An Iraqi Professor Invention Draws the World’s Attention Dr. Iyad Kubba controls the Genes and Innovates Genetic Mutation for Our University
Among the scientific achievements that the university has made is the findings of the researcher, Dr. Iyad Kubba, who just managed to invent a genetic mutation and in a patent which is considered the first of its kind in the field of development of wheat production differently, where he was able to devise a special kind of gene for genetic structure for the class of wheat Iainya 66, which is able to double the production of wheat in Iraq and the world as a whole. His scientific research took two successive years in the laboratories of the University of Baghdad, Institute of genetic engineering to come up with a spurt quality of production and crop yields.It is considered as global achievement at the discreet scientific researches level of impact factor Depending on this achievement Dr. Kubba is invited to participate in plant breeding conference which will be held in Turkey next month.The Swedish ambassador during his recent visit to the University had a look at this scientific achievement and expressed his admiration and interest. Then the Central Agency of Standardization and Quality Control granted us the patent on the technology that we have used for the class. The class of Uruk wheat has been characterized with many qualitative and quantative characteristics that are not in the Middle and South regions in Iraq . We were able to fulfill this through the technique of inventing genetic mutations by irradiation of stored seeds for several years of soft wheat class ( Iainya -66) with doses of certain gamma rays resulting in a kind of combined effect between radiation and Aldehyde ( which is one of accumulated chemical mutations in the seed as a result of being stored) Therefore the required effect on the genes that are responsible of the height of the plant (Rht alleles) resulting in reduced plant height rate of 105 cm to 78 cm in the new class Uruk. Many studies have been conducted on that new class and was published in Iraqi and international specialized scientific journals and in international conferences. It was found that this class is a good resistant to lying that leads to a reduction which leads to a decrease winning up to 40 % , and that this is a good product resistant to stem and leaves rust disease and it has a good response to nitrogen fertilization and its viability of bread is very good. It turns out that productivity outweigh the productivity of wheat classes prevalent in the irrigation areas twice. Recently the new product has been adopted in the middle and southern regions for the advantages and good qualities mentioned in the accreditation certificate. Now special researches of the genetic analysis that cause shortage and on the interaction of the enzyme serial polymerase (PCR) at the Institute of Genetic Engineering and biological technology for Postgraduate Studies / University of Baghdad . The research is published in the Journal of the Institute ” Iraqi Journal of biogenic technologies “. The President of Baghdad University and dean of the Institute of Genetic Engineering visited the field in which Uruk transplanted and was pleased of the direction of researches at the Institute on this applied trend. Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein, president of the University of Baghdad, received the scientist Kubba and visited him in his scientific laboratories in the Institute of Genetic Engineering and viewed his scientific research which took part in several international scientific conferences and published in British, Canadian and Japanese journals as well as in the Journal of the International Agency of Atomic Energy.The president of the university instructed to honor Dr. Iyad Kubba and granted him the shield of the University of Baghdad , the fact that what he had done is important national accomplishment , especially in this stage , which our dear country desperately needs inventions to develop the agricultural situation , where gene innovation achieves big achievement by increasing the Uruk seeds in preparation for distribution to farmers to replace prevailing items in the middle and southern regions due to its superiority and suitability for both regions . A plan has been set for the increase of new seeds class in the next planting season.Dr. Iyad Jaber Issa Kubba, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Genetic Engineering and biological technology for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad and had worked in the field of scientific research and university teaching in four Arab countries ( Iraq , Jordan , Libya and the United Arab Emirates ) , has been engaged in scientific Iraqi, Arab and international conferences. Encyclopedia of Iraq in the twentieth century described him as one of the outstanding figures of Iraq in the second part of the first edition and had served in the board of scientific research after receiving a doctorate in genetics from the University of Wales in Britain . He began publishing his researches since 1980 in specialized scientific journals in Britain , the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, and Austria He has discoveries in the field