CURRICULUM VITAE
Hend . A. Alwathnani, Ph.D
Professor of Microbiology
College of Science,
Department of Botany &Microbiology
King Saud University
P.O. Box 22452, Riyadh 11495
Email: wathnani@ksu.edu.sa
Tel: +966-1-4785493 ext- 1452
Fax: +966-1-4768171
EDUCATION
- Doctorate of Philosophy in Regulatory Biology with Major in Microbiology, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. U.S. 2006
- B.S. in Science with Botany and Microbiology Major, King Saud University, Riyadh, 1997
ACADEMIC POSITION:
2017 Professor, Department of Botany & Microbiology, King Saud University
2012 Associate Professor, Department of Botany & Microbiology, King Saud University
2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Botany & Microbiology, King Saud University
2008-2010 Vice Dean of College of Applied Studies and Community Services
2012-2016 Vice Dean of College of Applied Studies and Community Services
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIP:
2017 Member of the Center of Excellence Research/King Saud University
2017 Member of the Commission for the merger of Plant and Microbiology department and department of Zoology/King Saud University
2016 Now member of the Promotions Committee Department of Plant and Microbiology/King Saud University/Riyadh
2015-2016 Member of the Coordinating Council Committee Center for University Studies/Alisha King Saud University
2015 Member of the Committee to study the conditions for College of Applied Studies and Community Services /King Saud University
2014-2016 Member of the ISO Committee for College of Applied Studies and Community Services /King Saud University
2013 Member of the Committee of Transport for College of Applied Studies and Community Services /King Saud University
2016-2013 Member of the Advisory Council Committee for College of Applied Studies and Community Services /King Saud University
2013 Supervisor of Training Center for College of Applied Studies and Community Services /King Saud University
2013-2016 Chairperson of Student Cases Committee/Students for College of Applied Studies and Community Services /King Saud University
2012-2016 Member of the higher Supervisory Committee for College of Applied Studies and Community Services /King Saud University
2012-2016 Member of the higher Supervisory Committee Faculty of Applied Studies and community service, King Saud University
2012-2014 Member of the Appointments and Lecturers committee Faculty of Applied Studies and community service/King Saud University
2012-2015 Member of the Graduate Studies Committee Department of Plant and Microbiology/Faculty of Science
2010 Head of talent program for students/King Saud University
2010 Member of the Standing Committee to exclude repeaters and lectures for internal interiors/King Saud University
2009 Member of the team of His Excellency the Minister of Education to visit International Universities
2008-present Member of the Rapporteur of the Alumni and Employment Committee Department of Plant and Microbiology/King Saud University/Riyadh
2008 Member of the job interview committee for faculty members of the Faculty of community/King Saud University
2008 Member of American Society of Microbiology/America
2008 Member of the Community College team for twinning with the University of Texas United States of America
2007 Member of the Study Plans Committee department of Plant and Microbiology/King Saud University
2007 Member of the Annual Report Committee department
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHOPS:
2016 Academic leadership and challenges course/King Saud University 2009-Meeting management Skills Course/King Saud University
2009 Project Workshop of the Strategic Plan for scientific research/King Saud University
2008 Academic leadership and quality course for the 12th century/Bradford/London 2008-
2008 The first workshop of the Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity Research/King Saud University
2008 Science and Mathematics Education Development Workshop: Vision and Global and ongoing partnership from King Saud University
2008 King Saud University's strategic plans workshop
2008 Planning workshop in building quality system in higher education, King Saud University
2007 Workshop on evaluation and quality assurance/King Saud University
2007 Foundation course for new faculty members/King Saud University
2007 Workshop on Strategies and methods of Learning/King Saud University
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES:
2017 World Congress: Scout and Environmental Protection, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2015 Integration Metabolism and Tumor Biological Conference, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Lack of DNA and Genomic Instability, British Colombia, Canada
2015 Immunity and Microbial determinants World Conference, California, U.S.
2015 Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society Ribosome, Wisconsin, U.S
2014 The International Federation of Microbiological, Montréal, Canada
2014 The First Conference in Microbial Evolution Lab, Washington, U.S.
2014 World Congress of Multiple Disciplines in Science, Las Vegas, U.S.
2014 One-Hundred Twenty Four Annual Meeting of American Society of Microbiology, Boston, U.S.
2013 Sixty-Third Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Microbiology. Ottawa, Canada
2012 Fourth Meeting of the American Society for accurate Intimation about the Cellular and Developmental Studies of Objects Structural Nucleus, Montreal, Canada.
