Resume

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Basics

Name Siefeldin Sobih
Email siefeldinsobih@gmail.com

Work

  • 2024.08 - Present
    Teaching Assistant
    Utah State University
    • Lead labs and design presentations for BIOL 3300 (General Microbiology)
    • Grade assignments and mentor students in BIOL 3020 (Evolutionary Biology) and BIOL 3070 (Computational Biology); delivered guest lecture in BIOL 3020
    • Conduct office hours and collaborate with faculty to enhance course materials
    • Awarded Graduate Teaching Certificate
  • 2023.08 - Present
    Research Assistant
    Utah State University
    • Analyzed 600+ hindgut samples (FASTQ files) in QIIME2 and integrated with physiological and hormone metadata across two research chapters
    • Built automated and reproducible pipelines using Nextflow, Bash, and Conda, reducing the analysis time significantly.
    • Applied compositional data analysis, ordination (PCoA, NMDS), and statistical modeling (PERMANOVA, ANOVA, LM, LMM, GLMs, ANCOM-BC2, and others) to evaluate microbial shifts in endangered rock iguanas
    • Maintained reproducibility and version control via GitHub
    • Contributed to ongoing manuscript on conservation implications for endangered species
  • 2023.02 - 2023.08
    Teaching Assistant
    October University for Modern Sciences & Arts - Faculty of Biotechnology
    • Taught laboratory sessions in Bioinformatics (BT204), Advanced Genetics (BT308), and Microbial Genetics (GEN202) to classes of 25+ students
    • Served on Faculty Quality Control committee, reviewing course specifications and ensuring academic standards
  • 2021.01 - 2022.12
    Intern Research Assistant
    Nile University - Bioinformatics
    • Developed Python automation scripts for gene selection and Maintained reproducibility via GitHub
    • Contributed to a published peer-reviewed publication

Education

  • 2023.08 - 2025.12

    Logan, Utah

    MSc
    Utah State University
    Biology
    • Bioinformatics, R for researchers, and Soil microbiome
  • 2017.09 - 2021.05

    Giza, Egypt

    BSc
    Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University
    Biotechnology
    • Genomics, Microbiology, and plant biology

Publications