Alsayeda Zahra Salman

-Review scientific literature to correct/modify/improve experimental protocol
- Characterization and screening of isolated bacterial strains for plant growth promoting traits
- DNA extraction from selected plant growth promoting bacteria, mangrove sediments and rizhospheric soil
- 16S r-RNA gene amplification PCR, Oxford Nanopore and Sanger sequencing of extracted DNA samples
-Down stream bio-informatics analysis of Oxford Nanopore sequencing data.

Research assistant in the laboratory of soil and environmental microbiology.

Responsibilities
- Setting-up and correction of experimental procedure of molecular techniques (FISH, quantitative PCR, PCR-DGGE and 16S-rRNA sequencing) for analysis of microbial community in full-scale anaerobic sludge digester systems and soil amended by biochar.
- Microbial community data analysis and interpretation.
- Literature review and writing discussion for journal paper submission.

Worked in the Environment, Health and Safety department as an intern for 2 months.

- Programmed the employees’ IDs and vehicle after receiving an approval from the
higher department on submitted requests from different departments and employees.
• Skills
- Developed my time management skills while completing my given tasks within a specific period of time.
- Developed my communication skills while interacting with the employees who came to submit their
requests.
• Duties
- Created new IDs and vehicles’ tags, renewed and terminated IDs and vehicle tags.
- Gathered all the forms and the needed documents from the employees and gave these forms to my manager
for approval at the end of the day.
Japanese Tea Ceremony by Urasenke Konnichian 3rd
March 2016