Dr. Ali Salman Bin Thani
PhD (Microbiology and molecular bacteriology)
Contact Details
Address:
Department of Biology
University of Bahrain
Room S41-1090
Science Building
PO Box 32038
Manama
Kingdom of Bahrain
E-mail:
Tel: (+973)17437419
Fax: (+973)17449158
Secretary: (+973)17437477 / (+973)17437559
Profile
Dr Bin Thani graduated with a BSc degree from The University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain in 1998. He completed his Master study on Medical Biotechnology from the Arabian Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain. In 2004, he started his PhD study under the supervision of Dr Kumar Rajakumar from the University of Leicester, UK. His research project in the PhD had involved analysis of large data of bacterial DNA sequences.
Research Interests
Dr Bin Thani research interest is focused on studying the contribution of pathogencity islands in the emergence of pathogenic bacteria; distribution of laterally acquired foreign DNA sequences and its rule in maintaining the bacterial genome balance; and the development of molecular diagnostic approaches to detect pathogenic bacteria from human and marine environments.
Other research interests include the use of magnetic nanoparticles conjugated with biological molecules, e.g., amino groups to introduce the complexed-nanoparticles into living cells. The introduced nanoparticles were then used to express desirable effects on targeted cells. This could range from treatment of cancer cells (applying a thermo-magnetic energy) to inhibition of bacterial cell growth by photokilling.
Nanoparticles have attracted considerable attention in the scientific communities. Among different science branches, biological applications were the most fruitful and promising in nanotechnology.
Selected Publications
Ou HY, He X, Harrison EM, Kulasekara BR, Thani AB, Kadioglu A, Lory S, Hinton JC, Barer MR, Deng Z, Rajakumar K: MobilomeFINDER: web-based tools for in silico and experimental discovery of bacterial genomic islands. Nucleic Acids Res 2007, 35:W97-W104
Ou HY, Chen LL, Lonnen J, Chaudhuri RR, Thani AB, Smith R, Garton NJ, Hinton J, Pallen M, Barer MR, Rajakumar K: A novel strategy for the identification of genomic islands by comparative analysis of the contents and contexts of tRNA sites in closely related bacteria. Nucleic Acids Res 2006, 34:e3