Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hanin has a keen interest in host-microbiome systems. She is currently working on the Red Sea mangrove microbiome project. Her work focused on the mechanisms underlying the abiotic stress tolerance of plants conferred by beneficial microbes from extreme environments.
She is interested in mangroves as mangroves are one of the most important carbon sinks in the world. Protecting mangrove forests and maintaining their health is the main objective of the mangrove microbiome initiative (MMI), which our laboratory is leading in collaboration with many laboratories around the world.
The beneficial interaction between a host and its microbiome is essential for keeping hosts and ecosystems healthy. In extreme environments, the microbiome is adapted to confer tolerance on the host to thrive. This can be observed in many ecosystems, such as deserts, shores, and the northern Red Sea mangroves. For that, understanding this interaction would unlock the great potential of the extremophile microbiome to serve as a tool in sustaining healthy shores of mangrove forests, and healthier water bodies for marine life.