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Dhikra Abdul Wahab Mustafa

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Full name:  Thikra Abdul Wahab Mustafa  Abdul Wahid

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Academic qualifications: Master of Life Sciences, Ph.D. in Biotechnology

Practical experience: Characterization of nanomaterials using electron microscopy

Training (name of the training agency, city, and training period):

University information

College: College of Veterinary Medicine

Branch or Department: Diseases and Poultry Diseases Branch

Scientific title: Assistant Professor

Degree: Doctorate

Date of obtaining the certificate: 2013

Granting university and college: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Country: America

General major: Life sciences

Subspecialty: Bio-Nano Technology

Scientific activities: Supervising postgraduate students, publishing many scientific research papers

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Published research:

- Preparation and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles and its Medical Application against Pathogenic Bacteria

Dhuha Jasim Mohammad Aziz, Adil Ali Haidir, Thikra A Mustafa “Effect Of Nanoparticles

On Some Biological Aspects Of The Lesser Grain Borer Beetle Rhyzopertha Dominica

(Fab.)(Coleoptera: Bostrichidae” NVEO-NATURAL VOLATILES & ESSENTIAL OILS Journal|

NVEO, 487-500, 2022.

Fatima Ibrahim Kalaf, Thikra A Mustafa, Adil Ali Haidar Hassan” Use some nanomaterials

as insecticides against the saw-toothed grain beetle Oryzaephilus surinamensis L.

(Coleoptera: Silvanidae) Kirkuk University Journal For Agricultural Sciences (KUJAS), 13(3)

159-174, 2022.

  • TA Mustafa, MA Mohammed-Rasheed “Accumulation and cytotoxicity assessment of TATIONPs on cancerous mammalian cells” Animal Biotechnology, 32(1) 100-105, 2021.

 

  • Ambar B RanguMagar, Bijay P Chhetri, Charlette M Parnell, Anil Parameswaran-Thankam,Fumiya Watanabe, Thikra Mustafa, Alexandru S Biris, Anindya Ghosh“Removal of

nitrophenols from water using cellulose derived nitrogen doped graphitic carbon material

containing titanium dioxide” Particulate Science and Technology 37 (4), 444-452, 2019.

  • Dayton M Petibone, Thikra Mustafa, Shawn E Bourdo, Andersen Lafont, Wei Ding, Alokita

Karmakar, Zeid A Nima, Fumiya Watanabe, Daniel Casciano, Suzanne M Morris, Vasily N

Dobrovolsky, Alexandru S Biris “p53‐competent cells and p53‐deficient cells display different

susceptibility to oxygen functionalized graphene cytotoxicity and genotoxicity”  Journal of

Applied Toxicology 37 (11), 1333-1345, 2017

AA Zahra’a, TA Mustafa, NM Ardalan, EM Idan “In Vitro Toxicity Evaluation of Silver

Nanoparticles on Entamoeba histolytica trophozoite” Baghdad Science Journal 14 (3), 509-

515, 2017.

  • Sudhakar Agnihothram, Lisa Mullis, Todd A Townsend, Fumiya Watanabe, Thikra Mustafa,

Alexandru Biris, Mugimane G Manjanatha, Marli P Azevedo, United States Food“Titanium

Dioxide Nanoparticles Evoke Proinflammatory Response during Murine Norovirus

Infection Despite Having Minimal Effects on Virus Replication” International journal of

nanotechnology in medicine & engineering 1 (3), 63, 2016.

  • Raul A Trbojevich, Avelina Fernandez, Fumiya Watanabe, Thikra Mustafa, Matthew S

Bryant “Comparative study of silver nanoparticle permeation using Side-Bi-Side and Franz

diffusion cells” Journal of Nanoparticle Research 18 (3), 55,2016.

  • Takeshi Shinkawa, Xinyu Tang, Jeffrey M Gossett, Thikra Mustafa, Festus Hategekimana,

Fumiya Watanabe, Takako Miyazaki, Masaaki Yamagishi, Michiaki Imamura “Valved

polytetrafluoroethylene conduits for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction” The

Annals of Thoracic Surgery 100 (1), 129-137,2015.

