CURRICULUM VITAE

Name Adel El-Sayed Ahmed Hegazy Sex Male Date of birth 10 th of April, 1960 Place of birth , Nationality Egyptian Military service Finished military service 1983 Marital status Married Work address Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute (GEBRI), Sadat City University, Egypt. Profession Professor Job Description Director of Plant Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering Center, Sadat City University, Egypt, 2004-2009. Director of the Central laboratory since, 2011. Consultant to JICA/Japan study team since, 2011. Agriculture Advisor and representative to JDI/JBEDC1/Japan since, 2011. Home address 25st Salah Salem. Ard El.Genenah, El.Zawia El.Hamra, Cairo, Egypt. 25st Ibrahim sakr. El-Akad, El- Mataria, Cairo, Egypt. Tel. Home 002-02- 24226670. Mobil 002- 1223996271. Work 002- 048- 2601264 (140). Fax 002- 048- 2601266/68 P.O. Box 79 Sadat City, Egypt. E-mail [email protected] Link http://gebrisadat.usc.edu.eg/Adel-Hegazy.htm http://jditokyo.com/en/index.html https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=ahegazy

QUALIFICATIONS:

Ph. D. Plant Physiology, 2003. Faculty of Agriculture, , , Egypt. Title Some Physiological Studies on Date Palm Micropropagation Through Direct Somatic Embryogenesis.

M. Sc. Ornamental & Medicinal plants, 1992. Faculty of Agriculture, Al- Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Title Tissue Culture Propagation of Strelitzia reginae Ait. Plant

B. Sc. Horticulture, 1986. Faculty of Agriculture, , Cairo, Egypt.

TEACHING COURSES ( M. Sc. & Ph. D. Students):

Plant Physiology. Advanced Plant Physiology. Plant Tissue Culture Methodology. Biochemistry of Plant Growth Regulators. Physiology of Plant Hormones. Modern Methods in Biotechnology of Pomology. Modern Methods in Agriculture Biotechnology Biotechnology of Open Field Crops. Experiments in Plant Tissue Culture. Fundamentals of Plant Propagation and Micropropagation. Fundamentals of Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture. Somatic Embryogenesis and Synthetic Seeds.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & PROJECTS MEMBER:

Member in the team work of date palm tissue culture activity. Agriculture Development System Project (ADS), 1988-1991.

Team leader of El. Mohalhel date palm tissue culture laboratory. Al-qassium, Saudi Arabia, 1991-1996.

Team leader of date palm tissue culture activity, Plant Biotechnology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute (GEBRI), Minoufiya University, Sadat City, Egypt, Since 1997.

Member in the team work of the project entitled; date palm micropropagation, National Research Centre, Egypt & International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy,1998- 2001.

Member in the team work of the project entitled; genomic and genetic manipulation of watermelon and melon to increase economic diversity, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute (GEBRI), Minoufiya University, Sadat City, Egypt, 1998 - 2002.

Member in the team work of date palm red weevil project, National Research Centre and Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute (GEBRI), Minoufiya University, Sadat City, Egypt, 2002-2005.

Member in the team work of the project entitled; Applications of tissue culture technologies and nontraditional industries for extension of the cultivation of date palm orchards and its revenue in New Valley governorate, Egypt, 2012-2015.

Long experience in crops improvement by using tissue culture techniques, i. e. Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia reginae , Strelitzia ugestua,), Date palm, Banana, Pineapple, Jack Fruit, Sugar cane, Potato, Strawberry Biofeed plants i.e. Jatropha and Jojoba. Sweet sorghum, economical international medicinal and ornamental plants.

