Book Chapters

• Paparella, F., Popolizio, M., & Vichi, M. (2021). Stirring, mixing, growing: numerical challenges to phytoplankton modeling. PROCEEDINGS OF SIMAI 2020+ 21. https://iris.unipa.it/retrieve/handle/10447/527666/1264481/Book_Abstracts_SIMAI2020_21%20%281%29.pdf#page=433
• Co-PI John A. Burt published A Natural History of the Emirates, a 748-page, 24-chapter celebration of the environment, ecosystem, and organisms of the UAE, including humanity’s place in this natural mosaic; it is published by Springer. Thanks to the generous support of NYUAD’s government partners, Tamkeen, this book has been made fully open access and is freely available online for all members of the public. The book may be accessed via: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37397-8. As lead editor of A Natural History of the Emirates, Burt also led or co-authored many chapters within this book on topics including the UAE’s marine environment, its climate, and our important but vulnerable coral reefs. Additionally, he has written on the importance of cities as ecosystems in the Emirates and a synthetic chapter on policy recommendations to ensure a sustainable future for the UAE going forward. Sample chapters include Burt, J. A. (2023).
• Co-PI Shady Amin’s manuscript “The Diatom Microbiome: New Perspectives for Diatom-Bacteria Symbioses” was accepted and published in a book entitled The Molecular Life of Diatoms, published by Springer Nature.
• Co-PI Shady Amin’s manuscript was accepted by Marine Life Science & Technology entitled: “Improving the genome and proteome annotations of the marine model diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana using a proteogenomics strategy”
• Co-PI Shady Amin’s manuscript was accepted by PLOS One entitled: In vitro α-glucosidase inhibitory activity of Tamarix nilotica shoot extracts and fractions.
• Co-PI Shady Amin’s manuscript was accepted by the International Journal of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology (IJSEM) entitled: “Phycobacter azelaicus gen. nov. sp. nov., a diatom symbiont isolated from the phycosphere of Asterionellopsis glacialis”. The paper discovers a new genus and species of bacteria from the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Co-PI Shady Amin’s lab used it to map out how a lot of bacteria metabolize azelaic acid, the active ingredient in most acne-treating creams and a common molecule produced by plants and algae to modulate their microbiome.
  https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.006104?originator=authorOffprint&identity=206240&timestamp=20241027130712&signature=326bb3d309903aeb625c865b49cc5ea8 

• Co-PI Shady Amin’s manuscript was accepted by FEMS Microbiology Reviews entitled: “The coral microbiome: Towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral-microbiota interactions”
• Co-PI Shady Amin’s manuscript was accepted by Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering entitled: Lactate addition boosts valerate yields in granular mixed culture carbohydrate fermentation.
• Co-PI Shady Amin’s manuscript was accepted by Microorganisms entitled: Closing the Gap between Bio-Based and Petroleum-Based Plastic through Bioengineering.” The paper reviews current knowledge about bioplastics vs synthetic plastics and their future use in biotechnology and engineering.
• Co-PI Shady Amin’s manuscript was accepted by eLife entitled: “Molecular mechanisms of microbiome modulation by the eukaryotic secondary metabolite azelaic acid”. Azelaic acid is a common algal and plant molecule that promotes the growth of symbionts of algae. The molecular mechanisms that enable this single molecule to have opposing effects on bacteria is completely unknown. This paper shows for the first time why some bacteria can benefit from this molecule while others are killed by it. Using azelaic acid, algae can manipulate their microbiome to enrich symbionts and beneficial bacteria while inhibiting harmful ones.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/88525