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Microbiome & Microbial Ecology Consultant | Scientific Writing & Literature Review | PhD

Profile Summary

I am a PhD microbial ecologist and MD candidate with expertise in microbiome/microbial ecology science, microbial community design, and translational biology. I have more than five years of experience with scientific writing, data analysis and statistics, and 'omics pipelines. I offer consulting and freelance support with -Microbial community design -Microbiome and microbial ecology research -Scientific and medical writing and manuscript preparation -Literature review -Bioinformatic techniques

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Agricultural Microbiology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Computer Science
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Clinical Microbiology
• ☆ Python
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis

Work Experience

Research Collaborator

University of Chicago

August 2025 - Present

MD/PhD Student

University of Chicago

June 2020 - Present

Doctoral Researcher

University of Chicago

June 2021 - August 2025

Education

MD/PhD (Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP))

University of Chicago

June 2020 - Present

PhD | Ecology and Evolution

University of Chicago

June 2021 - August 2025

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Computer Science)

University of Chicago

September 2016 - March 2020

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

PREPRINT

Mahmoud Yousef, Kiseok Keith Lee, Jonathan Tang, Vasileios Charisopoulos, Rebecca Willett, Seppe Kuehn (2025). Collective Microbial Effects Drive Toxin Bioremediation and Enable Rational Design .

Mahmoud Yousef, Abigail Skwara, Karna Gowda, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Arjun S. Raman, Alvaro Sanchez, Mikhail Tikhonov, Seppe Kuehn (2023). Learning the functional landscape of microbial communities .

Mahmoud Yousef, Alon Shaiber, Amy D. Willis, Tom O. Delmont, Simon Roux, Lin-Xing Chen, Abigail C. Schmid, Andrea R. Watson, Karen Lolans, Özcan C. Esen, et al. (2020). Functional and genetic markers of niche partitioning among enigmatic members of the human oral microbiome .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Eren, A.M., Kiefl, E., Shaiber, A. et al. Community-led, integrated, reproducible multi-omics with anvi’o. Nat Microbiol 6, 3–6 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-00834-3 .

Alon Shaiber and Amy D. Willis and Tom O. Delmont and Simon Roux and Lin-Xing Chen and Abigail C. Schmid and Mahmoud Yousef and Andrea R. Watson and Karen Lolans and Özcan C. Esen and Sonny T. M. Lee and Nora Downey and Hilary G. Morrison and Floyd E. Dewhirst and Jessica L. Mark Welch and A. Murat Eren(2020). Functional and genetic markers of niche partitioning among enigmatic members of the human oral microbiome . Genome Biology. 21. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}