Amir F Merican:Profile
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PROFILE
Name: Associate Prof. Dr. Amir Feisal Merican Bin Aljunid Merican
Designation: Associate Professor
Department: Institute of Biological Sciences
Faculty: Faculty of Science
University: University of Malaya, Malaysia
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
DPhil (Protein Biochemistry), OXFORD UNIVERSITY, OXFORD, UK
MPhil (Computational biology), CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, UK
BSc (Microbiology, Hons Class I), UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA (UM)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION/MEMBERSHIP
Malaysian Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, President, 2007-2009, (National)
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biomolecular Modeling
Environmental Biotechnologycomputational Biology/Bioinformatics
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, 2008
Halal foods and products, 2008
Molecular Microbial Ecology (MME) and biotechnological potentials of xenobiotic-degrading microbes especially petroleum hydrocarbon and pesticide/herbicide degraders; MME and/or biotech potentials of methanogens, SRB, archaea, ammonia oxidizing bacteria and extremophiles (ii) Water and wastewater biotechnology (iii) Lichens taxonomy and its biotechnology applications, 2008
Protein modeling eg. protein-ligand interactions (ii) Systems biology; Metabolic modelling (iii) Evolutionary informatics (iv) Biological database design; information and knowledge management and data communications (v) Computational Grid technology.
Environmental Microbial Biotechnology, 2008
Grid infrastructure for scientific computing. Towards development of a campus wide research grid, Principal Investigator(PI), 2005-2007
Study of metalloenzyme in biodegradation using computational and experimental approach, Co-Investigator, 2008
Three-Dimensional Analysis for Craniofacial Anomalies: A Non-Invasive Study, Co-Investigator, 2009-2010, UMRG
Integrated Biological Database Initiative (IBDI), Co-Investigator, 2007-2009, CRYSTAL
Integrated Biodiversity Databases- Networking malaysian Biodiversity Resources using Innovative Menthods and Computational Tools, Co-Investigator, 2007-2008
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Excellence Service Award, University of Malaya, 2004
Commonwealth Fellowship, Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, 2001, (International)
FULBRIGHT Malaysian Scholar Program , J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, 2000, (International)
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