Senior Consultant to private commercial farms & tissue culture laboratories:- AL- Rajhi Tissue Culture Lab. Egypt/Saudi Arabia. Minister of interior date palm farm- Qatar Minister of Higher Education – Pakistan Minister of Foreign Affairs – Sudan Michael tissue culture Lab., Fresno, CA, USA. Pindstrup Mosebrug date palm farm- Amman- Gordon. Nabil Abdrabo model farm, Al-Katta Desert, Giza, Egypt. Eva-agro model farm, Cairo Alex Desert Road, Egypt. Khaled Hegazy international model farm, Cairo Alex. Desert Road, Egypt (Award holder) Zad Agriculture company, Ras Seder, Sinai. Egyptian Holland Tissue Culture Lab.- Ismailia, Egypt. El-Mohands Tissue Culture laboratory – Ash Sharqiyah , Egypt. Kenoz El.Noba Tissue Culture laboratory, , Egypt.

2 INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONS:

An invitation from the Arab Organization for Agriculture Development (AOAD) to attend the Arab Countries Experts 2002 Meeting the Future Challenges of Research Activity, Agriculture Biotechnology development and Commercial Application. Which held in October 27- 29, at Cairo, Egypt.

An invitation from UAE University to attend the 4th International Date Palm Exhibition, which held in Nov. 22-27, 2010 at Abu Dhabi- UAE.

An invitation from UAE University as VIP Date palm specialist to attend Khalifa '' International Date Palm Award'' Distribution Ceremony, which held in March 15, 2011 at Emirates' Palace, Abu Dhabi- UAE.

An invitation from Laboratory of Dynamic Cell Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Osaka University, Japan for 2 weeks 3-17 March 2013 to discuss future biotechnology of biofuel crops.

Invited as a plenary speaker in the international symposium “Green Biotechnology for global sustainability“ Which held in March 9 -11, 2013 at Senri Life Science Center, Osaka University, Japan.

VISITING MISSIONS:

- Visiting professor invitation letter from Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology Division at H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, International Center for Chemical Sciences, University of Karachi, Pakistan, from April 12th to 6th May ,2006. - Visiting professor invitation letter from Date Palm Research Institute, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan, from May 1st to 3rd, 2006. - Visiting professor invitation letter from Faculty of Food and Agriculture, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE from March 14-16, 2011. - Visiting professor to College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, East Lansing, Michigan University, U.S.A. from Dec.,2-5, 2013. - Visiting professor to School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Biosciences East Building 325, The University of Arizona, U.S.A. Jan. 28, 2014. - Visiting professor to the jojoba germplasm collection center, Bakersfield, California - USA, Jan. 30, 2014. - Visiting professor to San Joaquin Valley Agriculture Sciences Center for jojoba germplasm collection at the Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) station in Parlier, California, U.S.A. Jan. 31. 2014. - National Arid Land Plant Genetic Resource Unit. USDA station in Parlier. Jan. 31, 2014 - University of California Riverside- Agriculture Experiment Station and Citrus Research Center.Feb., 3, 2014. - University of California, Coachella Valley- Date Palm Research Station, Indio. Feb., 4, 2014

VISITING SCHOLAR/RESEARCHER: - Scientific mission for 6 months funded from USAID in Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, Indiana, USA. From Nov.15th , 2013 to May 14, 2014.

SESSION CHAIRMAN:

1st International Joint Conference on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Materials Science, - MNB 09- Future Challenges. Invited session chairperson for Plant Biotechnology which held in Jan. 4- 6, 2009 at National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt.

4th International Conference on Date Palm. Invited session chairman for Date Palm Research and Development/ Molecular Biology and Biochemical Techniques. Which held in March 15-17, 2010 at Abu Dhabi, UAE.

3 5th International Conference on Date Palm. Invited session chairman for Date Palm Improvement. Which held in March 16-18, 2014 at Abu Dhabi, UAE.

REVIEWER:

- Journal of Agriculture and Biodiversity Research.www.onlineresearchjournals.org/JABR - Journal of Chemical and Biological Sciences. The ISSN 2071-0038 has been issued from the ISSN International Centre, Paris, France. - International cooperation as reviewer to Ph. D Thesis from Bangladesh.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION:

- Focal point and contact person in the MOU between University of Sadat City /Egypt and Michigan State University/USA 2014.

