CURRICULUM VITAE
Ahlam Said Abdullah Ali Al-Azkawi
P.O. Box 106 P.C. 116
Mina Al Fahal
Sultanate of Oman
E-mail: azkawi@squ.edu.om
Web Page: http://wwwdev.squ.edu.om/science/Units/CAARU/Staff.aspx
Tel: 00968 99277882
Personal
Date of Birth: 10/09/77
Nationality: Omani
Education & Qualifications
Sultan Qaboos University
MSc
Biology (part time)
2005-2008
Thesis Title: The Effect of Acrylamide on Liver Protein Expression in Mice
Sultan Qaboos University
BSc
Medical Laboratory Science
1995-2000
Dohat Al Adab Secondary School
General Secondary Certificate
1992-1995
Work Experience
Central Analytical and Applied Research Unit (CAARU)
SQU, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
CAARU Head
From September 2010 I was appointed to be the In Charge of CAARU
facility which belongs to College of Science. As the In Charge of the unit, am responsible for
the continuation development of CAARU which includes organizing, managing and
administrating the function of the unit. In addition to Collaborating with existing staff in CoS ,
SQU and the wider scientific community in research and industry.
Am responsible of a wide range of instrumentation that serves different applications like
environmental, medical, oil and gas industries and many others.
Areas of Experience:
Application Specialist (Mass Spectrometer)
2006-Present
My role in CAARU is to design and implement specialist applications for
Mass Spectrometer and related techniques for the analysis of small molecules within the field
of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Environmental Monitoring, Natural Products and Protein/Peptide
research. I have now become fluent in using many application managers for Mass
Spectrometry to cover a high level of research and development.
Areas of Experience:
Sultan Qaboos University
2001- 2010
Department of Biology,
Senior Technician
Areas of Experience: I was employed as a senior technician covering the running of labs for
undergraduate research/teaching, post-graduate research projects and supporting academic
research. I was also responsible for teaching and training staff members and students in
proteomics.
Additional Skills and Capabilities
I design and conduct training courses and workshops on HPLC-MS for candidates outside as
well as inside the SQU. Am also coordinating and running M.Sc. course for Biology students,
mainly in topics related to Proteomics and Mass Spectroscopy instrumentation.
I have good marketing capabilities, am a good negotiator and I have excellent presentation
skills.
Conferences, Workshops and Training
1. Middle East Research Flow User’s Meeting, Dubai, December, 2012.
2. Modern TLC Course, Switzerland July, 2012.
3. MALDI/ToF-ToF Mass Spectrometry Training Course, Germany, March 2012.
4. Laboratory Compliance and Regulations Course. Dubai. March, 2010.
5. Laboratory and Field Safety and First Aid Training Course. SQU. Muscat.
December, 2009.
6. The IET Conference on Synthetic Biology and Bioinformatics, University of
Cambridge, UK, 2009. (Poster presentation).
7. Training course on Comparative Proteomic Analysis on Biological Samples,
Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, 2008.
8. Biotechnology Symposium, SQU, 2008. (Invited speaker)
9. Workshop on Two Dimensional Electrophoresis and its Applications in
Proteomics. Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, 2007
10. Biosafety Conference, Muscat, Oman, 2005.
11. Training course in Electron Microscope. Alexandria University, Egypt, 2004.
12. Oman’s First Electron Microscopy Workshop, SQU, Muscat, 2004.
13. Basic First Aid Workshop, SQU, Muscat. 2003.
Posters & Publications
A. Al-Azkawi, S. Al-Bahry, I. Mahmoud, M. Barry.2013. Effect of Acrylamide on Liver Proteins
Expression in Mice. Journal of Food Research. 2: 132-142.
M. Hanif, A. Al-Maskiri, Z. Al-Mahruqi, J. Al-Sabahi, A. Al-Azkawi and M. Al-Maskiri. 2011.
Analytical Evaluation of Three Wild Growing Omani Medicinal Plants. Natural Products
Communication. 6:1-4.
Evaluating Biomarkers for Fingerprinting Medicinal Oils Using High Resolution
Gas Chromatography – Tandem Mass Spectrometry.
T. Khan, S. Al-Burtmani and A. Al-Azkawi. The 2nd International Conference of Food
Science and Technology, University of Chester, UK, 2010.
Analysis of angiotensin II using microdialysis sampling in rat brain after oral dosage of ginkgo
biloba with time-of-flight mass spectrometry
T. Khan and A. Al-Azkawi; Synthetic Biology, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, the
University of Cambridge, UK, 23 - 25 March, 2009
Evaluating the effect of acrylamide exposure on liver protein expression in C57bl/6 mice using
MALDI-TOF/TOF
A. Al-Azkawi, S. Al-Bahry, I. Mahmoud, M. Barry, T. Khan, Synthetic Biology, Systems
Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Cambridge, UK, 23 - 25 March, 2009
References
Available on request.