Omid Ardalani

The staggering complexity and diversity of the bacterial world have always amazed me. knowing that they are the first form of life on earth made me even more eager to build my whole academic career in the Microbiology derived fields. it is a fact that here on the blue planet, bacteria are the ancestors of all living beings. So if we want to know more about life itself, the answers are laid down somewhere in the microscopic world. Every interesting puzzle about life is ending up in the microbial world, and the most comprehensive way for solving those puzzles is systems biology due to its holistic point of view. Surely that would be more than enough to drives me to be a Microbial Systems Biologist. My main research interests are Astro-Microbiology, Evolutionary Biology, and Systems Metabolic Engineering of bacteria. And my favorite methodology for solving biological puzzles is Constraint-based Metabolic Modelling and analysis.

Education:Master’s DegreeMicrobial Biotechnology, University of Tehran September 2015 – September 2018 Thesis title: Reconstruction and analysis of a genome-scale metabolic model of Lactococcus lactis NCDO2118
Bachelor’s Degree Cellular and Molecular Biology – Biotechnology, Islamic Azad University – Arak branchSeptember 2010 – September 2014Honors:• Ranked 1st among M.S. students of Microbial Biotechnology major, University of Tehran, 2018• Ranked 3rd among more than 13000 participants in the national University entrance exam for M.Sc. Degree in Microbial Biotechnology, 2015• Ranked 3rd among more than 13000 participants in the national University entrance exam for M.Sc. Degree in Microbiology, 2015• Ranked 4th among more than 13000 participants in the national University entrance exam for M.Sc. Degree in Biochemistry, 2015• Ranked among top 5% BSc. student of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Islamic Azad University of Arak, 2014

publication: Reconstruction and validation of a genome-scale metabolic model of L. lactis subsp. lactis NCDO 2118 and in silico analysis for succinate and Gamma-aminobutyric acid overproduction, Biochemical Engineering Journal

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