- Prepared and published Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA ) Study (227 pages) , Japan/Egypt, 2012 entitled: Survey on Policy and Regulation Environment for Egyptian Biofuel Industry Development

- Commercial Plantation Designer for JICA and assistance for plant quarantine and comparative monitoring of imported Jatropha seedlings in , 2012-2013.

ESTABLISHMENT OF TISSUE CULTURE LABORATORIES:

Growpi laboratory through Canada-Egypt-McGill Agricultural Response Program (CEMARP), 1989.

Designer and team leader of tissue culture date palm laboratory, Al-qassium, Saudi Arabia, 1991-1996.

Designer of Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory at Plant Biotechnology Department in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute (GEBRI), Minoufiya University, Sadat City, Egypt,1997.

Designer and team leader of Plant Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering Center labs. Minoufiya University, Sadat City, Egypt, since 2004.

Designer and team leader of El-Mohands Plant Tissue Culture laboratory, Egypt, 2008.

Designer and team leader of Kenoz El.Noba Plant Tissue Culture laboratory, Aswan, Egypt, 2010.

Redesigned and senior consultant to Michael tissue culture Lab., Fresno, CA, USA.

PARTICIPATE IN THE FOLLOWING TRAINING PROGRAM:

Training Program for Studying the Modern Methods in Tissue Culture Techniques. Canada-Egypt-McGill Agricultural Response Program (CEMARP), 1991.

Training Program on Modern Biotechnology of Plant Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering, Gaterslepping Institute, Germany & Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute (GEBRI) Minoufiya University, Egypt, 1997.

4 Modern Methods in Plant Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Plant Cell & Tissue Culture Dept., Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology Division, National Research Center and Agricultural Analysis Unit. Biochemistry Dep., Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University. Egypt 1998.

Training Workshop on Recombinant DNA Technology. Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt 1998.

Egyptian – German Workshop in Plant Genomics: From the Gene to the Product, Fraunhofer Institute of Molecular Biology & Appl. Ecology, Germany and Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute (GEBRI) Minoufiya University, Sadat City, Egypt 2002.

Training workshop on Basics in Plant Tissue Culture as a lecturer, Organized by Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute (GEBRI), Sadat City, Minoufiya University, Egypt from 19-22 September, 2005.

International Training Workshop on Plant Biotechnology: A New Promise for Sustainable Development, National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt & Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), Egypt 3- 7 December, 2005.

Egyptian- Italian workshop on Plant Functional Genomics as invited speaker, which held in January 21- 26th, 2006 at Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute (GEBRI), Minoufiya University, Sadat City, Egypt.

Training workshop on Plant Tissue Culture as a lecturer, Organized by Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute (GEBRI), Sadat City, Minoufiya University, Egypt from 3-5 April, 2010.

International Training program on RNA structure and function, organized by International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Trieste, Italy, from 18-21 April, 2011.

PARTICIPATE IN THE FOLLOWING CONFERENCES:

The 3rd Symposium on Date Palm. King Faisal University. Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia, 17 to 20 Jan., 1993.

1st Conference of Ornamental Horticulture, Cairo University, Egypt, 1994.

3rd Arab Conference on Modern Biotechnology and Areas of Application in the Arab World which held in December 14 to 17, 1998 at Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo, Egypt.

1st International Conference in Egypt on Plant Tissue Culture and its Application, University, Egypt, 1999.

1st International Conference on Date Palm, , Egypt, 1999.

Publishers and Marketing Conference of the Scientific Agricultural Products, University, Egypt, 20 to 21 Apr., 1999.

1st International Egypt – Syria Conference in Agriculture and Food in Arab Countries, Minea, Egypt 2003.

3rd International Date Palm Conference, which held in February 19-21, 2006 at Abu Dhabi- UAE.

6 th National Nematological Conference in Pakistan & Workshop on Integrated Nematode Disease Management (INDM) in Some Cereals, Fruit and Vegetables of Pakistan. which held in April 25- 27, 2006 at (NNRC) University of Karachi.

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International Conference IS-2008 Meeting the Challenges of Sugar Crops and Integrated Industries, as organizer member which held in Sep., 11- 14, 2008 at Al-, Sinai University, Egypt;

1st International Joint Conference on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Materials Science, - MNB 09- Future Challenges. Which held in Jan. 4- 6, 2009 at National Research Centre (NRC),Cairo, Egypt.

4th International Date Palm Conference, which held in March 15-17, 2010 at Abu Dhabi- UAE.

2nd International Conference and Exhibition on Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation [SWSSC2012]. Which held in Dec., 3rd-5th, 2012 at Cairo International Conference Center, Egypt.

The international symposium “Green Biotechnology for global sustainability“ Which held in March 9 -11, 2013 at Osaka University, Japan.

2014 Indiana Hort. Congress & Trade Show. Which held in Jan., 21-23, 2014 at the Wyndham Indianapolis West 2544 Executive Dr. Indianapolis, IN 4624- USA.

5th International Date Palm Conference, which held in March 16-18, 2014 at Abu Dhabi- UAE.

LIST OF DATE PALM PUBLICATIONS:

1- Aboshama H. M. S. Hegazy, A. E and Abdelbary, A. ( 2014). Micropropagation of pear rootstock (Pyrus betulaefolia L.). in press.

2-Hegazy, A. E. (2014). Promising protocol for in vitro direct organogenesis of date palm cv. Ekhlass. Fifth International Date Palm Conference , Abu Dhabi - UAE; 16 – 18 March 2014.

3- Ahmed, O. K and Hegazy, A. E. (2013). Protective effect of nitric oxide on high temperature –induced oxidative stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum) callus culture. J. Biol. Chem. Environ. Sci., Vol.8(4):535- 553.

4- Ahmed, O. K and Hegazy, A. E. (2012). Molecular role of nitric oxide during secondary products production in Ginkgo biloba cell suspension culture. J. Biol. Chem. Environ. Sci., Vol. 7(4):861-882.

5- Hegazy, A. E.; Aboshama, H. M. and Emara. H. A. (2012). Screening of In vitro Produced Banana Plants for Somaclonal Variation. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 935:75-82.

6- Abdellatif K. F., Hegazy, A.E. ; Aboshama, H. M. ; Emara, H. A.; El-Shahed, A. A. (2011). Biotechnological Studies on Banana Plant 2-Morphological and molecular characterization of somaclonal variants generated from cultivar ‘Grand Naine’ J. Plant Production, Mansoura Univ., Vol. 2 (11):1593 – 1606.

7- El-Zefzafy, M. M.; Dawoud, G. T. and Hegazy, A. E. (2010). Biotechnological and Phytochemical Studies on Myrtus communis L. Including Determination of Essential Oil Content and Antioxidant Activity. J. Drug. Res. Egypt. Vol. 31 (1): 23-32.

8- Hegazy, A. E. and Aboshama, H. M. (2010). An efficient novel pathway discovered in date palm micropropagation. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 882:167-176.

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9- Aboshama, H. M. S. and Hegazy, A. E. (2009). In vitro screening and production of salt tolerant Citrus volkamariana plant. J. Agric. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 34(10): 9991-10009.

10 - Helaly, M. N.; A. E. Hegazy and Hanan, A. M. El- Hosieny (2009). Botanical studies on the micropropagation of two dried cv (s) from date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, L.) using tissue cullture techinique; 3- Phytohormones and production of secondary product. J. Agri. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 34(3): 1861- 1874.

11- Helaly, M. N.; A. E. Hegazy and Hanan, A. M. El- Hosieny (2009). Botanical studies on the micropropagation of two dried cv (s) from date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, L.) using tissue cullture techinique; 2- Carbohydrates fractions and acclimatization. J. Agri. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 34(3): 1845-1860.

12- Hegazy, A. E.; Nasr, M. I.; Ibrahim, I. A. and El-Bastawissy, H. H. (2009). Micropropagation of date palm cv. Malakaby through embryogenesis. 3- Effect of tryptone, yeast extract, casein hydrolysate and pineapple extract. J. Agri. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 34 (3): 1561- . 1576.

