Basic Informations

Name:     

Ahmed Osama Mostafa El Gendy       

Gender

Date of Birth:

Male

January 23, 1984.

Nationality:

Egyptian.

Military service:

Exempted from military services.

Marital status:

Married, with three children.

Position:

Lecturer of Microbiology and Immunology. Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University

Address: 

1) El-Gendy Pharmacy, Ahmed Orabi street, Beni-Suef, Egypt.

2) Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University, El-Shahid

    Ahmed Hegazi Street, Beni-Suef, 62111, Egypt                                                                                    

Mobile:   

(002) 01223476015

E-mail:

ahmed.elgendy@pharm.bsu.edu.eg

dr.ahmed_micro@yahoo.com

Degrees:

1)    B.Sc. Of Pharmaceutical sciences (Excellent with honor degree), Cairo University, Beni-Suef Branch, May, 2005.

2)    Prerequisite graduate courses towards the M.Sc., degree: (with general grade very good), Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Academic year February 2006, Exams January 2007 and results appeared at April 2007.

3)    M.Sc. of Microbiology and Immunology, Beni-Suef University, March, 2010.

4)    PhD of Microbiology and Immunology, Beni-Suef University, January, 2013.

Noticing that:

1- The research unit at Beni-Suef branch of Cairo University was completed at July 2002.

2- Beni-Suef University, Egypt (was separated from Cairo University according to the Republic role No [192/2005] starting 1 August 2005).

3- All courses and exams (written, oral, and practical) during undergraduate and graduate studies were in English.

Experiences:

1)    Demonstrator of microbiology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni Sueif (Teaching practical course for 2^nd, and 3^rd year pharmacy students including introduction to practical pharmaceutical microbiology, practical bacteriology, serology and parasitology), 2005-2010.

2)    Visiting researcher at “Laboratory of Microbial Gene Technology and Food Microbiology” at the Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Food Science at the Norwegian University of Life Science during a period from August 2008 - June 2009.

3)    Assistant lecturer in the same faculty, 2010-2013.

4)    Lecturer in the same faculty, 2013 – now.

5)    Lecturer at the faculty of Postgraduate Studies for Advanced Sciences, Beni-Suef University from September 2013 – now.

Fields of research and interest:

1)    Antibiotic resistance, virulence factors and CRISPR Cas system associated with Enterococcus faecalis.

2)    Natural products from Actinomycetes isolated from different niches.

3)    Bacteriocins and antimicrobial peptides recovered from lactic acid bacteria (Characterization, Purification and Genotypic analysis)

4)    Mycology, Biofilm & Quorum sensing : Induction of Candida biofilm formation , determination of antifungal susceptibilities of biofilm-grown Candida isolates, measuring extent of penetration of antifungal agents through biofilms, Viable count of biofilm cells exposed to antifungal agents and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of Candida albicans biofilm before and after antifungal challenging.

5)    Performing of antimicrobial susceptibility techniques including disk diffusion method and MIC determination for bacterial clinical isolates.

6)    Bacteriology: Isolation and identification of clinical microbial microorganisms (which include E. coli, Klebsiella spp. Enterobacter spp. Staphylococcus spp., Pseudomonas spp.) using variety of media and biochemical tests.

7)    ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immuno-Sorbant Assay) applications.

8)    Molecular techniques (genomics and proteomics) related to bacteriocins encoding genes isolated from lactic acid bacteria.

9)    Bioinformatics: Bioinformatics and its applications in biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences.

Conferences and Most Recent Activities :

1)    Participating with poster in ASM Microbe-2016, which was hold from June 16 – 20, 2016, in Boston, USA.

2)    Participating with poster in FEMS 2015, the 6th Congress of European Microbiologists, which was hold from June 7 – 11, 2015, in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

3)    Participating with oral presentations in the III international conference on Antimicrobial Research – ICAR2014 which was hold from 1-3 October 2014, in Madrid (Spain).

4)    Participating in the International Conference of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and Spectroscopy "ICNBS 2013" – Tools of Success in the Coming Era, which was hold during 29 Nov. – 01 Dec. 2013, Delta Pyramids Hotel, Egypt.

5)    Participating with oral presentations in the International Scientific Conference of Bacteriocins and Antimicrobial Peptides – BAMP 2013 which was hold during 21st – 23rd May 2013, in the university city of Kosice, Slovakia, in Doubletree Hilton Hotel.

6)    Participating in the second scientific symposium of Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University on "Recent Advances In Pharmaceutical Research", Jan. 12^th, 2011.

7)    Attendance a training course of bioinformatics and recent applications of gene technology, at faculty of pharmacy, Cairo University, September 2010.

