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Curriculum Vitae for OMAR ABDULLAH AL-AMOUDI
Biology Department, Umm Al-Qura University, http://www.uqu.edu.sa
P.O. Box. 13948- Makkah - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
E-mail: oaamoudi@uqu.edu.sa
Mobile Phone: 00966/505513678
Office: 00966/2 5270996
FAX: 00966/2 5563558
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Education:
• Undergraduate: (1973 – 1977) B.Sc (Botany). Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdul Aziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Graduate: (1979 – 1983) Ph.D. Department of Botany, School of Biological Science, University of Nottingham, UK. (Thesis: nitrogen assimilation by Platymonas (Tetraselims) striata).
Academic Positions / Employment:
• (1978-1979) Departmental demonstrator at King Abdul Aziz University.
• (1983-1978) Assistant Professor and Research Lecturer.
• (1988-1993) Associate Professor,
• (1994-2009) Professor of Plant physiology, Biology Department at Umm Al-Qura University.
Experiences:
• (1985-1987) Head of Biology Department.
• (1998- 2003) Editor-In-Chief of Umm Al-Qura Univ. Journal (Sci. Med. Eng.).
• (2004 -2008) Director of Research and Consulting Center at Umm Al-Qura University.
• (2008 – present) Dean of Faculty of Applied Science.
Teaching and lecturing:
• PhD Student courses.
• Lecture and practical courses including:?Plant physiology, Plant Cell Biology, Phytochemistry, General Botany and Algal physiology.
• I regularly taught small groups and presented a course on Methods of Plant analysis and biotechnology.
Training:
• (1987-1988) HPLC course, Waters Laboratory, Massachusetts, Boston, USA.
• (1989-1990) Visiting Scientist part of my sabbatical (with Professor P. J. Syerrt), school of Biological Science, University of Swansea, UK.
• (1991- 1992) Visiting Scientist (Dr. J. Gallon and Dr. K. Flynn ), school of Biological Science, University of Swansea, UK.
• (2000 - 2006) Collaboration work with (Professor G. Blunden and Dr. Asmita V. Patel), School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, St Michael's Building, White Swan Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 2DT, UK.
• (2006 - 2007) Collaboration work with Professor M. J. Wynne, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A.
Conferences:
• (1980 – 1987) British Phycological Society meetings in UK.
• (1983 - 2008) The Saudi Biological Society meetings in KSA.
• (2005) The fourth Int. Internet Education in Cairo.
• (2006) The 4th Congress of Scientific Research Arab Science & Technology (ASTF), Damascus.
Membership:
• Membership in Saudi Chemical Society.
• Membership in the British Phycological Society.
• Membership in Kuwait Science Society.
• Fellow of the Saudi Biological Society.
PhD and M.Sc. supervision:
• Some physiological aspects on nitrogen nutrition and assimilation in wheat, (M.Sc. thesis 2001).
• Studies on Biologically active compounds from marine algae, (Ph.D. thesis 2007).
• Modification of the response of saline stressed Sorghum bicolor plants by cation correction of nutrient, (M.Sc. thesis 2008).
• Physiological studies of Lactuca sativa using alternative resources of culturing in relation to the yield of a variety of macromolecular weight components, in progress (in preparation).
Selected Grants:
• Principal investigator of project on Biologically active compounds from marine algae funded by King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia .
• Principal investigator of project on the response of saline stressed of Sorghum bicolor funded by Subic company.
Publications:
1-Al-Amoudi, O. A. and Ricketts, T. R. 1983. Changes in the activities of enzymes involved in nitrogen assimilation by Platymonas (Tetraselims) striata after nitrogen starvation and refeeding. British Phycological Journal 18: 199 - 200.
2- Al-Amoudi, O. A., El-Naggar, M. E. E. 1986. Studies on the chemical composition of marine algae of Saudi Arabia. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, Assiut University 15 (2): 41 – 50.
3- Al-Amoudi, O. A. , and El-Naggar, M, E. E. 1987. Distribution of heavy metals in a species of Caulerpa from Shauba, Saudi Arabia. Microbios 52: 81 – 85.
3- Al-Amoudi, O. A., El-Naggar, M. E. E. and Ali, A. Y. 1987. Preliminary studies on certain chemical components of several marine algae from the Red Sea Coast of Saudi Arabia. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, Assiut University 16 (1): 23 – 36.
5- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1988. The effect of nitrate-nitrogen on cells of Prasinocladus marinus. Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences 19 (1) : 1 –14.
6- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1988. Preliminary studies on water chemistry and algal vegetation of freshwater streams in Makkah province, Saudi Arabia. Journal of University of Kuwait Science 15: 97 – 105.
7- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1988. Studies on Prasinocladus marinus using a development method for the production of unicellular algae. Microbios 54: 23- 30.
8- Flynn, K. J. and Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1988. Effect of nitrogen deprivation and darkness on the comosition of the free amino acid pool and on amino acid release from the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricorntum Bohlin. Journal of Expermintal Marine Biology and Ecology 119: 131 – 143.
9- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1988. The growth of Tetraselmis striata Butcher in inorganic nitrogen free ASP medium supplemented with amino acids source. Egypt Journal of Botany 31 (1): 13 - 21.
10- Al-Amoudi, O. A., Ali, A. Y., Blunden, G. and Smith, B. E. 1988. Betaines and tertary sulphonium compounds from Saudi Arabian marine algae. British Phycological Journal 23: 399 - 402.
11- El-Naggar, M. E. E. and Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1989. Heavy metals in several species of marine algae from the Red Sea of Saudi Arabia. Journal of King Abdul Aziz University (Science) 1: 5 –13.
12- Mohsen, A. F. and Al-Amoudi O. A. 1989. Occurrence of cyanobacteria and their possible toxicity. Journal of King Abdul Aziz University (Science) 1: 15 – 22.
13- Flynn, K. J., Dickson, D. M. and Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1989. The ratio of glutamate in microalgaea biomarker for N-status suitable for use at natural cell densities. Journal of Plankton Research 11 (1) : 165 – 170.
14- Al-Amoudi, O. A. and Flynn, K. J. 1989. Effect of nitrate-N incorporation on the composition of the intracellular amino acid pool of N-deprived Tetraselmis marina. British Phycological Journal 24: 53 - 61.
15- Al-Amoudi, O. A. and Ali, A.Y. 1989. Some practical aspect of measurements of betaines and their sulphur analogues by the use of HPLC. Journal of Microbiological Method 10: 289 - 296.
16- Al-Amoudi, O. A. and Kinsara, A. M. 1990. A survey of available nitrogen sources for the growth of the green alga Tetraselmis marina.
Microbios Letters 44: 7 – 14.
17- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1991. Studies of enzyme activities in nitrogen-limited cells of Prasinocladus marina. Journal of University of Kuwait Science 18: 85 – 93.
18- Gallon, J. R. Hashem, M. A., Al-Amoudi, O. A. and Flynn, K. J. 1991. Photoautotrophic and photohetrotrophic N fixation in Oscillatoria spp. exposed to alternating light and darkness. In: Nitrogen fixation (M. Polsinelli, R. Materassi and M.Vincenzi, eds) pp 525 – 526.
19- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1993. Ammonium assimilation in red microalga Porphyridum purureum. Journal of University of Kuwait Science. 20 : 251 – 260.
20- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1994. Species differences in nitrogen storage reservoirs in macroalgae. Microbios 77: 239 – 246.
21- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1994. Changes in intracellular amino acids and the glutamine:glutamate ratio during N-deprivation and feeding in Porphyridium purpureum. Bulletin of the Faculty of Science, Assiut University 23 (1) : 31 – 38.
22- Al-Amoudi, O. A. 1995. Pathways of nitrate assimilation in the green alga Prasinocladus marinus. Journal of University of Kuwait Science 22: 60 – 66.
23- Blunden, G., Patel, A. V. A., Romero, M. A., Cuervo, A. C., Al-Amoudi, O. A. and Mutawie, H. H. 2003. Betaine distribution in the Euphorbiaceae. Umm Al-qura University Journal of Science –Medicine – Engineering 15 (1): 37 – 42.
24- Al-Amoudi, A. O., Moujahed, M. H. Some Aspects of Nitrogen Assimilation in Wheat Plant (Triticum aestivum L.) as affected by different nitrate levels and bacteria inoculation. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 13 (2)141 – 151, 2006.
25- Al-Amoudi, A. O., Moujahed, M. H. Role of Azotobacter chroococcum, nitrate reductase and distribution of yield components in response to nitrate assimilation by wheat plant. Journal of KUS (in press).
26- Omar A. AL-Amoudi , Hawazin H. Mutawie , Asmita V. Patel and Gerald Blunden. Chemical composition and antioxidant activities of Jeddah corniche algae, Saudi Arabia. Saudi journal of Biological Sciences 16 (1) June 2009.