Guest Scientist
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :16 years, 11 أشهر
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg (Germany)
Project: Effect of moderate soil salinization and sea salt intrusion on paddy soil microbiome
Project: Red Sea Extremozymes
- Identifying, expressing, purifying and benchmarking Red Sea extremozymes for their use in industrial application
Taught Introduction to Bioinformatics
Worked in this position also from August 2019 to September 2019
Project: Effect of moderate soil salinization and sea salt intrusion on paddy soil microbiome
- Assessing the effect of NaCl and sea salt intrusion on paddy soil microbial community using targeted gene sequencing and RT-qPCR
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg (Germany)
Project: Community transcriptomics reveals drainage effect on paddy soil microbiome
- Understanding the effect of drainage and drought on paddy soil microbiome using metatrasncriptomics and qPCR and RT-qPCR
Project: The Red Sea Marine Metagenomics Project
- Investigating the microbiome of different Red Sea brine pools using metagenomics
- Representative of the Biology Department, AUC team participating in the 2014 Ocean Sampling day initiative
Project: The Red Sea brine pools methanotrophs community
- Investigating aerobic methanotrophic communities in the Red Sea, Atlantis II Deep, Discovery and Kebrit brine area using metagenomics
* Taught laboratory components for the following courses; "Industrial Microbiology and Fermentation" and "Bioinformatics"
Development of Biosensors to Detect Heavy Metal and Arsenic Contamination (Prof. Michael Franklin's laboratory)
Project overview: Development of whole-cell biosensors using a strain of P. aeruginousa that can be used as bioreporting sensor of cadmium, cupper, zinc, and arsenic contamination.
* Performed general molecular biology and microbiology techniques
Doctor rerum naturalium (Ph.D. in Biological Sciences) Grade: magna cum laude/High honor (1.1) Thesis advisor: PD Dr. Werner Liesack Thesis title: Community transcriptomics reveals drainage effects on paddy soil microbiome across all three domains of life
MSc. in Biotechnology GPA: 3.738 (high honors) Advisor: Dr. Rania Siam Thesis title: Exploring the Aerobic Methanotrophs Community in the Red Sea Atlantis II Deep Brine Area
