Muneer
Abbas
is a researcher
in the
Department
of Microbiology
at Howard
University.
He received
his M.S.
degree
in Immunoparasitology
from Yarmouk
University,
Irbid,
Jordan
in 1996.
After
his Master’s,
Mr. Abbas
joined
the Immunoparasitology
laboratory
at Yarmouk
university
as a Research
assistant.
His research
was mainly
focused
on Incrimination
of possible
Sandfly
vectors
for Leishmania
parasites
in a focus
for Leishmania
Tropica,
Northern
Jordan.
In 1999,
He accepted
a position
as a faculty
member
in the
college
of Medicine,
King Khalid
University
in Saudi
Arabia,
where
he was
Lecturing
Immunology
and Performing
Serological
HLA Tissue
typing
in the
Microbiology
Laboratory.
In
the NHGC,
Mr. Abbas’s
research
is focused
on investigating
polymorphisms
in genes
underlying
innate
and acquired
immune
responses
and their
associations
with diseases
caused
by infectious
agents.
His research
originated
from the
scientific
fact that
adaptation
to pathogens
in the
environment
is the
primary
function
of the
host immune
system
and as
such a
target
in the
evolution
of genomic
polymorphisms
that are
protective
in host
defense
against
pathogens.
This motivated
researcher
mastered
various
tools
that he
is using
to read
the genetic
code such
as HLA
sequence
based
typing,
reverse
sequence-specific
oligonucleotide
probe
(rSSOP)
typing,
gene scan,
restriction
enzyme
molecular
DNA genotyping
and mutation
detection
using
the WAVE
nucleic
fragment
analysis
system.
Publications
Abbas,
M.,
1996.Studies
on wild
and urban
Phlebotomus
sandflies
in a Leishmania
tropica
focus,
Bani Kinana
district
Northern
Jordan
towards
the incrimination
of possible
vectors.
Muneer
M. Abbas,
Hamzah
A. Al-Daher,
Shaden
A. Kamhawi,
Sami.
K. Abdel-Hafez.
The Composition,
Ecology
and Distribution
of Sandflies
in a Leishmania
tropica
Focus
in Northern
Jordan.
Abhath
AL-Yarmouk.Vol.
12(1),
2003,
37-55.
Muneer
M. Abbas,
Noureddine
Berka,
Linda
D. Bobo,
and Georgia
M. Dunston.
DNA YIELD
FROM BUCCAL
SWABS
AND ITS
UTILIZATION
IN HLA
TYPING
USING
LUMINEX
SSO BEAD
TECHNOLOGY.
Human
Immunology,
Volume
65, Issues
9-10,
Supplement
1, September
2004,
Page S81.
Muneer
M. Abbas,
Linda
D. Bobo,
Victor
Apprey,
Noureddine
Berka,
George
Bonney,
Georgia
M. Dunston.
HLA allele
frequencies
in Tanzania
villagers
in association
with trachoma.
Human
Immunology
Volume
67, Supplement
1, October
2006,
Page S164. |
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