Addae, Ahmed Moustafa, Karen E. Nelson
Journal of Oral Microbiology. 23 October 2018
doi: 10.1080/20002297.2018.1536181 | pmid: 30598728
Microbial metagenome of urinary tract infection
Ahmed Moustafa, Weizhong Li, Harinder Singh, Kelvin J. Moncera, Manolito G. Torralba, Yanbao Yu, Oriol Manuel, William Biggs, J. Craig Venter, Karen E. Nelson, Rembert Pieper, Amalio Telenti
Scientific Reports. 12 March 2018
doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22660-8 | pmid: 29531289
Genetic risk, dysbiosis, and treatment stratification using host genome and gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease
Ahmed Moustafa, Brigid S. Boland, Weizhong Li, Ericka L. Anderson, Emily H. M. Wong, Parambir S. Dulai, William J. Sandborn, William Biggs, J. Craig Venter, Karen E. Nelson, Amalio Telenti, John T. Chang
Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. 18 January 2018
doi: 10.1038/ctg.2017.58 | pmid: 29345635
Microbial Metagenome Of Urinary Tract Infection
Ahmed Moustafa, Harinder Singh, Weizhong Li, Kelvin Moncera, Manolito Torralba, Yanbao Yu, Oriol Manuel, William Biggs, J. Craig Venter, Karen Nelson, Rembert Pieper, Amalio Telenti
bioRxiv. 4 May 2017
doi: 10.1101/134320
The blood DNA virome in 8,000 humans
Ahmed Moustafa, Chao Xie, Ewen Kirkness, William Biggs, Emily Wong, Yaron Turpaz, Kenneth Bloom, Eric Delwart, Karen E. Nelson, J. Craig Venter, Amalio Telenti
PLOS Pathogens. 22 March 2017
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006292 | pmid: 28328962

Microbial, Environmental, and Marine Genomics

A Pan-Biome Metagenomic Atlas of the Brazilian Rhizosphere, Root, and Soil Microbiomes
Luisa Mayumi Arake de Tacca, Rayane Nunes Lima, Patrícia Verdugo Pascoal, Deborah Bambil, Marco Antônio de Oliveira, Ahmed Moustafa, Helena Ipê Pinheiro Guimarães, Carlos Alexandre Azevedo, Paula Mizote, Grácia Maria Soares Rosinha, Daniela Carvalho Bittencourt, Diana Signor, Magna Soelma Beserra de Moura, José Pedro Pereira Trindade, Leandro Bochi da Silva Volk, Fernando Antônio Fernandes, Ricardo Lopes, Jean Luiz Simões-Araújo, Marcelo Freire, Elibio Rech
Research Square. 9 March 2026
doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8948634/v1
The coral microbiome: Towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral-microbiota interactions
Amin Mohamed, Michael Ochsenkuhn, Ahmed Kazlak, Ahmed Moustafa, Shady Amin
FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 7 March 2023
doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuad005 | pmid: 36882224
Gene Networks and Pathways Involved in Escherichia coli Response to Multiple Stressors
Eman K. Abdelwahed, Nahla A. Hussein, Ahmed Moustafa, Nayera A. Moneib, Ramy K. Aziz
Microorganisms. 6 September 2022
doi: 10.3390/microorganisms10091793 | pmid: 36144394
Nitrogen and Iron Availability Drive Metabolic Remodeling and Natural Selection of Diverse Phytoplankton during Experimental Upwelling
B C Kolody, S R Smith, L Zeigler Allen, J P McCrow, Ahmed Moustafa, D Shi, B M Hopkinson, F M M Morel, B B Ward, A E Allen
mSystems. 29 August 2022
doi: 10.1128/msystems.00729-22 | pmid: 36036504
Genetic variation of staphylococcal LukAB toxin determines receptor tropism
Sofya S. Perelman, David B. A. James, Kristina M. Boguslawski, Chase W. Nelson, Juliana K. Ilmain, Erin E. Zwack, Rachel A. Prescott, Adil Mohamed, Kayan Tam, Rita Chan, Apurva Narechania, Miranda B. Pawline, Nikollaq Vozhilla, Ahmed M. Moustafa, Sang Y. Kim, Meike Dittmann, Damian C. Ekiert, Gira Bhabha, Bo Shopsin, Paul J. Planet, Sergei B. Koralov, Victor J. Torres
