TRAINEE

Rita Georges El Khoury



Universitè de La Mediterranèe D’Aix-Marseille II
Email: rita.gkhoury@gmail.com

2008-2010 Master's Student in SIMGF "Structure Interaction des Macromolécules et Génomique Fonctionnelle"
at Saint Joseph University (USJ), Lebanon, Beirut.

2005-2008 BS in Life science, Earth science and Biochemistry at Saint Joseph University (USJ).

2004-2005 Lebanese Baccalaureate - life science section: College des Soeurs Des Saints-Coeurs Kfarhbab, Lebanon.

Work experience
January until June 2010 Interniship at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC).
"Role of Parp1, a sensor of strand breaks, in somatic CAG instability in Huntington disease mice."

February 2009-June 2009 Internship in molecular biology and tissue bank at USJ.
"Comparative study between fresh and cryopreserved amniotic membranes in order to determine its expiry date."

February 2009 Internship in forensic science at the Genetic Laboratory in the American University of Science & Technology (AUST-Beirut).
"DNA profiling based on the amplification and comparison of short tandem repeats (STR) in forensic medicine."

July 2008 Internship in Genetic counseling at Hospital "Clinique Du Levant". Training with Dr Nisreen EL Hachemite on "the concepts of human genetics and counseling"

February 2008 Internship in cytogenetics at the Genetic Lab, USJ.
Diagnosis and study of chromosomal genetic diseases.