Yasmine Mohamed

I am a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Rachel Fernandez’ laboratory in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia, and on leave from Alexandria University in Egypt. In 2007, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree with distinction in pharmaceutical sciences from Alexandria University and I received my master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Microbiology in 2010 from the same university.

In 2012, I received an international PhD scholarship from Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB), UK and I graduated with a PhD in Microbiology & Immunology under the supervision of Dr. Miguel Valvano in 2016. My PhD work provided significant insights into the mechanisms of glycan transfer and assembly processes in the opportunistic pathogen, Burkholderia cenocepacia which led me to propose novel antibiotic targets and vaccine candidates.

My main interest is to apply my background in molecular genetics, biochemistry and glycobiology to develop new vaccines against Bordetella pertussis through programming its biosynthetic machinery. Developing a modified less reactogenic whole cell vaccine as well as a glycoconjugate vaccine will help control the re-emergence of pertussis.

For an up-to-date list of publications by Yasmine, please see ResearchGate.