Rate My Professor Salah Abdel-Ghany

Salah Abdel-Ghany is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Colorado State University, where he conducts research on the regulation of gene expression in response to abiotic stresses at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. His investigations encompass chromatin modifications, pre-mRNA splicing, and small noncoding RNAs. Abdel-Ghany earned a Master's degree from Zagazig University in Zagazig, Egypt, in 1992, and a Doctorate in Biology from Colorado State University in 2001. His earlier research contributions focused on metal homeostasis in plants, including copper cofactor delivery and iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis in chloroplasts and mitochondria. Notable publications include "Two P-Type ATPases Are Required for Copper Delivery in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts of Arabidopsis thaliana" published in The Plant Cell in 2005, "Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis in Chloroplasts. Involvement of the SUF Pathway and the Role of the ABC-Type ATPase CSL" in Plant Physiology in 2005, "MicroRNA-mediated Systemic Down-regulation of Constitutive Sulfur Transporter Transcript Abundance in Arabidopsis" in The Plant Journal in 2008, "Constitutive Expression of an Arabidopsis Sulfate Transporter Confers Enhanced Selenium Tolerance to Yeast" in the Journal of Environmental Quality in 2006, and "Transcriptome Analysis of Drought-Resistant and Susceptible Cowpea Cultivars" in Genes in 2020. More recent work includes "Rapid sequence evolution is associated with genetic incompatibilities in the plastid Clp complex" published in New Phytologist in 2022.

Abdel-Ghany teaches undergraduate courses at Colorado State University, including BZ 440 Plant Physiology, BZ 310 Cell Biology, BZ 120 Principles of Plant Biology, and BZ 104 Basic Concepts of Plant Life. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, such as MCB-1733227. According to his Google Scholar profile, his work has accumulated over 6,450 citations, reflecting impact in areas such as drought stress, cytonuclear interactions, iron, and copper homeostasis in plants. He maintains an office in Biology Building Room 402 and is reachable at (970) 491-4896.