Mariam Gamal El-Din

Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist, Food Microbiome Interactions, Quadram Institute
I joined the Quadram institute as a visiting post-doc. scientist, at the Kroon Group in January,2023. I work on studying the effects of different polyphenols and plant extracts on the gut microbial metabolism and the associated health benefits accompanied with their consumption. I also work on extracting, fractionating, metabolic profiling of polyphenol-rich extracts and isolating the bioactive constituents of promising extracts for further in-depth studies of their individual influence on gut microbial metabolism.

I am originally from Egypt where I got my bachelor degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (excellent degree with honors) from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (July, 2008). Then, I started my academic and research career working as Teaching Assistant and MSc. student at the department of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry (April 2009 to July 2013) then as Assistant Lecturer and PhD student at the same department (July 2013 to January 2020). Since February 2020, I am an Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

My research interest is mainly focused on food microbiome interactions, medicinal chemistry and plant metabolomics. I am highly experienced in the field of extraction, isolation and purification of naturally occurring secondary metabolites from natural origin especially terrestrial plants manipulating different chromatographic techniques as well as structure elucidation of isolated bioactive molecules utilizing the various techniques of spectroscopy (UV, IR, NMR) and mass spectrometry. During my scientific visit at Quadram Institute, I gain a lot of experience in the field of quantitative metabolomics and in vitro colon model experiments.