Siavash Partow, MSc Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Kemivägen 10, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Phone: +46(0)31 772 3879 Fax: +46(0)31 772 3801 E-mail: partow [at] chalmers.se Office: Room 6112E     Education and degrees 2002 B.Sc. in Agronomy and plant breeding, Shiraz University, Iran 2005 M.Sc. in Plant biotechnology, Dept. of Biotechnology, IUT, Iran Employments 2005 Faculty member, Estahban Azad University, Iran 2005-2007 Research Assistant, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI), Iran 2008-2009 Research Assistant, Center for Microbial Biotechnology, DTU, Denmark 2008- PhD student, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers Publications, Patents & Presentations Talks 2003 Partow S., Rahimi T., Sayed tabatabai B. E., Shams M., and Vahabi K., AFLP: The key on DNA fingerprinting, 3rd National congress of Biotechnology. Mashhad, Iran. 2005 Siavash Partow, Masuod Bahar, Mohammad ali Malboobi, Mehrana Kohi, and Pegah Khoramzadeh, Detection and isolation of Microsatellites in Pistachio (Pistachia vera L.) for Evaluation of phylogenic relationships, 4th international symposium of Pistachio and Almonds Tehran, Iran.   Kohi M., Sayed Tabatabi B. E., Bahar M., and Partow S.  Detection and isolation of Microsatellites in Pomegranates (Punica granatum L.) for Evaluation of Iranian Genotypes, 4th National congress of Biotechnology, Kerman, Iran.   Khorramzadeh P., Ahmadian Gh., Naghavi M. R., and Partow S. Isolation and cloning of Chitinase gene in Bacillus subtilis from Salty Soils of Iran. 4th National congress of Biotechnology, Kerman, Iran. Poster Presentations 2004 Partow S., Vahabi K., Shams M., Kohi M., Yaghobnejad F., Karimi S., and Khorramzadeh P., Proteomics in plant pathology, 1st international congress on biology, Singapore.   Shams M., Vahabi K., Partow S., Kohi M., Yaghobnejad F., Karimi S., and  Khorramzadeh P.,  AFLP: A revolution in DNA markers (critical review), 1st international congress on biology, Singapore. 2008 Partow S., Maury J., Bjørn S., Siewers V.  and Nielsen J., Characterization of different promoters for gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the annual Symposium of the Swedish society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Editorial Activities 2000-2002 Editor in Chief, Paliz monthly magazine, scientific society of plant breeding, Shiraz University, Iran Teaching and Tutoring Experience 2005 Classic genetic, Estahban Azad University, Iran Grants, Awards and Prizes 2002 Outstanding student, Rank 2 student in School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Iran Business Experience 2002-2006 Green house Manager Personal text Although my B.Sc. and M.Sc. were in plant and plant biotechnology area, but plant biotechnology couldn’t satisfy me, so I was changing my research area to microbial biotechnology and working for two years in petroleum (oil) biotechnology. I have been joining in Professor Nielsen’s group for about 1.5 years now. I am working on two projects in this group. In the first project, I compared the strength of different galactose and glucose promoter to design a new bidirectional expression vector. This new vector retains all the features from the pESC-URA plasmid except that expression is mediated by constitutive promoters. My PhD project was started from July 2008. I am working on isoprenoeid production in yeast and using molecular genetics methods to transfer all steps of the bacterial MEP pathway to S. cerevisiae. Hereby there will be constructed a new strain as a cell factory for the production of isoprenoids. Finally, our aim is to achieve high production levels of different kinds of sesquiterpenes by further metabolic engineering of this strain. Beside the different scientific researches in our group, I think Nielsen´s lab for system biology is one of the most international and productive research group in Europe that consist of more than 25 PhD and post doc from Asia to America. Finally I am so happy that I can join and work in this group.