Curriculum Vitae
Name: Hoshman Omar Majeed Sarthis
Degree:
- PhD degree from University of Reading (2012-2016)/ School of Biological Science in plant phylogeny.
- MSc Degree from University of Sulaimani (2008-2010)/ Collage of Agriculture/ Department of Horticulture.
- BSc Degree from University of Sulaimani (1996-2000)/ Collage of Agriculture/ Department of Horticulture (First class honors).
Title: Lecturer
Department: Horticulture
E-mail: hoshman.majeed@univsul.edu.iq
Mobile: (+964) - 0770 157 6408
Experience:
- Agriculture (Horticultural skills)
I have solid experience in Agricultural skills. I used to work as a Lab demonstrator at Horticulture department teaching undergraduate students all agricultural processes (from seed to seed) such as planting, grafting, pruning, cutting, budding, harvesting, plant diagnosing and greenhouse managements. I used to work as an agronomist for five years at plant nursery for propagation horticultural plants such as stone-fruits (Peach, Plame, Cherry) and pomo-fruits such as (Apple, Pear) using both vegetative and sexual propagation.
- Herbarium skills
- High performance, well organized and easy going during the field work
- Recording all initial information during sampling collection
- Drying and saving collected samples according to the herbarium criteria
- Biological skills (Laboratory performance)
- Lab management and cooperation with the lab workers
- A successful extractor of the DNA from fresh and dried materials
- Primer design and seek for appropriate markers
- Well aware on PCR samples
- PCR product purification
- Cloning PCR product, ligation and restriction
- Sequencing the PCR product
- Sequencing analysis, assembling and creating DATA matrix.
- Sequence manipulation and aligning.
- Tree reconstruction using Bayesian statistics, with RAxML and being able to interpret the results
- Tree manipulations using Seaview, Treeview and Figtree.
- Species delimitation and recognition.
Working with organization:
- I used to work as a verifier as a team member with UNWFP (World Food Program) organization.
- UNFAO
Training:
- Agricultural training in Western Australia
I had four months agricultural training in Western Australia and acquired different skills and been awarded certificates from both University of Curtin and Muresk Institute.
Language skills:
- Kurdish
- English
- Arabic