Biography:
Dr. Maryam Mousivand studied plant pathology at the Tehran University, Iran and graduated as PhD in 2020. Since 2004, she has joined the research group of the Microbial Biotechnology Department at the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran. Currently, she is head of microbial biotechnology department and her research interest is aptamer engineering using genetic algorithm for aptasensor development to monitor contaminants in food and agriculture products. During the last 10 years, her research has focused on the aptamer probe design of and aptasensor development for mycotoxins and antibiotics detection. In collaboration with the Tehran university,Turin University and Proxentia Company in Italy, she designed two novel aflatoxin B1binding aptamers and successfully exploited them as recognition elements in the lateral flow aptasensors and the reflective phantom interface (RPI) platform.
Title : Aptamer discovery using evolutionary mimicking algorithm: A smart approach toward food safety biosensing