C.V.
Name in full
MUAAZ MUTAZ AL-AJLANI
S/O MUTAZ AL-AJLANI
Place & Date of birth
Damascus, Syria 30-06-1980
Nationality
Syrian
Gender - Status
Male
- Married
Present Address
Yasmin
AMMAN- JORDAN
Tell No. (Mobile)
00962-778179584/
Email address
[email protected]
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, International
University for Science and Technology.
PhD Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Awards
Exchange program state sponsor student (Lahore,
Pakistan) 1998-2004, 2004-08.
DAAD grant for short research period (Leipzig,
Germany), 2007.
Higher Education Commission,
(Goettingen, Germany), 2006-2007.
Travel
grant
Doctoral
Program
Coordinating
Committee,
Collaborative research (Bozeman, MT, USA), 2009.
Teaching experience
Teaching classes of Pharmacy: Pharmaceutical
biotechnology, immunology, microbiology, IU, 2013-
Lecturer classes: Microbiology, Biochemistry and
Analytical Chemistry, IUST, 2009-2013.
A part time teacher in Department of Microbiology
and Molecular Genetics and Botany Department,
University of the Punjab, Class; Msc(II); M.Phil;
Msc(Hon), for the subjects Environmental
Bacteriology , Microbial Diversity, Bacteriology and
Virology, Bioinformatics, Research methodology,
Proteomics and Genomics, and Bioremediation and
Biodegradation, 2004-2009.
University education
Visiting Scientist, Montana State University,
Department of Plant Pathology and Plant Sciences,
Bozeman, Montana, USA (2009). Supervisor
Professor Dr. Gary Strobel.
Ph.D Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
(Bioscreening). Department of Microbiology and
Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab,
Lahore.
Thesis
title
“Bacteria
exhibiting
antimicrobial activities, screening for antibiotics
and associated genetic studies” Peptide antibiotics.
Professor Dr. M. Faisal, Department of microbiology
and molecular genetics, University of the Punjab.
(2004-2009).
Pharmacy graduate (2255/3700) 1st Division,
University College of Pharmacy, University of the
Punjab, Lahore (1998-2003).
School attended
Ibn khaldoon Higher secondary school (192/240)
80% 1st Damascus,Syria. (1995-1998)
Boor Saeed High school (144/290) 85% 1st
Damascus, Syria (1992-1995).
Tatbikat Maslakiah Elementary school Excellent
position.
Publications :
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Simple and rapid isolation of a Novel Antibiotic From Bacillus Subtilis Mz-7. 2006.
Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies 29: 637–645.
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Antagonistic activity against nosocomial clinical isolates with Bacillus subtilis MZ-7.
2007. Annals in Microbiology, 57(3): 419-424.
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Production of surfactin in commercial medium, cotton seed derivatives Pharmamedia.
Cell Microbial Factories, 6: 17, 2007 .(HIGHLY ACCESSED ARTICLE)
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Pectinase activity of wild-type Bacillus subtilis isolated from Pakistan Zeeshan
Ahmad1, Muaaz Mutaz Al-Ajlani1,2 and Shahida Hasnain1. Biotechnology research,
2:15-25 2012.
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Molecular studies of SboX gene in Bacillus subtilis and its possible physiological
role. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, Submitted, 2010.
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Biochemical and Physiological Characterization of Novel Antibiotic From Bacillus
subtilis Mz-7 with antagonistic activity against nosocomial clinical isolates
Journal of Chemotherap, Accepted, 2011.
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Muaaz Al-Ajlani, Shahida Hasnain and Hartmut Laatsch. Screening for new
secondary metabolites from Bacillus spp. using LC-MS/MS. Rapid communication
Mass spect. In preparation
Poster presentations:
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Poster “Isolation and Partial purification of a novel antibiotic Produced by Novel
Bacillus subtilis Mz-7 with antagonistic activity against nosocomial clinical isolates”
to IUMS Congress, BAM. 07/2005. USA.
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Poster “Characterization of a Bacterial Strain, Isolated from Pakistan, with
antibacterial activity” to IBCM, PSM. 02/2005. Pakistan.
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Poster: Characterization and purification of a lipopeptide antibiotic produced by
Bacillus subtilis strain 15IIB
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Muhammad Abid Sheikh, Muaaz Mutaz Al-Ajlani and Shahida Hasnain
International Biennial Conference Of Pakistan Society For Microbiology March 1821, 2007 Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Poster: Production of Pectin degrading Enzymes by Bacillus subtlis Strain Z-Ii
Zeeshan Ahmad, Muaaz Mutaz Al-Ajlani and Shahida Hasnain. International
Biennial Conference Of Pakistan Society For Microbiology March 18-21, 2007
Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Poster: Characterization of antimicrobial peptide produced by Bacillus endophyticus
Muaaz Mutaz Al-Ajlani and Shahida Hasnain . June 2007. Societe Francaise de
Microbiology SFM, Nantes, FRANCE.
