Ahmed Moustafa Resume

This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Phycology ©2005,
The Phycological Society of America.

This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Phycology ©2006,
The Phycological Society of America.

This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Phycology ©2007,
The Phycological Society of America.

Ahmed Moustafa’s Résumé

Graduate research assistant (PhD Candidate), The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics,
Computational Genetics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Education

University of Iowa: Graduate Research Assistant (August 2005-Present)
Kaiser Permanente: Senior Software Engineer (May 2000-August 2005)
Arab Academy for Science and Technology: Software Engineer/Network Administrator (February 1999-May 2000)
Alexandria University: Teaching Assistant (September 1998-February 1999)
Alexandria University: Information Technology Consultant (September 1998-February 1999)

Ahmed Moustafa and Debashish Bhattacharya, PhyloSort: a user-friendly phylogenetic sorting tool and its application to estimating the cyanobacterial contribution to the nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas, BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:6 (2008)
Naomi Phillips, Calhoun Sam, Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya, and Edward Braun, Genomic insights into evolutionary relationships among heterokont lineages emphasizing the phaeophyceae, Journal of Phycology 44 (1), 15.18 (2008)
Ahmed Moustafa and Debashish Bhattacharya, ESTeasy: a user-friendly program for EST processing and analysis, (In preparation)
Ahmed Moustafa, JAligner: open source Java implementation of Smith-Waterman, (2003)

Ahmed Moustafa and Debashish Bhattacharya, Computational tools to facilitate the understanding of genome evolution of microalgae and the formation of toxic red tides. Talk and poster at the Fourth Symposium on Harmful Algae in the U.S., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. October 30, 2007. (Awarded a travel voucher)
Naomi Phillips, Calhoun Sam, Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish Bhattacharya, and Edward Braun, Genomic insights into evolutionary relationships among Heterokont lineages. Talk at the Botany & Plant Biology Joint Congress, Chicago, Illinois, USA. July 7, 2007
Ahmed Moustafa and Debashish Bhattacharya, ESTeasy: a user-friendly tool for processing EST data and its application in a comparative analysis of four microalgal species. Talk at the Botany & Plant Biology Joint Congress, Chicago, Illinois, USA. July 7, 2007
Ahmed Moustafa, Nick Rorick, Akira Kinoshita, Margaret Malik and Brian Schutte, Computational approach to predict Interferon regulatory factor 6 (Irf6) targets. Talk at the Sixth annual Joint Bioinformatics Symposium, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. July 14, 2006

Designed and developed the open source JAligner for biological local pairwise sequence alignment. JAligner has been incorporated into many academic, open source and commercial applications such as STRAP (Gille et al. 2003), Argo (Engels et al. 2006), BioWeka (Gewehr et al. 2007), and SeqFEATURE (Wu et al. 2008)

Last modified: 2.14.2008