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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Belcaid M, Kang Y, Tuanyok A, Hoang TT.
Complete genome sequence of Burkholderia cepacia strain LO6.
Genome Announcements
2015
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Belcaid M, Toonen RJ.
Demystifying computer science for molecular ecologists.
Molecular Ecology
2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Belcaid M, Bergeron A, Poisson G.
The evolution of the tape measure protein: units, duplications and losses.
BMC Bioinformatics
2011
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Belcaid M, Bergeron A, Poisson G.
Mosaic graphs and comparative genomics in phage communities.
Journal of Computational Biology
2010
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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
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Bergeron A, Belcaid M, Steward GF, Poisson G.
Divide and conquer: enriching environmental sequencing data.
PLoS One
2007
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