رئيس فرع الاحياء المجهرية

C.V.

 

Name: Dr Murtakab Younis Al-Hejjaj

Nationality: Iraqi

Gender: Male

Currently occupation: Dr Associate Prof / Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Language: Arabic / English

Home Address: Basrah/ Iraq

Telephone Number: 009647718885066

Email: murtakab111@yahoo.com, murtakab.alhejjaj@uobasrah.edu.iq

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Degree

 

Area of Study

 

Name of Instruction and Address

Date

Received

 

 

PhD

Molecular

Biology and

Biotechnology

Department of Molecular Biology and

Biotechnology/ The University of

Sheffield/ Sheffield/ UK

 

20th Dec

2017

MSc

Biotechnology

University of Basrah/ Basrah/ Iraq

June 2006

 

 

BSc

Veterinary

Medicine and

Surgery

 

Veterinary College/ University of Basrah/ Basrah/ Iraq

 

 

Nov 2002

 

 

 

 

 

Certificates

RECOGNITION

Name of Instruction or Organisation and Address

Date

 

Certificate of

Participate

First International Veterinary Medicine Conference Basra

University/ College of Veterinary Medicine.

22nd-23rd

October

2008

 

Competency

Certificate

Iraqi center for human rights activists (training course)/

Basrah/ Iraq.

19th-21st

March

2009

 

Certificate of attendance

Basra University / College of Science/ Biology

Department/ Basrah/ Iraq DNA Extraction and

Amplification the Gene by PCR Technique).

24-26th

March

2009

Certificate

attendance

Computer Center- Basrah University/ Basrah/ Iraq.

(computer skill)

3rd May

2009

 

 

 

Certificate of

Participate

Second International Veterinary Medicine Conference,

Basrah Sheraton Hotel/ Basrah/ Iraq.

17-18th

Oct

2010

 

 

Certificate of attendance

Basra University- College of Science- Biology Department-

Basrah- Iraq. (The use of DNA Fingerprint in the Identification of Missing Persons and Victims of Mass Fatalities).

 

 

3rd-7th

April 2011

 

Competency

Certificate

National Institute of Human Rights (the Advanced Human

Rights) training course)- Ministry of Human Rights-

Baghdad- Iraq.

 

22nd-24th

May 2011

 

Certificate of

Participate

4th Scientific Conference of the Iraqi Poultry Science

Association, College of Veterinary Medicine/ University of Basrah/ Basrah/ Iraq

6th-7th

March

2012

Certificate of

Participate

Learning across culture/ training course/ university of

Sheffield/ Sheffield/ UK

 

2015

Certificate of

Participate

American Society for Cell Biology. Holding in San

Francisco/ California/ USA

 

Dec 2016

Certificate of

Participate

Biotechnology France Conference. Paris/ France

 

Jul 2017

Certificate of

Participate

Dictyostelium Society meeting. Holding in Geneva/

Switzerland

20th-24th

Aug 2017

Certificate of

Participate

Sixth International Veterinary Medicine Conference,

Basrah University/ Basrah/ Iraq.

 

2018

Certificate

World Health Organisation (WHO)

2020

Certificate

HSP Iraq Health Security Steward Fellow

2021

Certificate of

Participate

Leadership course/ University of Basrah

 

2022

Certificate of

Participate

Advance Leadership course / University of Basrah

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

Job Experience

Begin and

End Date

Name of Instruction

and Address

 

Position

 

 

 

23rd Feb

2003- 20th Oct

2012

Faculty of

Veterinary Medicine

 

 

Address: Iraq, Basra University of Basrah, Faculty of Veterinary

Researcher – Lecturer at the College of

Veterinary Medicine

Main Duties:

1.  Lecturer    in     Microbiology    -3ed     stage-

Biology and Molecular Biology –first stage- and Nutrition-5th  stage-(lab)

1- Manager  of  the  Higher  Education  Unit of

 

 

 

Medicine, PO. Box

57

Basrah  University/  College  of  Veterinary

Medicine (25/01/2009- 29/10/2011).

2- Scientific Researcher

3- Participation in Conferences

4- Participate      in      supervising      graduation research  of  undergraduate  students-  5th stage-.

5- Participate in the Animal Management Field training.

6-  Human rights lecturer.

