Mihris Ibnu Saleem Naduthodi
Title: CRISPR-Cas ribonucleoprotein mediated homology directed repair for efficient targeted genome editing in microalgae Nannochloropsis oceanica IMET1
Biography
After completing his bachelor degree in Biotechnology
and Biochemical Engineering from Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering,
Kerala University, India, Mihris moved to Wageningen for pursuing his MSc
degree in Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology. During the course of his MSc
degree he developed a fascination on potential of genetically modified microbes
and the techniques used for developing mutants. This led to his MSc thesis in
the Bacterial genetics lab in Microbiology department where he worked on
Metabolic engineering of thermophilic bacteria Bacillus smithii and his work
was awarded the UFW-KLV thesis award from the Wageningen University. Later, on
completion of his masters, he works as a PhD candidate in the same department
under the supervision of Prof. John van der Oost and Dr. Maria Barbosa where
his research focus on developing CRISPR-Cas based genome editing tools for
microalgae.
Research Interest
Biofuels, Biotechnology, Cellular biology, Genetics,
Molecular biology, Molecular genetics, Metabolic studies, Metabolomics, DNA
cloning, Bioengineering, Gene expression, Gene knock-out, Gene regulation,
Genetic engineering, Protein engineering, Gene silencing
