Job
Currently, I have been a teaching assistant at Edinburgh Medical School since May 2024.
About me
I love programming, teaching and research. I studied things related to biotechnology- a bachelor’s and MSc in biotechnology- in addition to programming and research- PhD and postdoctoral in bioinformatics. I am lucky to be able to practice all of them throughout my study and work which is really cool!
Experience
Programming languages: Shell, R, SQL, NLP, Python
Websites development
Analysis such as scRNA, RNA and HiC.
Courses I teach in
Data Sciences for Health and Social Care
Foundational and Applied Research Design courses
Introduction to Databases and information systems
Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Health and Social Care
Foundations of software development in Health and Social Care
In addition to a lot of other courses I support such as the AI for Care in The Degital of Age
CPD
AFHEA
PGCap in progress ..
Cool ideas
Escape room for teaching in Foundation Research Design
Supervision and Research
Co-supervising a GWAS project for PG with Dr. Kristin Nicodemus
Co-supervising a SLICC project with Dr. Nadege Atkins
A mentor in Education Beyond Borders programme at The University of Edinburgh
Publications
Laila Dabab Nahas - Google Scholar
Participating in two chapters in a coming book..
Outside work
A very proud mother
Manges here own small business, Ibn Battuta Arabic online centre for teaching Arabic for children and adults
A volunteer in Home-Start East Lothian
Started to learn playing piano recently!
Loves reading books (such as “Atomic Habits” by James Clark and “That little sound in your head” by Mo Gawdat) and socializing
Loves to learn new things