Asmaa Mahmoud is a PhD candidate in Human Genetics at Memorial University, working under the supervision of Dr. Touati Benoukraf. Her research focuses on characterizing structural variants and repetitive elements in human diseases using long-read sequencing technologies, aiming to improve our understanding of disease development. Asmaa holds a BSc in Biomedical Science from Zewail University of Science and Technology, Egypt, and an MSc in Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics from Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey.