Functional Plant Science and Biotechnology - Global Science Books

The Guest Editor
Dr. Ashraf A. Khalil
Dr. Ashraf A. Khalil holds a position of associate professor at Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (GEBRI),
Mubarak City for Science and Technology (MuCSAT). In 2000, he obtained his PhD degree from Cairo University in
Microbial Biotechnology in cooperation with Lund University, Sweden. Afterwards, he got postdoc trainings at Dept of
Biotechnology, Dept of Developmental Biology, Dept of Protein Chemistry and Dept of Neurosurgery. All were at Lund
University, Sweden. In 2004, he carried out his 2 nd Master study in Biomedicine at the University of Lund’s Faculty of
Medicine in order to gain a strong foundation in the techniques of clinical proteomics. That was one of the major milestones
in Khalil's research career in which he discovered novel brain cancer biomarkers using the-state-of-the-art technology. In
2007, he came back Egypt and built his own team in GEBRI and supervised many biotechnological-oriented studies,
including environmental biomarkers, animal modeling, natural products and bioactive proteins. Khalil is a fellow of
European Organization for Molecular Biology (EMBO) and American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). He is a
member of the editorial board of some peer-reviewed journals such as World Journal of Clinical Oncology. Along his career
he published more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Khalil has intensive and wide hands-on experience on
isolation and handling of microbial pathogens, 2D electrophoresis, western blot, immunoprecipitation, gel documentation,
protein purification protocols. And also has good experience with bioinformatics such as sequence databases & analysis,
graphical visualization of 3D structure, protein structure prediction, protein homology modeling, protein fold recognition,
expression analysis, 2D image analysis. Khalil is most proud of his graduate students, whom continue to bring excellence to
his laboratory and the institute. According to Khalil, working with graduate students is the most gratifying part of his job.
“There is no greater experience than working with talented young people and being part of their accomplishments.”.