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Personal information:

 

 

Family Name

:           Moghaieb

First Name

      :             Reda

Date of Birth

   :            December,  28, 1965

Sex

                   : Male

Religion

            : Muslim

Address

           : Dept. of Genetics, Fac. of Agric., Cairo              

                           

University, Giza, Egypt

Telephone

         : + 202-  7237453 

E-mail adress   

:   moghaieb@yahoo.com

Nationality 

       : Egyptian

Marital Status

   : Married.

 

II

- EMPLYMENT:

Professor:  

Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo

                                     University.(2012 to date)

  

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EDUCATION:

1-     

B.Sc.,

(Agriculture Science, Horticulture,1987) Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo  

                 

University

2-     

M.Sc.,

(Department of Genetics, 1994) Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University.

     Thesis  title:

 Quantitative genetic studies on Vicia faba L.

 

3-       

Ph.D

:  ( Graduate School of Biosphere Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan, 

                        2002)

Thesis title:

Transformation of tomato plants (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) by betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase gene leads to glycine betaine accumulation and improvement of salt tolerance

MEMBERSHIP:

-    The Egyptian Society of Genetics and Cytology

-          The Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutition (SSPN)

-          The American Society of In Vitro Biology

 

Research interests:

            -    Biochemical, molecular and physiological adaptation of plants to extreme   

                  environments and the biotechnological application of its principles

            -    Molecular phylogeny and biodiversity

              -  Protein structure and function

          

Post doctorate:

               

JSPS fellowship

(

J

apanese

S

ociety for

P

romotion of

S

cience) from October 2002      

                  to October 2004 (2 Years) at Hiroshima University, Japan.

 

Research Projects:

** PI of the following research projects

1-Improvement of drought and photosynthetic activity in transgenic canola plant. 

Financed by Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), Ministry of

higher Education and Scientific Research (2009-2012)

 

2-Improvement of fungal disease resistance in tomato plants by SOD gene expression.

              

Financed by Cairo University (2010-2012)

**Co-PI of the following projects:

1-The use of entomopathogenic nematode to control white grub in the sugarcane

plantation.

Financed by National Sugarcane Council (2006-2009).

 

2-

 

Identification of QTL loci for milk production in Egyptian water buffaloes

Financed by Cairo University (2013-2014)

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