GENERAL:
- Nationality: Egyptian.
- Date of birth: December 22, 1971.
- Marital Status: Married.
- Number of child: one (girl).
- Military status: finished (the military services).

Languages:  Arabic (fluent), English (good) and French (fair).
                     Passed successfully; Test Of English as a Foreign
                      Language (TOEFL, 535).
E-mail: atwaradwan@hotmail.com

ADDRESS:
Residential: 22 Dair el-Nahia St., Meet Kadoos, Giza, Egypt.
Tel No. : (2010) 510 9816 (Home)
                (202)   571 2991 (Work)

HIGHER EDUCATION:
-  M. Sc., Pesticides (Plant Protection), “Interaction of certain
insecticides and entomopathogenic nematodes in controlling some insect
pests on fruit and vegetable crops”. Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams
University, 1999.
- B.Sc., Pesticides, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, 1994.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

I am interested in the survey, Taxonomy and mass production of
entomopathogenic nematodes. I am also interested in research related to
“Interaction between Insecticides and entomopathogenic Nematode for
controlling insect in IPM programs”. I am also interested in the use of
personal computers in scientific writing (word processing), graphics and
statistical analysis and already used it in my research.

EXPERIENCE:

1-Assistant researcher, January, 1993 – October, 1995, University of
Cairo, a National Agriculture Researh Project- NARP Egyptian- American
collaborative project No. H-035 on: "Genetic engineering of
entomopathogenic   nematodes for thermotolerance".

2-Attended a meeting in Menoufaya University, Egypt from 18 to 22
December, 1994. Awarded at the Second International Symposium of the
society of the   Afro-Asian Society of Nematologists.

3-A work visit from work, March 25, - April 7, 1996, to the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) and  Sultanate of Oman.

4-Visiting scientist, May 2 - 19, 1999, to the Lab. of Prof. Randy
Gaugler, Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA,
During this visit, we discussed the possibility of using
entomopathogenic nematodes as biocontrol agents against both Egyptian
and American insect pests and the tools of molecular biology used to
enhance some beneficial traits in entomopathogenic nematodes.

5- Attended the Society Of Nematologists (SON) meeting in Monterey,
California, USA from 7th to 18th of July, 1999 the annual meeting for
Society of Nematolog followed by a visit to the University of
California, Riverside, USA and San Diego, California.

6- work as an agriculture engineer at El-Shiaty Group company from
November, 1995 – March, 1996, at the scientific office.

7- Work as assistant researcher at the project of “Mass production and
field application of entomopathogenic nematodes as biocontrol agents of
insect borers of fruit trees” at Nematology Research Center, Faculty of
Agriculture, University of Cairo from April, 1996 until the present
time.
 

LIST OF PERSONAL ABSTRACTS AND ARTICLES:

1) Shamseldean, M. M.; Abd-Elgawad M. M. and Atwa A. A. 1996. Evaluation
of four entomopathogenic nematodes against Spodoptera littoralis
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) larvae under different temperatures. Anzeiger
fur Schadlingskunde Pflanzenschutz Umweltschutz, 69 (5): 111-113.
(Germany)

2) SHAMSELDEAN, M.M.,ABD-ELGAWAD M.M. & ATWA A. A. 1998. Effects of soil
temperature, exposure time and host introduction on pathogenicity and
recycling of an Egyptian Heterorhabditis bacteriophora strain EASD98 and
its comparison with H. bacteriophora strain HP88 and Steinernema
riobravae from USA.  International Journal of Nematology, 8 (1) 71-76.
(England).

3) Shamseldean, M. M.; Abd-Elgawad M. M. and Atwa A. A. 1999. Factors
affecting pathogenicity of an Egyptian strain of Heterorhabditis indicus
infecting cotton leafworm Spodoptera littoralis.  International Journal
of Nematology, 9 (1) 90-94. (England).

4) Atwa Ahmed Atwa, 1999. Interaction of certain insecticides and
entomopathogenic nematodes in controlling some insect pests on fruit and
vegetable crops. M.Sc. thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ain
Shams at Shobra El-Khaima, Cairo, Egypt. 161 pp.  (Egypt)

REFERENCES:

Prof. Dr. Amged Kamel Sobeiha
Prof. of Pesticide chemistry and toxicology, Dept. of plant protection,
Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University.
Tel : 011(202) 419-3886

Prof. Dr. Abdalla Shehata Kassab
Prof. of nematology, Dept. of plant protection, Faculty of Agriculture,
Ain Shams University.
Tel : 011(202) 519-3971

Prof. Dr. Muhammad M. Shamseldean
Associate Prof. of insect nematology, Dept. of Agriculture Zoology and
Nematology, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University.
Tel : 011(202) 586-2151 (home)
        011(202) 571-2991 (work)