Amin Mohamed is a PhD candidate at James Cook University studying chromerids and apicomplexans associated with coral reefs under a Egyptian Government PhD Scholarship and AIMS@JCU Top-Up Scholarship. He is supervised by professors and doctors at JCU and AIMS. Amin completed his BSc in Zoology in Egypt in 2006 and his MSc provided baseline data on coral health in the Egyptian Red Sea. His PhD project aims to understand the role of chromerids and apicomplexans in coral health using next-generation sequencing to analyze gene expression in corals exposed to Chromera velia. He conducted infection experiments in Japan and Australia and is now analyzing the large sequencing datasets using bio