Parasitology, Microbiology and Infection Control

Hoda saady mohamadin is an Associate Professor of Parasitology, South valley University, Egypt. Dr Saady received her doctorate in Parasitoogy from Egyptian University. Her recent publications includes: 1- Light and scanning electron microscopy on Serrasentis sagittifer, Linton, 1889 (Acanthocephal:Palaeacanthcephala : Rhadinorhynchidae ) infecting the common sea Bream in Egypt. J. Egypt. Soc. Parasitol 45 (1).21-26 2- Pelopscreadium aegyptense n. gen., n. sp. and Pelopscreadium spongiosum (Bray & Cribb, 1998) n. comb., (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae), each from disjunct populations of the Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus (Ostraciidae). Zootaxa 4127 (3): 567–578.

Her research focuses of helminth parasitic in vertebrates in Egypt and the work focuses on two trends:- 1- Diversity and taxonomic studies of helminth parasites 2- Host parasite relationship.

Professor Zilberstein graduated as Ph.D. in microbiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and continued his post doctorate studies at the US National Institutes of Health for infectious parasitic diseases. He joined the Technion Faculty of Biology and was its Dean. He is currently a member of the Technion Council and Board of Governors. In 2012 Professor Zilberstein was nominated executive director of Technion Pre University Education Center. To date, 19 M.Sc. and 14 Ph.D. students have graduated under Professor Zilbersteins' supervision. He has published 56 peer reviewed research papers and 12 reviews and book chapters. Over the years Professor Zilberstein has been awarded several prizes, the most recent was the 2014 Israel Sarov Prize from the Israel Society for Microbiology. Professor Zilberstein's expertise is cell biology and physiology of Leishmania parasites.

Membrane physiology and bioenergetics of the human pathogen Leishmania, Molecular mechanism of Leishmania differentiation, Proteomics and transcriptomics of Leishmania development,Amino acid transport in Leishmania parasites.

Dr. G. S. Gamil Zeedan obtained Ph.D. Virology ,Cairo University Egypt , MVSCs Virology , Cairo University. BVSCs , Cairo University . Currently 2014 up to date Researcher at National Research Center (NRC) – Cairo – Egypt. 2010- 2013 Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Virology at Collage of Medicine and Applied Medical sciences, Northern Border University(NBU) Saudi Arabia. He teaching the following curriculum , Medical Microbiology and Virology, Diagnostic Microbiology ,Clinical Rotation of Microbiology and Clinical Rotation Immunology & Virology . Title of supervised projects: Development of a Therapeutic Vaccine against Hepatitis B Virus - Incidence of hepatitis A , B, C ,D and E in Saudi Arabia .The laboratory diagnosis of hepatitis B virus-Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection testing technologies & strategies -Hepatitis C virus virological studies and diagnosis of liver diseases -My research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of animals and human diseases , immune and inflammatory responses. He published more than 10 publications in reputed journals supervising postgraduate students and serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals. My research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of animals and human diseases , immune and inflammatory responses.

Molecular typing and epidemiological studies of Microbes of animal origin with special interest of zoonotic ones

Refaat Gabre is Professor of Medical entomology with Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Also, He worked in Saudi Arabia as a Head of Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied medical Science and had a post doctoral research in Poland, Gdansk Medical University, Tropical Medicine Institute, Department of Parasitology.

His research background in Medical Entomology is extremely broad having worked on and published articles relating to blow flies and human pathogenic bacteria, insects as bio-indicators for air and water pollutions, ticks and tick born diseases, mosquito surveillance, mosquito born diseases; and recently, human gastrointestinal parasites.

Dr Faiza M El Assal is professor of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, at the Zoology department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. She is interested in the conservation of freshwater ecosystem as regard biodiversity, pollution and biological control of snail vectors of parasitic diseases. Also, she is interested in the control of schistosomiasis and fascioliasis. She published more than 50 papers in the last 15 years, in international and national journals. She planned and supervised more than 60 M Sc and Ph D theses at Cairo University. She was an external examiner for more than 20 theses from the different Egyptian Universities. She was among the members of the committee of award of the academic degrees assistant professor and professor.

She is interested in the conservation of freshwater ecosystem as regard biodiversity, pollution and biological control of snail vectors of parasitic diseases. Also, she is interested in the control of schistosomiasis and fascioliasis. She published more than 50 papers in the last 15 years, in international and national journals. She planed and supervised more than 60 M Sc and Ph D theses at Cairo University. She was an external examiner for more than 20 theses from the different Egyptian Universities. She was among the members of the committee of award of the academic degrees assistant professor and professor.

