Egypt’s Biotechnology Research and Development in Academia:
providing the foundation for the biotechnology spectrum of colors
Cairo, Egypt
5 April 2009
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CONTENTS
Supplement 3
Volume 3
2009
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I1 Egypt’s Biotechnology Research and Development in Academia: providing the foundation for the Biotechnology spectrum of colors.Sixteenth Annual American University in Cairo Research Conference, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Rania Siam
O1 Introduction to the panel on Biotechnology Research and Development in Industry
Rania Siam
O2 Elucidation of the metabolic fate of glucose in Trichoderma resseiusing EST analysis and cDNA microarray: a step towards metabolic engineering of the regulatory networks for anaerobic metabolism for glucose
Hamza El-Dorry
O3 Hexose transporters in Trichoderma resei; structure, function and regulation
Bishoy Hanna, Augusto Ramos, Felipe S. Chambergo, Amira Mahmoud and Hamza El Dorry
O4 Plant biotechnology at NRC, Egypt: ongoing research and future plan
Mahmoud M Sakr
O5 Molecular diagnostics for the detection of strawberry viruses in Australia
Fiona Constable, Chris Bottcher, Geoff Kelly, Rose Lines, Mirko Milinkovic, Denis Persley and Brendan Rodoni
O6 Overview of Biotechnology research activities at the Biotechnology graduate program
Rania Siam
O7 FGFR3 and TP53 mutations in urothelial cell carcinoma: two molecular pathways and diagnostic value
Ashraf Bakkar
O8 Lats1 differential expression in selected human cancers
Mary Boutrous and Rania Siam
O9 Outbreak investigation: molecular characterization of Vibrio choleraeisolates from Horn of Africa
Lamyaa Shaban, Salwa F Ahmed, Sadiki Materu and John D Klena
O10 Molecular characterization of
extended-spectrum-ββ-lactamases producing
Klebsiella pneumoniaeand Escherichia coli
from hospitalized patients in Oman
Lobna Mourad, Matilda Nicklasson, Rania Siam and Guillermo Pimentel