Abubaker Mohammed Awad Morgan

Address:

Dept. of Pesticides & Toxicology,
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences,
University of Gezira,
Wad Medani, Sudan,
P.O. Box: 20.

Research Interests:

• Isolation and structure elucidation of natural products.
• Application-based natural product discovery.
• Search for new uses of natural products.
• Pesticides Chemistry.
• Pesticides mode of action and its use.
• Pesticides Formulations.

Biography:

Academic Qualification:

• Post-doc. Super-Bacteria Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon, South Korea (May 2015).
• Ph.D. Natural Products Sciences, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, South Korea (2015).
• M.Sc. Pesticides (Herbicides), Department of Pesticides & Toxicology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan (2004).
• B.Sc. Crop Protection (Hons), Department of Crop Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan (1999).

Employment Records:

• 2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Pesticides & Toxicology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan.
• 2004-2014: Lecturer, Department of Pesticides & Toxicology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan.
• 2001-2004: Teaching Assistant, Department of Pesticides & Toxicology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Sudan.

Skills:

• Extraction and analysis of essential oil using GC-MS and GC-FID.
• Extraction and isolation of secondary metabolites from plants and microbes using normal column chromatography, MPLC, preparative TLC, semiprep-HPLC, etc.
• Structure elucidation of isolated compounds using 1D and 2D NMR techniques as well as other spectral methods such as UV, FT-IR and X-ray crystallography.
• Skilled in operation of Bruker Fourier 300MHz, JEOL JNM-AL 400MHz and Jeol ECA 600MHz, NMR instrument.
• Operation of and method development using LC-MS, HPLC instruments.

Work experience:

• Isolation and characterization of secondary metabolites from Sudanese plants. The work involves extensive use of column chromatography and semiprep-HPLC as well as advanced spectroscopic characterization.
• Academic Supervision of undergraduate students, the work involves teaching Organic Chemistry, Pesticides, Pesticides Chemistry and Mode of Action, Herbicides and its use courses.