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Poster: Biochemical and genetical characterization of a wild type Bacillus sp. Strain
MZ 32 with antimicrobial activities, 1st Göttingen Chemie Form, Goettingen,
GERMANY.
Scientific Presentations:
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New antibiotics from indigenous bacteria, Goldamycin and Damaskomycin,
international conference for advances in
Presentation: Subtilosin A and Sbo X gene discovery of its role in Bacillus
physiology, Sept, 2007, GERMANY.
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Presentation “Genetic studies and a novel wild-type Bacillus subtilis MZ-7 with
antagonistic activity” GBE Conference, 12/2005. Pakistan
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Presentation “Biochemical and Physiological Characterization of Novel
Antimicrobial Protein From Bacillus subtilis Mz-7” 18th FAOBMB Symposium,
12/2005. Pakistan
Research Experience
Bioinformatics Skills
 Secondary metabolites characterization
 Analytical techniques Si, RP, Gel chromatography,
Analytical and Preparative HPLC
 Structure elucidation 1H and 13C NMR and MS.
 Fermentation and Fermentation optimization
 Enzymes characterizations
 Mutation induction
 Model expression
 Bioscreening
 ACD programs (H and C NMR simulation).
 BLAST, BioEdit, LigandScout, ClustalW, JalView,
TreeView, Sequence Manipulation Suite.
 Gaussian ,Visual Molecular Dynamics ( VMD),
Molden, Marvin Sketch.
 Secondary and tertiary structure prediction
 Protein and DNA sequence and phylogenetic
analysis
 Primer designing
 MEGA analysis
Molecular Biology (Techniques) Skills
 DNA/RNA Extraction
 PCR/ Multiplex PCR
 PAGE and agrose gel electrophoresis and
documentation
 Southern / Northern / Western
Blotting/Immunoprecipitation
 Restriction digestion
Projects executed:
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Bacteria exhibiting antimicrobial activities and associated genetic studies 2004-2008
Study of indigenous bacteria exhibiting antimicrobial activities and their role in plant
growth 2006. Sup., Professor Dr M Faisal.
Industrial potential of Bacillus species: production and characterization of pectinases
2007. Sup., self.
Isolation and Purification of Lipopeptides from Bacillus spp. 2008 (Goettingen,
Germany) Sup., Professor Dr H Laatsch.
Isolation of natural products from endophytes, 2009 (Bozeman, USA) Sup., Professor
Dr Gary Strobel.
Professional qualifications
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Followed workshop in Development of genetic and Microbial techniques. Lahore,
Pakistan.
Followed a fifteen days apprenticeship program hospital pharmacy at children
hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
Followed a one month Apprenticeship program of clinical pharmacy at Jinnah
hospital., Lahore, Pakistan.
Followed three month training at Feroza-Co industrial pharmacy, Lahore, Pakistan.
Participated in the international Pharmacy conference, 2003. Held by the Pakistan
Pharmacist’s Association.
Participated in the international biennial conference, 2005, Held by the Pakistan
society for Microbiology, “Mechanism of host pathogen interaction”.
Memberships:
 American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
 Pakistan Society for Microbiology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology
 Syrian Pharmacy Council.
Extracurricular activities:
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Reading scientific Journals
Internet surfing
Football, Basketball and Swimming
Linguistic Proficiency and sports:
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English, German, Arabic and Urdu.
Description of my previous studies:
I have taken following courses during my research:
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General molecular Biology
General molecular Biology
Gene regulation and expression
Recombinant DNA techniques
Molecular Immunology
Microbiology and molecular genetics
Plant pathology
Cell Biology
Virology
Instrumentation
Biostatistics
Bioinformatics
Statistics
Natural Product Isolation
Natural Product Chemistry
Thesis title:
“Bacteria exhibiting antimicrobial activities, screening for antibiotics and associated
genetic studies”
During my graduate Pharmacy education, I have taken following courses:
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Pharmacolology I II & III
Pharmaceutics I II III IV & V
Biochemistry
Human Physiology
Pathology
Mathematics and Statistics
Human Anatomy
Clinical pharmacy
Hospital pharmacy
Microbiology
Pharmaceutical chemistry
Medicinal chemistry
Quality control of pharmaceuticals
Biopharmaceutics
Organic chemistry
Inorganic chemistry
References:
Professor Dr Gary Strobel
Professor
Department of Plant Pathology and Plant Sciences
Montana State University, Montana
U.S.A.
[email protected]
Professor Dr Rama Mashoor Zabad
Professor
Faculty of Pharmacy
International University for Science and Technology, Damascus
Syria
[email protected]
Professor Dr Hartmut Laatsch,
Professor
Institute of Biomolecular and Organic Chemistry
University of Göttingen, Göttingen.
Germany.
[email protected]
Prof. Dr. Shahida Hasnain,
Dean of life science, Chairperson and Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics,
University of the Punjab, Quaid-e- Azam Campus. Lahore
Pakistan.
[email protected]
Muaaz
MUAAZ AL-AJLANI