8)    Member of the Egyptian Pharmacists Syndicate.

9)    Member of American society for microbiologists (ASM).

10)           Member of the Cairo University Staff Association.

11)    Member of the Egyptian Pharmaceutical Society.

12)    Director of Innovation, Patency, Research excellence Support Office at Beni-Suef University from the period of Oct. 2014 – until June 2016.

13)    Director of Computer center at Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University from the period of 2009 – 2011.

14)    Assistant director of RDI Focal point and international relationship office, Beni-Suef University from the period of 2010 – 2012.

   14) Elected as a Member of the Board Directors of Beni-Suef Pharmacists 

         Syndicate from the period of 2011 – 2014.

Thesis:

Ahmed Osama El-Gendy, (2010). "Studying of Candida albicans Biofilms and Their Susceptibility to Antifungal Agents". Thesis for M. Sc. degree. Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University.

Ahmed Osama El-Gendy, (2013). "Characterization of Enterococcus faecalis isolated from intensive care units and food samples, and testing their ability for bacteriocins production". Thesis for PhD degree. Faculty of Pharmacy, Beni-Suef University.

Publications:

1) Abdelgawad, M. A., Bakr, R. B., El-Gendy, A. O., Kamel, G. M., Azouz, A. A., & Bukhari, S. N. A. (2017). Discovery of a COX-2 selective inhibitor hit with anti-inflammatory activity and gastric ulcer protective effect. Future Medicinal Chemistry, 9(16), 1899-1912. ‏

2) Fahim, H. A., El Rouby, W. M., El-Gendy, A. O., Khairalla, A. S., Naguib, I. A., & Farghali, A. A. (2017). Enhancement of the productivity of the potent bacteriocin avicin A and improvement of its stability using nanotechnology approaches. Scientific Reports, 7, 10604.

3) Ahmad, M. S., El-Gendy, A. O., Ahmed, R. R., Hassan, H. M., El-Kabbany, H. M., & Merdash, A. G. (2017). Exploring the Antimicrobial and Antitumor Potentials of Streptomyces sp. AGM12-1 Isolated from Egyptian Soil. Frontiers in microbiology, 8.

4) AbdEl-Mogheith, S., El-Gendy, A. O., Sultan, S., & El-Nesr, K. A. Exploring the Antimicrobial and Hepatoprotective Effects of Kefir; A Probiotic Fermented Milk. Journal of pure and applied microbiology 11 (2), 759-772.

5) Aly, A. M., Adel, A., El-Gendy, A. O., Essam, T. M., & Aziz, R. K. (2016). Gut microbiome alterations in patients with stage 4 hepatitis C. Gut pathogens, 8(1), 42.

6) El-Hawary, S., Mohammed, R., AbouZid, S., Ali, Z. Y., El-Gendy, A. O., & Elwekeel, A. (2016). In-vitro cyclooxygenase Inhibitory, antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of phytochemicals isolated from Crassula arborescens (Mill.) Willd. International Journal of Applied Research in Natural Products, 9(4), 8-14.

7) Hassan M H A, Mohammed R, Hetta M H, Abdelaziz T A, El-Gendy A O, Sleim M A (2016). Biological and Chemical Investigation of the Soft Coral Lobophytum pauciflorum Collected from the Egyptian Red Sea. International Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemical Research 8 (6), 906-911.

8) Fahim, H. A., Khairalla, A. S., & El-Gendy, A. O. (2016). Nanotechnology: a valuable strategy to improve bacteriocin formulations. Frontiers in microbiology, 7 .‏                                                                                                                                         

9) El-Gendy AO, Gaber A., Rashad R,, Hassan H., Sayed M. (2016). Purification and characterization of potent antimicrobial agent with antitumor activity recovered from Actinomycetes in Beni-Suef, Egypt. ASM Microbe-2016, June 16 – 20, 2016, in Boston, USA.

10) Mahmoud A, Adel A, El-Gendy AO, Essam T, Aziz RK (2015). A pilot exploration of the gut microbiome of Egyptian HCV patients. The 13th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference (Rocky 2015; http://www.iscb.org/rocky2015) December 10-12, 2015, in Snowmass, Colorado, USA. “Rocky” is an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and serves the worldwide bioinformatics research community.

11) Hassana GS, Awdallah FM, El-Saadi MT, El-Gendy AO, Hemeda LR (2015). Synthesis of some benzothiazole derivatives evaluated as antimicrobials and antibiofilms. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 7 (7): 1125-1143.

12) Mebad ZM, Abdelghani SMM, El-Gendy AO and Amin MA (2015). Comparative Studies on the Antimycotic Activities of Commercially Available Vaginal Douches in the Egyptian Market. New Egyptian Journal of Microbiology, September 2015, ISSN; 1687-1219.

