GenoFlow

07/08/2026

🎥 The Youth Wave Highlights 🌾
We are excited to continue sharing highlights from The Youth Wave: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era.
Today, we spotlight Ms. Rania Derouich (GenoFlow):
"Quantum AI: The Next Frontier for Plant Omics."

This presentation explores how quantum computing and artificial intelligence converge to address the computational complexity of modern plant omics. Rania introduced quantum AI as a complementary paradigm for tackling high-dimensional optimization and multi-omics integration, bridging advanced computing with molecular plant sciences to unlock new possibilities in crop research.

This presentation highlights the importance of building hybrid computational frameworks that prepare plant science for the next generation of sustainable agriculture. 🌍💚
This is just a short excerpt from the full presentation. Stay tuned as we'll be sharing highlights from all the inspiring talks featured during The Youth Wave. ❤️

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07/08/2026

🎥 The Youth Wave Highlights 🌾
We are excited to continue sharing highlights from The Youth Wave: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era.

Today, we spotlight Dr. Sabina Bajda-Wybouw (Ghent University, CropFit Business Development Centre):
"Innovation Officer, UGent Tech Transfer - Building Impact Early."
This presentation delivered a powerful message: impact is built, not added at the end. Dr. Bajda-Wybouw shared how Ghent University embeds an entrepreneurial mindset directly into the research lifecycle, turning deep science into market-ready solutions for resilient agriculture. She walked us through the CropFit pipeline - from early discovery and field validation to licensing and spin-off creation - showing how academia can actively nurture founders and bridge the gap between laboratory breakthroughs and real-world application.

Her talk highlighted why entrepreneurial spirit is essential for modern academia: it transforms knowledge into tangible societal value, creates sustainable innovation pathways, and empowers researchers to become venture builders. By supporting prospective entrepreneurs with venture design, funding readiness, and stakeholder connections before incorporation, the university helps cutting-edge technologies reach where they are needed most.
This is just a short excerpt from the full presentation. Stay tuned, as we'll be sharing highlights from all the inspiring talks featured during The Youth Wave. ❤️

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05/08/2026

🎥 The Youth Wave Highlights 🌾
We are excited to continue sharing highlights from The Youth Wave: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era.

Today, we spotlight Dr. Amal Rabaaoui (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III):
"Toward Next-Generation Plant Health: AI-Driven Multi-Omics for Intelligent Pathogen Surveillance, Mycotoxin Risk Prediction, and Microbiome-Based Plant Health Solutions."

This presentation explores how AI-driven multi-omics approaches are transforming plant health management, from intelligent pathogen surveillance and mycotoxin risk prediction to microbiome-based solutions for sustainable agriculture. Dr. Rabaaoui bridges molecular plant sciences, phytopathology, and computational biology to build the next generation of biotechnological tools for crop protection.

This presentation highlights the power of integrating genomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics to tackle emerging threats in plant health and food safety. 🌍💚

This is just a short excerpt from the full presentation. Stay tuned as we'll be sharing highlights from all the inspiring talks featured during The Youth Wave. ❤️

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05/08/2026

🎥 The Youth Wave Highlights 🛰️🌾
We are excited to continue sharing highlights from The Youth Wave: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era.

Today, we spotlight our Honor Guest, Ing. Yosra Fezzani (IIT Tunisia & Co-Lead Exobiology Team TUNSA):
"Smart AgriTech: Reconnecting Land and Technology."
This presentation explores how space technology, satellite imagery, and artificial intelligence are being harnessed to transform agriculture. Yosra shared her vision behind MgharSat, an innovative project modernizing traditional agricultural contracts by bridging field data, modern sensors, and AI-driven satellite analysis to empower farmers and optimize land use.

This presentation highlights the power of converging space tech, data science, and agronomy to build the next generation of smart, sustainable agriculture. 🌍💚

This is just a short excerpt from the full presentation. Stay tuned as we'll be sharing highlights from all the inspiring talks featured during The Youth Wave. ❤️

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03/08/2026

🎥 The Youth Wave Highlights 🌾
We are excited to continue sharing highlights from The Youth Wave: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era.

