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