Nurulfiza Mat Isa

Dr
Nurulfiza
Mat Isa

Associate Professor
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Email 
nurulfiza [at] upm.edu.my
Biography
Dr. Nurulfiza Mat Isa is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). She obtained her first degree in Biotechnology (2004) and PhD in Molecular Biology (2008) from UPM with fully supported by the National Science Fellowship (NSF) from the Ministry of Science, Technology and lnnovation (MOSTI), Malaysia. In 2011, she was appointed as an Honorary Member of the Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour Department, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in ageing bioinformatics research. Dr. Nurulfiza Mat Isa was also appointed as Head of Laboratory at Laboratory of Vaccines and Animal Therapeutics, Institute of Bioscience, UPM from 2018 until present.
Research interests
Her research focus is on chicken vaccine technology advancement includes bioinformatics of pathogen genomes, profiling of host-pathogen interactions, CRISPR genome engineering, and Nano biotechnology delivery systems. She helped develop a few bioinformatics tools; bacterial CRISPR guide RNA design for bacteria genome editing and Putra Bioinformatics portal for genome assembly and gene annotation. Her research interest also extents to antibiotics resistance mechanism and the discovery of new antibacterial technologies against poultry
Discipline
Bacteriology Bioinformatics Cellular biology Clinical trials – efficacy Clinical trials – safety Molecular biology Systems biology Virology
Host species
Poultry Zoonoses
Pathogen
Bacteria›Salmonella Viruses Viruses›Adenovirus
Stage of vaccine development
Adjuvants Correlates of protection – immunomonitoring Vaccine delivery