2012 International Conference of Coastal Areas, Canada.
2012 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biology Industrial Minute and Biotechnology, Washington, U.S.
2009 The Annual Scientific Conference, Honolulu, U.S.
PRIZES AND RESEARCH FUNDINGS:
2012 Excellence Research Award for Plant and microbiology department/King Saud University
2015 Research support worth (150000) SR Scholarship deanship of scientific research/King Saud University
2012 Research support Worth (150000) SR Scholarship deanship of scientific research/King Saud University
2011 Research support Worth (200,000) SR Scholarship deanship of scientific research/King Saud University
2009 Research support Worth (40000) SR Research Center Scholarship/King Saud University
GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS:
2016 Ph.D. student: Sabiha Alansari
Dissertation Tile: Green synthesis of nanoparticles by marine macro-algae with assessment of their anticancer and antimicrobial potential
2013 M.S. Student: Sarah Alhaqbani
Thesis Title: In vitro Efficacy of Bioactive Plant Extracts against Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) Clinical Isolates of Human Pathogenic Bacteria
2013 M.S. Student: Taghreed Aldayl
Thesis Title: The Challenges of Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance and Antimicrobial Activity of Five Herb Extracts against Human Pathogenic bacteria
2013 M.S. Student: Khawlah Alhrbey
Thesis Title: Antimicrobial Screening of Selected Saudi Medicinal Plants against Some Pathogenic Bacteria
2009 M.S. Student: Abeer Alshamery
Thesis Title: Molecular characterization of hospitals acquired methicillin S.aureus (MRSA) recovered from hospitals in KSA
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Christopher Rensing, H. A. Alwathnani, and Sylvia F.McDevitt, (2016) the copper metallome in prokaryotic cells, JohnWiley & Sons, Inc, JWST686-c02-12
PUBLICATIONS:
1. Yuan Ping Li, Nicolas Carraro , Nan Yang, Bixiu Liu, Xian Xia, Renwei Feng,Quaiser Saquib, Hend A Al-Wathnani, Jan Roelof van derMeer and Christopher RensingGenomic Islands Confer Heavy Metal Resistance in Mucilaginibacter kameinonensis and Mucilaginibacter rubeus Isolated from a Gold/Copper Mine. (2018). Genes 2018, 9, 573; doi:10.3390/genes9120573
2. Xiuli Hao . Xuanji Li . Chandan Pal . Jon Hobman . D. G. Joakim Larsson . Quaiser Saquib .
Hend A. Alwathnani . Barry P. Rosen . Yong-Guan Zhu . Christopher Rensing. (2017). Bacterial resistance to arsenic protects against protist killing. Biometals (2017) 30:307–311 DOI 10.1007/s10534-017-0003-4
3. Sabiha M. Ansari, Quaiser Saquib, Sabry M. Attia, Eslam M. Abdel‑Salam, Hend A. Alwathnani, Mohammad Faisal, Abdulrahman A. Alatar, Abdulaziz A. Al‑Khedhairy, Javed Musarrat Pendimethalin induces oxidative stress, DNA damage, and mitochondrial dysfunction to trigger apoptosis in human lymphocytes and rat bone-marrow cells: (2017). Histochemistry and Cell Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00418-017-1622-0
4. Regin Rønn1, Xiuli Hao, Freja Lüthje1, Nadezhda A. German, Xuanji Li, Fuyi Huang, Javan Kisaka, David Huffman, Hend A. Alwathnani, Yong-Guan Zhu and Christopher Rensing(2017). Bacterial Survival in Dictyostelium Vol 7, Iss 13, Jul 05, 2017. DOI:10.21769/BioProtoc.2376
5. Xiuli Hao, Freja L€uthje,2Regin Rønn, Nadezhda A. German, Xuanji Li, Fuyi Huang,Javan Kisaka, David Huffman,4 Hend A. Alwathnani, Yong-Guan Zhu and Christopher Rensing (2016). A role for copper in protozoan grazing – two billion years selecting for bacterial copper resistance. Molecular Microbiology 102(4), 628–641
6. Quaiser Saquiba,b , Maqsood A. Siddiquia, Javed Ahmeda,, Abdullah Al-Salima,,Sabiha M. Ansaric, Mohammad Faisalc, Abdulaziz A. Al-Khedhairya, Javed Musarratd,, H. A. AlWathnani, Abdulrahman A. Alatarc, Saud A. Al-Arifia , (2016) Hazards of low dose flame-retardants (BDE-47 and BDE-32): Influenceon transcriptome regulation and cell death in human liver cells , Journal of Hazardous Materials 308 (2016) 37–49
7. Mohammad Faisal , Quaiser Saquib, Abdulrahman A. Alatar, Abdulaziz A. Al-Khedhairy, Mukhtar Ahmed3, Sabiha M. Ansari, Hend A. Alwathnani1, Sourabh Dwivedi, Javed Musarrat, and Shelly Praveen. (2016). Cobalt oxide nanoparticles aggravate DNA damage and cell death in eggplant via mitochondrial swelling and NO signaling pathway. Biol Res (2016) 49:20
8. Rensing, C., Alwathnani, H. and Sylvia F.McDevitt, (2016). The copper metallome in prokaryotic cells, JohnWiley & Sons, Inc, JWST686-c02-12.
9. Abd_allah e.f., Hashem Abeer, Alqarawi a.a, and Alwathnani H. (2015), alleviation of adverse impact of cadmium stress in sun flower (hilianthus annuus l.) by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, pak. j. Bot., 47(2): 785-795, 2015.
10. Freja L. Lüthje,a Henrik Hasman,b Frank M. Aarestrup,b Hend A. Alwathnani,c Christopher Rensinga,d,(2014), Genome Sequences of Two Copper-Resistant Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Copper-Fed Pigs, Volume 2 Issue 6 e01341-14.
11. Hao X, Taghavi S, Xie P, Orbach MJ, H.A. Alwathnani , Rensing C, Wei G. (2014), Phytoremediation of heavy and transition metals aided by legume-rhizobia symbiosis, International Journal of Phytoremediation, vol 16 (2). pp: 179-202.
12. Yanan Qin,a Henrik Hasman,b Frank M. Aarestrup,b Hend A. Alwathnani,c Christopher Rensinga,d,(2013), Genome Sequences of Three Highly Copper-Resistant Salmonellaenterica subsp. I Serovar Typhimurium Strains Isolated from Pigs in Denmark, Volume 2 Issue 6 e01334-14
13. Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Arunachalam Chinnathambi1, K. Saritha, H.A. Alwathnani, A.M. Murugan1 and Milton Wainwright. (2013) Optimization of Conditions for the Production Antibiotics by a UV Mutant Strain of Streptomyces griseus. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, Vol. 7(1):235-240.
14. Kahkashan Perveen, H. A. Alwathnani (2013) Antifungal activity of methanol, acetone and diethyl ether extracts of cyanobacteria against plant pathogenic fungi. Asian J. Chem., Vol. 25, No. 13, pp. 7531-7534.
15. H. A. Alwathnani, and Kahkashan Perveen (2013). Evaluation of antifungal potential of Dunaliella salina and Phormidium autumnale against plant pathogenic fungi. J Pure Appl Microbio. Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 1071-1077.
16. Kahkashan Perveen, H. A. Alwathnani (2013). Bioactivity of Nostoc linckia isolated from the desert of Saudi Arabia against fungi responsible for the post-harvest diseases. J Pure Appl Microbio. Vol. 7(3), p. 2161-2166.
17. A. K. Hegazyab, S. Y. Afific, A. A. Alatara, H. A. Alwathnania & M. H. Emamb (2013). Soil characteristics influence theradionuclide uptake of different plant species, Chemistry and Ecology, Volume 29, (3), pp: 255-269.
18. H.A. Alwathnani1 and Ashgan M Hessain2 (2013). Molecular Detection and Characterization of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and O111 Associated with Milk samples byMultiplex PCR, Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, Vol. 7 No. Special Edition Nov. 2013.
19. Ismet Ara, H. A. Wathnani and T. Kudo (2013), Population, morphological and chemotaxonomical characterization of diverse rare actinomycetes in the mangrove and medicinal plant rhizosphere, Vol. 7(16), pp. 1480-1488
20. Abdularhaman Abdullah Alatar , Mohammad Faisal, Ahmad k. Hegazy, H.A. Alwathnani , (2012), High frequency shoot regeneration and plant establishment of Rauvolfia serpentina-an endangered medicinal plant, Journal of medicinal plant research, vol. 6 (17), pp :3324-3329.
21. Hend Alwathnani and Kahkshan Perveen. 2012. Biological control of fusarium wilt of tomato by antagonist fungi andcyanobacteria. African Journal of Biotechnology. vol 11 (5), pp1100:1105
22. A.K. Hegazy, S.Y. Afifi, A.A. Alatar, H.A. Alwathnani, M.H. Emam. 2012. Radionuclides uptake by cultivated crop plants in the Mediterranean coastal black sand and its relationship to soil geochemical characteristics. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research JMPR. Volume 4 (3), pp1-10.
23. A. Alatar A. Shahzad, M. Faisal, N. Ahmad, M. Anis and H.A. Alwathnani. 2012. An efficient system for in vitro multiplication of Ocimum basilicum through node culture. African Journal of Biotechnology. Vol. 11 (22), pp. 6055-6059.
24. Yanbing Lin1, Haoxin Fan, Xiuli Ha, Laurel Johnstone, Yao Hu, Gehong Wei, Hend A. Alwathnani, Gejiao Wang and Christopher Rensing. 2012. Genome Sequence of Halomonas sp. HAL1, A moderately Aalophilic arsenite2 Oxidizing Bacterium Isolated from A gold Mine Soil. Journal of Bacteriology. 194 (1): 199-200
25. H. A. Wathnani, Ismet Ara, R. R. Tahmaz, T. H. Al-Dayel and M. A. Bakir (2012) Bioactivity of natural compounds isolated from cyanobacteria and green algae against human pathogenic bacteria and yeast, Vol. 6 (18), pp. 3425-3433
26. Hend A. Alwathnani, Kahkashan Perveen, Rania Tahmaz and Sarah Alhaqbani,(2012), Evaluation of biological control potential of locally isolated antagonist fungi against Fusarium oxysporum under in vitro and pot conditions, Vol. 6 (2), pp. 312-319.
27. Jutta Elguindi, Hend A. Alwathnani, Christopher Rensing. 2011. Rapid inactivation and killing of Cronobacter sakazakii on copper alloys following periods of desiccation stress. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. Vol. 28 Issue (4), p1837-1841
28. Elguindi, J., X. Hao, Y. Lin, H. A. Alwathnani, G.H. Wei, and C. Rensing. 2011. Advantages and challenges of increased antimicrobial copper use and copper mining. Appl. Microbiol. Biotech. Volume 91 (2), 237-249.
29. Hend Alwathnani and Jeffrey R. Johansen. 2011. Cyanobacteria in Soils from A mojave Desert Ecosystem. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist 5 (1):71-89. 2011
30. Alwathnani. H.A, Ashgan M. H, Mahmoud M.H and Ihab. M. Moussa. 2011. Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection of Mycobacterium bovis in Milk Samples. African Journal of Microbiology Research. Vol. 6 (6), pp. 1338-1344.
31. Alwathnani. H.A. 2011. Preliminary Study of Soil Algae of Protected Saja Mother Elegans, Saudi Arabia. Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 8 (2):393-398
32. Alwathnani. H.A, Ismet Ara, R. R. Tahmaz, T. H. Al-Dayel and M. A. Bakir. 2011. Bioactive natural compounds of cyanobacteria and green algae and evaluation of their activity against human pathogenic bacteria and yeast. JMPR. Vol. 6 (18), pp. 3425-3433.
33. Hend. A. Alwathnani, Ismet Ara, Rania. R. Tahmaz, M A Bakir. 2011. Antibacterial activities of the extracts of cyanobacteria and green algae isolated from desert soil in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. African Journal of Biotechnology. Vol.11 (38), pp. 9223-9229, May 2012.
34. Moussa, I. M; Ashgan, M. H., Alwathnani, H. A, Mohamed, KH.F and Al-Doss, A. A. 2010. Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection and Characterization of Shiga Toxigenic Escherichia coli (stec). African Journal of Biotechnology 9 (28): 4356-4363.
35. Kamelia M. Osman, Ihab M. I. Moussa*, Ashgan M.M. Yousef, Mona M. Aly, Moustafa I. Radwan H. A. Alwathnaniand .2010. Pathogenic Avian of some Salmonella serovars in Two Different Animal Modes: SPF Chickens and BALB/c Mic. Environ. We Int. J. Sci. Tech. 5: 65-78