Assistant Research

February **** Resume

Seyedeh Nikoo Safi

Family Name: Safi Date of Birth: March 23, 1985

First Name: Seyedeh Nikoo Marital Status: Married

E-mail Address: *********@*****.*** Cell phone: 818-***-****

Address: 6630 Independence Ave, #308, Canoga Park, CA 91303, USA.

High lights:

Passionate about research based laboratory careers

Serious, responsible, organized, quick learner and independent character

Experienced with different research projects: Immunology, Virology, Antiviral, Vaccine and Gene Sequencing projects

Having experiences in working in vitro and in vivo

Familiar with varieties of techniques: Cell Culture, Cell Isolation, Animal Handling, Flow Cytometry, Gene Based and Protein Based Techniques, DNA and RNA extraction from different samples, RT-qPCR, Gel PCR, Elisa, Immunohistochemistry, Western Blot and MILLIPLEX

My last thesis was revolving around cytokines (genes and proteins level) detection in vivo and in vitro in a viral immune-mediated disease

Educations Background:

2013-2015: Master of Molecular Biotechnology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia (GPA: 3.885)

2003-2011: Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M) Degree, Shiraz School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. (GPA: 3.0)

Working Experiences:

•Associate Scientist: Universal Diagnostics Laboratories, CA, USA, Oct 2015-present.

•Responsibilities: Sample analysis, Running ELISA, being involved in Cytology, Immunohistochemistry and Molecular departments of the laboratory, Developing new diagnostics techniques, Result collection and Report

•Research Assistant: Laboratory of Vaccine and Immunotherapeutics, Institute of Biosciences, UPM (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Abdul Rahman Bin Omar), Malaysia. 2013-2015.

•Achieved The Best Research Assistant Recommendation from the Director of the institute

•Accomplished many ongoing researches of the vaccines and immunetherapeutics laboratory and the results papers are submitted to the journals, currently under reviewed

•Achieved one patent, the status is filed

•Assisting master and PHD students to finalize their projects

•Responsibilities: Being involved in different research projects (Virology, Immunology, Antiviral, Vaccine and Gene Sequencing) as a member of a team, Performing laboratory techniques (In vitro and In vivo approaches, Cell culture, Virus culture, Animal handling, DNA, RNA and protein extraction, RT-qPCR performance, ELISA, Western Blot, Flow cytometry and MILLIPLEX)

•Intern: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Iran. 2010-2011.

•Responsibilities: Assisting clinicians, being involved in different wards of the clinic, patient examining, performing diagnostics tests, data collection, filling up the forms and report preparation.

Publications:

Published papers:

1.Shuid, A.N., Safi, N., Haghani, A., Mehrbod, P., Haron, M.S.R., Tan, S.W., Omar, A.R. 2015. “Apoptosis Transcriptional Mechanism of Feline Infectious Peritonitis Virus Infected Cells.” Apoptosis 20(11):1457–70.

Under publication papers:

1.Haghani, A., Safi, N., Omar, A.R., Mehrbod, P. Aini, I., 2015, In Vitro and In Vivo Mechanism of Immunomodulatory and Antiviral Activity of Edible Bird's Nest (EBN) against Influenza A Virus (IAV) Infection. Submitted to Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

2.Haghani, A., Mehrbod, P., Safi, N., Omar, A. R., Aini, I., 2015. Edible bird's nest modulates intracellular molecular pathways of influenza A virus infected cells, submitted to BMC complementary and alternative medicine.

3.Safi, N., Haghani, A., Ng, S.W., Gayathri, T.S., Farina, M.K., Omar, A.R., 2015. Expression Profiles of Immune Mediators in Feline Infectious Peritonitis Virus Infected Cells and Clinical Samples of Cats Diagnosed with Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP): Possible Relevance to FIP Progression. Submitted to Plos One.

Papers and patent under preparation

1.Research paper: Qi, H.L., Safi, N., Haghani, A., Aini, I., Omar, A.R., Salivary gland transcriptional difference of swiftlet species habitats of Malaysia.

2.Patent: Qi, H.L., Safi, N., Haghani, A., Aini, I., Omar, A.R., PCR kit for authentication of Edible bird nest.

Conference Papers:

1.Haghani, A., Mehrbod, P., Safi, N., Omar, A. R., Aini, I., Edible bird nest (EBN) can inhibit influenza A virus by affecting autophagy pathway, International symposium of health sciences (I-SIHAT 2015)

2.Haghani, A., Mehrbod, P., Safi, N., Omar, A. R., Aini, I., Evaluation of antiviral properties of edible bird nest (EBN) extracts on influenza A virus (IAV) attenuation. Abstract presented at 32nd Malaysian Society of Microbiology symposium, 2014. (Received the first rank of poster presentation)

3.Haghani, A., Mehrbod, P., Safi, N., Omar, A. R., Aini, I., The effects of edible bird nest (EBN) extracts on autophagy pathway against influenza A virus. Abstract presented in Edible Bird Nest Industry Conference - EBNIC 2014, Malaysia Agriculture Research and Development Institution (MARDI), Malaysia.

Skills

Cell culture: working with different types of cells including MDCK, CRFK, Fcwf-4, DH1 and DH82

Molecular techniques: DNA, RNA and Protein Extraction, RT-qPCR (experienced in both Taqman and Sybergreen), Gel PCR, RT-PCR, MILLIPLEX analysis, ELISA, Western blot, immunoflourescent staining, Next generation sequencing

Virology techniques: Familiar with working with different strain of influenza viruses and FIPV. Virology-based methods including virus propagation, HA, MTT, Virus Quantification, TCID50 and the like.

Language Skills:

Persian: Native

English level: Good.

French: Intermediate

Malay: Basic

Arabic: Basic

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