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Mai Rahmoon

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Biography

Mai joined the AIC in April 2023 as an Advanced Microscopy Fellow. Prior to joining the AIC, Mai was a postdoctoral research fellow at Zewail City (ZC) for Science and Technology in Cairo, Egypt. Also, Mai was co-leading the microscopy training, education, and awareness (TEA) working group in the African BioImaging Consortium (ABIC) where they work on providing educational materials and curriculum that can be shared by African Institutes. Her PhD research was a collaboration between the German University in Cairo and ZC that involved studying DNA repair mechanisms and cancer metabolism using mammalian cell lines and Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strain as a model organism. At the AIC, Mai will be involved in light-sheet microscopy and image analysis.