Ahmed Abdelsamad

Cairo University Rd., Giza 11432, Egypt

 +202-35720739

ahmed.abdelsamad@agr.cu.edu.eg

Gender Male | Date of birth 06/07/1986 | Nationality Egyptian

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

May 2011 – Dec. 2014

PhD in epigenetic control of repetitive DNA

EQF level 8 

 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln / University of Göttingen, Germany.

▪  Epigenomics, computational biology, genomics and transcription regulation.

Oct. 2009 – Mar. 2011

MSc in Molecular Biology

EQF level 7 

 Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry / University of Göttingen, Germany.

▪  Gene regulation, cell differentiation, microRNA biology and confocal /STED microscopy

Sept. 2003 – July 2007

Honours BSc in Biotechnology

EQF level 6 

 Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt.

▪  Molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbiology and cell & tissue culture.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Aug. 2011 – present

  Assistant lecturer (on leave for study)

 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt.

June 2008 – July 2011

  Teaching and research assistant

 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt.

▪  Tutoring and training undergraduates in theoretical and practical courses.

▪  Planning and conducting practical workshops; as well as conducting own research projects.

June 2007 – May 2008

  Research assistant

 Agricultural genetic engineering research institute, Agricultural research center, Egypt.

▪   Conducting research experiments involving molecular biology, genetics and tissue culture.

PERSONAL SKILLS

Computer skills

▪  Good command of Linux, shell and bioperl scripting, R and awk, gained during my PhD studies.

▪  Practical experience with next generation sequencing & genome annotation gained during my PhD.

▪  Competent with computational biology tools & databases gained during postgraduate studies.

▪  Good command of Microsoft Office™ tools gained throughout my studies.

Communication skills

▪  Good communication skills; elected as representative of PhD students at the international Max Planck Institute for plant breeding research, Köln, Germany.

▪  Good oral presentation skills gained through presenting my research in an international conference and workshops; as well as during regular group meetings throughout my postgraduate studies.

▪  Good teaching skills gained during my experience as teaching assistant, and during supervising three bachelor/MSc students throughout my PhD.

Other related skills

▪  Experienced with standard techniques of recombinant DNA technology, radiolabelled southern, northern (sRNA) and western blotting, protein fusion, in vitro transcription and RT-PCR, among others.

▪  Competent with immunohistochemistry, confocal and STED microscopy.

▪  Competent with cell culture.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Related research projects

▪  Optimization of quantum dot labelling for live imaging of synaptic vesicle recycling in mouse neuronal cell culture. (Prof. Dr. Silvio Rizzoli), ENI, Göttingen (May-June 2010)

▪  Does Alpha-synuclein induced mitochondrial fragmentation contributes to neurogeneration in Parkinson’s disease? (Prof. Dr. Stefan Eimer), ENI, Göttingen (May-June 2010)

Fellowships

▪  Fellowship of Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research; (May 2011 – Oct. 2014)

▪  Fellowship of International Max Planck research school; (Sept. 2009 – Mar. 2011)

▪  Excellence fellowship of Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University; (Sept. 2003 – July 2007)