Departamento: Plant Biology

Centro académico: Faculty of Biology

Research group: Molecular Systematics, Phylogeography and Conservation in Bryophytes

Email: mahmoud.magdy@um.es

Doctor by the Universidad de Murcia with the thesis Variabilidad genética en musgos y su relación con procesos adaptativos al cambio climático en ambientes mediterráneos= Genetic variability in mosses and its relation to climate change adaptation processes in mediterranean environments 2013. Supervised by Dr. Olaf Werner, Dr. Rosa María Ros Espín.

My research interests encompass the application of genomics and molecular techniques to investigate extranuclear genomes and gene families, primarily from agricultural and evolutionary perspectives. I am also involved in molecular identification and assessing micro and macro biodiversity in extreme environments. My expertise lies in genomics and transcriptomics, focusing on elucidating patterns that explain population dynamics associated with speciation, hybridization, and adaptation to environmental stresses like drought and salinity. My methodologies encompass a wide range, from nucleic acids extraction, single-locus genotyping, and fingerprinting to the comprehensive characterization of entire genomes, epigenomes, and transcriptomes. My research also involves in-depth analysis using bioinformatics tools and computational biology approaches.