Dr. Akbar Pathan completed his PhD in the field of comparative genomics in a bilateral collaborative program between Max Plank Institute (Germany) and Andhra University (India). He carried out his postdoctoral training at the Department of Biochemistry, Medicinal University of South Carolina, studying the role of FA2H deficiency on the Central nervous system dysfunction in mouse models. He later joined the Genome Research Center at King Saud University as an Assistant Professor Research and continued working on the identification and characterization of novel genetic variants in breast cancers using advanced technologies like Next Generation Sequencing (Illumina & Ion Torrent), microarray scanner (Illumina) and Q-RT-PCR (Applied Biosystems). He is the author of over 50+ scientific articles, editorials, chapters and reviews. Over the past three years Dr. Akbar is working with Integrated Gulf Biosystems as a Application Specialist assisting the pre-sales process by demonstrating the technical advantages of IGB products to customers and field staffs via seminars, Webex training and coordination of demonstrations to be run both locally and in other regions of Saudi Arabia and Middle East.
Application of Genomic tools in Screening Aneuploidies
The talk will purely focus on the recent developments in the field of genomics to screen for aneuploidy. It will focus on the following aspects: