السيرة الذاتية
Personal Information
Nationality: Saudi
Languages: Arabic: Native.
English: Advanced.
Date of birth: 02-23-1984
Education
Master’s Degree in Science/Biochemistry
2007 - 2011 Biochemistry Department/College of Science/ King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ( GPA 4.11 of 5)
Bachelor Degree in Science/Biochemistry
2001 - 2005 Biochemistry Department/College of Science/ King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia(GPA 4.84 of 5 )
Experience Laboratory technician
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2006
One year experience as contractual technician / Biochemistry Department / King Saud University / Riyadh / KSA (2006). In this job I was responsible for preparing the chemical solutions and reagents for three practical courses: enzymology, analysis of biological fluids and blood biochemistry. I was also responsible for teaching the practical section of 101 BCH course. In that year I have gained many laboratory skills like time management, organization and labeling of chemicals and reagents and making a pre-lab (testing the experiment before the student, to make sure that the reagents are accurate) and how to make laboratory reports .Moreover, I learned all the principle of the lab safety.
DEMONSTRATOR
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2008-TO DATE
Four years experience in teaching practical courses and research concepts. Department/College of Science/ King Saud University. Riyadh, SaudiArabia. (2008-2011). Here my key responsibilities was to teach and train the undergraduate students in the practical courses. The courses that I have taught are biochemistry of blood, physical biochemistry, practical metabolism, molecular biology, food analysis, analysis biological fluid , General biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, laboratory techniques in biochemistry and molecular biology. In these courses I have taught the students the basic biochemistry techniques such as dialysis, chromatography, which include gel filtration, ion exchange chromatography and thin layer chromatography. Moreover I have taught them how to get familiar with using pH meter, centrifuge and spectrophotometer and a lot more concepts.
In the same department, I also attended specific workshops and have learned the principles and the protocols of some protein separation techniques including Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis and High-performance liquid chromatography /Biochemistry Department / College of Science / King Saud University, Riyadh/KSA. (2011).
RESEARCHER
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2008-2011
Three years experience in a specialized molecular biology lab. Behavior Genetics/Genetics department / Research center/ King Faisal specialist Hospital , Riyadh/KSA. (2008-2011). I n this lab I was working on my master project which entitled “genotype-phenotype correlation in Saudi beta thalasemia patients”. According to that I have experienced the molecular biological skills that are required to fulfill this study. These skills are:
manual and using kit for DNA extraction of DNA from blood .I did extract the DNA from 110 patients blood samples using Gentra kit. Moreover, I have practiced manual DNA extraction methods from blood and plazmid. After the DNA extraction I measured its concentration using the Nanodrop.
Polymerase chain reaction PCR. In order to amplify the beta globin I have practiced primer design using primer3 software and I have gained the skill of performing the standard PCR , I also have practiced Multiplex PCR.
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis . The amplified fragments are visualized via agarose gel electrophoresis.
Automated sequences (ABI). I have done some of the sequence of the amplified fragments myself . The rest were done by the sequence core facility lab members.
Restriction Fragments length polymorphism (RFLP). In order to generate the haplotype, I have done about other one thousand PCR reactions followed by Restriction Enzymes Digestion. The results are also visualized on agarose gel Electrophoresis.
I am good at use two DNA sequence analysis softwares, which are the DNA star and sequencer.
In addition to that, I can use the scientific project web sites such as Ensembl, GeneBank , NCBI and UCSC genome Browser perfectly.
Moreover, I have the skill of reading and understanding and writing the scientific papers and using the writing tools to organize the references such as endnote software.
I have experienced writing one scientific paper and I have contributed in reviewing another scientific paper. The one that I wrote titled “Characterization of Beta-globin Gene Mutations in Beta-Thalassemia Patients in Saudi Arabia” which is under review.
The one that I have contributed in reviewing titled Variable β-Globin Haplotypes in Saudi β Thalassemia Population, which has been published in the open journal of hematology
Brenner laboratory/ UIOWA/Iowa City .USA. 2012-2013
I I have spent one year in prof. Brenner’s lab/ University of Iowa-USA. I earn more skills in the preparation LB media, bacterial transformation, purifying the plasmid using QIAGEN kit and Electrophoresis. Moreover, I have worked on H++ and propka softwares to predict the protein pka and TargetP, signalP for signal sequence predictions.
Committees and administrative positions
Member of the Biochemistry department electronic communications committee, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh. (2008- 2012).
Member of the Science collage activities that are not systemically committee, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh. (2009- 2012).
Member of the biochemistry curriculums developments committee (clinical chemistry courses), College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh. (2010- 2012).
Member of the Science collage laboratory committee, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh. (2011- 2012).
Representative of biochemistry department, in the Social activities committee, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh. (2011- 2012).
Member of the Saudi Charity Society for genetic diseases (2010 -2012).
Member of the Saudi Cancer Society (2010-2012).