Abdurrahman Abul-Basher, Ph. D.

Dr. Abul-Basher is an expert in processing and analyzing metagenomic sequence data to reconstruct metabolic pathways (or subnetworks) and to discover the structure and diversity of microbial communities. He obtained his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Prior to joining Lee Lab, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Hallam's Lab at Life Sciences Institute at UBC. He also worked at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre for more than two years to analyze large-scale PubMed articles using natural language processing methods. His primary research interests include metagenomic data analysis, graph and network mining, privacy-preserving healthcare informatics and human metagenome, understanding and modeling protein interactions to optimize drug discovery, and elucidating the cell phenotypic transition dynamics from live-cell images and high-dimensional gene expression data (e.g., transcriptomics and proteomics) across human tissues. Personal Website