County Dublin, Ireland
🌱 Food is medicine | Author of Longevity Plant-Based Book | Functional Medicine Health Coach | Sustainable Future Foods | Food Safety & Nutraceuticals | Assistant Professor/ Lecturer of Human Health & Nutrition @ Sports Science & Nutrition Departmant @ Maynooth University | I lead the Sustainable Future Foods & Food Safety Epigenetics Research Group in Maynooth University. SFI-IRC Pathways Principal Investigator | 🧬 Research Focus: • Sustainable Future Foods & Food safety and Epigenetic control of food-contamination by aflatoxin producing genes in pathogenic fungi. • Development of nutraceuticals and functional future foods 📢 Achievements: • Elisabeth Gateff Prize for Best Ph.D. in Genetics Awardee (£3000) • Ph.D. with distinction (Summa Cum Laude) from the Göttingen Graduate Centre for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences, operating under the collaboration of Max Planck Institute and Georg August University in Germany. • Excellence Ph.D. Scholarship Award (€52.000) • IRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (€91,790) • SFI-IRC Pathway Early Career Principal Investigator Award (€551,600) 🔬 Postdoctoral Contributions • Worked with food enzyme production, specifically utilizing the fungus Aspergillus niger, commonly used in the food industry. • Explored Aspergillus fumigatus, a high-mortality human pathogen • Investigated gliotoxin production, pathogen sporulation, and host-pathogen interactions • Published findings contributing to our understanding of pathogenicity and defense mechanisms 💼 Professional Experience: • Transforming lives through personalized nutrition and nutrigenetics with functional medicine health coaching. 📚 Author: 'Functional Whole Food Plant-Based Nutrition for Longevity,' 2nd edition (Turkish) Focuses on preventing and reversing diseases like type 2 diabetes and obesity through informed food choices. Let's connect! 🌐
• Setting up new Biologics testing laboratory and involved in many tasks including analytical method transfer for new product testing, obtaining regulatory licences, writing and verification of methods, scientific communication between R&D teams to control all new activities associated with R&D/Biologics. • Applied and successfully obtained regulatory licences required for biologics testing (Antibody / cell therapeutics). • Experienced in Analytical Method Transfer, validation, writing and verification of methods, protocols and reports for Biologics. • Successfully completed NIBRT Bioanalytical Techniques Course (with 100% assessment score) • Ordering and organizing consumables and laboratory equipments. • Handling Cell cultures for cell lines. • Counting cells • Theoratical knowledge of flowcytometer • Training the team members with Western Blot, Elisa, UV-Vis, Cell Culturing Protocols written by me and required consumables and equipments to perform methods such as (SDS-PAGE Electrophoresis, Biosafety cabinets, pipettes, media required for cell culturing, etc). • Writing new equipment and software SOPs on D2 documentation system. • Trained for TrackWise and LIMS. • Experienced in Scientific Communication between various R&D teams to transfer analytical methods.
(Biotechnology laboratory, competitively funded by GOIPD/2014/178) Irish Research Council funded research project focused on identifying and characterizing novel proteins interacting with GliZ transcription factor to control fungal pathogenicity in opportunistic human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus • Involved in setting up a new molecular biology laboratory at Maynooth University • Planning and setting up the project, technology transfer from other research groups • Managing the research project, budget timelines • Communicating to various project stakeholders (IRC, Maynooth University Biology Department) through meetings, reports and presentations • Extensive experience with fungal and bacterial culturing methods • Design, optimisation and validation of novel methodologies/protocols • Quantitative/Qualitative Data analysis • Strong hands-on experience with recombinant and native protein purification methods • Protein and peptide identification on QExactive Mass Spectrometer LC-MS/MS system • Analysis of posttranslational modifications: acetylation-methylation with LC-MS/MS • Bioactive compound purification and analysis by RP-HPLC (Agilent and Shimadzu systems) • General knowledge of GLP, GDP and compliance with Environmental, Health and Safety Regulations • Collaboration with research leaders across the globe • Training under- and postgraduate students in methodologies, laboratory equipment and safety • Communicated research findings through high impact publications (please see PUBLICATIONS) • Host pathogen interactions between macrophages and pathogenic organism Aspergillus fumigatus • Involved in the introduction of my research with video shooting of #LoveIrishResearch at Maynooth university (see the media link below) https://youtu.be/G_4XuPDAaQY