Staff Profile

A dynamic and dedicated Molecular Biologist Professional, acquiring extensive skills from educational teaching and an extensive practical background. Proficient in conducting a variety of techniques in order to produce quantifiable results within the field of Molecular Biology, completing projects in accordance with deadlines, ensuring all objectives are achieved.

PhD Biotechnology / Molecular Biology, Al-Nahrain University/Iraq 2008

MSc Biotechnology / Molecular Biology, Al-Nahrain University/Iraq 1999

BSc Biology /Microbiology, University of Baghdad/Iraq 1996

As a team member of Professor Joris Veltman group, I currently assigned to be responsible for the technical part of the genomics research in infertility. 

My current interest is to learn more about Next Generation Sequencing and data interpretation in the field of genetic diseases.

I am in charge of doing Sanger sequencing for the confirmation of NGS finding using our SeqStudio machine.

I am also involved in the phasing work using Oxford Nanopore Technology and long range PCR.

Performing QPCR and MLPA to validate Copy Numbers Variations (CNV) are part of my duties within our research group.

Jan-Jun 2012 Lecturer, College of Science, Al-Nahiran University, Baghdad, Iraq

Teaching Medical Microbiology for 2nd year students 

Teaching the general biotechnology course to first year students.