Principle Investigator
& Assistant Professor
African Genome Center (AGC)
University Mohamed VI Polytechnique (UM6P)
BenGuerir, Morocco
Email: ahmed.mdbulbul@um6p.ma
Cell: +212-666311476
Link for research websites:
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DKiw1IEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Researchgate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bulbul-Ahmed-2
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/bulbul-ahmed-67519418/
Bulbul Ahmed is an Assistant Professor in Genomics at African Geome Center (AGC) at University Mohamed VI Polytechnique (UM6P) in Morocco. His research focuses on genomics basis of plant-microbe interactions, environmental microbiome and its contribution to biodiversity and environmental sustainability. He has studied the intergration of cannabis microbiome study to understand how genetic variation affects microbial diversity, providing insight to secondary metabolites production. He has pioneered the group who first develop a climate-resilient strawberry variety (RABI3) which is still commercially grown in Bangladesh. His Ph.D. research focused on functional characterization of a rust effector manipulating host by remodelling transcription to suppress the transcriptional response to defence. His postdoc research focused on microbial community studies i in medicinal cannabis and hemp. Also bacterial thuricin and how does it impact on belowground microbial communities to reduce the environmental footprint of crop production.
Dr. Bulbul received his Ph.D. from University of Quebec, Trois-Rivieres (UQTR), Canada in 2017, followed by postdoctoral research at McGill University, University of Montreal, and visiting scholar at Cornell University (USA). He worked as Research Scientist at the Research & Productivity Council (RPC), New Brunswick, Canada. He started his own group in at UM6P in Morocco in 2023.