13- Hegazy, A. E.; Nasr, M. I.; Ibrahim, I. A. and El-Bastawissy, H. H. (2009). Micropropagation of date palm cv. Malakaby through embryogenesis. 2- Effect of adenine hemisulfate, glutamine and glutathione. J. Agri. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 34 (3): 1545- 1560.

14- Nasr, M. I.; Ibrahim, I. A.; Gergess, A. A. ; Hegazy, A. E. and El-Bastawissy, H. H. (2008). Micropropagation of date palm cv. Malakaby through embryogenesis. 1- Effect of plant growth regulators. J. Product & Dev., 13 (3): 637 – 650.

15- Nasr, M. I.; I. A. Ibrahim H. A. Ibrahim and Hegazy, A. E (2008). Dates as source of sugar and sugar integrated Industries. International Conference IS-2008 Meeting the Challenges of Sugar Crops and Integrated Industries, Sinai University, Egypt; Sep., 11- 14, pp: 508-513.

16- Helaly, M. N.; M. M. Darwish; Z. E. Mohamed; A. E. Hegazy and Hanan, A. M. El- Hosieny (2008). Botanical studies on the micropropagation of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, L.) using tissue cullture techinique: 1-Effect of antioxidant; AOs on browning control and related compounds. J. Agri. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 33 (11): 7791- 7801.

17- Hegazy, A. E. (2008). Micropropagation of Egyptian date palm c.v Selmy through floral buds culture. J. Agri. Sci. Mansoura Univ., 33 (4): 2803-2815.

18- Hegazy, A. E. (2007). An efficient novel protocol for the micropropagation of Strelitzia augasta (syn. S. alba) - White bird of paradise. Egypt. J. of Appl. Sci., 22 (12 B): 410- 421.

19- Hegazy, A. E.; Ahmed, O. K.; Abul-Soad , A. A. and Nasr, M. I. (2006). Growing Behaviors of ex vitro Date Palm Plants after Acclimatization. The 2nd International Conference of Genetic Engineering& Its Applications, Sharm El-Sheik City, South Sinai, Egypt; 14-17 November. p 15.

20- Hegazy, A.E.; Nesiem, M.R.A.; Ibrahim, I. A. and EL-Ghamrawy, N. K. (2006 a). Direct Somatic Embryos of Date Palm I- Induction and Development The Third International Date Palm, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Feb., 19-21, p 38.

21- Hegazy, A.E; Nesiem, M.R.A.; Ibrahim, I. A. and EL-Ghamrawy, N. K. (2006 b).

7 Direct Somatic Embryos of Date Palm II- Acclimatization and Genetic Stability. The Third International Date Palm, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Feb.,19-21, p 39.

22- Ibrahim, I. A and Hegazy , A. E. ( 2001 b). In vitro cultivation of date palm. 3- Date palm abnormalities during micropropagation via embryogenesis. Mid-Atlantic plant molecular Biology Society, Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Beltisville-MD, USA, Aug., 2-3, p 39.

23- Ibrahim, I. A and Hegazy , A. E. ( 2001 a). In vitro cultivation of date palm. 1- Micropropagation of adult and juvenile date palm. Mid-Atlantic plant molecular Biology Society, Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Beltisville-MD, USA, Aug., 2-3, p. 37.

24- Ibrahim, I. A and Hegazy , A. E. (1999). Micropropagation of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.cv. Samany) via direct organogenesis.1st International Conference in Egypt on Plant Tissue Culture and its Application, Zagazig Univ., pp. 201-207.

25- Ibrahim, I. A and Hegazy , A. E. (1998). In vitro propagation of aged date palm. 3rd Arab Conference on Modern Biotechnology and Areas of Application in the Arab World. Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Cairo, Egypt., pp.36.

26- Bosila, H. A.; Mansour, B. M.; Ibrahim, I. A, and Hegazy, A. E. (1994). Tissue culture propagation of Strelitzia reginae Ait. Plant. 1- Phenolic compounds exudation and strelitzia explant establishment cultured in vitro. The First Conference of Ornamental Horticulture. Cairo Univ., 1: 68-83.

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