of advanced classes of wheat He is currently working at the Institute of Genetic Engineering and biological techniques for Postgraduate Studies / University of Baghdad .Dr. Kubba has submitted a request to the National Commission for the registration and protection of agricultural classes for the adoption of semi – short Uruk wheat. The class was adopted and granted accreditation certification. The President of Baghdad University, Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein , accompanied by the Dean of the Institute of Genetic Engineering Professor Dr. Abdulhussein Moet –Faisal with Dr. Iyad Kubba visiting the cultivation of new class and expressed encouragement for such researches that help directly to increase production of wheat in Iraq and to reach self-sufficiency, as well as the members of the National Commission for the adoption of new classes of crops and headed by Mr. General Director of the Authority, Mohammed Zain El Abidine, to inspect and authenticate the seeds. He personally visited the location and explored the developed qualities in the product in question, which represents an important scientific accomplishment in the record of the achievements of Iraqi scientists. Dr. Kubba explained that the new class needs to be followed -up and supervised by the farmer to evolve for the best and without care and following-up the product deteriorates and loses its qualities .The website team followed up this accomplishment and documented with a set of photographs and also met the researcher Kubba in the University for more details about this innovation and Dr. Kubba illustrated this invention through this link.” Click for more details about the patent. The University of Baghdad had been instructed three years ago to provide all the requirements of this innovation, such as providing a standard agricultural field and providing a particular scientific laboratory of gene with other scientific equipments and supplies, to have the best scientific achievement and the best results , where Dr. Sidky Rzooqi, Director of Engineering Affairs in the University instructed to make the ground ready and be trimmed to be the headquarter of the experiments of the scientist Kubba on the land of Baghdad University /Jadirriya , as well as the University has imported the latest equipments and scientific laboratories from the best resources for the service of workers in this field . Prof. Dr. Abdulhussain Moet Al–Faisal, dean of the Institute of genetic Engineering also had followed –up and visited the scientist Kubba three years ago to implement this project, which required a special care and continuous follow-up . Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein has instructed and for months to overcome all obstacles to the experiments of the scientist Kubba and his colleagues at the Institute of genetic Engineering to provide their scientific experiments, which he described as distinctive and rare, being resulted from the Iraqi minds which their intellectual gene extends to more than six thousand years adding that that the university is able to achieve more distinctive scientific inventions and innovations and it is about to publish a set of rare scientific inventions and innovations next period .Dr. Iyad Kubba in an interview with the team of our website , described the achievement as an important role in our country due to its import of wheat and that this achievement will achieve self-sufficiency for Iraq, where it is able to double production and is also able to achieve a breakthrough quality in kind rather than quantity only , the fact that the deduction of the University came within unconventional specifications , but in accordance with the need of the market, where Mr. Ali Al-Adeeb , Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research often focuses in more than one scientific occasion, . From here the laboratories of Baghdad University made a quality study, after we made a survey and after that we had a lot of field visits to many of the agricultural fields in the governorates of Central and South Iraq , especially in the fields of Diwaniyah ” Qadisiyah ” to examine the situations and cases of Iraqi wheat . We have found that there is weakness in the production and the seeds need improvements, especially since a lot of fungi and macrobiotics representing epidemics that have gained some crop of wheat, so we devise new class by the control genes of seed. We have been able, thanks Almighty God, to change the specifications of some genetic traits to the best. We received the patent and the adoption of wheat class ( Uruk) which is devised by introducing genetic mutations technology in Ienya 66 class which is completed in the last two years in the Institute of Genetic Engineering. Then the Central Agency of Standardization and Quality Control granted us the patent on the technology that we have used for the class. The class of Uruk wheat has been characterized with many qualitative and quantative characteristics that are not in the Middle and South regions in Iraq . We were able to fulfill this through the technique of inventing genetic mutations by irradiation of stored seeds for several years of soft wheat class ( Iainya -66) with doses of certain gamma rays resulting in a