Sohair Ibrahim El-Afifi

Organizations: Universities

Professions: Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Professor of Agricultural Virology

1945

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE

Cairo

Egypt

sohair_el_afifi@hotmail.com

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK

Ain Shams University

Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture

Cairo

Egypt

languages

Arabic

English

COMPETENCES

Botany

Agricultural Microbiology

Agricultural Virology

WORK HISTORY

Professor of Agricultural Virology, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 1985-present.

Associate Professor of Agricultural Virology, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 1980-1985.

Assistant Professor of Agricultural Virology, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 1975-1980.

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 1970-1975.

Demonstrator, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, 1966-1970.

Honorary office and memberships

Member, The Egyptian Society of Virology.

Member, The Egyptian Society of Immunologists.

Member, The Egyptian Society of Applied Microbiology.

Member, The Egyptian Society of Plant Pathology.

Member, The Egyptian Society of Botany.

Productions and Works

"Purification and Molecular Characterization of Banana Bunchy Top Nanovirus." Research. Development and Innovation : Biotechnology in the Arab World Forum, Arab Science & Technology Foundation (ASTF), 2008.

"Development of Polymerase Chain Reaction for Detection of Banana Bunchy Top Virus." The First Challenges, New Hall- National Research Center, 2-4 December 2007.

Cairo, Egypt. Knowledge based Industries & Nanotechnology Conference – Doha- Qatar 11th- 12th February 2008.

"Tobacco Callus Cultures as a Propagating Medium for Cucumber Mosaic Cucumovirus." International Journal of Virology. 3 (2): 73-79, 2007.

"Controlling of Tomato Mosaic Tobamo Virus and Potato Virus Y Poty Virus (Common Strain) via Coat Protein Mediated Resistance," Egyptian Journal of Virology (2) : 113-130, 2005.

"Isolation and Identification of Spiroplasma Citri Using Some Sensitive Methods. Arab Univ. J. Agric. Sci., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, 13 (3), 625-639, 2005.