Where: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009 (Get Directions, Campus Map )
Language: Farsi
Synopsis:
Dr. Parastoo Chamanrokh will present an overview of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) especially GM foods covering the following topics:
- What is a Genetically Modified Organism?
- History of the GMOs
- Examples of GMOs
- Uses of GMOs
- Controversies of GMOs
- Genetically Modified Foods
- Risks and benefits of GM foods in the environment and wildlife
- Risks and benefits of GM foods to human health
About the Speaker:
Dr. Parastoo Chamanrokh has several years of experience in environmental microbiology such as Vibro cholera and H. pylori coccoid form detection, medical microbiology such as H. pylori diagnosis in stomach cancer, and biotechnology in food and oil industry. She earned her Bachelor and Master degrees in Microbiology. After graduation, she started working in the School of Chemical Engineering and the Research Center for New Technologies in Life Science Engineering at the University of Tehran as laboratory supervisor, instructor and teacher assistant.
In 2011, she started her Ph.D. at Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran while she was working as a Scientific Manager in the Iranian Gene Fanavar Institute (IGF), in Tehran. She was lecturer at the Department of Microbiology, Islamic Azad University, Malard, Iran, and instructed courses in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology in 2013. Dr. Chamanrokh graduated with Ph.D. in Medical and Environmental Microbiology in 2013.
Dr. Chamanrokh has been working as a Post-Doctoral Associate/fellow at the Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park since May 2014. In 2014, she received a scholarship from the Iranian American Academic and Professionals (IAAP) in the Post-Doc category. She has been serving as the President of Iranian Graduate Student Foundation (IGSF) at University of Maryland (UMD) since December 2014.
Please Note: No Dinner is served, only light refreshment is provided
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