kind of combined effect between radiation and Aldehyde ( which is one of accumulated chemical mutations in the seed as a result of being stored) Therefore the required effect on the genes that are responsible of the height of the plant (Rht alleles) resulting in reduced plant height rate of 105 cm to 78 cm in the new class Uruk. Many studies have been conducted on that new class and was published in Iraqi and international specialized scientific journals and in international conferences. It was found that this class is a good resistant to lying that leads to a reduction which leads to a decrease winning up to 40 % , and that this is a good product resistant to stem and leaves rust disease and it has a good response to nitrogen fertilization and its viability of bread is very good. It turns out that productivity outweigh the productivity of wheat classes prevalent in the irrigation areas twice. Recently the new product has been adopted in the middle and southern regions for the advantages and good qualities mentioned in the accreditation certificate. Now special researches of the genetic analysis that cause shortage and on the interaction of the enzyme serial polymerase (PCR) at the Institute of Genetic Engineering and biological technology for Postgraduate Studies / University of Baghdad . The research is published in the Journal of the Institute ” Iraqi Journal of biogenic technologies “. The President of Baghdad University and dean of the Institute of Genetic Engineering visited the field in which Uruk transplanted and was pleased of the direction of researches at the Institute on this applied trend.Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein, president of the University of Baghdad, received the scientist Kubba and visited him in his scientific laboratories in the Institute of Genetic Engineering and viewed his scientific research which took part in several international scientific conferences and published in British, Canadian and Japanese journals as well as in the Journal of the International Agency of Atomic Energy.The president of the university instructed to honor Dr. Iyad Kubba and granted him the shield of the University of Baghdad , the fact that what he had done is important national accomplishment , especially in this stage , which our dear country desperately needs inventions to develop the agricultural situation , where gene innovation achieves big achievement by increasing the Uruk seeds in preparation for distribution to farmers to replace prevailing items in the middle and southern regions due to its superiority and suitability for both regions . A plan has been set for the increase of new seeds class in the next planting season.Dr. Iyad Jaber Issa Kubba, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Genetic Engineering and biological technology for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad and had worked in the field of scientific research and university teaching in four Arab countries ( Iraq , Jordan , Libya and the United Arab Emirates ) , has been engaged in scientific Iraqi, Arab and international conferences. Encyclopedia of Iraq in the twentieth century described him as one of the outstanding figures of Iraq in the second part of the first edition and had served in the board of scientific research after receiving a doctorate in genetics from the University of Wales in Britain . He began publishing his researches since 1980 in specialized scientific journals in Britain , the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, and Austria He has discoveries in the field of advanced classes of wheat He is currently working at the Institute of Genetic Engineering and biological techniques for Postgraduate Studies / University of Baghdad .Dr. Kubba has submitted a request to the National Commission for the registration and protection of agricultural classes for the adoption of semi – short Uruk wheat. The class was adopted and granted accreditation certification. The President of Baghdad University, Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein , accompanied by the Dean of the Institute of Genetic Engineering Professor Dr. Abdulhussein Moet –Faisal with Dr. Iyad Kubba visiting the cultivation of new class and expressed encouragement for such researches that help directly to increase production of wheat in Iraq and to reach self-sufficiency, as well as the members of the National Commission for the adoption of new classes of crops and headed by Mr. General Director of the Authority, Mohammed Zain El Abidine, to inspect and authenticate the seeds. He personally visited the location and explored the developed qualities in the product in question, which represents an important scientific accomplishment in the record of the achievements of Iraqi scientists. Dr. Kubba explained that the new class needs to be followed -up and supervised by the farmer to evolve for the best and without care and following-up the product deteriorates and loses its qualities .The website team followed up this accomplishment and documented with a set of photographs and also met the researcher Kubba in the University for more details about this innovation and Dr. Kubba illustrated this invention through this link.” Click for more details about the patent.
