Poster #43 - Aymen Yassin

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Biography

Dr. Yassin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Cairo University in 1996 where he worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. He started his PhD in pharmaceutical biotechnology in 2000 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. In his PhD project, Dr. Yassin mapped novel antibiotic sites in the bacterial ribosome. He completed a postdoc at Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health between 2008 and 2011, where he worked on solving the cryo- electron microscopy structural complexes of several bacterial and mitochondrial ribosomes. Since 2011, he has been at Cairo University where he is currently a full professor. Dr. Yassin participated in several projects dealing with bacterial and viral epidemiology and virulence, pharmaceutical microbiology and biotechnology. He also teaches a selection of undergraduate and graduate courses. Currently, he is working on analyzing the microbiome composition of different fresh water and soil sediment samples from different locations throughout the Egyptian environment. The aim is to characterize the microbial diversity of these habitats and analyze the factors affecting their composition by studying their abundance through 16S rRNA gene analysis. His plan is to extend this work to the metagenomics and metatransciptomics level to gain a wider comprehensive view of the exact community structure and genes expressed at the sites under study.