Nature Microbiology. 19 April 2021
doi: 10.1038/s41564-021-00890-3 | pmid: 33875847
Draft Genome Sequences and Antimicrobial Profiles of Three Staphylococcus epidermidis Strains from Neonatal Blood Samples
Innocent Afeke, Ahmed Moustafa, Misa Hirose, Mareike Becker, Hauke Busch, Axel Kuenstner, Anke Faehnrich, Anthony S. Ablordey, Christoph Haertel, Kokou Hefoume Amega-Aho, Mohamed Tarek Badr, Jan Rupp, Saleh Ibrahim
Microbiology Resource Announcements. 1 April 2021
doi: 10.1128/MRA.00170-21 | pmid: 33795343
Diel transcriptional response of a California Current plankton microbiome to light, low iron, and enduring viral infection
B. C. Kolody, J. P. McCrow, L. Zeigler Allen, F. O. Aylward, K. M. Fontanez, A. Moustafa, M. Moniruzzaman, F. P. Chavez, C. A. Scholin, E. E. Allen, A. Z. Worden, E. F. Delong & A. E. Allen
The ISME Journal. 18 July 2019
doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0472-2 | pmid: 31320727
Nutrient stoichiometry shapes microbial community structure in a shallow evaporitic pond
Zarraz M. Lee, Amisha T. Poret-Peterson, Janet L. Siefert, Drishti Kaul, Ahmed Moustafa, Andrew E. Allen, Chris L. Dupont, Luis E. Eguiarte, Valeria Souza, James J. Elser
Frontiers in Microbiology. 30 May 2017
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00949 | pmid: 28611750
Intact polar diacylglycerol biomarker lipids isolated from suspended particulate organic matter accumulating in an ultraoligotrophic water column
Jenan J Kharbush, Andrew E Allen, Ahmed Moustafa, Pieter C Dorrestein, Lihini I Aluwihare
Organic Geochemistry. 31 October 2016
doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2016.07.008
Patterns of Transcript Abundance of Eukaryotic Biogeochemically-Relevant Genes in the Amazon River Plume
Brian L Zielinski, Andrew E Allen, Edward J Carpenter, Victoria J Coles, Byron C Crump, Mary Doherty, Rachel A Foster, Joaquim I Goes, Helga R Gomes, Raleigh R Hood, John P McCrow, Joseph P Montoya, Ahmed Moustafa, Brandon M Satinsky, Shalabh Sharma, Christa B Smith, Patricia L Yager, John H Paul
PloS one. 6 September 2016
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160929 | pmid: 27598790
Phytoplankton–bacterial interactions mediate micronutrient colimitation at the coastal Antarctic sea ice edge
Erin M Bertrand, John P McCrow, Ahmed Moustafa, Hong Zheng, Jeffrey B McQuaid, Tom O Delmont, Anton F Post, Rachel E Sipler, Jenna L Spackeen, Kai Xu, Deborah A Bronk, David A Hutchins, Andrew E Allen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 28 July 2015
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1501615112 | pmid: 26221022
A Novel Protein, Ubiquitous in Marine Phytoplankton, Concentrates Iron at the Cell Surface and Facilitates Uptake
Joe Morrissey, Robert Sutak, Javier Paz-Yepes, Atsuko Tanaka, Ahmed Moustafa, Alaguraj Veluchamy, Yann Thomas, Hugo Botebol, François-Yves Bouget, Jeffrey B. McQuaid, Leila Tirichine, Andrew E Allen, Emmanuel Lesuisse, Chris Bowler
Current Biology. 31 December 2014
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.004 | pmid: 25557662
Genomes and gene expression across light and productivity gradients in eastern subtropical Pacific microbial communities
