Noha Mohamed Osman , Ph.D

Contact information

Department of Biological Sciences, 401 Choppin Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Phone: (225) 578 – 2791

Email: nosman3 @lsu.edu

ORCID: 0000-0002-6866-1484

Education

2016 Ph.D. in Molecular and Computational Biology through the scientific channel between Molecular and Computational Biology Department , The University of Southern California , USA and Beni- Suef University, Egypt .

2010 M.Sc. in Microbiology and Immunology, Beni-Suef University, Egypt.

2009 Diploma in Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Benha University, Egypt.

2004 B.Sc. Veterinary Medicine, Menoufia University, Egypt.

Research Interests

Bioinformatics Genomics

Proteomics Computational Biology

Structural Biology Molecular Biology

Genome wide association studies (GWAS) Machine Learning

Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence

Next Generation Sequencing (DNA and RNA Sequencing)

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Work Experience

2019 – Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, USA.

2017 – 2018 Researcher, National Research Centre, Egypt.

2013 – 2016 Researcher Assistant (Ph.D. Candidate) Department of Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

2011-2012 Research Scientist Animal Genetics Department, University of Washington State, Pullman, USA.

2010 – 2011 Researcher Assistant, National Research Centre, Egypt.

2006 -2009 Assistant researcher, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.

Teaching

. Introduction of Microbiology class (Fall, 2015) and Biotechnology class (Spring, 2016) in University of Southern California, USA.

. Courses in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Biology to undergraduates of veterinary medicine and science at National Research Centre, Egypt (2008, 2009 and 2017).

. Courses in Molecular Biology and Genetics for Master and Doctoral students who participated in projects at Cell Biology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Centre, Egypt (2011, 2012 and 2017).

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Workshop Instructor

. “Biological informatics from genotype to phenotype”, National Research Centre, Egypt (07/2018).

. “Applications of Bioinformatics in Cancer Research “ , Kasr Al-Ainy Medical School, Cairo University, Egypt (08/2018)

. “Medical Bioinformatics for beginners “, Kasr Al-Ainy Medical School, Cairo University, Egypt (08/2018).

. “Genetic Editing Techniques; RNA interference vs. CRISPR / Cas 9 “, National Research Centre, Egypt (09/2018).

. “Bioinformatics Winter School (Four Modules)”, Module I (Basic Bioinformatics) & Module II (Introduction to Programming and Next Generation Sequencing) & Module III (Basic of genome wide analysis) &Module VI (Population genomics), Kasr Al-Ainy Medical School, Cairo University, Egypt (12/2018-1/2019).

Participated in The Following Projects

. Genetic characterization and expression of some immune genes in Egyptian buffalo towards its immunity improvement (2017 -2020). PI : Othman El-Mahdy , Funded by National Research Centre , Egypt.

. Association between genetic polymorphisms of innate immunity genes and resistance to mastitis in Egyptian Buffaloes (2017 -2020). PI: Prof. Ahlam AbouMossallam , Funded by National Research Centre , Egypt.

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. Checking the presence of antibiotic resistance marker genes in plant crops and their possible incorporation in DNA of animal and bacterial cells (2017 -2020).PI : Hanaa Oraby , Funded by National Research Centre , Egypt.

. Characterization of milk production and immune genes in whole genome of river buffalo Egyptian breed (2016 -2019). PI : Ahlam AbouMossallam , Funded by Ministry of Highr Education.

. Identifying a genetic basis for different phenotypic traits that characterize Salvelinus malma morphs by surveying transcriptome for SNPs using illumina Next-Generation Sequencing (2015 -2019).PI : Sergey Nuzhdin , Funded by National institutes of Health (NIH).

. Transcription factors analysis of D. melanogaster transcriptome (2013 -2017). PI : Sergey Nuzhdin , Funded by National institutes of Health (NIH).

. Allele specific in alternative splicing in D. melanogaster Genome (2013-2015). PI : Sergey Nuzhdin , Funded by National institutes of Health (NIH).

Publications

 Ahlam A Abou Mossallam , Soheir M El Nahas, Esraa A Balabel, El Hassan H Shahwan and Noha M. Osman (2019). Characterizations of two splice variants Cathelicidine-4 in mRNA of Egyptian buffalo (Submitted).

. Noha M. Osman, Tevfik Hamdi Kitapci ,Srna Vlaho, Sergey Nuzhdin, Zeba Wunderlich (2018). Inference of transcription factor regulation patterns using gene expression covariation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Biophysics, 63(1), 54-77.

. Noha M. Osman, Ahlam A. Abou Mossallam, Fawzy R.Seedy , Eman R. Mahfouz (2018). Single nucleotide polymorphisms in TLR4 gene and endometritis resistance in river buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences,11 (5), 577-583.

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. Yerbol Z Kurmangaliyev , Alexander V. Favorov , Noha M. Osman ,Kjong-Van Lehmann ,Daniel Campo ,Matthew P. Salomon ,John Tower , Mikhail S. Gelfand ,Sergey V. Nuzhdin (2015). Natural variation of gene models in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Genomics, 16, 198.

. Noha Mohamed Osman , Ahlam Ahmed Abou Mossallam , Fawzy Reyed Seedy , Eman Roshdy Mahfouz , Rui Li , Michal Mikula (2015). Characterization and Transcriptional Profile of Toll-Like Receptors of Bubalus bubalis with Endometritis. Journal of Infection and Molecular Biology, 3(2), 34–46.

. Ahlam A. AbouMossallam ,Soheir M. El Nahas , Eman R. Mahfouz , Noha M. Osman (2015) .Characterization of buffalo interleukin 8 (IL-8) and its expression in endometritis .Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 13(1), 71–77.

. F.R. El Seedy, M. El-Shabrawy, A.S. Hakim, S.F. Syame and N.M. Osman (2012). Advanced Techniques Used for Isolation and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated from Mastitic Buffaloes. Global Veterinaria 8(2):144-152.

. El-Seedy, F. R., El-Shabrawy, M., Hakim, a S., Dorgham, S. M., Nagwa, a S., Bakry, M. a, Osman, N. M. (2010). Recent Techniques used for Isolation and Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus from mastitic cows. Journal of American Science, 6(12), 701–708.

Conferences / Scientific Books

. Nahla M. Shoukry, Elham M. Youssef Elabd, Hani S. Hafez and Noha M. Osman (2016): Stem Cell Biology: Flies As Models and Examples - Pp. 49-81 (33), Developmental and Stem Cell Biology in Health and Disease.

. Noha M. Osman , Ahlam A. AbouMossallam, Fawzy R. El-Seedy, Eman R.Mahfouz and AlhassanT.Mohamed (2016). Polymorphism and Haplotype structure of TLR2 gene associated with endometritis infection in water buffalo .Plant & Animal Genome Conference :PAGXXIV ,San Diego,CA,USA ,Jan 9-13.

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