Dr. Hatem Soliman Curriculum Vitae Name: Hatem Mohamed Toughan Soliman Birth date: 01.08.1971 Place of Birth: Sohag, Egypt Nationality: Egyptian Marital status: Married + 4 kids Language: Arabic, English, German Affiliation: Fish Medicine and Managements ,Department of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Assiut, 71515 Assiut, Egypt Address: Fathey El-Tejy st. 28, Tahta, Sohag, Egypt. Tel: +201013164611 E-Mail address: hatemtoughan@hotmail.com Education: 1989-1993: Student at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assuit University, Assuit. 1993-1994: Training in Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Assuit. 1994-1995: Military service at Faculty of Reserve Officers, Egyptian Armed Forces. 1995: Ass. Researcher at the Veterinary Serum and Vaccine Research Institute, Cairo. 1996-1999: Master degree studies in Diseases of Birds and Rabbits, Cairo University 2000-2001: German language course at Goethe institute, Cairo, Egypt 2001-2005: PhD studies at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, LMU, Munich, Germany. 2005-2006: Researcher at Veterinary Serum and Vaccine Research Institute, Cairo. 2007-2009: Post Doctoral fellow at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, LMU, Germany. 2009- 2012: Post Doctoral fellow at Vienna University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria. Dec. - 2012: Assistant Prof. at Fac. Vet. Med. Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. Nov. 2014: Associate Prof. at Fac. Vet. Med., Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. 1 Degrees: 1993: Bachelor of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. (Very good) 1999: Master degree in Diseases of Birds and Rabbits, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. 2005: PhD degree in Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany “Construction of cDNA Library from the Triactinomyxon spores of Myxobolus cerebralis, the causative agent of salmonid Whirling Diseases” http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3981/1/Soliman_Hatem_Mohamed_Toughan.pdf Experiences: Diagnosis of Fish diseases, Microbiology of fish, Vaccine production, Molecular biology: DNA/RNA isolation, cloning, PCR, nested PCR, Real-time PCR, Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends (RACE), RNA interference (RNAi), Loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), EST, In vivo-induced antigen technology (IVIAT), In Situ hybridization, Primers construction, Restriction analysis, cDNA libraries construction and screening, Proteomics; SDS-PAGE, Western blot. Scientific Achievements - Scopus ID: 12795216800 - Google scholar ID T0AAAAJ - h- index (scopus): 11 - i10- index (Google scholar) 14 - Total no. Of Intrnational Publications (scopus): 41 - Citations (scopus): 292 http://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?hl=en&user=dabt_T0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=12795216800 2 Editorial activities Reviewer for the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), Egypt, (Veterinary Medicine proposlas). Reviewer for the proposals applied to Misr El kheir Foundation „Utilization of modern techniques for production of veterinary vaccines and biologics“ December 2012. Book chapters: In: Veterinery Infection Biology: Molecular Diagnostics and High-Throughput Strategies. Edited by: Mónica V. Cunha & João Inácio, Springer Science & Business Media, New York, USA. http://www.springer.com/medicine/internal/book/978-1-4939-2003-7 1. Chapter 12: Hatem Soliman, Mona Saleh and Mansour El-Matbouli : Detection of Fish Pathogens by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Technique. 2. Chapter 19: Mona Saleh, Hatem Soliman, and Mansour El-Matbouli : Gold nanoparticles as a potential tool for diagnosis of Fish diseases. Invited Reviewer to the Following International Journals: Veterinary Microbiology (Impact factor: 2.7) Journal of Dermatological Science (Impact factor: 3.3) Journal of Virological Methods (Impact factor: 1.9) Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (Impact factor: 1.6) Virology Journal (Impact factor: 2) 3 Scientific activities A. Principle Investigator to the following project: Project title: RNA interference (RNAi) as a potential control for spring viraemia of carp virus in cultured carp and tilapia fish B. Funding agency: Science & Technology Development Fund (STDF) Project duration: June 2014- Mai 2017 Granted fund: 1 999 600 Egyptian pounds Co-Applicant in the following projects: 1. Project title: RNAi to control SVC&CyHV-3 infection of cyprinid fish Funding agency: The Austrian Science Fund, FWF project (P 23550) Project duration: 01.10.2011- 30.09.2013 Granted fund: 152 838. 00€ 2. Project title: In vivo-induced antigen technology of Aeromonas salmonicida Funding agency: The Austrian Science Fund, FWF project (P 23850) Project duration: 01.04.2012- 31.03.2015 Granted fund: 232 407. 00€ C. Managing the following projects: 1. Project title: Research of improved fish nutrition and fish health in upland aquaculture system in Yen Chau, Son La Province, Vietnam Funding agency: German Research Foundation, DFG Project (SFB 564) Project duration: 01.07.2009- 30.06.2012 Granted fund: 162 226. 00€ 4 2. Project title: Gene expression and function of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae Funding agency: The Austrian Science Fund, FWF project (P 22770) Project duration: 01.05.2011- 30.04.2014 Granted fund: 227 335. 