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Current and former researchers in the Alhajeri Lab

Prof. Bader H. Alhajeri, Ph.D.

أ.د. بدر حمد الهاجري

قسم العلوم البيولوجية - جامعة الكويت

Full Professor of Animal Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Science, Kuwait University

Professor Alhajeri studies morphological variation and adaptation in mammals, with an emphasis on rodents. His research combines museum specimens, image-based and geometric morphometrics, phylogenetics, comparative methods, and statistical analysis to examine how ecology, geography, climate, body size, and evolutionary history shape biological form.

Current MSc researchers

• Hoda Alotaibi, Molecular Biology Program, co-supervised 2024–present

MSc graduates

• Afnan Mohamed, Biotechnology Program, co-supervised 2023–2026

• Kawthar Akbar, Biotechnology Program, co-supervised 2022–2024

• Mohammad Alzuwayed, Biotechnology Program, co-supervised 2021–2023

• Mohammed Abdullatif, Biotechnology Program, co-supervised 2021–2023

• Abeer Al-Enezi, Microbiology Program, MSc examination committee member, 2021

• Tasneem Maraqa, Molecular Biology Program, co-supervised 2017–2021

• Zainab Dashti, Animal Biology Program, supervised 2017–2021

• Huda Alaskar, Molecular Biology Program, co-supervised 2017–2020

• Randa Alaqeely, Molecular Biology Program, co-supervised 2017–2020

Researchers and student volunteers

These researchers contributed to directed independent projects in the lab’s morphometrics program, primarily involving rodents and camels.

• Asmaa Alghanem, independent researcher, 2026 

• Jasmine Kelleher, undergraduate research volunteer, 2026

• Zainab Dashti, independent researcher, 2026

• Nathan Katalan, independent researcher, 2025

• Bashayer Aljumah, independent researcher, 2021–2022

• Huda Alaskar, independent researcher, 2021–2022

• Mariam Yadikar, undergraduate research volunteer, 2021–2022

• Tasneem Maraqa, independent researcher, 2021–2026

• Randa Alaqeely, independent researcher, 2020–2026

• Rawan Sadeq, undergraduate research volunteer, 2020–2022

• Amneh Tarkhan, independent researcher, 2019–2022

• Zahraa Hasan, undergraduate research volunteer, 2019–2022

• Sherifa Alfailakawi, undergraduate research volunteer, 2020–2021

• Sara Saeed, undergraduate research volunteer, 2020

• Shouq Alrashidi, independent researcher, 2020

• Amna Almousawi, undergraduate research volunteer, 2018

• Fatma Almousa, undergraduate research volunteer, 2018

• Muneera Alkhudher, undergraduate research volunteer, 2018

• Randa Alaqeely, undergraduate research volunteer, 2017

• Tasneem Maraqa, undergraduate research volunteer, 2016–2017

Projects have covered rodent geometric morphometrics and geographic variation, as well as camel morphology, genetics, and phenotypic variation. Selected research outputs from these projects, including conference posters and peer-reviewed papers, are available on ResearchGate.