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= Mennat El Ghalid = Dr. Mennat El Ghalid is a mycologist and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Pasteur in France. She is the co-founder of ConScience, which is a non-profit organization focused on STEM education. She is also included in the OkayAfrica's 2018 #OKAY100Women list.

Education
El Ghalid was born in Cairo and completed her Master's degree at Université Paris Diderot or Paris 7, looking at the plant pathogenic fungus Leptosphaeria maculans and the mechanisms causing the co-expression of the effector genes in it. She then completed her PhD at Universidad de Cordoba in Spain, where she studied how plant roots attract the pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum and identified what the mechanism of attraction is. She was supervised by Professor Antonio Di Pietro and Dr. David Turrà during her doctoral studies.

Career
El Ghalid currently works at the Biology and Pathogenicity Unit at the Institut Pasteur, where is she a postdoctoral fellow. Her work revolves around Candida albicans, which is one of the main causes of fungal infections in immunocompromised humans. In 2017, El Ghalid became a TED Global fellow and delivered a talk at TEDGlobal 2017. She is also one of 100 women included in the OkayAfrica's 2018 #OKAY100Women list based on her contribution to the STEM field. She co-founded ConScience, which is an organization aiming to encourage STEM education, especially in the Middle East and Africa.