Biruhalem Taye Beyene

Dedicated bioinformatician and infection biologist with 16+ years of experience in basic and clinical research in international, multidisciplinary, and collaborative teams. Expertise in bioinformatics with background in infectious diseases and clinical laboratory science. Excellent communicator with extensive teaching experience. Passionate about applying advanced bioinformatics tools for disease surveillance, diagnostics biomarkers and therapeutics targets discovery.

• "Seal of Excellence - Marie Curie Actions" award | 2020 | EMBL Hamburg
• Research Grant Award | Addis Ababa University | 2011 – 2012 | Ethiopia.
• Scholarship Award | Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) | 2013 – 2017 | Singapore.
• Travel Award | Singapore Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology | 17-21 July 2017 | Singapore.
• Prize Award | sbv IMPROVER Datathon | 23-24 Sep 2016 | Singapore.
  
  

• Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Infectious Diseases: Pathogenesis and Therapy (specialty section of Frontiers in Medicine) | 2023 - present
• Vice president | 2016-2017 | American Society for Microbiology, Student Chapter | NTU, Singapore.
• Logistic Officer | 2014-2017 | Graduate Student Council | NTU, Singapore.
• Assistant safety officer | 2016-2017 | Bioinformatics Institute A*STAR, Singapore.
• Executive committee | 2012-2013 | Ethiopian Society of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Ethiopia.
• Secretary | 2011-2013 | Social and recreation committee, ALIPB, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
• Auditor | 2010-2012 | Adwa park condominium, Ethiopia.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-022X

1. Taye B, Thünauer R, Sugrue RJ, Maurer-Stroh S, Kosinski J. Identifying repurposed drugs with moderate
anti-influenza virus activity through computational prioritization of drug-target pairs. bioRxiv 2023.07.31.551116
2. Navaratnarajah CK, Pease DR, Halfmann P, Taye B, Barkhymer A, Howell KG, Charlesworth JE,
Christensen TA, Kawaoka Y, Cattaneo R, Schneider JW. Highly efficient SARS-CoV-2 infection of human
cardiomyocytes:spike protein-mediated cell fusion and its inhibition. Journal of virology 2021:JVI0136821.
3. Teklu T, Wondale B, Taye B, Hailemariam M, Bekele S, Tamirat M, Zewude A, Mohamed T, Medhin G,
Legesse M et al: Differences in plasma proteomes for active tuberculosis, latent tuberculosis and non tuberculosis

mycobacterial lung disease patients with and without ESAT-6/CFP10 stimulation. Proteome science 2020, 18(1):10
4. Taye B, Chen H, Yeo DS, et al. A System Based-Approach to Examine Host Response during Infection with
Influenza A Virus Subtype H7N9 in Human and Avian Cells. Cells 2020; 9(2).
5. Malede A, Taye B, Legesse M, Debie A, Shibabaw A. Pulmonary tuberculosis preventive practices among
Anibessa Bus users at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study. BMC research notes 2019; 12(1).
6. Berger KA, Pigott DM, Tomlinson F, et al. The Geographic Variation of Surveillance and Zoonotic Spillover
Potential of Influenza Viruses in Domestic Poultry and Swine. Open forum infectious diseases 2018; 5(12).
7. Taye B, Yeo D, Lee RTC, Tan BH, Sugrue RJ, Maurer-Stroh S. Inter-Species Host Gene Expression
Differences in Response to Human and Avian Influenza A Virus Strains. International journal of molecular
sciences 2017; 18(11).
8. Taye B, Vaz C, Tanavde V, et al. Benchmarking selected computational gene network growing tools in
context of virus-host interactions. Scientific reports 2017; 7(1): 5805.
9. Taye B, Chen H, Myaing MZ, Tan BH, Maurer-Stroh S, Sugrue RJ. Systems-based approach to examine the
cytokine responses in primary mouse lung macrophages infected with low pathogenic avian Influenza virus
circulating in South East Asia. BMC genomics 2017; 18(1): 420.
10. Tachbele E, Taye B, Tulu B, Ameni G. Treatment Outcomes of Tuberculosis Patients at Bale Robe Hospital
Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia: A Five Year Retrospective Study. Journal of Nursing & Care 2017; 06(02).
11. B Argaw D, Taye B, Worku A and Amare Worku. Major Risk Factors Predicting Anemia Development
during Pregnancy: Unmatched-Case Control Study. Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education 2015; 5: 353.

12. Tulu B, Dida N, Kassa Y, Taye B. Smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis and its risk factors among
tuberculosis suspect in South East Ethiopia; a hospital based cross-sectional study. BMC research notes 2014;7: 285.
13. Taye B, Desta K, Ejigu S, Dori GU. The magnitude and risk factors of intestinal parasitic infection in relation
to Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection and immune status, at ALERT Hospital, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. Parasitology international 2014; 63(3): 550-6.
14. Tesfaw L, Taye B, Alemu S, Alemayehu H, Sisay Z and Negussie H. Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance
profile of Salmonella isolates from dairy products in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. African Journal of Microbiology
Research 2013; 7(43): 5046-50.
15. Taye B, Giday M, Animut A, Seid J. Antibacterial activities of selected medicinal plants in traditional
treatment of human wounds in Ethiopia. Asian Pacific journal of tropical biomedicine 2011; 1(5): 370-5.

• 41st annual meeting of the American Society for Virology | 16-20 July 2022 | Wisconsin-Madison
• 17th annual IMV symposium, University of Minnesota | 9 June 2021| Virtual
• Systems Biology: From large datasets to biological insight | 10 July 2019| Hinxton Cambridgeshire, UK.
• 17th international congress of Virology | 17 - 21 July 2017 | Singapore.
• Options IX for the control of Influenza | 24-28 Aug 2016 | Chicago, USA.
• The 4th ISIRV-AVG conference | 2-4 June 2015 | University of Texas at Austin, USA.
• International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB2016) | 21-23 Sept 2016| Singapore.
• International meeting on respiratory pathogens (IMRP) |2-4 Sept 2015 | Singapore.
• The 12th NUS-Nagasaki Joint symposium on Infectious Diseases |11-12 June 2015 | Singapore.
• International Conference on Natural Products and Health | 5-7 Sept 2013 | NTU, Singapore.
• More than 5 oral presentations in national scientific conferences | Ethiopia.

Jan Kosinski | Group leader at EMBL/CSSB | Tel: +49 (0) 40 8990 2787573 | email: jan.kosinski@embl.de

Sebastian Maurer-Stroh | Deputy Executive Director, BII A*STAR | email: sebastianms@bii.a-star.edu.sg

Abraham D Mengist | Assistant Professor, Nebraska Medical Center, USA | email: abraham.mengist@unmc.edu