Microbiology Research Assistant

Personal Information

• Full Name: Maryam Mirshekar

• Gender: Female

• Marital status: Married

• Date of Birth: 4/21/1991

• Telephone NO.: +989*********

• Email: *********.*@****.**.** - ******.***********@*****.***;

• Postal Address: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Hemmat Highway, Next to the Milad tower, Tehran, Iran Language

• Persian: Native or bilingual proficiency

• English: Professional working proficiency

Academic Background

• PhD of Medical Microbiology, Iran University of Medical Science, 2017-up to now. GPA: 4, Excellent.

(Thesis title: Investigation the effect of the exosomes extracted from bone marrow derived MSCs coating in collagen- alginate scaffolds on staphylococcus aureus infection in burnt mouse model)

• MSc of Medical Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, 2014-2017. GPA: 4, Excellent. (Thesis title: molecular detection of class 1integrone,ISAba1 and ISAba125 associated with antimicrobial resistance in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii )

• BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology-Microbiology, Shiraz University-Iran, 2009-2012. GPA: 3, Work and Research Experiences

• Jan 2019 up to now, Researcher, Zharf Andishan-e-Fannavar zist Co. Tehran, Iran.

• Oct 2018 to Jan 2019, Medical Laboratory Technician, Ali Asghar Children's Hospital, Tehran, Iran.

• Oct 2017 to Jan 2018, Medical Laboratory Technician, Firooz-Abadi Hospital, Tehran, Iran.

• 2017 to present, Teaching Assistant, Department of Microbiology, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.

• 2017 to present, Research Assistant, Department of Microbiology, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.

• 2016 to present, Research Assistant, Microbial Biotechnology Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

• Performed practical experiments and research over course of 5 years to test for antibiotic resistance elements and documented all findings.

• Wrote research papers, reports, reviews and summaries regarding antibiotic resistance, Microbiome, probiotic.

• Collaborated with leadership team to identify relevant questions and determine best methods of collection. Workshops

• Biosafety in Medical Laboratory, Iran University of Medical Sciences, 2018.

• Biosafety in Medical Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, 2015.

• An Introductory Course of Laboratory Animals, Pasteur Institute of Iran, 2014.

• HPLC course Pasteur Institute of Iran,2015

Honors

• Reviewer of Q1 and Q2 journals like “APMIS”, “Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia” and etc.

• Best student of Pasteur Institute of Iran, 2015

• Volunteered to Teach Chemistry and Biology to students who lived in villages which have no access to proper education. Zabol-Iran 1 year

• Member of Iran's Arasteh charity foundation, since 2016.

• Work as an academic consultant in Arasteh Charity Foundation. Tehran-Iran 4 year Area of Interest

• Antibiotic resistance

• Antimicrobial agent

• Molecular Microbiology

• Persister cells

• Stem cell therapy

• Host-pathogen interaction

• Toxin antitoxin (TA) system

Technical Skills

Clinical Laboratory Techniques includes Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry Electrophoresis gels such as SDS

Typing methods Primer and probe design

Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic cell

cultures

Vector NTI

Good Laboratory Practices

(GLP)

Real-time PCR

PCR

rep-PCR

HRM

MLVA

Mega

Spectroscopy

Cell Culture

Microbial test

Chromas

DNA Sequencing

Vector NTI

Vector NTI

ELISA

Gene runner

Allele ID

Mouse Handling

Endnote

Mendely

Molecular Diagnostics

RFLP

Antimicrobial Resistance

Probiotics

Molecular Epidemiology

Quality Control

Anaerobic

Microbiology

Computer Skills

MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)

Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms)

Publications

• Diversity of Class 1 Integrons, and Disruption of carO and dacD by Insertion Sequences Among Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates in Tehran, Iran (2017)

• Evaluation of the effects of curcumin nanoparticles on the expression of genes involved in biofilm formation in UPEC.

• Association Between ESBLS Genes and Quinolone Resistance in Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli Isolated from Patients With Urinary Tract Infection.

• The effects of probiotics on reducing the colorectal cancer surgery complications: A periodic review during 2007–2017

• Pan drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii causing nosocomial infections among burnt children.

• Analysis of mgrB gene mutations in colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Tehran, Iran.

• Evaluation the Effects of Nano-Curcumin on the Expression of genes involved in Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis

• The expression of type II TA system genes following persister cell formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates in the exponential and stationary phases.

• Bacteriophage as a novel therapeutic weapon for killing colistin resistant multi-drug resistant and extensively drug resistant Gram negative bacteria.

• sRNA Rides Bacterial Pathogenesis (submitted).

• Comparison of the effect of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells and adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells coating in collagen-fibrin hydrogel scaffold on Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in burnt mouse model (submitted).

• Resistance pattern and distribution of virulence factors among Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from healthy volunteers.

• Evaluation of microbiome of patients with chronic sinusitis compared with healthy individuals. References

Prof. Dr. Nor Amir Mozafary Ph.D of Medical Bacteriology. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Email: ************@*****.***

Prof. Dr. Malihe Talebi, Ph.D of Medical Bacteriology. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Email Address: ******.*@****.**.**

Farzad Badmasti (MSC Supervisor),Assistant Professor, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran Email:*************@*****.***

Shabnam Razavi (Ph. D Supervisor), Associate Professor, Iran University of medical science,Tehran, Iran Email:***************@*****.***

Behrooz Sadeghi kalani (Scientific colleague), Assistant professor, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran ******.*******@*****.***

Rokhsareh Mohammadzadeh (Scientific colleague) Ph. D student, Institute for hygiene and microbiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

*********.*************@**********.**

Maryam Kian pour (Scientific colleague) Ph. D student, Biomedical Sciences Institute, National Sun Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Email: ******.**********@*-****.*****.***.**

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