International Journal of Genetic Engineering

International Journal of Genetic Engineering is devoted to the rapid publication of fundamental research papers on all phases of genetic engineering. All contributions shall be rigorously refereed and selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work as well as the breadth of interest to readers.


Sameh Soror

Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Genetic Engineering

Assistant Professor, Structural Biology Brussels (SBB), VIB Department of structural biology, Belgium

Research Areas

Protein Engineering, Genetic Engineering, Structural Biology

Education

PhDDept. of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
2003MScDept. of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
2000Pre-masterPre-master courses Dept. of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
1997Bachelor"Bachelor of pharmaceutical sciences" Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Experience

2009-present Postdoctoral fellow at Structural Biology Brussels, VUB and VIB department of structural biology, Brussels, Belgium
2008Postdoctoral fellowship. Laboratory of Ultra-structure, University of Vrije, Brussels, Belgium
2003-2007Research assistant and PhD student at Dept. of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
1998-2001Demonstrator at the Dept. of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt
1997-1998Research assistant at "The national organization of drug control and research" Cairo, Egypt

Academic Achievement

Best poster presentation award at RAMC (Recent Advances in Macromolecular Crystallization) Sept. 2011, Strasbourg, France

Membership

Society of general microbiology United Kingdom "SGM" and FEMS since 2004
Society of biochemistry and molecular biology Germany "GBM", FEBS and IUBMB since 2005
Member in GYA (Global Young Academy) since 2011
Member in EAYS (Egyptian Academy for Young Scientists) since 2011

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  A cold-active esterase of Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2): from genome sequence to enzyme activity. Sameh Soror, V.Verma, Ren Rao, Shafaq Rasool, S. Koul, G.N. Qazi and John Cullum* (2007) Journal of industrial microbiology and biotechnology, 34(8): 1476-5535.
[2]  Mining the genome sequence for novel enzyme activity: characterisation of an unusual member of the hormone-sensitive lipase family of esterases from the genome of Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2) (2009) Sameh Soror*, Ren Rao and John Cullum Protein engineering, design and selection, 22(6): 333-339.
[3]  Applied Genetic Engineering. 2009 Sameh H. Soror e-book published by supreme council of universities in Egypt
[4]  A llama-derived gelsolin single-domain antibody blocks gelsolin-G-actin interaction (2010) Van den Abbeele A, De Clercq S, De Ganck A, De Corte V, Van Loo B, Soror SH, Srinivasan V, Steyaert J, Vandekerckhove J, Gettemans J* Cell Mol Life Sci. 67(9):1519-1535
[5]  Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of a specific VHH domain aginst mouse prion protein. (2010) Romany N. N. Abskhron, Sameh H. Soror*, Els Pardon, Hassan el Hassan, Guiseppe legname, Jan Steyaert and Alexandre Wohlkonig. Acta crys. F. F66:1644-1646
[6]  From genome sequence to enzyme activity; Novel enzyme activity. (2010) Sameh H.Soror Lambert Academic publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Saarbrüken Germany.
[7]  Combining in-situ proteolysis and microseed matrix screening to promote crystallization of PrPc-nanobody complexes. (2011) Romany N. N. Abskhron, Sameh H. Soror*, Els Pardon, Hassan el Hassan, Guiseppe legname, Jan Steyaert and Alexandre Wohlkonig Protein engineering, design and selection, 24(9):737-41
[8]  Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of kanamycin-binding β-lactamase in complex with its ligand. (2011) Karen Van de Water, Sameh H. Soror, Alexandre Wohlkonig*, Nico A. J. van Nuland and Alexander N. Volkov Acta crys. F. F67:703-6
[9]  Is Cystatin C a powerful Predictor of Cardio Vascular Diseases in patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus? (Clinical study in Egyptian patients) (2011) Hesham Rafat, Sameh H. Soror*, Zeinab Hassan and Ashref Ismaail J. of applied pharmaceutical sciences 1(07): 54-58
[10]  Structural activation of the transcriptional repressor EthR from M. tuberculosis by single amino-acid change mimicking natural and synthetic ligands (2011) Carette, Xavier; Blondiaux, Nicolas; Willery, Eve; Hoos, Sylviane; Lecat-Guillet, Nathalie; Lens, Zoé; Wohlkonig, Alexandre; Wintjens, René; Soror, Sameh; Frenois, Frederic; Dirié, Bertrand; Villeret, Vincent; England, Patrick; Lippens, Guy; Deprez, Benoit; Locht, Camille; Willand, Nicolas; Baulard, Alain NAR-00385-M-2011.R1