Abdel-Salam

I received my Ph.D. degree in Botany with special emphasis in Plant Biotechnology, Genomics & Transcriptomics from KSU, Saudi Arabia.

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My current research focuses on examination of changes happened in transcriptomic landscape of medicinal plants with relation to biosynthesis of main active ingredients and chemical groups e.g., flavonoids. In this field, I have significant skills in computer software and programing in addition to lab skills including DNA and RNA manipulation techniques. I am able to deal with all operating systems i.e., different Linux distros, macOS, and Windows. I can write programs using Linux command line tools, Python, R, Perl, and other programming languages. I am working also on genetic transformation and mass propagation of medicinal plants and those of economic importance in addition to characterization of regenerated plants using molecular markers and flow cytometry. I am also involved in encapsulation of vegetative propagules/somatic embryos for germplasm conservation, storage, and exchange. Another area of my research is in the interaction of nanoparticles and bisphenols with plants (uptake & translocation) and their toxicological effects and mechanism of interaction at cellular and molecular level and cell death in edible crops. I have developed several protocols for in vitro regeneration, synthetic seed production of several rare medicinal plants.

 

I am actively engaged in several projects and some have been successfully completed. I have published over 38 research articles in peer-reviewed journals of international repute and these papers have been cited over 500 times with a Google h index of 12. I have co-authored 2 book chapters and 2 review articles in the area of plant biotechnologies. I have translated 2 whole books from English to Arabic (mother tongue) and they were published by the KSU Press, Saudi Arabia.