Magdi Ismaiel Saif, Ph.D., is Associate professor of Pomology, Horticulture department, Faculty of Agriculture, Suez Canal University (SCU), Egypt. He got his Ph.D. from Russian State Agrarian University, Moscow, Russia (2002-2006). He was a visiting researcher at the Division of Natural Products Chemistry, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama, Japan (April-November 2016). He is teaching many postgraduate and undergraduate Horticultural (Pomology) courses at the Faculty of Agriculture at SCU. He attended many scientific meetings, training courses, and workshops. He was a speaker at several national and international conferences and had many posters in Egypt and Russia. His areas of expertise are fruit propagation, fruit cultivation, fruit production, post-harvest and quality of fruits, Viticulture, orchard management, tissue culture, physiological studies of fruit trees, and genetic and molecular biology of fruits with published articles and work-in-progress projects and research. He has different skills like fruit propagation (cuttings, grafting, and tissue culture), fruit production (irrigation, fertilization, pruning, and improving fruit quality using orchard management and growth regulators), agricultural feasibility studies, statistical analysis, and computer skills.
Samar Imbaby, PhD, MD. (2020), is a lecturer at the Clinical Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine (FOM), Suez Canal University (SCU), Egypt. She works as a coordinator for the skill laboratory unit for first-year students, is a member of the Academic Support Unit for Students, and a member of the Libraries, Scientific Equipment and Laboratories Committee, FOM, SCU, Egypt. She earned a Full PhD Scholarship from the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education (Ph.D. at Toyama University, Japan). She was a class tutor and a member of the IT unit at FOM. She also worked as a visiting researcher and graduate student at the Graduate School of Medicine Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Japan. In addition, she was a member of a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research team at the Japan Society for Promotion and CRP/EGY19-04_EC. She currently teaches graduate and undergraduate clinical pharmacology courses at the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, and Nursing and the Nursing Technical Institute at SCU. She is also a member of the Japanese Pharmacological Society. Her specialisms include molecular pharmacology, experimental pharmacology, neuropharmacology, autonomic pharmacology, cancer pharmacology, cardiovascular pharmacology, inflammation and sepsis, and pathophysiology and gene therapy. She has training in a range of areas, including animal handling, electrocardiogram use, organ homogenization, RNA extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, Western blotting, immunohistochemistry, mass spectrometry, ELISA, and Image J analysis.
