Conference Presentations

  1. Omar Darwish, Zhongchi Liu, Janet Slovin, Nadim W. Alkharouf. Re-annotation of the strawberry (Fragaria vesca) genome. Plant and Animal Genome XXII Conference, Jan 12-15, 2014. Poster Presentation.
  2. Omar Darwish, Janet Slovin, Chunying Kang, Courtney A. Hollender, Aviva Geretz, Rachel Shahan, Sam Huston, Zhongchi Liu, Nadim W. Alkharouf. FVGD: AN ONLINE RESOURCE FOR STRAWBERRY (FRAGARIA VESCA) GENOMIC DATA. Thirtieth annual meeting of the mid-Atlantic plant molecular biology society (MAPMBS), August 15-16, 2013. Poster Presentation.
  3. Ian Misner, Arnab Pain, Nadim Alkharouf and Dilip Lakshman. Novel genome sequences for Rhizoctonia solani – Comparative genomics, pathogenicity, and evolution. Thirtieth annual meeting of the mid-Atlantic plant molecular biology society (MAPMBS), August 15-16, 2013. Talk.
  4. Timothy L. Martin, Margaret H. MacDonald, Nadim W. Alkharouf, Frank J. Turano, & Benjamin F. Matthews. EXPRESSION OF PUTRESCINE AMINOTRANSFERASE TO INCREASE GABA IN SOYBEAN ROOTS AS A MEANS OF DEFENSE AGAINST SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE. Twenty Ninth annual meeting of the mid-Atlantic plant molecular biology society (MAPMBS), p 23 August 16-17, 2012. Poster Presentation.
  5. Lisa Rowland, Nadim Alkharouf and Elizabeth Ogden. Development and Use of Genomic Tools in Blueberry Research. 18th Biennial Penn State Plant Biology Symposium, “Plant Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics”. May 18-21, 2011. Poster Presentation.
  6. Omar Darwish, Lisa Rowland and Nadim Alkharouf. Transcriptome analysis of Blueberry using 454 EST sequencing. TU Student Research and Scholarship Expo, April 21, 2011. Poster Presentation.
  7. Ahmed Ismail and Nadim Alkharouf. Bioinformatics tools and analysis to identify lethal genes in Root Knot Nematode (Meloidogyne spp.). TU Student Research and Scholarship Expo, April 21, 2011. Poster Presentation.
  8. Parsa Hosseini, Arianne Tremblay, Nadim Alkharouf and Benjamin Matthews. Analysis of Glycine max mRNA-Seq data upon a time-course infection with Phakospora pachyrhizi. Twenty Seventh annual meeting of the mid-Atlantic plant molecular biology society (MAPMBS), p 30 August 12-13, 2010. Poster Presentation.
  9. Nadim Alkharouf, Omar Darwish and Lisa Rowland. Transcriptome analysis of Blueberry using 454 EST sequencing. North American Blueberry Research and Extension Workers Conference, July 25-28, 2010. Poster Presentation.
  10. Lisa J. Rowland, Nadim Alkharouf, Nahla V. Bassil, Lee Beers, Daniel J. Bell, Emily J. Buck, Francis A. Drummond, Chad E. Finn, Julie Graham, James F. Hancock, Susan McCallum, and James W. Olmstead. Generating genomic tools for blueberry improvement. North American Blueberry Research and Extension Workers Conference, July 25-28, 2010. Talk.
  11. Stephen Neyens and Nadim Alkharouf. 2010. The soybean genomics and microarray database, version 3.0. The Colonial Academic Alliance (CAA) Undergraduate Research Conference, April 16-17, Richmond, VA.
  12. Lisa J. Rowland, Nadim Alkharouf, Nahla Bassil, Daniel Bell, Emily Buck, Frank Drummond, Chad Finn, Julie Graham, and Jim Hancock. 2010. GENERATING GENOMIC TOOLS FOR BLUEBERRY IMPROVEMENT—A PROGRESS UPDATE. Plant and Animal Genome XVIII Conference, January 9-13.
  13. Stephen Neyens, Michael Matthews, Benjamin F. Matthews and Nadim W. Alkharouf. 2009. THE SOYBEAN GENOMICS & MICROARRAY DATABASE, AN UPDATE. Twenty Sixth annual meeting of the mid-Atlantic plant molecular biology society (MAPMBS), p 21, August 20-21, 2009.
  14. Heba M. M. Ibrahim, Nadim Alkharouf, Susan L. F. Meyer, Manar Sanad, Abd El Kader Gamal El-Din, Ebtissam Hussein and Benjamin F. Matthews. 2009. POST TRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING OF ROOT-KNOT NEMATODE IN SOYBEAN. Twenty Sixth annual meeting of the mid-Atlantic plant molecular biology society (MAPMBS), p 22, August 20-21, 2009.
  15. Matthews B, Klink V, Kim K, Lee S, Park S, Alkharouf N. 2009. Broadening resistance of soybean to the soybean cyst nematode using biotechnology. Plant Biology Meeting, July 18-22.
  16. Parsa Hosseini and Nadim Alkharouf, 2009. Reassembling the Soybean genome using next-generation Solexa sequencing, and analysis of its fluxome using flux coupling analysis – a Systems Biology approach. Towson University annual student research and expo, May 5.
  17. Robert Riggs and Nadim Alkharouf, 2008. dbEstUMD: Bioinformatics Tool Automates Submission of Expressed Sequence Tags to NCBI’s dbEST Database. Biotechnology symposium, Twenty Fifth annual meeting of the mid-Atlantic plant molecular biology society (MAPMBS), p 29, August 21-22, 2008.
  18. Khan-Dung H. Nguyen and Nadim Alkharouf. 2007. Identification of root knot nematode genes with high identity to those of Caenorhabditis elegans having lethal mutant or RNAi phenotypes. Twenty Fourth annual meeting of the mid-Atlantic plant molecular biology society (MAPMBS), p 40, August 16-17, 2007.
  19. Lisa J. Rowland, Anik L. Dhanaraj, Dhananjay Naik, Nadim Alkharouf, Ben Matthews, and Rajeev Arora. 2007. Understanding Cold Tolerance in Blueberry Using EST Libraries and cDNA Microarrays. American Society for Horticultural Sciences meeting (ASHS), July 2007.
  20. Nguyen, K.H., and N. Alkharouf. 2007. Computational Identification of Lethal Genes in Root Knot Nematode. Fifth Annual Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Conference, Wilmington, NC, p 20.
  21. Nguyen, K.H. and N. Alkharouf. 2007. Computational Identification of Lethal Genes in Root Knot Nematode. Towson University Expo, Towson, MD.
  22. Alkharouf, N., and B. F. Matthews, 2005. Applying Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) to Mine Gene Expression Databases. 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), PLOS G-7.
  23. Alkharouf, N, Klink VP, and Matthews BF. 2005. Identification of soybean cyst nematode lethal genes using computational methods. Mid Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society Meeting (MAPMBS 2005).
  24. Klink VP, MacDonald M, Alkharouf N, and Matthews BF. 2005. Laser capture microdissection (LCM) and gene expression analysis of cDNAs isolated from soybean syncytial cells formed by the soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines, abstract 76. 22nd Annual Missouri Symposium; Genomics and Beyond: Frontiers in Plant Biology.
  25. Alkharouf, N., I. Chouikha, H. Beard, M. MacDonald, and B. F. Matthews, 2004. The use of data warehousing and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) to identify resistance genes and pathways in a resistant soybean cultivar (Peking) against the cyst nematode. MAPMBS 2004, p30.
  26. Dhanaraj, A. L., Alkharouf, N., H. S. Beard, I. B. Chouikha, B. F. Matthews and L. J. Rowland. 2004. Preliminary studies on microarray analysis of gene expression during cold acclimation in blueberry. MAPMBS 2004, p32.
  27. Klink, V. P., M. MacDonald, N. Alkharouf and B. F. Matthews, 2004. Laser capture microdissection (LCM) and expressed sequence tag analysis of the syncytium formed by the soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines in Glycine max (soybean). MAPMBS 2004, p29.
  28. Alkharouf, N., N. Alkharouf, I. Chouikha, C. Jamison, and B.F. Matthews, 2003. Effects of normalization methods on the reproducibility of Microarray data. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2003, poster session.
  29. Alkharouf, N. and B.F. Matthews, 2002. Recent updates to the Soybean Genomics and Microarray Database (SGMD). MAPMBS 2002, p33.
  30. Alkharouf, N. and B. Matthews, 2002. SGMD: An Integrated Microarray Database. MGED IV, p3.
  31. Alkharouf, N., I.B. Chouikha and B.F. Matthews, 2002. Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. BARC Poster day, p36.
  32. Matthews, B.F., R. Khan, N. Alkharouf, H. Beard, H. MacDonald and H. Knap, 2002. Microarray analysis of gene expression in soybean resistant or susceptible to soybean cyst nematode. Plant & Animal Genome IX.
  33. Matthews, B.F., R. Khan, N. Alkharouf, H. Beard, H. MacDonald and H. Knap, 2002. Microarray analysis of gene expression in soybean roots attacked by the soybean cyst nematode. 10th IAPTC&B Conference.
  34. Alkharouf, N. and B.F. Matthews, 2001. SMGD: The Soybean Genomics and Microarray Database. MAPMBS. p32.
  35. Khan, R. N. Alkharouf, H. Beard, M. MacDonald, H. Knap and B. Matthews. 2001. Genomic expression profiling in soybean plants resistant or susceptible to soybean cyst nematode (SCN). Plant Biology Proceedings. p158.
  36. Matthews, B.F., H.S. Beard, M.H. MacDonald and N. Alkharouf, 2000. Expression of genes involved in the resistance of soybean to the soybean cyst nematode. 6th International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology. S22 – 70