COBRE

Mahdi Belcaid, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Bioinformatics Core Assistant Researcher, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology

Phone: 808-956-6049
Office: POST310A
Email: mahdi [at] hawaii.edu

Bio

Education


2001	B.S.	(Computer Science) University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
2006	M.S.	(Computer Science) University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
2012	Ph.D.	(Computer Science) University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

Selected Publications

Forsman ZH, Knapp ISS, Tisthammer K, Eaton DAR, Belcaid M, Toonen RJ.
Coral hybridization or phenotypic variation? Genomic data reveal gene flow between Porites lobata and P. compressa.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 2017 more details...
Bhattacharya D, Agrawal S, Aranda M, Baumgarten S, Belcaid M, Drake JL, Erwin D, Foret S, Gates RD, Gruber DF, Kamel B, Lesser MP, Levy O, Liew YJ, MacManes M, Mass T, Medina M, Mehr S, Meyer E, Price DC, Putnam HM, Qiu H, Shinzato C, Shoguchi E, Stokes AJ, Tambutt S, Tchernov D, Voolstra CR, Wagner N, Walker CW, Weber AP, Weis V, Zelzion E, Zoccola D, Falkowski PG.
Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals.
Elife 2016 more details...
Elfekih S, Chen CY, Hsu JC, Belcaid M, Haymer D.
Identification and preliminary characterization of chemosensory perception-associated proteins in the melon fly Bactrocera cucurbitae using RNA-seq.
Scientific Reports 2016 more details...
Jarvi SI, Bianchi KR, Farias ME, Txakeeyang A, McFarland T, Belcaid M, Asano A.
Characterization of class II beta chain major histocompatibility complex genes in a family of Hawaiian honeycreepers: ’amakihi (Hemignathus virens).
Immunogenetics 2016 more details...
Kumar M, Belcaid M, Nerurkar VR.
Identification of host genes leading to West Nile virus encephalitis in mice brain using RNA-seq analysis.
Scientific Reports 2016 more details...
Belcaid M, Kang Y, Tuanyok A, Hoang TT.
Complete genome sequence of Burkholderia cepacia strain LO6.
Genome Announcements 2015 more details...
Belcaid M, Toonen RJ.
Demystifying computer science for molecular ecologists.
Molecular Ecology 2015 more details...
Beurmann S, Videau P, Ushijima B, Smith AM, Aeby GS, Callahan SM, Belcaid M.
Complete genome sequence of Pseudoalteromonas sp. strain OCN003, isolated from Kaneohe Bay, O’ahu, Hawaii.
Genome Announcements 2015 more details...
Hoffmann PR, Panigada M, Soprana E, Terry F, Bandar IS, Napolitano A, Rose AH, Hoffmann FW, Ndhlovu LC, Belcaid M, Moise L, De Groot AS, Carbone M, Gaudino G, Matsui T, Siccardi A, Bertino P.
Preclinical development of HIvax: Human survivin highly immunogenic vaccines.
Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics 2015 more details...
Culley AI, Mueller JA, Belcaid M, Wood-Charlson EM, Poisson G, Steward GF.
The characterization of RNA viruses in tropical seawater using targeted PCR and metagenomics.
MBio 2014 more details...
Jarvi SI, Farias ME, Lapointe DA, Belcaid M, Atkinson CT.
Next-generation sequencing reveals cryptic mtDNA diversity of Plasmodium relictum in the Hawaiian Islands.
Parasitology 2013 more details...
Steward GF, Culley AI, Mueller JA, Wood-Charlson EM, Belcaid M, Poisson G.
Are we missing half of the viruses in the ocean?
International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal 2013 more details...
Owens JB, Urschitz J, Stoytchev I, Dang NC, Stoytcheva Z, Belcaid M, Maragathavally KJ, Coates CJ, Segal DJ, Moisyadi S.
Chimeric piggyBac transposases for genomic targeting in human cells.
Nucleic Acids Research 2012 more details...
Belcaid M, Baek K, Haymer D, Poisson G.
Efficient clustering of populations using a minimal SNP panel.
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2011 more details...
Belcaid M, Bergeron A, Poisson G.
The evolution of the tape measure protein: units, duplications and losses.
BMC Bioinformatics 2011 more details...
Belcaid M, Bergeron A, Poisson G.
Mosaic graphs and comparative genomics in phage communities.
Journal of Computational Biology 2010 more details...
Menor M, Baek K, Belcaid M, Gingras Y, Poisson G.
Virus DNA-fragment classification using taxonomic hidden Markov model profile.
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2010 more details...
Bergeron A, Belcaid M, Steward GF, Poisson G.
Divide and conquer: enriching environmental sequencing data.
PLoS One 2007 more details...