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10 December, 2024

KAUST receives large investment to strengthen research in date palms

09 December, 2024

Saudi Student Joins Prestigious RE.GENERATION Future Leaders Cohort to Champion Coral Conservation

05 December, 2024

Call for action on land restoration and food systems

02 December, 2024

KAUST Urban Lab: Tackling desertification and paving the way toward a sustainable future for KSA cities

02 December, 2024

Saudi deserts transformed: Terraxy’s CarboSoil, SandX pave path toward “green” future

01 December, 2024

Giving coral reefs a fighting chance for survival

28 November, 2024

BESE’s Kyle Lauersen Wins 2024 KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award

28 November, 2024

KAUST and King Salman Center for Disability Research sign research agreement

27 November, 2024

Prof. Fernando Maestre Named 2024 Eminent Ecologist

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Dec 2024

Invited Seminar

Investigating and exploiting plant immune receptor mechanisms for crop disease control

Professor Jonathan Jones

10

Dec 2024

BESE Seminar

BESE 398 Graduate Seminars Series:Ecological concepts behind bacterial invasions: from single species to community coalescence

Professor Joana Falcao Salles

05

Dec 2024

Invited Seminar

Spatially Resolved RNA Analysis: profiling RNA in situ through sequencing and hybridization

Professor Yanyi Huang

05

Dec 2024

Invited Seminar

Understanding Biology through Spatiotemporal Omics

Dr. Ying Gu

05

Dec 2024

PhD Dissertation Defense

Structural and functional investigations of strigolactone perception in plants

Alexandra Vancea

03

Dec 2024

Environmental Science & Engineering Seminar

Resource recovery from wastewater and seawater

Professor Hokyong Shon

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