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Research interest:1- Biotechnology2- Microbiological quality control.Specialty skills:1- General microbiology and immunology.2- Pharmaceutical microbiology.3- Medical microbiology.4- Public health.5- Biotechnology.6- Parasitology.7-Genetics.Scientific production (finished theses, posters, patencies & List of publications):1- MSc in Microbiology and Immunology, under the title of "Microbial biotransformation of vitamin D3 into biologically active 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3".2- PhD in Microbiology and Immunology (Biotechnology), under the title of "Bioprocess development of calcitriol production from vitamin D3 for industrial application".3- Patent submission at the Egyptian patent office (EGPO), under the title of"Production of biologically active calcitriol form vitamin D3 by a locally isolatedActinomyces hyovaginalis strain". Application number: 882/2011.4- A paper at journal of American science (JAS), under the title of "Actinomyces hyovaginalis: A novel bacterial isolate with transforming activity of vitamin D3 to 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3".4- A Paper at journal of “Archive of clinical microbiology", under the title of "Optimization of culture conditions for transformation of vitamin D3 to calcitriol by Actinomyces hyovaginalis isolate A11-2".6- A Paper at journal of "International journal of biotechnology for wellness industries, under the title of “Improvement of Bioconversion of Vitamin D3 into Calcitriol by Actinomyces hyovaginalis through Protoplast Fusion and Enzyme Immobilization".7- Proposal submission to STDF (Egypt) grant in August 2016, under title of “Biotransformation of vitamin D3 into biologically active calcitriol”. Language fluency:-Arabic: Native-English: excellent (score of 600 in the test of English language proficiency [TELP]organized by center of public service and social development at Ain Shamsuniversity.-French: fairComputer skills: Microsoft office: Word, Excel and PowerPoint.