User profiles for Nojood Aalismail

Nojood Aalismail

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Verified email at kaust.edu.sa
Cited by 104

[HTML][HTML] Functional metagenomic analysis of dust-associated microbiomes above the Red Sea

NA Aalismail, DK Ngugi, R Díaz-Rúa, I Alam… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Atmospheric transport is a major vector for the long-range transport of microbial communities,
maintaining connectivity among them and delivering functionally important microbes, such …

Rapid evolution of plastic-degrading enzymes prevalent in the global ocean

I Alam, N Aalismail, C Martin, A Kamau… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Estimates of marine plastic stocks, a major threat to marine life ( 1 ), are far lower than
expected from exponentially-increasing litter inputs, suggesting important loss factors ( 2 , 3 ). …

[HTML][HTML] Investing in blue natural capital to secure a future for the Red Sea ecosystems

MJ Cziesielski, CM Duarte, N Aalismail… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
For millennia, coastal and marine ecosystems have adapted and flourished in the Red Sea's
unique environment. Surrounded by deserts on all sides, the Red Sea is subjected to high …

[HTML][HTML] Aeolian prokaryotic communities of the global dust belt over the Red Sea

NA Aalismail, R Díaz-Rúa, DK Ngugi… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Aeolian prokaryotic communities (APC) are important components of bioaerosols that are
transported freely or attached to dust particles suspended in the atmosphere. Terrestrial and …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity and sources of airborne eukaryotic communities (AEC) in the Global Dust Belt over the Red Sea

NA Aalismail, R Díaz-Rúa, N Geraldi, M Cusack… - Earth Systems and …, 2021 - Springer
Airborne eukaryotic communities (AEC), rank among the least studied aerobiological
components, despite their adverse impacts on human health and the environment. Here, we …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary Analysis of Minor Histocompatibility Genes In Hydra

N Aalismail - 2016 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
Hydra is a simple freshwater solitary polyp used as a model system to study evolutionary
aspects. The immune response of this organism has not been studied extensively and the …

[PDF][PDF] Metabarcoding and Metagenomic Characterizations of the Red Sea Sector of the Global Dust Belt's Microbiome

N Aalismail - 2020 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
Nojood A. Aalismail Atmospheric aerosols have been studied in great depth in regards to
its metrological and chemical characterizations. Covering about 33% of the planet, the Global …

Airborne Eukaryotes in the Red Sea Region

N Aalismail, R Diaz Rua, N Geraldi, M Cusack… - 2021 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
Airborne Eukaryotic Communities (AEC), rank among the least studied aerobiological
components. We describe here the AECs in the global dust belt, the area between the west coast …

Functional metagenomic analysis of airborne samples collected near Red Sea.

N Aalismail, DK Ngugi, R Diaz Rua, I Alam, M Cusack… - 2019 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
Airborne dust samples collected at the coastal and offshore regions of the Red Sea during
December 2015 to November 2016 were all sequenced through Shotgun illumina sequencing…

[PDF][PDF] 2019 Applied and Environmental Microbiology GRC/GRS

K Kusel - 2019 - osti.gov
The Gordon Research Seminar on Applied and Environmental Microbiology was a unique
forum for early career researchers to present their latest results, exchange cutting-edge …