Chris L Dupont, John P McCrow, Ruben Valas, Ahmed Moustafa, Nathan Walworth, Ursula Goodenough, Robyn Roth, Shane L Hogle, Jing Bai, Zackary I Johnson, Elizabeth Mann, Brian Palenik, Katherine A Barbeau, J Craig Venter, Andrew E Allen
The ISME Journal. 21 October 2014
doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.198 | pmid: 25333462
Core Microbial Functional Activities in Ocean Environments Revealed by Global Metagenomic Profiling Analyses
Ari J. S. Ferreira, Rania Siam, João C. Setubal, Ahmed Moustafa, Ahmed Sayed, Felipe S. Chambergo, Adam S. Dawe, Mohamed A. Ghazy, Hazem Sharaf, Amged Ouf, Intikhab Alam, Alyaa M. Abdel-Haleem, Heikki Lehvaslaiho, Eman Ramadan, André Antunes, Ulrich Stingl, John A. C. Archer, Boris R. Jankovic, Mitchell Sogin, Vladimir B. Bajic, Hamza El-Dorry
PLoS ONE. 12 June 2014
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097338 | pmid: 24921648
Unique Prokaryotic Consortia in Geochemically Distinct Sediments from Red Sea Atlantis II and Discovery Deep Brine Pools
Rania Siam, Ghada Moustafa, Hazem Sharaf, Ahmed Moustafa, Adham Ramadan, Andre Antunes, Vladimir Bajic, Uli Stingl, Nardine Marsis, Marco Coolen, Mitchell Sogin, Ari Ferreira, and Hamza El-Dorry
PLoS ONE. 20 August 2012
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042872 | pmid: 22916172

Machine Learning, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics Tools

DeepTaxa: a hybrid CNN-BERT framework for 16S rRNA taxonomic classification
Rana Salah, Khlood R AbdElaal, Lobna Ghonaim, Olaitan I Awe, Ahmed Moustafa
Bioinformatics Advances. 12 June 2026
doi: 10.1093/bioadv/vbag166 | pmid: 42381921
Transforming neurodegenerative disorder care with machine learning: Strategies and applications
Aya Galal, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed Salama
Neuroscience. 20 March 2025
doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2025.03.036 | pmid: 40120712
Computational comparative analysis identifies potential stemness-related markers for mesenchymal stromal/stem cells
Myret Ghabriel, Ahmed El Hossein, Ahmed Moustafa, Asma Amleh
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 1 March 2023
doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1065050 | pmid: 36936690
Applications of Machine Learning in Metabolomics: Disease Modeling and Classification
Aya Galal, Marwa Talal, Ahmed Moustafa
Frontiers in Genetics. 24 November 2022
doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.1017340 | pmid: 36506316
Comparing PCA to information gain as a feature selection method for Influenza-A classification
Nemin Shaltout, Mohamed Moustafa, Ahmed Rafea, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed ElHefnawi
2015 International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and Biomedical Sciences (ICIIBMS). November 2015
doi: 10.1109/iciibms.2015.7439550
iTree: a high-throughput phylogenomic pipeline
Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya, Andrew E. Allen
5th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference. 17 February 2011
doi: 10.1109/CIBEC.2010.5716071
PhyloSort: a user-friendly phylogenetic sorting tool and its application to estimating the cyanobacterial contribution to the nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas
Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya
BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15 January 2008
doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-6 | pmid: 18194581

Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics

