7^th International conference on Environmental Microbiology, Soil Microbiology & Microbial Biogeochemistry July 11-12, 2018 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Tamboli was a Senior Agriculturalist at the World Banking, Washington, D.C., where he worked on projects in 30 countries in Africa and Asia. He also has held positions as a Soil Fertility expertat the Food and Agriculture Organization (link is external) (FAO) of the United Nations, and as a professor and associate dean at Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University at Jabalpur (link is external) (M.P.), and was involved in designing and implementing All India Agronomic Trials throughout India.

Environmental Science, Soil biology,Agricultural

Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine-Ain Shams University (ASU)&The Head of the department at Armed Forces College of Medicine. She participated in International research projects collaborated with Pasteur institute &Co-authored international Publications. Actively participated as an infection prevention and control consultant (APIC member#180759), in the upgrading of medical services and accreditation of governmental &teaching hospitals according to Egyptian standards. As an Associate trainer (IBCT-MENA-AT063/08), she trained their staff on infection control measures. She is an Arbitrator (Promotion Committee, Supreme Council of Universities), Vice president of quality assurance unit, ASU& Egyptian fellowship in healthcare management. She is a member in Egyptian Scientific Societies of Medical Microbiology, immunologists, Infection Control, Arabic Society of infectious diseases& antimicrobials. She passed medical education courses from University 0f Michigan and is a member in Arabic association of medical education. She had been recognized as the “Ideal doctor” Egyptian Medical Syndicate, March 2006.

Microbiology & Immunology

Nadiya Boyko has defended her PhD in 1994 and doctor degree in 2010. From 2000 until 2005 she occupied sabbatical Research Fellow position in Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology in University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is permanently working as professor at the Uzhhorod National University, and occupied following positions: Director of the R&D Centre of Molecular Microbiology and Mucosal Immunology; Vice-President and CSO of CLS in Slovakia and co-founder and CEO of Ediens LLC. Research interests are: P4 medicine, personalised nutrition, pharmabiotics, human microbiome, noncommunicable diseases; food safety, knowledge transfer. Co-establisher of Ukrainian and Slovak Technology Platforms “Agro-Food”; experienced stakeholder manager with links to industry, academia and researchers in Europe. She has published more than 250 papers, including chapter in Mucosal immunology Elsevier press, h-index is 10. Member: SMI, SOMED, ASA, SMU; Editor of SOMED, Microbial Journal and European Journal of Nutrition, and Guest Editor of Frontiers Immunology.

Microbiome of soil, plants and humans

Dr. Taha Nazir has more than twenty (20) years of professional, research and academic experience in the field of clinical and applied pharmacy including drug screening and disease transmission models. He is also specialist in clinical microbiology; infectious diseases; molecular basis of antimicrobial resistance development and resistance patterns. Moreover; He has experience of handling Biosafety level 2 and 3 biological samples and performed biological and biochemical analyses including quantitative PCR analysis, chromatographic and spectroscopic based assays. He also has strong background in data acquisition, writing, editing, reviewing and conceiving literatures related to clinical microbiology, pharmacology and clinical pharmacy at graduation and post-graduation level with excellent team player spirit and good leadership qualities.

Drug screening and disease transmission models, clinical microbiology; infectious diseases; molecular basis of antimicrobial resistance development and resistance patterns

Dr Helieh S. Oz has DVM, and MS (U. IL); PhD (U. MN) and clinical translational research certificate (U. KY Med Center). Dr Oz is an active member of American Association of Gastroenterology (AGA) and AGA Fellow (AGAF). Dr Oz is Microbiologist scientist with expertise in infectious and inflammatory diseases, drug discoveries, pathogenesis, innate and mucosal Immunity, molecular biology, and micronutrient. Dr Oz has over 90 publications in areas of chronic inflammatory disorders (e.g. pancreatitis, hepatitis, colitis), microbial and infectious diseases (e.g. Toxoplasmosis, Trypanosomasis, Babesiosis, Coccidiosis, Pneumocystis pneumonia). She has served as Lead editor for special issues including Gut Inflammatory, Infectious diseases and Nutrition 2017 (Mediators of Inflammation); Nutrients, Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases 2017 (Nutrients); Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Repair: Role of Microbiome, Infection, Nutrition 2016 (Gastroenterology Research Practice), and co-editor for Parasitic infections in pediatric clinical practice 2017 (J Pediatric Infectious Disease), Chagas Disease, Intech Open Science 2017 and member of different advisory committees.

Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Repair: Role of Microbiome, Infection, Nutrition 2016 (Gastroenterology Research Practice), and co-editor for Parasitic infections in pediatric clinical practice 2017 (J Pediatric Infectious Disease), Chagas Disease, Intech Open Science 2017 and member of different advisory committees. Infection, Immunology of infectious disease, Innate Immunity, Microbiology

Prof. Elasayed Elsayed Wagih (Ph.D, DIC, CIDTT) is a Professor of Virology and Biotechnology and Vice President of the Arab Society for Biotechnology. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on the 21st of November, 1946. In 1970, he received a B.Sc. in Plant Pathology from University of Alexandria and in 1975 he gained an M.Sc. degree in Plant Bacterial Diseases from the same university. In 1981, he received a PhD degree in Virology from the Imperial College of Science (Technology and Medicine), University of London and was awarded in the same year a DIC from the Royal College of Science. In March 2008, he earned The Cambridge International Diploma for Teaching and Training (CIDTT) from University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Since June 26, 1992, Prof. Wagih has been working as Professor of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology in the Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture,University of Alexandria, Egypt. He is the former Head of the Department and former Vice Director of research of the Biotechnology Centre of the College. He harvested a number of local and international awards, prizes and certificates of appreciation, the last most important of which was the "Highest National Award for Scientific Research Achievement" awarded by The Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology in 1998. Prof. Wagih served as a member of the National Committee for Promoting University Faculty for five successive years. He is also the former Representative of North Africa and a Board Member of the Governing Council of the African Crop Science Society (ACSS) for three successive interims. He has published over 80 papers most of them in reputable journals and is currently serving as Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal of Virology.

Virology and Biotechnology

Dr. Lazarovits was employed as a Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agrifood Canada from 1978 until 2010 and retired at a research scientist 5 level. He accepted the position as Research Director of a newly found company A&L Biologicals, a company dedicated to serving the needs of Canadian and International growers with services and research related to developing bio-rationale agro-ecosystems. Dr. Lazarovits’ research over the last decade has focused on examining plant health from an ecological perspective where both beneficial and detrimental organisms in soil are considered to affect plant vigor. He developed innovative model systems for studying soil processes and interactions between microorganisms and plants, as well each other. He serves on committees of Environment Canada and is a member of the UN Ozone Secretariat regulating the phase out of methyl bromide (MBTOC). Dr. Lazarovits was president of the Canadian Phytopathological Society. He was an active researcher and was a team leader with Agriculture and Agrifood Canada for over 32 years.

Developing bio-rationale agro-ecosystems

Shlomit Kenigsberg is an Independent Scientific Advisor. Her recent position is the Director of Scientific Affair in a leading Canadian company for Life-Sciences products, and a Senior Research Associate at Create Fertility Centre from Toronto Canada. She obtained her PhD studying DNA-methylation in the human malaria causing agent, Plasmodium falciparum, graduating in 2001, together with an MBA degree. Her first position was as a Product Manager for QIAGEN, an international BioTech company. She then accepted a Post-doctoral fellowship with the Department of Human Genetics at Ben-Gurion University, where she studied differential gene expression in polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) using microarray technologies. This unique experience led her to join Create Fertility Centre in 2006 as a Senior Research Associate to establish a new reproductive biology research laboratory and basic research program. Her recent projects focused on isolation and characterization of exosomes from various body fluids and conditioned media in the IVF lab. The project included downstream applications such as small RNA qPCRs arrays, NGS technologies, bioinformatics analysis, and proteomics. Although her specialty is in Ovarian Biology, she was also involved in mesenchymal-stem cells (MSCs) and andrology related research projects.

Bio-Medical professional specializing in Exosomes, Reproductive Sciences BioBanking and Effective Lab Management.