Today, we spotlight Dr. Nourelhouda Mathlouthi (GenoFlow):
"The Plant You See Is Half the Story: A Metagenomic Journey."

This presentation takes you through the hidden world of the plant microbiome, revealing that every plant hosts a complex ecosystem spanning the phyllosphere, endosphere, rhizosphere, and spermosphere. Dr. Mathlouthi explores how next-generation sequencing and shotgun metagenomics are unlocking the functional potential of these microbial communities, shifting the question from "who is there?" to "what can they do?" A key focus is placed on the delicate balance between Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) and phytopathogens, and how this balance ultimately decides plant health and resilience.

This presentation was made possible by open-access resources and public datasets, highlighting the importance of data sharing in advancing microbiome research and open science. 🌍💚
This is just a short excerpt from the full presentation. Stay tuned as we'll be sharing highlights from all the inspiring talks featured during The Youth Wave. ❤️

03/08/2026

🎥 The Youth Wave Highlights 🌾
We are excited to continue sharing highlights from The Youth Wave: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era.

Today, we spotlight Dr. Imen Belguith (GenoFlow):
"Transcriptomics Unveiled: Stress Pathways in Durum Wheat."
This presentation takes you through the fundamentals of transcriptomics, from core concepts and the RNA-seq workflow to the essential bioinformatics vocabulary needed to interpret gene expression data with confidence. Dr. Belguith reveals how transcriptomics serves as the critical bridge connecting genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, and phenomics in multi-omics research, and maps the molecular stress response networks that underpin drought, heat, disease, and oxidative stress resilience in wheat.

This work connects directly to the Chili & Mahmoudi landrace story, shedding light on the transcriptomic basis of adaptation in Tunisian durum wheat.

We acknowledge the OpenDurumGPT initiative for making these genomic and transcriptomic datasets publicly available. This presentation was made possible by these open-access resources, highlighting the importance of data sharing in advancing plant omics research and open science. 🌍💚

This is just a short excerpt from the full presentation. Stay tuned as we'll be sharing highlights from all the inspiring talks featured during The Youth Wave. ❤️

01/08/2026

🎥 The Youth Wave Highlights 🌾
We are excited to continue sharing highlights from The Youth Wave: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era.
Today, we spotlight Dr. Maroua Gdoura Ben Amor (University of Sfax, Tunisia):
"Chili & Mahmoudi: A Multi-Omic Story of Drought, Salinity, and Disease Adaptation."

This presentation takes you through a complete bioinformatics journey, from tackling a 10+ GB polyploid wheat genome with just 15 GB of RAM to discovering 27,777 high-confidence SNPs and leveraging AlphaFold 3 to reveal how a single premature stop codon truncates a key TIR-NBS-LRR immune receptor in the Mahmoudi landrace.

The team also unveiled TuniTritica, a fully interactive, browser-based web app making population-genomic and transcriptomic divergence accessible to everyone, with zero server-side dependencies.

We acknowledge the OpenDurumGPT initiative for making these Tunisian genomic datasets publicly available. This work was made possible by these open-access resources, highlighting the power of data sharing in democratizing advanced bioinformatics and open science. 🌍💚
This is just a short excerpt from the full presentation. Stay tuned, as we'll be sharing highlights from all the inspiring talks featured during The Youth Wave. ❤️

01/08/2026

🎥 The Youth Wave Highlights 🌱

We are excited to begin sharing a series of short highlights from The Youth Wave: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era.

We start with a presentation by Dr. Nourelhouda Mathlouthi:

"Chili & Mahmoudi: The Bioinformatics Pipeline – From Assembly to AI-Predicted Structure."

This presentation takes you through the bioinformatics journey, from genome assembly and annotation to comparative genomics and AI-predicted protein structures, using the Tunisian durum wheat landraces Chili and Mahmoudi as a case study.

