Biography

Professor Kandil's, has excellent experience in the in vitro practices in buffalo and cattle from the two year cooperation (1998-1999) with Yamaguchi University in Japan. Moreover,continues to improve in vitro embryo production by using different media with desirable additives (gonadotrophins, growth hormones proteins, cAMP) (Kandil et al., 2000, Abdoon et al 2003, Kandil and Abdoon, 2004). Dr. Kandil’s group succeeded in producing the 1st Egyptian buffalo calf through non-surgical embryo recovery and transfer in collaboration with scientists from the Immunology of Reproduction, Biology Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria (2002 - 2005). While attending training courses on Cell Molecular Biology of Gametes, Fertilization and Early Embryonic Development in Prague, Czech Republic (2000), Currently, Dr. Kandil is supervisor on 6 PhD and 8 MSc student inthe same field. Kandil and colleagues started first large-scale expression study to identify candidate genes differentially abundant and with potential role during buffalo oocyte maturation using bovine cDNA microarray chips (Kandil et al., 2010) in Bonn university, Germany through DAAD scholarship, 2006 and Dr.Kandil's collaborates with Connecticut University (USA) through Egypt-USA agreement on global gene expression in in vitro produced buffalo embryo using microarray techniques. They tried to improve in vitro embryo production using different tissue culture medium in gene expression of in vitro produced blastocyst ( under publication).Dr. Kandil and Dr. Pascal collaborted together through IMHOTEP program (2010-2011) to study effect of bovine oviduct epethelia cells in the culture on in vitro embryo production and gene expression profile of produced buffalo and cattle blastocyst. Dr.kandil awarded national award in biotechnology in agriculture at 2001.

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Research Interest

Dr. Kandil's objectives are improving animal reproduction and production through application of Biotechnology and assist reproductive technology and genetic improvement