13) Lamie PF, Philoppes JN, El-Gendy AO, Rarova L, Gruz J (2015). Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Phthalimide Derivatives as in Vitro Anti-Microbial, Anti-Oxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Agents. Molecules 2015, 20(9), 16620-16642; doi:10.3390/molecules200916620

14) Mebad ZM, Abdelghani SMM, El-Gendy AO and Amin MA (2015). Commercial vaginal douches enhanced various virulence factors of Candida albicans isolated from clinical specimens of Egyptian women.  ICAAC/ICC2015 conference, San Diego, California. September 17-21.

15) El-Gendy AO, Hendawy HAM, Ibrahim AM (2015). Fabrication of DNA electrochemical biosensor based on carbon nanotubes for detection of fecal contaminated water with Enterococcus faecalis. FEMS 2015, the 6th Congress of European Microbiologists, which was hold from June 7 – 11, 2015, in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

16) Dundar H, Brede DA, La Rosa SL, El-Gendy AO, Diep DB, Nes IF (2015). Fsr quorum sensing system and cognate Gelatinase orchestrate the expression and processing of pro-protein EF1097 into mature antimicrobial peptide enterocin O16. J Bacteriol. 2015 Jul;197(13):2112-21. doi: 10.1128/JB.02513-14. Epub 2015 Mar 2.

17) El-Gendy AO (2014). Different growth kinetics and their impacts on production of enterocin OS13 following by applying different purification strategies for recovering of high yield bacteriocin. International conference on Antimicrobial Research – ICAR2014 which was hold from 1-3 October 2014, in Madrid (Spain).

18) Tarek N, Hassan HM, AbdelGhani SMM, Radwan IA, Hammouda O, El-Gendy AO (2014). Comparative chemical and antimicrobial study of nine essential oils obtained from medicinal plants growing in Egypt. Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2014, Pages 149–156.

19) El-Gendy AO, Brede DA, Essam TM, Amin MA, Ahmed SH, Holo H, Nes IF (2013). Purification and characterization of Enterocin OS13 α & β; novel bacteriocins from a food isolate Enterococcus faecalis OS13 with potent activity towards antibiotic resistant nosocomial enterococci. International Scientific Conference of Bacteriocins and Antimicrobial Peptides – BAMP 2013 which was held during 21st – 23rd May 2013, in the university city of Kosice, Slovakia.

20) Ahmed, SH, Amin, MA, Saafan, AE, El-Gendy, AO, ul Islam, M, (2013). Measuring susceptibility of Candida albicans biofilms towards antifungal agents. Der Pharmacia Lettre, 5 (1):376-383 ‏ .

21) El-Gendy AO, Essam TM, Amin MA, Ahmed SH, Nes IF, (2012). Clinical Screening for Bacteriocinogenic Enterococcus faecalis Isolated from Intensive Care Unit Inpatient in Egypt. J Microb Biochem Technol., 4: 161-167. doi:10.4172/1948- 5948.1000089.

22) Ahmed SH, Amin MA, Saafan AE, El-Gendy AO, (2011). Antifungal Susceptibilities and Penetrations of Planktonic and Sessile Candida albicans Isolated from Urinary Tract Infections and Vaginitis from Beni-Suef City, Egypt. Egy J Medical Microbiol., 20(4): 107-121

Projects:

1. Principal Investigator in the collective project funded by the Beni-Suef University, entitled "Nanocomposites, a novel approach to optimize, purify and enhance the antibacterial activity of a potent bacteriocin (Enterocin OS13)", 2014. (65,000 EGP., Beni-Suef University).
2. Researcher in the project funded by the Beni-Suef University, entitled "Prediction of the response to interferon and rebavirin treatment in Egyptian chronic hepatitis C virus infection by investigation of interleukins 10, 12 and 18 and il-28b single nucleotide polymorphism", 2014. (40,000  EGP., Beni-Suef University).
3. Principal Investigator in the project funded by the Beni-Suef University, entitled "High throughput investigation for novel antimicrobial compounds recovered from different wild types microbiota designed for pharmaceutical applications", 2015. (50,000 EGP., Beni-Suef University).
4. Researcher in the collective project funded by the Beni-Suef University, entitled "Target nano particles for treatment of chronic bacterial proestatitis", 2015. (75,000 EGP., Beni-Suef University).
5. Researcher in the project funded by the Beni-Suef University, entitled "Bioactive metabolites isolated from aquatic microorganisms of Nile River", 2015. (50,000 EGP., Beni-Suef University).

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