The Department of Biotechnology, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit and within the activities of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, organized a lecture entitled “Genetic Engineering of Soil Bacteria PY79 to Increase the Production of an Important Antibiotic Using CRISPR/CA9 Technology” under the auspices of the Dean of the College, Assistant Professor Dr. Raed Faleh Hassan, and the presence of a number of students, teachers and those concerned with genetic engineering. The lecture aimed to study the genetic modification of soil bacteria to produce antibiotics by genetic engineering of the gene responsible for its manufacture in the cell, through the use of the above-mentioned technology.
The lecture presented by Dr. Hadeel Walid included a review of the role played by genetic engineering, which is the technology that deals with human and animal genes, as well as microbiology genes, or genetic units located on chromosomes separating, connecting and inserting parts of them from one organism to another, in order to create a state that enables knowledge of the function of (gene) or with the aim of increasing the amount of material resulting from its expression or with the aim of completing what is missing from it in a target cell.