We acknowledge the OpenDurumGPT initiative for making these Tunisian genomic datasets publicly available. This presentation was made possible by these open-access resources, highlighting the importance of data sharing in advancing bioinformatics research and open science. 🌍💚

This is just a short excerpt from the full presentation. Stay tuned as we'll be sharing highlights from all the inspiring talks featured during The Youth Wave. ❤️

31/07/2026

🌊 Afternoon Session: COMPLETE. The therapeutics wave crashed beautifully! 🌊
We just wrapped the Afternoon Session, Therapeutics of The Youth Wave, 1st Edition: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era, and the intersection of AI, structural biology, and natural medicine was nothing short of extraordinary. ⚡

Here’s what unfolded:
🧬 Dr. Mazen Sherif kicked off with a masterclass in in silico oncology, decoding curcumin’s multi-target war against colorectal cancer. From ADMET profiling and network pharmacology (Cytoscape hub analysis) to molecular docking & redocking validation against AKT1, he bridged predictive modeling with hard biological data, culminating in in-vitro validation across proliferation, apoptosis, and metastasis assays in Caco-2 cells. Pure computational-meets-wet-lab synergy.
🌿 Dr. Omnia Abdelnasser took us on a dual journey through natural therapeutics:
First, Indian Costus, unlocking sesquiterpene lactones (Costunolide, Dehydrocostus lactone, Cynaropicrin) for chronic wound healing, from ethnobotany to 3D biofilm assays.
Then, a deep dive into AI-guided discovery for vitiligo, from L-Tyrosine and 4-Hydroxysattabacin molecular architectures to an end-to-end pipeline: dry lab AI simulation → in vivo preclinical validation, achieving 70–80% effectiveness. A true “From Lab to Life” story.
🧪 Dr. Mariam Helmy closed the scientific program with AI-powered structural engineering of Vitamin B12 biosynthesis. She walked us through a complete precision-biotech pipeline, AlphaFold structure prediction of CobA, active site identification, rational mutation design, AutoDock Vina docking & redocking validation, and the winning mutant E133K with superior SAM binding affinity. Structural bioinformatics meets fermentation optimization.

💬 And of course, we closed with a vibrant Discussion & Wrap Up, ideas collided, collaborations sparked, and the MENA biotech community showed up in full force.
A massive thank you to our speakers, our co-organizers OmniGenicsOmniGenics, and our partners Ghent University and Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III for making this first edition possible.
The Youth Wave has officially made its mark. 🚀
Stay tuned, this is only the beginning.

31/07/2026

🌊 Morning Session: COMPLETE. What a wave! 🌊

We just wrapped up an incredible Morning Session of The Youth Wave, 1st Edition: Plant Omics & Therapeutics in the AI Era, and the energy has been absolutely electric! ⚡

Here’s what we witnessed so far:
🌾 Ancient grains met next-gen genomics as Dr. Maroua Gdoura Ben Amor took us deep into the multi-omic story of Tunisian durum wheat landraces.
🧬 Dr. Nour Elhouda Mathlouthi delivered not one but two powerful journeys, from the bioinformatics pipeline of Chili & Mahmoudi to a mind-expanding metagenomic adventure.
🌾 Dr. Imen Belguith unveiled the hidden transcriptomic stress pathways in durum wheat, bridging molecular biology with computational precision.
🌱 Dr. Amal Rabaaoui painted the future of plant health with AI-driven multi-omics, pathogen surveillance, and microbiome intelligence.
🛰️ Our honor guest Eng. Yosra Fezzani lit up the stage with Smart AgriTech, showing how IoT, AI, and satellite data are revolutionizing agriculture.
⚛️ Rania Derouich opened our minds to Quantum AI as the next frontier for plant omics.
🚀 And we were honored to host Dr. Sabina Bajda-Wybouw (Ghent University / CropFit), who shared priceless insights on tech transfer, spin-off creation, and building resilient agriculture from the lab to the market.

A huge thank you to our co-organizers OmniGenics, and our partners, Ghent University and Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III for powering this morning.

But the wave isn’t over. 🌊
⏰ AFTERNOON SESSION: THERAPEUTICS kicks off at 2:30 PM CET with:
Dr. Mazen Sherif on curcumin & colorectal cancer
Dr. Omnia A. Elnasser on Indian Costus and AI-guided therapeutics for vitiligo
Dr. Mariam Helmy on AI-powered Vitamin B12 biosynthesis
If you missed the morning, you can still catch the afternoon! The link is live, see you at 2:30 PM. 🧬💊
Link : meet.google.com/yxi-vnqc-pje