Education
Contact
M.Sc. in Microbial Biotechnology | University of Tehran
– Department of Life Science Engineering, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies
Tehran, Iran
Thesis: Design and manufacture of laboratory-scale membrane bioreactor suitable for
secondary metabolite production by filamentous fungi
Phone: 0989367305950
Email: Saeedkargar@ut.ac.ir
website: www.biotecher.ir
About Saeed Kargar
My name is Saeed Kargar and I hold a MSc degree in microbial biotechnology from the University of Tehran, which is considered the best university in Iran according to the US News.
My Master’s dissertation was entitled “Design and Manufacture of a laboratory-scale membrane bioreactor suitable for producing secondary metabolites by filamentous fungi.” This interdisciplinary project was an investigation of lovastatin production by Aspergillus terreus in a membrane gradostat bioreactor that consisted of two main sections: (I) Synthesis of alumina nanofibers and asymmetric capillary membrane with polysulfone, and (II) Evaluation of the amount of lovastatin production on different feed strategies.
After graduation, I worked in a biotech company as a talented student for three years instead of serving in the military. This allowed me to gain good practical and theoretical knowledge in molecular biology and cell culture. During this period, I worked digital marketing maneger.
Subsequent to the aforementioned period, to pursue my aspirations, I dedicated quality time to improving my English language proficiency and took the IELTS certification, scoring an overall 6.5.
Articles
Article: Saeed Kargar, Sepideh Mohseny Takloo, Hasan Jalili*, Jhamak NoorMohammedi , Alireza Babaei, Marcin Bizukojc. “Lovastatin Production by Aspergillus terreus in Membrane Gradostat Bioreactor with Two-Stage Feeding Strategy”. Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology (2022) – DOI: 10.1080/10826068.2022.2076242
Article: Aghamiri, Shahin, Keyvan Fallah Mehrjardi, Sasan Shabani, Mahsa
Keshavarz-Fathi, Saeed Kargar, and Nima Rezaei. “Nanoparticle-siRNA: a potential
strategy for ovarian cancer therapy?” Nanomedicine (2019)
DOI: 10.2217/nnm-2018-0379
Presentation: Saeed Kargar, Zahra Hajihassan. Applications of Vitreoscilla Hemoglobin in metabolite biosynthesis. First Congress of Chemical Biotechnology, March 6-8, 2016, NIGEB-CCERCI, Tehran, Iran.
Article: Sepide Mohseny Takloo, Saeed Kargar, Hasan Jalili. “Novel approaches for improving lovastatin production in membrane gradostat bioreactor”.(Manuscript under preparation)
Bioinformatics skills
Work Experience
CLC, Chromas, Gene Runner, BioEdit, MegAlign, AutoDimer
Primer designing and analyzing tools, OLIGO7, Snap gene
Datebase: UniProt, RefSeq, GenBank, NCBI, PDB
– Cooperation with manager of virus, Quality assurance manager
– Cell bank characterization tests
– Extraction of DNA, RNA. cDNA synthesis. PCR
– Participation in the preparation of molecular analysis reports
Computer skills
Honors and awards
Ranked 13th out of 15144 entrants in National University Entrance Exam in 2015 (M.Sc.). The number of admissions in this exam was 1343 people
Ranked 2ed in the National Student Biology Olympiad in my Province (2010)
Accepted to the final stage of the National Student Biology Olympiad (2010)
Accepted to the national stage of biology lab skills (2010)
Extracurricular activities
Scientific Societies Membership, Secretary of the Association, University of Tehran, (2016 and 2017)
Launching “www.biotecher.ir” Website. It’s a personal scientific website that I informed related to biotechnology (2017 to Present)
Holding the third national biotechnology student festival, in collaboration with the Iranian Biotechnology Development Headquarters
Editor-in-Chief of the first journal of biotechnology at Kurdistan University (2016)
Scientific Societies Membership, Responsible for science and research, University of Kurdistan, for two years (2015 and 2016)
My Social media accounts, where I am publishing the lastest biotechnology news from around the world:
Biotecher (8K followers) (2015 to Present)
Biotecher.ir (10K followers) (2017 to Present)