PO Box 1529
Pilot Point, TX 76258-1529
Phone: 940.686.0780
Fax: 940.686.0792
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| Ms. Susan Corona has more than 20 years of industrial research experience involving mechanism-based drug design, development of therapeutic agents for human disease, construction of molecular markers from human lung cancer, discovery of therapeutic drugs derived from fungi for human cancer and development of specialized systems for cytokine expression. She joined BTI in 2004 where she is involved in high-throughput screening and identification of insect genes and proteins for use in pesticide target validation. She also manages day-to-day laboratory operations for the Company. Ms. Corona received her BS in Biology at The University of Texas at Arlington. |
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| Dr. Natalya Griko has more than 16 years of experience in biophysical chemistry and proteomics. Specifically, she has experience and expertise in mouse hybridoma technology, purification of immunoglobulins, purification of mouse mAbs by a variety of techniques, preparation of labeled antibodies and a variety of immunochemical techniques. Dr. Griko joined BTI in 2004 where she was involved in the discovery and validation of pesticide and drug targets and in the development of engineered Bt toxins through target-based product discovery. Her principal responsibilities involve genomic and proteomic approaches used to identify both gene and protein targets from insects. She also provides support to the screening of customized gene libraries to select the most promising candidate targets for validation. Dr. Griko received her PhD in Biology from the Institute of Molecular Biology of AS USSR, Kiev , Ukraine . She was a Senior Scientist and Lecturer at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry at Pushchino State University , Russian Academy of Sciences. She also served as a Senior Scientist in the Center for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at Dallas. |
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| Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim has more than twelve years of experience in the molecular biology and biochemistry of Bacillus thuringiensis and has participated in the development of various Bt strains for commercial use in Egypt. Dr. Ibrahim currently is working with Bt subsp. aegypti, the Bt strain that constitutes PestoBAC ™. He is cloning all of the different pesticidal toxin genes from this strain with the goal in mind to have sequence analysis on all proteins within the near future. Dr. Ibrahim also is assisting in the genomic and proteomic analyses of a number of molecular targets identified in the mosquitoes Culex pipiens, Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae. Dr. Ibrahim received his PhD in Molecular Biology under the direction of Dr. Bulla at The University of Wyoming and spent four years as a research scientist at the Agricultural Genetic Engineering Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Giza , Egypt , where he directed research on Bt-related activities, among other agricultural projects. |
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| Dr. Jian Sun has more than ten years experience in software engineering, computational modeling and simulation, database implementation, genetic algorithms and artificial intelligence, and recent three years in bioinformatics, biostatistics and computational and systems biology. She joined BTI in 2004 to head up its bioinformatics program. Her principal responsibilities include the design and development of a laboratory management system for the high throughput gene and protein target identification, target-proteins database development and management, creation and maintenance of an online knowledge-base system and company-wide administration of the computer network. Dr. Sun received her PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Computational Design in 2001 from Hong Kong Polytechnic University . She was a post-doctoral research fellow at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, from 2002-2004. |
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| Dr. Xuebin Zhang received a PhD (2005) in Molecular Biology under the supervision of Dr. Lee Bulla at The University of Texas at Dallas. His dissertation research involved the elucidation of the molecular mode of insecticidal action of the Cry1Ab toxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis. Specifically he examined the specific interaction of toxin with its cadherin receptor in cultured insect cells. Dr. Zhang’s responsibilities at BTI include gene library construction and library screening and expression. He also will support validation of candidate molecular targets for insecticides and drugs through a cell-based system. Dr. Zhang received a BS in Biotechnology from Sichuan University in 1998, The People’s Republic of China and an MS in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2002. |
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