Deciphering patterns of adaptation and acclimation in the transcriptome of Phaeocystis antarctica to changing iron conditions
Mariam R. Rizkallah, Stephan Frickenhaus, Scarlett Trimborn, Lars Harms, Ahmed Moustafa, Vladimir Benes, Steffi Gäbler‐Schwarz, Sara Beszteri
Journal of Phycology. 15 April 2020
doi: 10.1111/jpy.12979 | pmid: 32068264
An aerobic eukaryotic parasite with functional mitochondria that likely lacks a mitochondrial genome
Uwe John, Yameng Lu, Sylke Wohlrab, Marco Groth, Jan Janouškovec, Gurjeet S. Kohli, Felix C. Mark, Ulf Bickmeyer, Sarah Farhat, Marius Felder, Stephan Frickenhaus, Laure Guillou, Patrick J. Keeling, Ahmed Moustafa, Betina M. Porcel, Klaus Valentin, Gernot Glöckner
Science Advances. 24 April 2019
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav1110 | pmid: 31032404
Pre‐mRNA splicing repression triggers abiotic stress signaling in plants
Yu Ling, Sahar Alshareef, Haroon Butt, Jorge Lozano‐Juste, Lixin Li, Aya A Galal, Ahmed Moustafa, Afaque Ahmad Momin, Manal Tashkandi, Dale N Richardson, Hiroaki Fujii, Stefan Arold, Pedro L Rodriguez, Paula Duque, Magdy M Mahfouz
The Plant Journal. 24 September 2016
doi: 10.1111/tpj.13383 | pmid: 27664942
The Genome of the Foraminiferan Reticulomyxa filosa
Gernot Glöckner, Norbert Hülsmann, Michael Schleicher, Angelika A Noegel, Ludwig Eichinger, Christoph Gallinger, Jan Pawlowski, Roberto Sierra, Ursula Euteneuer, Loic Pillet, Ahmed Moustafa, Matthias Platzer, Marco Groth, Karol Szafranski, Manfred Schliwa
Current Biology. 12 December 2013
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.027 | pmid: 24332546
Genome structure and metabolic features in the red seaweed Chondrus crispus shed light on evolution of the Archaeplastida
Jonas Collén, Betina Porcel, Wilfrid Carré, Steven G Ball, Cristian Chaparro, Thierry Tonon, Tristan Barbeyron, Gurvan Michel, Benjamin Noel, Klaus Valentin, Marek Elias, François Artiguenave, Alok Arun, Jean-Marc Aury, José F Barbosa-Neto, John H Bothwell, François-Yves Bouget, Loraine Brillet, Francisco Cabello-Hurtado, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Bénédicte Charrier, Lionel Cladière, J Mark Cock, Susana M Coelho, Christophe Colleoni, Mirjam Czjzek, Corinne Da Silva, Ludovic Delage, France Denoeud, Philippe Deschamps, Simon M Dittami, Toni Gabaldón, Claire M M Gachon, Agnès Groisillier, Cécile Hervé, Kamel Jabbari, Michael Katinka, Bernard Kloareg, Nathalie Kowalczyk, Karine Labadie, Catherine Leblanc, Pascal J Lopez, Deirdre H McLachlan, Laurence Meslet-Cladiere, Ahmed Moustafa, Zofia Nehr, Pi Nyvall Collén, Olivier Panaud, Frédéric Partensky, Julie Poulain, Stefan A Rensing, Sylvie Rousvoal, Gaelle Samson, Aikaterini Symeonidi, Jean Weissenbach, Antonios Zambounisb, Patrick Wincker, Catherine Boyena
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 15 March 2013
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1221259110 | pmid: 23503846
Metabolic Effectors Secreted by Bacterial Pathogens: Essential Facilitators of Plastid Endosymbiosis
Steven G. Ball, Agathe Subtil, Debashish Bhattacharya, Ahmed Moustafa, Andreas P.M. Weber, Lena Gehre, Christophe Colleoni, Maria-Cecilia Arias, Ugo Cenci, David Dauvilléea
The Plant Cell. 31 January 2013
doi: 10.1105/tpc.112.101329 | pmid: 23371946
Plastid-localized amino acid biosynthetic pathways of Plantae are predominantly composed of non-cyanobacterial enzymes
Adrian Reyes-Prieto, Ahmed Moustafa
