About the Department
Staff Bio
Professor
Dr. Freije is the chairperson of Department of Biology. She has more than 25 years of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience. She is an author and co-author of 21 journal scientific papers, one chapter book A.M.Freije, Dr. Freije area of expertise is in Biochemical analysis and human health related investigations.
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Associate Professor
Dr. Naser worked as an Environmental Specialist, Environmental Affairs, Bahrain (1999-2001). Then Joined the Department of Biology as Graduate Assistant (2001-2007). He developed several courses related to Environmental Science, Environmental Impact Assessment and Conservation Biology at the Department of Biology. He is an author of three books, six chapters, and author/co-author of several publications in referred journals. He is a fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK (2009), Member of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) (2003), and MidEast Corals Society (2013). The area of research is related to environmental and ecological impact assessment, conservation biology, effects of environmental pollutants on species and ecosystem and sustainable development.
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Abdulla started his academic career as a teaching and research assistant in 1988 in the Department of Biology at University of Bahrain before receiving his PhD. Dr. Abdulla has several publications characterizing mutations causing neurodegeneration and male infertility in human androgen receptor. He is a founding member of Bahrain Earth Sciences Society and Bahrain Academic Society. In addition to his 25 years of teaching genetics and molecular courses, Dr. Abdulla is the head of the departmental Quality and Accreditation Assurance committee since 2010. Dr. Abdulla’s Area of scientific expertise involves human androgen receptor mutation analysis and pathogenesis; animal cell culture and DNA manipulation and analysis.
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Thuraya Almansoori is an assistant Professor of Plant physiology and Tissue Culture in the Department of Biology. She has more than 26 years teaching experience in Higher Education. She teaches General Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Physiology. Her research interest and area of expertise includes plants response to biotic and abiotic stresses, and plant propagation using tissue culture techniques; with special emphasis on date palms. Dr. Almansoori has organized and delivered many workshops addressing plant tissue culture and plant physiology. In 2006, Dr. Almansoori was awarded the Fulbright for Teaching and Research Scholarship. In addition, Dr. Almansoori has been actively involved in faculty development initiatives at the UoB since she completed the PCAP programme in 2008. She participated in the development of several faculty development programmes, delivered and conducted many courses and workshops related to faculty development. She has been the Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP) Programme in the Unit for Teaching Excellence and Leadership (UTEL) at the University of Bahrain (UoB) since August 2016. She has been a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK since October 2017.
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Tariq has 10 years teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Department of Biology, University of Bahrain. He is a member of the American Society for Nutrition and Fellow of Higher Education Academy. He is an author and co-author of a number of scientific papers. His research area includes dietary flavonoids, medicinal plants and traditional foods.
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Assistant Professor
Dr Bin Thani has more than 10 years’ experience teaching undergraduate students. Appointed in 2017 as Editorial Secretary in Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Basic and Applied Sciences (JAAUBAS). His research interest is focused on studying the contribution of pathogencity islands in the emergence of pathogenic bacteria; distribution of laterally acquired foreign DNA sequences. The development of molecular diagnostic approaches to detect pathogenic bacteria from clinical specimens. Construction of mutagenic strains containing truncated or deleted transcriptional regulation genes e.g., genes that encode for histone-like proteins and study their contribution to expression of virulence genes.
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Salwa has research experience in Biotechnology and has invented t Bio Cementation technology. She as well has 9 years teaching experience, during which she published many of research articles. Her current interests are in Biotechnology and Bio-nanotechnology.
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Hazeem has eight years teaching experience at undergraduate level. She is an author and coauthor of several refereed journal scientific papers. Dr. Hazeem area of expertise is in Harmful Algal Blooms, Nanotoxicology and Phycology.
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Lecturer of Environmental Technology
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP) Academic Year 2011-2012
- M.Sc., 2000, Wolverhampton University at Uk;
- Higher Diploma in Education ,Outstanding High Honor Diploma, The degree of excellence ,diploma in education;
- B.Sc., Biology, minor Chemistry, B.Sc., 1989 at University of Bahrain
Area of Expertise: Use of rain gauges for the measurement of dust deposition from the atmosphere, Most of Environmental aspects: Environmental monitoring; Biodiversity-, Marine Pollution-, Trace metals-, Effects of environmental pollutants on ecosystems, and sustainable development. Miss Ebtisam had an experience more than 9 years as instructor and lecture in teaching science at Bahrain Training Institute ( BTI)
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Simone Perna worked as postdoctoral research fellow in University of Pavia (Italy). Since 2018, he joined to Bahrain University as Assistant Professor. He has nearly 10 years teaching experience in advanced human nutrition and biostatistics. He is author and co-author of more than 70 journal scientific papers and more than 200 abstracts as conference proceeding. He authored and co-authored by 5 book chapters. His area of expertise is healthy aging; in particular, he studies the mechanisms and interactions among malnutrition, osteoporosis, sarcopenia and dementia. Currently he performs researches on botanical compounds involved in the prevention of pain.
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Assistant Professor
Dr. Zahid completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree and M.Phil from University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore. He obtained his PhD degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from University of Strasbourg, France in 2012. After his PhD, Dr. Zahid worked as Assistant Professor at CEMB, Punjab University and University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore. He also worked as adjunct faculty at LUMS, Lahore. Dr. Zahid started his Postdoc at Cornell University in 2015 and then he worked as a Postdoc Fellow at University of Pennsylvania, USA from 2016-2019. He joined University of Bahrain as Assistant Professor in Department of Biology, College of Science in November 2019.
