People

Bader H. Alhajeri (Full Professor of Animal Biology) [Asst. 2014-2020; Assoc. 2019-2023]

I am a Full Professor of Animal Biology at the Department of Biological Sciences at Kuwait University (CV here).  My research interests are broad in nature. Reoccurring concepts/keywords that best describe my research interests are: morphological variation, climatic adaptation, geometric morphometrics, diversification, diversity and disparity, geographic variation, rodents, desert ecology, muroids,  gerbils, jerboas,  skulls, macroecology, biogeography, phylogenetics & phylogenetic comparative methods, camel breed variation

Graduate students

8. Afnan Khaled (Biotechnology MSc. co-supervisee with Dr. Hasan Alhaddad) [2023-present]

• MSc thesis title: 

7. Kawthar Akbar (Biotechnology MSc. co-supervisee with Dr. Hasan Alhaddad) [2022-present]

• MSc thesis title: Morphological and Molecular Investigation of Dromedary Camel Hair Texture

 POSTER 1 (2023); POSTER 2 (2023); POSTER 3 (2023)

6. Mohammad Alzuwayed (Biotechnology MSc. co-supervisee with Dr. Hasan Alhaddad) [2021-2023]

• MSc thesis title: Evaluating STR markers panel for parentage testing in dromedary camel “Mezayen”

• POSTER 1 (2022)

5. Mohammed Abdullatif (Biotechnology MSc. co-supervisee with Dr. Hasan Alhaddad) [2021-2023]

• MSc thesis title: Sequencing Tyrosinase gene (TYR) as a candidate gene for syrupy coat color phenotype in dromedary camels

• POSTER 1 (2021); POSTER 2 (2022)

4. Tasneem Maraqa (Molecular Biology MSc. co-supervisee with Dr. Hasan Alhaddad) [2017-2021]

• MSc thesis title: Fibroblast Growth Factor 5 (FGF5) as a candidate gene for long-hair phenotype in dromedary camels

• POSTER 3 (2019); POSTER 4 (2020); POSTER 5 (2020);  POSTER 6 (2021); POSTER 7 (2021)

3. Zainab Dashti (Animal Biology MSc. supervisee) [2017-2021] 

• MSc thesis title: Geographic variation in the skull morphology of two monotypic gerbil species, the Indian gerbil Tatera indica and the Cape short-eared gerbil Desmodillus auricularis (Gerbillinae, Rodentia)

• POSTER 1 (2018); POSTER 2 (2019); POSTER 3 (2020)

2. Huda AlAskar (Molecular Biology MSc. co-supervisee with Dr. Hasan Alhaddad)  [2017-2020]

• MSc thesis title: Genetic diversity and population structure of camel breeds

• POSTER 1 (2018); POSTER 2 (2019); POSTER 3 (2020)

1. Randa Alaqeely (Molecular Biology MSc. co-supervisee with Dr. Hasan Alhaddad) [2017-2020]

• MSc thesis title: Mitochondrial variation in camel breeds: polymorphism quantity and direction of introgression

• POSTER 3 (2019); POSTER 4 (2020); POSTER 5 (2020)

Undergraduate students

10. Mariam Yadikar (Molecular Biology BSc. student) [2021-2022]

• Topic: Camel morphometrics

• POSTER (2022)

9. Zahraa Hasan (Molecular Biology BSc. student) [2018-2022]

• Topic 2: Dipodine jerboa geometric morphometrics

• POSTER 2 (2022); POSTER 3 (2022)

• Topic 1: Cricetid rodent external morphology variation

• POSTER 1 (2019); POSTER 2 (2020)

8. Rawan Sadeq (Animal Biology BSc. student) [2020-2022]

• Topic: Gerbil mice Eligmodontia geometric morphometrics

• POSTER (2022)

7. Sherifa Alfailakawi (Microbiology BSc. student) [2020-2021]

• Topic: Rodent geometric morphometrics

6. Sara Saeed (Molecular Biology BSc. student) [2020]

• Topic: Rodent geometric morphometrics

5. Fatma Almousa (Molecular Biology BSc. student) [2018]

• Topic: Rodent variation in external morphology

4. Muneera Alkhudher (Molecular Biology BSc. student) [2018]

• Topic: Rodent variation in external morphology

3. Amna Almousawi (Molecular Biology BSc. student) [2018]

• Topic: Rodent variation in external morphology

2. Randa Alaqeely (Molecular Biology BSc. student) [2017]

• Topic:  Camel breed geometric morphometrics

• POSTER 1 (2017); POSTER 2 (2018)

1. Tasneem Maraqa (Molecular Biology BSc. student) [2016-2017]

• Topic: Camel breed linear morphometrics

• POSTER 1 (2017); POSTER 2 (2018) 

Volunteers 

6. Amneh Tarkhan (M.Sc. in Applied Biological Sciences from Jordan University of Science and Technology) [2019-2022]

• Topic 2: Taterini geometric morphometrics

• Topic 1: Grasshopper mice Onychomys geometric morphometrics

• POSTER 1 (2020); POSTER 2 (2022)

5. Bashayer Aljumah (M.Sc. in Animal Biology from Kuwait University) [2021-2022]

• Topic: Gerbillus geometric morphometrics

• POSTER (2022)

4. Tasneem Maraqa (M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from Kuwait University) [2021-2022]

• Topic: Camel morphometrics

• POSTER 8 (2022); POSTER 9 (2022)

3. Huda AlAskar (M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from Kuwait University) [2021-2022]

• Topic: Gerbil mice Eligmodontia geometric morphometrics

• POSTER 4 (2022)

2. Randa Alaqeely (M.Sc. in Molecular Biology from Kuwait University) [2020-2022]

• Topic: Pocket mice Perognathus geometric morphometrics

• POSTER 6 (2022)

1. Shouq Alrashidi (B.Sc. in Animal Biology from Kuwait University) [2020]

• Topic: Rodent geometric morphometrics