University Council in the College of Physical Education
The university focuses on everything that offers success for colleges , institutes and scientific centers to serve the researcher as a student or professor at the university, which the university took to develop its discrete scientific reality in all its scientific locations .To achieve this, Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdul hussein, president of the University of Baghdad, , instructed that the meetings of the University Council to be outside the building of the presidency of the university from now and then and the colleges will be headquarters for meetings of the University Council, so that they can look and investigate more things with the University Council as a whole, and thus all members of the University Council benefit from the experiences of colleges. At the same time to stand at the cases that may cause obstacle to achieve the ambitions and aspirations of the university .The university president has headed the second meeting of the University Council of the academic year 2013 -2014 in the College of Physical Education and with the presence of all the members of the Council, where a lot of things, important issues of students, professors and researchers in general have been discussed. Head of the University Council and the members of the Council thanked and appreciated all contributors of the success of the graduation ceremony for students and also thanked all the journalists who have made efforts to cover the celebration. Then the Council discussed the important issues that were reviewed like the issue of the extension of postgraduate students and its impact on the progress of scientific research. Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein has emphasized to complete the writing of theses within the prescribed period and not to let it be delayed, and not to encourage the student to postpone or and then neglect his studies under the slogan of extension which is found primarily for exceptional cases and the bad circumstances. It is found that a large proportion is calling for an extension which affects negatively the university and its educational plans and programs. Many members of the University Council supported what the university president has stated. The Council also hosted, Dr. Sidky Ismail Rzoqi, Director of Engineering affairs at the University to discuss all engineering issues and the projects carried out by the university, what has been reached and the percentage of completion .Dr. Sidky explained in a meeting with the website team that the university has implemented a number of projects of construction and rehabilitation of scientific and internal departments or scientific laboratories , and the university will achieve a large amount of new facilities , the fact that the university needs many buildings , especially as it did not expand its buildings decades ago , since the sixties by virtue of the conditions the country suffered and the university has implemented a lot of projects that 75% of the investment plan of last year , God willing the percentage will be larger this year and with exceptional efforts the university was able to provide many of the modern scientific laboratories and of the global discrete origin for most of the colleges ,it is also updating and developing all scientific laboratories .For example the College of Education Ibn al-Haytham has been provided with the most modern research laboratories of two million dollars , as well as the Medical College /Al- Kindi has been provided with “plasticized bodies” , which is one of the latest teaching techniques and cognitive and scientific applications in medicine within the practical applications for students in the curriculum ,in the sense that they are rare and can be manufactured only in Germany or America. The university has provided two of these bodies and it will provide ten bodies for the college of Medicine of Baghdad. The University Council also hosted Mr. Mohammed Al-Azzawi to discuss the rest of the operating budget of 2013 and the percentage of achieved completion, treating the issues and developing solutions. Mr. Mohamed explained for our website that the percentage of implementation of the budget for the last year was 97% and this year we will try to be the highest to be the best in the implementation of budgets and gain scientific facilities for our university that need more support and development so that to be always at the top. Prof. Dr. Hussein Yousef, Administrative Assistant of the President of the University, in a meeting after the convening of the Council of the university, stated that the university sees and considers again all the scientific issues in order to keep pace with other global developments, so we are watching the situation with the latest scientific events and treat all the issues according to renewed scientific perspective in line with what the university wishes, especially since the university has proven enormous jumps which requires an extra effort to stay always at the top .Therefore we instructed to the adoption of modern management mechanisms in the development of the administrative work of the University , and the adoption of digital technology and developed techniques in the work in order to achieve the aspirations and goals that our university seeks for and that our quest will not stop at a certain extent, but it is renewed day after day to keep pace with the latest global developments. The Council also discussed the subject of students’ granting according to the letter of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, to find an objective mechanism in the distribution of grant in aid to the needy students, as well as the Council discussed the subject of transferring of students among universities, and dealt with within the scientific framework of achieving scientific gains and sublime goals. The website team accompanied the University Council meeting and the discussion of scientific and strategic issues and has documented the meeting with a set of photographs.
Intensive meetings and a workshop To develop the websites….. Our university, the first and will remain forever
As websites become civilized interfaces for all the institutions in the world, they have formed an important position in attracting audiences, directing them and providing services and even developing work, completing and implementing many of the tasks required by the service reality in general or educational reality, particularly in universities. Our university has made abundance of gains in this space through its website, which saves a lot of time and effort for the benefit of educational infrastructure and scientific research.Due to its importance, the university focused on supporting ,expanding and activating the work of the website with a set of measures and scientific discrete mechanisms that serve the society mainly through serving the researcher as a professor , a student or an associate, so the university is interested very much in the development of knowledge and science through the latest developments and technological improvements especially in the field of electronic communication. Accordingly the university holds many meetings to employees of the websites to develop the reality of work through a series of academic activities and meetings,such as workshops or specialized courses, or scientific conferences and symposiums. What the University has carried out recently is a scientific achievement added to the advanced scientific achievements in the electronic field and digital communication, where the university established a workshop for the development of websites, and under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdul hussein, President of the University, Assistant Professor Dr. Osama Fadhil Abdul latif ,Dean of the college of Engineering –Al-Khawarzmi attended the workshop and most of the employees of the websites of colleges and institutes and formations of the University also attended the workshop. A number of important topics has been discussed during the workshop to improve the performance of the websites to be in advanced ranks within the international rankings. The themes and mechanisms of evaluation and review of the performance of the websites also have been discussed, besides the electronic publishing topics, the barriers and administrative mechanisms and independent websites, and the superiority of our university over other Iraqi universities and some American and European universities in webometrics ratings and “Qs” also has been discussed, which our university has taken over the other Iraqi universities entering the rating for the third year successively. Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein ,the University President attended the workshop and delivered an important speech addressing the officials of websites, stressing the desire of the university to have objectivity within the websites that serve the scientific research and the university alike, and to serve the society that awaits more scientific achievements. In addition the websites should be within the implementation mechanisms and collective joint work that achieves virtue and rejects vice through the topics displayed in the websites, and that there should be a smooth of the work of the websites of colleges, institutes and all formations of the university, within non-traditional mechanisms of action that are beyond routine stages that may hinder the work of websites. He also confirmed that the web sites are not only interfaces of the University but for society as a whole, explaining in his speech to employees of the websites that the university is keen of its scientific reputation and prestige which is through the reputation of the websites.
