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Ahmed Zayed

Ahmed Zayed

Ahmed Zayed

Research Scientist

zayed.10@osu.edu

Room 902, Riffe Building
496 W 12th Ave,
Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Microbial and viral ecology
  • Multi- and meta-omics
  • Microbial gene expression

Education

  • B.S./M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Microbiology, Cairo University, Egypt, 2015
  • Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2019

Lab: Matthew Sullivan

 

Publications: 

Gregory AC, Zablocki O, Zayed AA, Howell A, Temperton B, Bolduc B, Sullivan MB. 2020. The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut. Cell Host & Microbe [in press].

Shaffer M, Borton MA, McGivern BB, Zayed AA, La Rosa SL, Solden LM, Liu P, Narrowe AB, Rodríguez-Ramos J, Bolduc B, Gazitúa MC, Daly RA, Smith GJ, Vik DR, Pope PB, Sullivan MB, Roux S, Wrighton KC. 2020. DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function. Nucleic Acids Res. gkaa621.

Howard-Varona C, Lindback MM, Bastien GE, Solonenko N, Zayed AA, Jang H, Andreopoulos B, Brewer HM, Glavina Del Rio T, Adkins JN, Paul S, Sullivan MB, Duhaime MB. 2020. Phage-specific metabolic reprogramming of virocells. ISME J. 14: 881-895 

Ibarbalz FM, Henry N, Brandão MC, Martini S, Busseni G, Byrne H, Coelho LP, Endo H, Gasol JM, Gregory AC, Mahé F, Rigonato J, Royo-Llonch M, Salazar G, Sanz-Sáez I, Scalco E, Soviadan D, Zayed AA, Zingone A, Labadie K, Ferland J, Marec C, Kandels S, Picheral M, Dimier C, Poulain J, Pisarev S, Carmichael M, Pesant S; Tara Oceans Coordinators, Babin M, Boss E, Iudicone D, Jaillon O, Acinas SG, Ogata H, Pelletier E, Stemmann L, Sullivan MB, Sunagawa S, Bopp L, de Vargas C, Karp-Boss L, Wincker P, Lombard F, Bowler C, Zinger L. 2019. Global trends in marine plankton diversity across kingdoms of life. Cell 179: 1084-1097.

Salazar G, Paoli L, Alberti A, Huerta-Cepas J, Ruscheweyh HJ, Cuenca M, Field CM, Coelho LP, Cruaud C, Engelen S, Gregory AC, Labadie K, Marec C, Pelletier E, Royo-Llonch M, Roux S, Sánchez P, Uehara H, Zayed AA, Zeller G, Carmichael M, Dimier C, Ferland J, Kandels S, Picheral M, Pisarev S, Poulain J; Tara Oceans Coordinators, Acinas SG, Babin M, Bork P, Bowler C, de Vargas C, Guidi L, Hingamp P, Iudicone D, Karp-Boss L, Karsenti E, Ogata H, Pesant S, Speich S, Sullivan MB, Wincker P, Sunagawa S. 2019. Gene expression changes and community turnover differentially shape the global ocean metranscriptome. Cell 179: 1068-1083.

Gregory AC, Zayed AA, Conceição-Neto N, Temperton B, Bolduc B, Alberti A, Ardyna M, Arkhipova K, Carmichael M, Cruaud C, Dimier C, Domínguez-Huerta G, Ferland J, Kandels S, Liu Y, Marec C, Pesant S, Picheral M, Pisarev S, Poulain J, Tremblay JÉ, Vik D; Tara Oceans Coordinators, Babin M, Bowler C, Culley AI, de Vargas C, Dutilh BE, Iudicone D, Karp-Boss L, Roux S, Sunagawa S, Wincker P, Sullivan MB. 2019. Marine DNA viral macro- and microdiversity from pole to pole. Cell 177: 1109-1123.

Woodcroft BJ, Singleton CM, Boyd JA, Evans PN, Emerson JB, Zayed AA, Hoelzle RD, Lamberton TO, McCalley CK, Hodgkins SB, Wilson RM, Purvine SO, Nicora CD, Li C, Frolking S, Chanton JP, Crill PM, Saleska SR, Rich VI, Tyson GW. 2018. Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost. Nature 560: 49-54.

Zayed AA, Essam TM, Hashem AG, El-Tayeb OM. `Supermutators' found amongst highly levofloxacin-resistant E. coli isolates: a rapid protocol for the detection of mutation sites. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2015; 4(1): e4. 

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