Scientific Reports. 11 December 2012
doi: 10.1038/srep00955 | pmid: 23233874
Evolution and Functional Diversification of Fructose Bisphosphate Aldolase Genes in Photosynthetic Marine Diatoms
Andrew E. Allen, Ahmed Moustafa, Anton Montsant, Angelika Eckert, Peter G. Kroth, Chris Bowler
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 8 September 2011
doi: 10.1093/molbev/msr223 | pmid: 21903677
Sea slug kleptoplasty and plastid maintenance in a metazoan
Karen N. Pelletreau, Debashish Bhattacharya, Dana C. Price, Jared M. Worful, Ahmed Moustafa, Mary E. Rumpho
Plant Physiology. 23 February 2011
doi: 10.1104/pp.111.174078 | pmid: 21346171
The making of a photosynthetic animal
Mary E. Rumpho, Karen N. Pelletreau, Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya
Journal of Experimental Biology. 15 January 2011
doi: 10.1242/jeb.046540 | pmid: 21177950
Transcriptome Profiling of a Toxic Dinoflagellate Reveals a Gene-Rich Protist and a Potential Impact on Gene Expression Due to Bacterial Presence
Ahmed Moustafa, Andrew N. Evans, Deana L. Erdner, David M. Kulis, Donald M. Anderson, Debashish Bhattacharya
PLoS ONE. 12 March 2010
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009688 | pmid: 20300646
Differential gene retention in plastids of common recent origin
Adrian Reyes-Prieto, Hwan Su Yoon, Ahmed Moustafa, Eun Chan Yang, Robert A. Andersen, Sung Min Boo, Takuro Nakayama, Ken-ichiro Ishida, Debashish Bhattacharya.
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 1 February 2010
doi: 10.1093/molbev/msq032 | pmid: 20123796
Genomic footprints of a cryptic plastid endosymbiosis in diatoms
Ahmed Moustafa, Bánk Beszteri, Uwe G. Maier, Chris Bowler, Klaus Valentin, Debashish Bhattacharya
Science. 26 June 2009
doi: 10.1126/science.1172983 | pmid: 19556510
Origin of saxitoxin biosynthetic genes in cyanobacteria
Ahmed Moustafa, Jeannette E. Loram, Jeremiah D. Hackett, Donald M. Anderson, F. Gerald Plumley, Debashish Bhattacharya.
PLoS ONE. 1 June 2009
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005758 | pmid: 19484122
Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica
Mary E. Rumpho, Jared M. Worful, Jungho Lee, Krishna Kannan, Mary S. Tyler, Debashish Bhattacharya, Ahmed Moustafa, James R. Manhart
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 11 November 2008
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804968105 | pmid: 19004808
A phylogenomic approach for studying plastid endosymbiosis
Ahmed Moustafa, CX Chan, Megan Danforth, David Zear, Hiba Ahmed, Nagnath Jadhav, Trevor Savage, Debashish Bhattacharya
Genome Informatics. November 2008
doi: 10.1142/9781848163324_0014 | pmid: 19425156
Multiple genes of apparent algal origin suggest ciliates may once have been photosynthetic
Adrian Reyes-Prieto, Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya
Current Biology. 8 July 2008
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.05.042 | pmid: 18595706
Chlamydiae has contributed at least 55 genes to Plantae with predominantly plastid functions
Ahmed Moustafa, Adrian Reyes-Prieto, Debashish Bhattacharya
PLoS ONE. 21 May 2008
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002205 | pmid: 18493612
EST analysis of Ostreococcus lucimarinus, the most compact eukaryotic genome, shows an excess of introns in highly expressed genes
William Lanier, Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya, Josep Comeron
