Samyah Jastaniah
King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Biography
Samyah D Jastaniah is currently an Assistant Professor in Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He got his PhD from KAU with the thesis entitled: “Biosynthesis, purification and characterization of L-asparaginase from actinomycetes, isolated from Kingdom Saudi Arabia” in 2009. He has published many papers in reviewed journals. He is the supervisor of many MSc students on complementary researches. His areas of research interests are industrial microbiology and biotechnology, taxonomy of bacteria and the role of actinomycetes in biotechnology and medicine.