Proceeding papers

Personal Details

Name: Razieh
Surname: Pourahmad Jaktaji
Nationality: Iranian
Date of Birth: 1965
Place of Birth: Rasht
Email Addresses: Razieh_Jaktaji@yahoo.com

Educations

2002: P.HD. in Institute of Genetics, Queen's Medical Centre, The University of Nottingham .

1991: M.SC. in Dept. of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tehran University

1988: B.Sc. in Dept. of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tehran University .

Work Experiences

Researcher at Gamma Irradiation Center (GIC), Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Tehran, 1990-1998.
Assistant Professor at Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran, 2006

Teaching

• Lecturer in Quality Control of Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Shaheed Beheshti Medical Science University, 1990-1991

• Lecturer in Control of Gene Expression, Department of Biology, Khatam University, 2004-2005 .

• Lecturer in Genetics courses, including Genetics (1& 2), Human Genetics, Genetics of

Microorganisms, Population Genetics, Cancer Genetics, Molecular Genetics

Membership in Societies etc

• Continuous member of Iranian Genetics Society, 2006 .

• Continuous member of Iranian Biology Society, 2006

•Continuous member of Iranian Biotechnology Society, 2006

• Member of Biotechnology Committee at University of Shahrekord, 2006

Publications in refreed journals

Pourahmad, R. and Pakravan, R. (1997) Radiosterilisation of disposable medical devices. Radiat. Phys. Chem, 49(2), 285-286

Gregg, A. V., McGlynn, P., Jaktaji, R. P. and Lloyd, R. G. (2002) Direct rescue of DNA replication forks via the combined action of PriA and RecG helicase activities. Mol. Cell, 9(2), 241-251.

Jaktaji, R. P. and Lloyd, R. G. (2003) PriA supports two distinct pathways for replication restart in UV-irradiated Escherichia coli cells. Mol. Microbiology, 47(4), 1091-1100.

Trautinger, B. W., Jaktaji, R. P. Rusakova, E., Lloyd, R. G. (2005) RNA polymerase modulators and DNA repair activities resolve conflicts between DNA replication and transcription. Molecular Cell 19, 247-258.

Pourahmad Jaktaji, R. and Lloyd, R. G. (2006) The effect of the stringent response regulon and rpo*35 mutation on mechanism of DNA repair in E. coli. Understanding and Exploiting Systems Biology, The Editors and Fundation cajaMurcia, Spain

Proceeding papers

[1] R. Pourahmad, R. Pakravan and M. Sohrabpour, Microbiological investigation of radiosterilized disposable medical devices, 1st Iranian conference of Microbiology, 1992, Sary, Iran.

[2] R. Pourahmad and M. Sohrabpour, Micribial degradation of Polyethylene, National seminar of environmental health science, 1995, Tehran, Iran

[3] R. Pourahmad Jaktaji and R. G. Lloyd. Mechanisms of DNA repair in E. coli, 6th ISSE (1999), Manchester, UK

[4] R. Pourahmad Jaktaji and R. G. Lloyd. Replication and recombination in UV irradiated E. coli cells (relaxed and rpo* strains), 7th ISSE, 2000, Manchester, UK

[5] R. Pourahmad Jaktaji and R. G. Lloyd. Interplay between DNA Replication and repair, Students seminar in University of Nottingham 2001, Nottingham, UK.

[6] R. Pourahmad Jaktaji and R. G. Lloyd. Replication, recombination and repair, 8th I SSE, 2001, Manchester, UK

[7] R. Pourahmad Jaktaji and R. G Lloyd. The effect of the stringent response regulon and rpo*35 mutation on mechanism of DNA repair in E. coli, 1st International Symposium on Systems Biology, June 2006, Murcia, Spain.

[8] R. Pourahmad Jaktaji and R. G Lloyd. The stringent response regulon and rpo*35 mutation modulate mechanism of DNA repair, 2ed FEMS Congress of European Microbiologist, July 2006, Madrid, Spain.

[9] R. Pourahmad Jaktaji and R. G. Lloyd. Werner syndrome protein and its role in DNA repair, 14th National & 2nd International Conference of Biology, Aug. 2006, Tehran, Iran.

[10] R. Pourahmad Jaktaji, RNA polymerase modulator and stringent response, 15th International Congress of the Hungarian Society for Microbiology, July 2007, Budapest, Hungary.