Dr. Abeer M Abdalhamed has completed his PhD from Cairo University. Currently, she is a Researcher at National Research Center (NRC) – Cairo – Egypt. She worked as a lecturer at the Department of Microbiology and Virology at Collage of Medicine and Applied Medical sciences – 2015 up to data. Dr. Abeer M Abdalhamed also worked as assistant professor and Departmental Supervisor at Medical laboratory Science at Medical applied Saudi Arabia. She has published more than 12 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Molecular and Immunological diagnosis of human and animals diseases.

David Wright completed his Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. Currently he is working as Professor on the Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University & he is the Director of Laboratories for Innovations in Global Health Technologies, Vanderbilt University, USA

His research employs inorganic chemistry, nanotechnology, and material science to solve real world problems. Students in the Wright group receive broad training in synthesis, physical methods, assay development, and biological systems. Our current interests lie in three areas:
Re-imagining diagnostic tests for low resource environments
Heme homeostasis in the malaria parasite, plasmodium falciparum
Development of bioinspired routes for the synthesis of functional materials and devices

Una M. Ryan is an expert in the molecular detection and characterization of bacterial and protozoan parasites and to date has described more than 17 new protozoan parasites and five new bacterial species. She has 249 publications, including 1 book, 16 book chapters, 208 research papers in international journals, and 24 invited reviews.

Una M. Ryan research area is the molecular epidemiology of infectious agents, particularly the use of genotyping tools for improving detection methods and for studying transmission dynamics. My group works on the molecular epidemiology of enteric parasites such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia and blood borne parasites such as Babesia, Theileria and Trypanosomes. Ryan also interested in novel therapeutics for pathogens.

Dr. Kendall is Head of the Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory and Professor of Environmental Toxicology in the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech University. He is founding Director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), a joint venture between Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock, Texas. He was also the founding Department Chair of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech. He received his B.S. degree from the University of South Carolina, M.S. degree from Clemson University, and Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received a United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) post-doctoral traineeship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Kendall served on USEPA’s FIFRA Science Advisory Panel from June 1995 to December 2002, and was appointed Chairman January 1999 to December 2002. He also served as a member of the Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee, USEPA. He is the previous president of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry and serves as Editor – Terrestrial Toxicology of the scientific journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. He has received numerous awards, addressed the United Nations Committee on Sustainable Development, and has consulted with many foreign countries on environmental issues. Dr. Kendall was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1991. He is also the recipient of a 2013 Texas Environmental Excellence Award given through the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Most recently, he has been invited to be an Editor for the journal Archives of Parasitology. He has published extensively, including over 200 publications and technical articles in wildlife toxicology and parasitology, and his latest book, “Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues”, has been very successful. Since arriving at Texas Tech in 1997, he has received millions of dollars of research support from local, state, and federal sponsors, as well as private industries, and continues to maintain an active and well-funded research program.

Dr. Ronald J. Kendall’s current research through the Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory at Texas Tech University is dedicated to wildlife parasitology and toxicology. His research is currently supported by multiple sponsors and involves post-doctoral research associates, Doctoral and Master’s students, wildlife toxicology research associates, and undergraduate research assistants.

Manuel Gonzalez Ronquillo holds a PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Zaragoza (Spain), I had a postdoctoral fellow at US Dairy Forage Research in Madison Wisconsin and at the University of Wiscosnsin (USA), with a Fullbrigth Garcia Robles scholarship, as well as volunteering for the Organization Of the United Nations at FAO-AGA Divison in Rome Italy, and a degree in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (Mexico).

Dr Gonzalez has been a Professor and Researcher, teaching several subjects in undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, and Universidad de Magallanes (Chile). He is currently a member of the national research system, level II and conducts studies on assessment of forages evaluation, through the technique of in vitro gas production, the estimation of microbial protein synthesis in ruminants, caracterizise the profile of fatty acids and diets and expression in milk and meat, also Dr Gonzalez works with curves lactations, milk production and focused in metaanalysis related with animal nutrition. Dr. Gonzalez Roquillo has published several articles in indexed journals and book chapters in prestigious editorials on nutritional topics on dairy cattle, caprine, ovine, pig and rabbit species, highlighting his contributions in the estimation of microbial protein synthesis from indirect methods.