Ihab Osman

Curriculum Vitae Heading Name: Ihab Abd El Moneim Osman E-mail: peposudane@gmail.com Nationality: Sudanese Date of Birth: 14/11/1987 Place of Birth: Khartoum, Sudan Cell Phone Number: 0114245067 Land Phone Number: 0224115088 Present Address: Apt. 13 – 101 Zahraa – Nasr city – Cairo ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS • Finished preparatory studies with 92% degrees • Finished High School with 89.5% degrees • Graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture Cairo University (Biotechnology Department) with a “Very Good” GPA TRAINING During summer “2007” • 8 weeks of summer Training in the following Departments at Cairo University (Microbiology-Genetics-Field Crops –Biochemistry-Animal Production-Dairy Technology) and also visited different farms for animal and poultry production • 4 days camp at the desert soil unit in El Natron Valley where I learnt how soil desert can be reclaimed and how to raise animal and poultry in such areas, as well as how to live in a camp During summer “2008” • 2 weeks training in AGERI “Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute” on Training in Molecular markers & transformation techniques : 1-DNA Isolation 2-RAPD PCR 3-Tissue Culture 4-AFLP 5-SSR 6-Transformation using Biolistic bombardment • 2 Weeks Training in Microbiological analysis & activities, Department of Microbiology (Cairo University) 1-Quality control 2-HACCP Analysis 3-Screening for antibiotic producing organism 4-Determination the microbial inhibition spectrum • 2 Weeks Training at the Department of Biochemistry (Cairo University) 1-Column Chromatography 2-Lipid Extraction 3-Determination of total Carbohydrate 4-Antioxidant activities • 2 Weeks at the Departments of Genetics (Cairo University) 1- DNA Extraction 2-Plasmid Miniprep 3-DNA Electrophoresis 4-Elution 5-PCR 6-RAPD 7-Transformation using Agrobacterium 8-Plant Cell & Tissue Culture 9-Protein Electrophoresis • 3 Weeks Training at Vodafone Egypt on (Interview skills-Communication skills-Soft skills) OTHER EXPERIENCES • Worked at the Egyptian National Gene Bank • Worked at Vodafone Egypt for 2 months as Customer Service agent • Attended the Summer Educational Course at the Sudanese Development Initiative (SUDIA) “2001” • Attended a course in English conversation at AUC in Egypt (2003) • Excellent Computer Skills • Took the International TOEFL exam “iBT” with a 96 score EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES • Teaching English to refugees and volunteering on different refugee-related activities for Student Action for Refugees (STAR) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) for 2 years (January 2008-Present) • Organizing in the annual refugee film festival as member of the AUC committee in association with Tadamon-Egyptian Refugee Multicultural Council “2009” • Currently participating in organization of The 4th Conference on Recent Technologies in Agriculture “Challenges in Agricultural Modernization” November 2009 • Attended the Bio-Vision conference in the Bibliotheca of Alexandria in “2006 and 2008” • Member of the LBN “London Biotechnology Network” • Member of Resala charity group and volunteering in a number of their activities Languages • Fluent English • Arabic (Mother Tongue) HOBBIES Reading, Soccer, Computers, Music.

Science has been always my passion since high school. That's why I pursued a scientific career, I am applying for a master fellowship at the American University in Cairo.

I believe that the idea of having our country "Sudan" unified is a worthy of spread idea, because if the worse came to the worst and the Sudan was divided into southern and northern parts this won't have negative effects on Sudan only, but possibly to the whole continent.