Mahmood Gholami, M.Sc.

Member of research staff of the Animal Breeding and Genetics group (since March 2011)

Education:

current: Ph.D. program for Agricultural Sciences, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (since March 2011)

Working title of PhD thesis:
"Population genetic analysis of the chicken genome"
M.Sc. "Agrobiotechnology" at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (10/2008-2/2011)

Title of Master thesis:
"Identification of possible rare SNPs in oil content genes of rapeseed by new 454 sequencing technology (Amplicon Sequencing)"

Certification of Molecular Genetics Techniques, Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran (2008)
B.Sc. "Agricultural Sciences - Animal Science" University of Tehran (2003-2007)

Title of Bachelor thesis:
"Theoretical research on Transgenic animal usage in agriculture"

Publications:

Gholami, M., Bekele, W.A., Schondelmaier, J., Snowdon, R.J. (2012). Tailed PCR procedure for cost-effective, two-order multiplex sequencing of candidate genes in polyploidy plants. Plant Biotechnology Journal (2012) 10, pp. 635–645.
Gholami M, Erbe M, Gärke C, Preisinger R, Weigend A, Weigend S, Simianer S (2014) Population Genomic Analyses Based on 1 Million SNPs in Commercial Egg Layers. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94509. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094509

Research and work experience:

Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne (9-11/2010)
"Identification and molecular characterization of DNA damage repair genes in Arabidopsis thaliana using natural variation"
Research assistant, plant-breeding, Faculty of Agricultural sciences, JLU Giessen (7/2009-7/2010)
"SSR and AFLP marker analysis in rapeseed for the verticilium resistance."
Internship at Royan Institut, Tehran, Iran (Summer 2008)
"Transgenic goat creation project"

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