Amal Abu Rayyan
Halhul, West-Bank, Palestine.
Phone: (H)+(972) 2211916
(M)+(972) 599085659
E-mail: aaburayyan@hotmail.com , amalr@bethlehem.edu
Education
Master Student , Bethlehem University, Biotechnology Program, 2010-2011
B.Sc., Bethlehem University, Biology / Chemistry, 1994-1998.
General Secondary Examination Certificate (Al-Tawjihi), Al Hajj Ibrahim Barakat Secondary
School, 1993-1994.
Professional experience
Research assistant, Hereditary Research Laboratory, Biology Department, Bethlehem
University, December 15th , 1999 - until now.
Teacher, Ministry of Education, Palestinian Authority, 1998-1999.
Awards
EMBO Young Investigator Summer Fellowship 2011 .Weizmann Institute, Dr. Amos Tanay
Lab.
European Society of Human Genetics scholarship, for attending the 3rd Mediterranean
Medical Genetics Meeting, Ankara, Turkey, 2009.
Nature Genetics Best Poster Award: 3rd Mediterranean Medical Genetics 2009 for the Poster
entitled : Five novel loci for inherited hearing loss mapped by SNP-based homozygosity
profiles in Palestinian families.
Publications
Kattan R, Abu Rayyan A, Zheiman I, Idkeidek S, Baraghithi S, Rishmawi N, Turkuman S,
Abu-Diab A, Ghneim R, Zoughbi M, Dauodi R, Ghneim R, El Razeq Issa A, Siryani I, Al
Qas R, Liddawi R, Khamash H, Kanaan M, Marzouqa H, Hindiyeh MY. Serotype
distribution and drug resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Palestinian Territories.
Emerging Infectious Diseases 17: 94-96, 2011. PMID: 21192863
Shahin H, Rahil M, Abu Rayan A, Avraham KB, King M-C, Kanaan M, Walsh T. Nonsense
mutation of the stereociliar membrane protein gene PTPRQ in human hearing loss DFNB84.
Journal of Medical Genetics 47: 643-645, 2010. PMID: 20472657
Walsh T, Shahin H, Elkan-Miller T, Lee MK, Thornton AM, Roeb W, Abu Rayyan A,
Loulus S, Avraham KB, King M-C, Kanaan M. Whole exome sequencing and homozygosity
mapping identify mutation in the cell polarity protein GPSM2 as the cause of non-syndromic
hearing loss DFNB82. American Journal of Human Genetics 87: 90-94, 2010. PMID:
20602914
Shahin H, Walsh T, Abu Rayyan A, Lee MK, Higgins J, Dickel D, Lewis K, Thompson J,
Baker C, Nord AS, Stray S, Gurwitz D, Avraham KB, King M-C, Kanaan M. Five novel loci
for inherited hearing loss mapped by SNP-based homozygosity profiles in Palestinian
families. European Journal of Human Genetics 18: 407-413, 2010. PMID: 19888295
Shahin H, Walsh T, Sobe T, Abu Sa'ed J, Abu Rayan A, Lynch ED, Lee MK, Avraham KB,
King M-C, Kanaan M. Mutations in a novel isoform of TRIOBP that encodes a filamentous
TRIO and F-actin binding protein are responsible for DFNB28 recessive non-syndromic
hearing loss. American Journal of Human Genetics 78: 144-152, 2006. PMID: 16385458
Walsh T, Abu Rayan A, Abu Sa’ed J, Shahin H, Shepshelovich J, Lee MK, Hirschberg K,
Tekin M, Salhab W, Avraham KB, King M-C, Kanaan M. Genomic analysis of a
heterogeneous Mendelian phenotype: Multiple novel alleles for inherited hearing loss in the
Palestinian population. Human Genomics 2: 203-211, 2006. PMID: 16460646
References
Prof. Moien Kanaan, Dean of Science and Hereditary Research Lab Director, Bethlehem
University . mkanaan@zimbra.bethlehem.edu
Prof. Adnan Shquer, Chairperson, Biology Department, Bethlehem University.
Prof. Naeim Iraqi, UNESCO Center, Biology Department, Bethlehem University.
Prof. Mary-Claire King, Departments of Medicine and Genome Sciences, University of
Washington, Seattle WA 98195 USA. mcking@u.washington.edu
Languages
Arabic and English