PLoS ONE. 14 May 2008
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002171 | pmid: 18478122
Genomic insights into evolutionary relationships among heterokont lineages emphasizing the phaeophyceae
Naomi Phillips, Calhoun Sam, Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya, Edward Braun
Journal of Phycology. 9 January 2008
doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2007.00435.x | pmid: 27041034

Biomedical and Translational Genomics

Efficacy of cost-effective UV-light for Salmonella elimination
Sara Mohamed, Ahmed Kreta, Heba Refaat, Shaimaa F. Ahmed, Amany Khalifa, C. Tharwat, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed A. Swillam
Photonic Diagnosis, Monitoring, Prevention, and Treatment of Infections and Inflammatory Diseases 2026. 5 March 2026
doi: 10.1117/12.3081802
Pilot study: predicting the interplay between FOXO1 and its downstream long non-coding RNAs in HCC
Rowan Abdelbary, Sherine K. Saber, Fabian Rose, Kai Breuhahn, Shereen A. El Sobky, Injie Omar Fawzy, Ahmed Moustafa, Nada El-Ekiaby, Ahmed Ihab Abdelaziz
Frontiers in Oncology. 16 February 2026
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2026.1692980 | pmid: 41777650
Identification of Skin Multicellular Reprogramming Factors as Potential Treatment for Nonhealing Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Ahmed S. Abouhashem, Sherine K. Saber, Sara Abouzekry, Mohammed Elkholy, Ahmed Moustafa, Ahmed Abdellatif, Hassan M.E. Azzazy, Ahmed A. Elbaz, Kanhaiya Singh, Chandan K. Sen, Hossam Sharara
Advances in Wound Care. 26 December 2025
doi: 10.1177/21621918251376348 | pmid: 41027406
LncRNA RMRP knockdown upregulates PD-1 expression in natural killer cells
Sarah Abouhegaziah, Doris Urlaub, Ahmed Moustafa, Maha Mostafa, Amged Ouf, Khaled Abou-Aisha, Carsten Watzl, Mona Rady
Scientific Reports. 3 October 2025
doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-20720-4 | pmid: 41044334
Assessing the influence of isolation techniques on NK cell transcriptomic profiles
Rana ElNouty, Ahmed Moustafa, Maha Mostafa, Amged Ouf, Khaled Abou-Aisha, Mona Rady
Transplant Immunology. 14 September 2025
doi: 10.1016/j.trim.2025.102298 | pmid: 40957502
Surface Plasmon Resonance Detection of Staphylococcus Aureus Pathogen
Sara Mohamed, Ahmed Kreta, Karim El-Seherawy, Mostafa Hassan, Baraah Hasanin, Heba Refaa, Shaimaa F. Ahmed, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed A. Swillam
2025 42nd National Radio Science Conference (NRSC). 6 May 2025
doi: 10.1109/nrsc65659.2025.11018577
Detection of Escherichia coli bacteria using surface plasmon resonance-wavelength interrogation setup
Sara Mohamed, Karim El-Seherawy, Mostafa Hassan, Ahmed Kreta, Baraah Hasanin, Yasmine Elbagoury, Heba Refaat, Shaimaa F. Ahmed, Mai Mostafa, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed A. Swillam
Proceedings Volume 13356, High-Power Laser Materials Processing: Applications, Diagnostics, and Systems XIV. 19 March 2025
doi: 10.1117/12.3044165
Photo-degradation of water and food pathogens using cheap handheld laser
Sara Mohamed, C Tharwat, Amany Khalifa, Yasmine Elbagoury, Heba Refaat, Shaimaa F Ahmed, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed A Swillam
Proceedings Volume 13356, High-Power Laser Materials Processing: Applications, Diagnostics, and Systems XIV. 19 March 2025
doi: 10.1117/12.3043613
MiR-216a-3p inhibits the cytotoxicity of primary natural killer cells