He, furthermore, added that he rejects any address that is out of interest to the university, stating: ” I might overlook any speech about me or criticizing me but I reject any criticism reduces the status of the University and its prestige and place .being a mother for us all, and we have to be loyal to the University .It is illogic that we criticize without work, but we have to work in order to avoid any criticism”. the university president also explained that the work in the websites is qualitative and not quantitative, which is why we needed more efforts and urged more cooperation and more precise follow-up, then he asked to listen to all the problems or obstacles encountering websites at colleges ,institutes and all formations to discuss them and find appropriate solutions.The website administrators reviewed a set of ideas ,attitudes and some of the obstacles facing their work, praising the university and its support for the electronic effort, which achieved quality jumps in performance and university work within standard time, also some associates explained their urgent needs to expand the work of the websites and within large authority , so that to enter within the international rankings of colleges, as some university colleges are included in some of the international rankings. Moreover, some associates emphasized the need of Central work with the University’s central website.And not to disperse some of the websites with colleges journals in separate locations of the central website of the university because this is not of the interest of the discreteness of the central website of the University, it also needs additional energies and efforts and possibilities that may disperse the work or overburden the central website. The president instructed to provide all supplies that develop the electronic work by writing down all the actual needs of websites to be provided , as well as he instructed to submit a study about the centralization of the website and its relationship to some websites of colleges .He also expressed his thanks and appreciation of the associates and their eagerness to develop the websites, stressing at the same time on some associates who did not attend such developmental meetings, instructing to direct inquiries for not attending the workshop, and to have their presence within the indicators of performance assessments , so that the work is more rewarding and eagerness and to have more objective assessments that adopt more meaningful and more considerate standards of some colleges that have less number of students and departments than the rest of the colleges through mechanisms and standards in this aspect that take into account all circumstances . The President of the University directed to give a letter of thanks to the website for winning the first position in the ratings of the university, and then he watched some films and Graphics carried out by websites associates, praising their scientific efforts and whoever offers ideas or working papers during the workshop. Our website team provided a working paper for the workshop and presented “Promotion” and some graphic posters of the website, then the associates requested memorial photographs with the President of the University. The website team documented this meeting with a series of photographs.
University Activities
– Al-Khwarizmi college of engineering calls the researchers for participation in the
national conference for information and communication technology
– An instructor from the university of Baghdad as a member of global assessment
committee
– Baghdad university honors its top graduates and invite them to translate their
excellence in the labor market
– The college of veterinary medicine at the university of Baghdad gives developmental
courses to keep abreast of global developments
– The Iraqi department of culture dedicates a collection of modern books to the
central library at the university of Baghdad
– The university of Baghdad discusses the remote sensing and its economic effects on
individual and society
– The department of petroleum engineering at Baghdad university heading the central
admission of the engineering group in Iraqi for the academic year 2013-2014
– A research team adds another achievement to the achievements of the university
– IAO publishes news about the college of law at the university of Baghdad’s
obtaining the world reliability certificate
– The college of veterinary medicine at the university of Baghdad discusses aquatic
bags diseases and the ways to limit its spread