PhD student with Mara Lawniczak and Mark Blaxter | Tree of Life | Wellcome Sanger Institute | University of Cambridge | Palestinian & Italianhttps://bsky.app/profile/amjadkhalaf.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/amjadkhalaf.bsky.social/post/3mjmesfvm2s2ni'm SO lucky to be friends with @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social!!!! ❤️ What a beautiful card and celebration! Thank you to my supervisors and all my friends at the Tree of Life for an amazing four years! [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Apr 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:dtwvr5jur6ig7ilvg36mzjul/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmesfvm2s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/amjadkhalaf.bsky.social/post/3m3ro7kcksc2aReally, really happy that our work on microsporidian genomes is now out in @plosbiology.org! A huge thank you to my coauthors, my supervisors @mblaxter.bsky.social & @marakat.bsky.social, the editors @roliroberts.bsky.social & Joseph Heitman, and the reviewers ❤️ plos.io/48HsAQJ [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Oct 2025 10:47 +0000at://did:plc:dtwvr5jur6ig7ilvg36mzjul/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ro7kcksc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/amjadkhalaf.bsky.social/post/3lvjju3mcm22dit's really an honour to be interviewed by the wonderful @carmcdhume.bsky.social -- a huge thank you! ❤️🫂 [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Aug 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:dtwvr5jur6ig7ilvg36mzjul/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvjju3mcm22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/amjadkhalaf.bsky.social/post/3lvjfep6juk23it was so so lovely to do this together! 🇭🇷❤️🇵🇸 [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Aug 2025 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:dtwvr5jur6ig7ilvg36mzjul/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvjfep6juk23https://bsky.app/profile/amjadkhalaf.bsky.social/post/3lpbuonceyc2mNew preprint! We generate 40 new high-quality microsporidian genomes from infected arthropod hosts that were sequenced to create reference genomes by the Darwin Tree of Life project. 8 of our genomes are chromosome-level, and we’re able to generate Hi-C data for 7! 🧬 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.12.652816v116 May 2025 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:dtwvr5jur6ig7ilvg36mzjul/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpbuonceyc2m