Rowan Abdelbary, Manon Ragheb, Shereen A. El Sobky, Nagwa El-Badri, Nourhan Aboud, Ahmed Tawheed, Asmaa Gomaa, Mona Zidan, Ramy K. Aziz, Abd Elrahman Abouzid, Radwa Ayman Salah, Mohamed El-Kassas, Imam Waked, Ahmed Moustafa, Injie Omar Fawzy, Nada El-Ekiaby, Ahmed Ihab Abdelaziz
Frontiers in Oncology. 21 January 2025
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1523068 | pmid: 39906666
UV-VIs Spectrophotometry Study of Escherichia coli Bacteria and Microfluidic Channel Chip Fabrication For Optical Biosensing Application
Sara Mohamed, Amira AM Ahmed, Ahmed Kreta, Amany Khalifa, Mai Mostafa, Shaimaa Ahmed, Heba Refaat, AM Faramawy, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed A Swillam
41st National Radio Science Conference (NRSC). 16 April 2024
doi: 10.1109/NRSC61581.2024.10510517
Patterned PCL/PGS Nanofibrous Hyaluronic Acid-Coated Scaffolds Promote Cellular Response and Modulate Gene Expression Profiles
Shrouk M. Abdou, Ahmed Moustafa, Nageh K. Allam
ACS Applied Bio Materials. 3 April 2024
doi: 10.1021/acsabm.4c00196 | pmid: 38570335
Beyond acute infection: molecular mechanisms underpinning cardiovascular complications in long COVID
Roba Hamed Mostafa, Ahmed Moustafa
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 14 February 2024
doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1268571 | pmid: 38495940
Exploring the Regulatory Role of miRNA in Connecting Parkinson’s Disease with Pesticide Exposure in an Egyptian Cohort
Fatma Galal, Shaimaa El-Jafaary, Nourhan Shebl, Nehal AB Elsayed, Jaidaa Mekky, Lobna A. Mohamed, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed Salama
Research Square. 29 January 2024
doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3873111/v1
The State of Play of Parkinson’s Disease in Africa: A Systematic Review and Point of View
Olaitan Okunoye, Yared Z. Zewde, Jihan Azar, Biniyam A. Ayele, Saiesha Dindayal, Ahmed Moustafa, Mosab Abdulkarim, Funmilola T. Taiwo, Daniel Gams Massi, Mohamed Salama, Abenet T. Mengesha, Yohannes D. Gelan, Dereje M. Oda, Fikru T. Kelemu, Charles Achoru, Vida Obese, Zeinab Kone, Momodou Cham, Maouly Fall, Abdoulaye Bocoum, Foksouna Sakadi, Philip Adebayo, Eric Guemekane Bila Lamou, Lorraine Chishimba, Aiysha Chaudhry, Ali Shalash, Eman Hamid, Musa Watila, Omotola Thomas, Oluwadamilola Ojo, Njideka U. Okubadejo, Mie Rizig
bioRxiv. 8 July 2023
doi: 10.1101/2023.07.07.23292392
Profiling Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Patterns in Human Aortic and Mitral Valves
Sarah Halawa, Najma Latif, Yuan-Tsan Tseng, Ayman M. Ibrahim, Adrian H. Chester, Ahmed Moustafa, Yasmine Aguib, Magdi H. Yacoub
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 6 April 2022
doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.840647 | pmid: 35463757
Neonatal and Young Infant Sepsis in a Regional Hospital in Ghana
Innocent Afeke, Misa Hirose, Kokou Hefoume Amegan-Aho, Christoph Haertel, Mareike Becker, Ahmed Moustafa, Paul Schilf, Mohamed Tarek Badr, Graceful Lord Mensah, Hintermann Kobina Mbroh, Jan Rupp, Saleh Ibrahim
Open Journal of Pediatrics. 22 June 2021
doi: 10.4236/ojped.2021.112027
Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Hepatitis C Virus-induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Marwa Zahra, Hassan Azzazy, Ahmed Moustafa
Scientific Reports. 24 September 2018
doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32464-5 | pmid: 30250040