Mostafa Elshahed
Dr. Mostafa Elshahed holds a BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (1993). After working as a pharmacist in Egypt for 3 years (1993-1996), he started his graduate studies in the United States at the University of Oklahoma. During graduate school, he worked under the guidance of Dr. Michael McInerney and researched pathways for the degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons under anaerobic conditions. He was a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Lee Krumholz, also at the University of Oklahoma. His post-doctoral research was centered on microbial community characterization in hydrocarbon-impacted environments. Dr. Elshahed joined the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma in January 2007 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, and was promoted to a tenured Associate Professor in August 2011. Currently, Dr. Elshahed has multiple research interests. Some of them are a logical extension of his PhD and post-doctoral training e.g. environmental genomics and single cell genomics of anaerobic ecosystems, while others represent new research interests he developed since e.g. physiology and genomics of anaerobic fungi (Phylum Neocallimastigomycota). Dr. Elshahed has received the Junior Faculty Award for Scholarly Excellence College of Arts & Sciences at Oklahoma State University in 2010. Dr. Elshahed has published 53 peer-reviewed journal articles, authored 3 book chapters, and was invited to present his research in 20 different regional, national, and international venues.