 

 

 

 

24th Oct 2012-

25th Dec 2017

Department of

Molecular Biology

and Biotechnology/ The University of Sheffield/ Sheffield/ UK

-     PhD student

-     Lecturer (Demonstrator) for MSc (Human

genetic & molecular biology and biotechnology) students

-     Supervisor for an MSc student

-     Volunteer (teacher) in Arabic primary

school

 

 

 

25th Feb

2018- till the

present

Department of

Microbiology/ College of Veterinary Medicine/ Basrah University/ Basrah/ Iraq

-     Dr Associate Professor

-     Manager of the central laboratory

-     Supervisor for MSc and PhD students

-     Lecturer for undergraduate and

postgraduate studies

 

 

2018- till the present

College of

Veterinary

Medicine/ Basrah

-     Member of the central committee of

CBRN University of Basrah

-     Biological safety officer (Veterinary Med.

College)

 

 

 

Jun - Oct 2020

Basrah health

central lab/ Basrah

-     Volunteer in the Covid-19 diagnostic lab

(viral RNA extraction and real-time PCR)

-     Member of Covid-19 control committee/ University of Basrah/ College of Veterinary Medicine

 

Jan 2022 Jan

2023

College of

Veterinary

Medicine/ Basrah

-     Director of the Microbiology and

parasitology department

-     Responsible for the translation unite

 

Jan 2023 till the present

College of

Veterinary

Medicine/ Basrah

-     Head of the Department of Microbiology

and Parasitology

 

 

Publication

Name of Article or Book

Publication Citation

Master’s degree Thesis: Application of transformation

method in transfer of antibiotic production property from Streptomyces Sp. to E. coli pBR322

University    of     Basra     - College     of     Veterinary

Medicine – Microbiology

Dep. 2006

Isolation of plasmid DNA from Streptomyces sp. Bacteria

and Escherichia coli pBR322 transformation.

Basrah        Journal        of

Veterinary     Researches.

Vol1 (8): 2009

Study the incidence of abortion and retained placenta in

pregnant  cows  infected  with  ephemeral  fever  and  its relation with treatment and bacterial cusses.

Al-Qadisiya, the scientific

Journal of Vet. Medicine. Vol. 2 (9):2010

Study of alkaloid extract from Citrullus colocynthis fruit and its antimicrobial activity screening.

Basrah Journal of science

Researches. 36(4) 2010

Isolation and identification of Escherichia coli from dogs’ feces  and  study  of  the  characteristics  properties  of  its produced antimicrobial agent.

Basrah         Journal         of

Veterinary     Researches.

1(8) 2010

Pnc1 piggy-back import into peroxisomes relies on Gpd1

homodimerisation

Journal      of       Scientific

Reports 7,

Article number: 42579 (2017)

Two NAD-linked redox shuttles maintain the peroxisomal

redox balance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal      of       Scientific

Reports (2017)

PhD Thesis: Investigations of the role of peroxisomes in

sterol  biosynthesis   in     the   slime   mould    Dictyostelium

discoideum

Sheffield University/

Sheffield/ UK (2017)

Molecular detection of new Bacillus strains from soil samples of free grazing areas in Basrah province, southern Iraq

Vol. 23 Issue 11. 2020

Antioxidant Activity and In-Silico Study of Anthraquinone Glycosides Extracted from Cassia Fistula Against the Main Protease (7BUY) In SARS-COV2

Biomedical &

Pharmacology Journal,

September 2021. Vol.

14(3), p. 1669-1674

The  effect  of  Bacillus  subtillus  BSW  as  a  probiotic  on productive and physiological performance of brilers

Volume 77, Issue 5 -

Serial Number 5 Sept and

Oct 2022

Isolation and  Partial characterization of glycolipopeptide biosurfactant   derived   from   a   novel   Lactiplantibacillus plantarum LBp_WAM.

 

Basrah         Journal         of

Agricultural          Sciences

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2022)

 

 

 

 

The Relative of Spa Gene Types, Prevalence and Antibiotic

Resistance in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

 

Volume 77, Issue 6 -

Serial Number 6 Nov and

Dec 2022

 

Whole  Genome  Sequence  and  Comparative  Genomics Analysis  of  Multi-drug  Resistant  Staphylococcus  xylosus NM36 Isolated from a Cow with Mastitis in Basrah City

 

In press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acknowledgement letters

Name of Instruction or Organization and Address

No.

Date

Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research,

Baghdad, Iraq.

 

6

 

2011,…, 2023

Chancellor of Basra University- Basra -Iraq - University of

Basra.

 

16

 

2010,…, 2023

Basra Veterinary College, dean office. Basra –Iraq-

University of Basra.

 

42

 

2004,…, 2023

Vice Chancellor of Basra University- Basra -Iraq - University

of Basrah.

 

4

 

Till 2023

 

 

 

 

 

Memberships

British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB)

2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017

American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

2016

Treasurer officer of Iraqi student’s society at the

University of Sheffield

 

2015 and 2016

Biochemistry Society

2017

HSP Iraq Health Security Steward Fellow 2021

2021