Mounir AbouHaidar

Professor

Languages: English,French

• Campus:
  • St. George
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department:
  • Cell and Systems Biology

Expertise

• Development of recombinant vaccines produced in plants
• Development of vaccines (e.g. HCV)
• Development of “transgenic” plants resistant to viruses, mechanisms of resistance
• Genome organization, self-splicing (Ribozyme) and replication strategies of some viruses and their satellite RNAs
• Molecular biology of plant and human viruses
• Molecular mechanisms involved in the translation in Pro- and Eukaryotes, alternative modes of initiation of translation
• Plant antiviral proteins for gene therapy of AIDS
• Plant biotechnology
• Virology