Senior Scientist In Microbiology Department
Responsibilities include:- Project Management: Managing multiple research projects, including progress monitoring, riskmanagement, problem solving, deviation and redirection, coordinating laboratory work, directing andcounselling students and preparing research reports.- Students Management: Supervised PhD and BSc microbiology honours programme students, mentored, evaluated and identified steps necessary for academic growth within the students’ area of speciality as well as… Show more Responsibilities include:- Project Management: Managing multiple research projects, including progress monitoring, riskmanagement, problem solving, deviation and redirection, coordinating laboratory work, directing andcounselling students and preparing research reports.- Students Management: Supervised PhD and BSc microbiology honours programme students, mentored, evaluated and identified steps necessary for academic growth within the students’ area of speciality as well as highlighted and appreciated their scholarly achievements.- Publications: Successfully published over 17 peer reviewed papers in a number of international journals including Proceeding of National Academy of Science (PNAS).- Technical Research:Cloning, sequencing, mutating and gene expression analysing. HPLC analysis of secondary metabolites.(7 papers)Developed a model of the genetic regulation of the biosynthesis of PHL in P. fluorescensusing Microbiology and HPLC technologies. (8 papers and 1 PNAS),Proposed a new role for P. aeruginosa TonB1 protein and its involvement in physiological functions, related to virulence, not suspected before, using Proteome profiling and RNA analysis. (1 paper).Established new qPCR protocol with no DNA extraction step for the quantisation of spores on barley seeds.Identified many bacterial and fungi cheese contaminants using rRNA amplification and phylogenetic analysis. Show less