Experience
A brief overview of my professional journey. For more details, please get in touch for a more detailed CV.
Education
PhD, University of Toronto (2016-2023)
HBSc, University of Toronto (2011-2014)
IGCSE/A-Level, University of Cambridge International Examinations (2006-2009)
HBSc, University of Toronto (2011-2014)
IGCSE/A-Level, University of Cambridge International Examinations (2006-2009)
Awards and Funding
Graduate Student Researcher Award (US$1,000), ASBMB
Kenneth C. Fisher Fellowship (CA$600), University of Toronto
Post-Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral level (CA$63,000), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (CA$15,000), Ontario Government
UofT School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant (CA$1,130), University of Toronto
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship (US$1,000)*, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Brilliance Award recipient, University of Cambridge International Examinations
*Declined
Kenneth C. Fisher Fellowship (CA$600), University of Toronto
Post-Graduate Scholarship, Doctoral level (CA$63,000), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (CA$15,000), Ontario Government
UofT School of Graduate Studies Conference Grant (CA$1,130), University of Toronto
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholarship (US$1,000)*, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Brilliance Award recipient, University of Cambridge International Examinations
*Declined
Employment
Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto (2014-Present)
Course coordinator, University of Toronto Scarborough (2016)
Teaching Laboratory Technician, University of Toronto Scarborough (2015-2016)
Research Assistant and Laboratory Manager, University of Toronto Scarborough (2014-2015)
Teaching Laboratory Assistant, University of Toronto Scarborough (2013-2014)
Course coordinator, University of Toronto Scarborough (2016)
Teaching Laboratory Technician, University of Toronto Scarborough (2015-2016)
Research Assistant and Laboratory Manager, University of Toronto Scarborough (2014-2015)
Teaching Laboratory Assistant, University of Toronto Scarborough (2013-2014)
Service to profession
Co-chair, St George CSB Wellness committee (2020-2022)
Manuscript reviewer, Journals: Genomics, Molecular Biology Reports (2018-Present)
Speaker, Cell and Systems Biology Graduate Union (2019-2020)
Outreach Associate, Integrative Organismal Biology Journal (2019)
Manuscript reviewer, Journals: Genomics, Molecular Biology Reports (2018-Present)
Speaker, Cell and Systems Biology Graduate Union (2019-2020)
Outreach Associate, Integrative Organismal Biology Journal (2019)
Select Presentations
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Lovejoy, N.R., Chang, B.S.W. #DiscoverBMB, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting. March 2023. Seattle, WA (Poster)
- Elbassiouny, A.A. Great Lakes Annual Meeting of Evolutionary Genomics (GLAM EvoGen). August 2022. Buffalo, NY (Talk)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Lovejoy, N.R., Chang, B.S.W. Society for the study of Evolution annual meeting. June 2021. Online (Talk)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Kočovsky, P., Fontenelle, J.P., Mandrak, N.E., Lovejoy, N.R. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. September 2020. Online (Talk)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Lovejoy, N.R., Chang, B.S.W. International Congress for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry. August 2019. Ottawa, ON (Talk)
- DiSordi, P., Elbassiouny, A.A., Guay, S., Hamilton, A., King, S., Brown, J., Molnar, P., Stehlik, I., Andrade, M.C.B., Riggs, C.D., Ashok, A. American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting. December 2018. San Diego, CA, USA (Poster)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Chang, B.S.W., Lovejoy, N.R. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Annual Meeting. July 2018. Yokohama, Japan (Poster)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Chang, B. S. W., Lovejoy, N. R. Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences. May 2017. Ottawa, ON (Poster)
- Bansal, A., Elbassiouny, A., Ashok, A. International Summer Institute on Students as Partners. May 2017. Hamilton, ON (Poster)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Schott, R. K., Chang, B. S. W., Lovejoy, N. R. Great Lakes Bioinformatics and Canadian Computational Biology Conference. May 2016. Toronto, ON (Poster)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Schott, R. K., Chang, B. S. W., Lovejoy, N. R. Compute Ontario Research Day. May 2015. Cambridge, ON (Poster)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Lovejoy, N. R. Third Annual Interdisciplinary Research and Discovery Symposium. October 2014. Scarborough, ON (Talk)
- Elbassiouny, A.A., Tan, H. H., Bloom, D. D., Lovejoy, N. R. Ontario Ecology, Ethology and Evolution Colloquium (OE3C). May 2014. Guelph, ON (Poster)
