SRaza

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Member since: January 30, 2002

Current address

Bacterial Barcodes Inc.,
8080 North Stadium Drive, Ste 1200
HoustonUnited States

Education

MSc in Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics
Birkbeck College, London
2000 — 2002

BSc (hon) Applied Biology
University of East London
1993 — 1997

Experience

Bioinformatics Marketing and Sales Associate
Bacterial Barcodes
2002 — Pres

Molecular Biologist
Syngenta Agrochemicals
1998 — 1999

Research Assistant
Institute of Ophthalmology
1998 — 1998

Skills

PERL-CGI, Java scripting, HTML, XML, PHP, My SQL
Bioinformatics tools and packages
Extensive Molecular Biology Laboratory experience
Relational Database design and schema.
Sales and Marketing experience

Activities

Member of ASM from 2002-2003
Created and maintained Corporate website for BBCI (www.bacbarcodes.com)
Submitted 6 abstracts at various Scientific meetings and conferences including ASM, ISHAM, IMMEM, ICAAC and ASM Biodefence
Publication in preparation to be submitted to Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Interests

Cooking
Music
Travelling

References

Healy, M., Huong, J., Raza, S., Lising, M., Woods, C., Versalovic, J., Lupski, J. Applications of automated microbial DNA fingerprinting using rep-PCR. In preparation for the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Abstract: Raza, S., Huong, J., Bittner, T., Healy, M. Identification and Strain Differentiation of Food and Waterborne Bacterial Threat Agents Using Automated rep-PCR. Presented at ASM Biodefense conference, 2003

Abstract: Huong, J., Raza, S., Healy, M. Identification of Pathogenic Escherichia coli Using automated rep-PCR. Presented at ASM 103rd conference, 2003

Abstract: Healy, M., Webb, R., Manry, J., Huong, J., Raza, S., Reece, K., Bittner, T., Lising. M., Shah, K. Towards a more universal system of microbial typing. Presented at ICAAC 43rd conference, 2003

Abstract: Reece, K., Bittner, T., Raza, S., Walton, D., Healy, M., Shah, K. Aspergillus speciation and strain discrimination; a comparison between automated rep-PCR-based profiling and 28s rDNA sequencing. Presented at IMMEM 6th conference, 2003

Other

Abstract: Huong, J., Bittner, T., Webb, R., Lising, M., Manry, J., Reece, K., Raza, S., Healy, M., Shah, K. Differentiation of Aspergillus species collected from hospitals and environment by automated rep-PCR

Abstract: Reece, K., Huong, J., Webb, R., Manry, J., Raza, S., Bittner, T., Healy, M. Differentiation of Aspergillus species using automated rep-PCR DNA fingerprinting. ISHAM 50th, 2003

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