00€ Conferences 1. Gotesman M, Soliman H, Kattlun J, El-Matbouli M (2013): Koi herpesvirus-3 (KHV) disease: searching for molecular based control methods. International Conference on Diseases of Zoo and Wild Animals, Vienna, Austria, 2013 2. Gotesman M, Soliman H, El-Matbouli M (2012): Using protein-protein interactions to screen for novel binding partners during Cyprinid herpesvirus-3 (CyHV-3) infection in common carp (Cyprinus carpio). XIV. Gemeinschaftstagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Sektionen der EAFP. Bautzen, 19. – 21. September 2012. 3. Kumar G, Abd-Elfattah A, Soliman H, El-Matbouli M (2012): A novel growth medium for laboratory culture of Fredericella sultana and invivo maintenace of the life cycle of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, the causative agent of proliferative disease. XIV. Gemeinschaftstagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Sektionen der EAFP. Bautzen, 19. – 21. September 2012. 4. Lewisch E, Soliman H, El-Matbouli M (2012): Thelohanellose (Myxosporea) beim Goldfisch (Carassius auratus auratus L.): Klinische, histologische, elektromikroskopische und molokulargenetische Untersuchungen. XIV. Gemeinschaftstagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Sektionen der EAFP. Bautzen, 19. – 21. September 2012. 5 5. Saleh M, Soliman H, El-Matbouli M (2012): Gold-Nanopartikel als potentielles Werkzeug für die Diagnose von Fischkrankheiten und mRNA Regulation. XIV. Gemeinschaftstagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Sektionen der EAFP. Bautzen, 19. – 21. September 2012. 6. Schachner O, Dressler A, Soliman H, El-Matbouli M (2011): Distribution of IPN in Austria 1993-2010. 15th Annual Meeting of the National Reference Laboratories for Fish Diseases, 26-27 May 2011, National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Aarhus, Denmark 7. Mayrhofer R, Soliman H, Pucher J, Focken U, El-Matbouli M (2011): Grass carp mortality in northern Vietnam - investigations from 2008-2010. 15th International EAFP Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, 12-16 September 2011, Split, Croatia 8. Mayrhofer R, Soliman H, Pucher J, Focken U, El-Matbouli M (2012): Grasscarp mortality in northern Vietnam In: International Conference "Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas": Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, 16-18 April 2012. oO: oV, pages 169-170 9. Mayrhofer R, Pucher J, Focken U, Soliman H, El-Matbouli M (2010): Untersuchungen zum saisonalen Graskarpfensterben in Yen Chau, Provinz Son La, Vietnam. XIII. Gemeinschaftstagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Sektionen der European Association of Fish Pathologists. „Fische und Fischkrankheiten – ein unerschöpfliches Thema“. 6-9 Oktober 2010, Krems, Österreich 10. Mayrhofer R, Soliman H, Saleh M Pucher J, Focken U, Trang T, ElMatbouli M (2010): Preliminary results on the cause of grass-carp disease outbreak in Yen Chau, Son La Province, Vietnam. In: International symposium Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in 6 Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia, Hanoi, Vietnam, 21-23 July 2010 : program and abstracts. oO: oV, Seiten 103-104. 11. El-Matbouli M, Soliman H (2005): Rapid Diagnosis of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, the causative agent of proliferative kidney disease (PKD) in salmonid fish by a Novel DNA Amplification Method, Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP). EAFP 12th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11th – 16th September, 2005 12. Hoffmann RW, Soliman H, El-Matbouli M (2002): Outbreak of koi herpesvirus in koi and common carp in Germany. Fourth International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, September 1-5 (2002) Posters 1. Hatem Soliman, Mona Saleh, Thomas Krendl, Mansour El-Matbouli(2010): Development and validation of a TaqMan real-time polymerase chain reaction based assay for detection of Aphanomyces invadans in fish tissues. XIII. Gemeinschaftstagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Sektionen der European Association of Fish Pathologists. „Fische und Fischkrankheiten – ein unerschöpfliches Thema“. 6-9 Oktober 2010, Krems, Österreich 2. Mona Saleh, Andrea Dressler, Hatem Soliman, Mansour El-Matbouli (2010): Development of specific immunoassay utilizing antibody coated goldnanoparticles for direct detection of Aeromonas salmonicida in fish tissues. XIII. Gemeinschaftstagung der Deutschen, Österreichischen und Schweizer Sektionen der European Association of Fish Pathologists. „Fische und Fischkrankheiten – ein unerschöpfliches Thema“. 6-9 Oktober 2010, Krems, Österreich 7 3. El-Matbouli M, Meyer U, Severin V, Grabner D, Soliman H (2006): Development of a rapid assay for the detection of Myxobolus cerebralis in both hosts using loop-mediated isothermal amplification technology. 12th Annual Whirling Disease Symposium, February 09-10, 2006, Denver, Colorado, (USA). WDS-Proceeding 2006: 54-56 4. El-Matbouli M and Soliman H (2005): An Inexpensive and Rapid Diagnostic Method of the Koi Herpesvirus (KHV) Infection by a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification. EAFP 12th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11th – 16th September, 2005 5. Soliman H, Meyer U, Hedrick RP, and El-Matbouli M (2005): Construction of CDNA library from the triactinomyxon spores of Myxobolus cerebralis, the causative agent of whirling disease. EAFP 12th International Conference on Diseases of Fish and Shellfish, Copenhagen, Denmark, 11th – 16th September, 2005 8