  • A Karmakar, Y Xu, T Mustafa, G Kannarpady, SM Bratton, A Radominska-Pandya, PA

Crooks, AS Biris “Nanodelivery of parthenolide using functionalized nanographene

enhances its anticancer activity” RSC advances 5 (4), 2411-2420, 2015

  • Lamya Mohammed Saeed, Meena Mahmood, Sebstain J Pyrek, Tariq Fahmi,Yang Xu, Thikra

Mustafa, Zeid Nima, Stacie M Bratton, Dan Casciano, Enkeleda Dervishi, Anna Radominska-

Pandya, Alexandru R Biris. “Gambogic acid delivered by single walled carbon nanotubes

and nano-Graphene sheet inhibits cell proliferation in MCF-7 and Panc-1 cells.” Journal of

Applied Toxicology 34 (11), 1188-1199,2014.

  • Meena Mahmood, Thikra Mustafa, Yang Xu, Shawn Bourdo, Zeid Nima,

Daniel Casciano, Alexandru Biris. “Calcium Channel Blocking and Nanoparticles-Based

Drug Delivery for Treatment of Drug-Resistant Human Cancers.” Therapeutic delivery; 5

(7), 763-780,2014

  • Enkeleda Dervishi, Festus Hategekimana, Laurent Boyer, Fumiya Watanabe, Thikra Mustafa,

Abhijit Biswas, Alexandru R. Biris,d and Alexandru S. Biris. “The effect of carbon nanotubes

and graphene on the mechanical properties of the multicomponent polymeric composites.”

Chemical Physics Letters, Vol 590, no. 18, pp 126-130, 2013.

Thikra Mustafa. “Size-Dependent Thermotherapy of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles on Human

Breast Adenocarcinoma Cancer Cells.” Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 19, issue S3,

2013.

  • Thikra Mustafa, Yongbin Zhang, Yang Xu, Fumiya Watanabe, Alokita Karmakar, Madhu P.

Asar, Reginard Little, M. Keith Hudson, Alexandru S. Biris. “Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-based

Radio-Frequency Thermotherapy for Human Breast Adenocarcinoma Cancer Cells.”

Biomaterials Science, vol. 2013, no. 8, pp 870-880, 2013.

  • Meena Mahmood, Hector Villagarcia, Enkeleda Dervishi, Thikra Mustafa, Mohammad

Alimohammadi, Dan Casciano, Mariya Khodakovskaya, and Alexandru S. Biris. “Role of

the carbonaceous nanomaterials in stimulation of osteogenesis in mammalian bone cells.”

Journal of Material Chemistry-B, vol. 2013, no. 25, pp 3220-3230, 2013..

  • Zeid A. Nima, Meena W. Mahmood, Alokita Karmakar, Thikra Mustafa, Shawn Bourdo, Yang

Xu, Alexandru S. Biris. “Single-walled carbon nanotubes as specific targeting and Raman

spectroscopic agents for detection and discrimination of single human breast cancer cells.”

Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 18, no.5,. 2013.

  • Jingwei Shao, Robert Griffin, Ekaterina Galanzha, Jin-Woo Kim, Nathan Koonce, Jessica

Webber, Thikra Mustafa, Alexandru S. Biris, Dmitry A. Nedosekin, Vladimir P. Zharov.

“Photothermal nanodrugs: potential of TNF-gold nanospheres for cancer theranostics.”

Scientific Reports, no. 3, pp 1293, 2013

  • Meena Mahmood, Yang Xu, Vijayalakshmi Dantuluri, Thikra Mustafa, Yongbin Zhang,

Alokita Karmakar, Daniel Casciano, Syed Ali, Alexandru S. Biris. “Carbon nanotubes enhance

the internalization of drugs by cancer cells and decrease their chemoresistance to

cytostatics.” Nanotechnology, vol. 24, no. 4, 2012.

  • Mariya V. Khodakovskaya, Bong-Soo Kim, Jong Nam Kim, Mohammad Alimohammadi,

Enkeleda Dervishi, Thikra Mustafa, Carl E. Cernigla. “Carbon Nanotubes as Plant Growth

Regulators: Effects on Tomato Growth, Reproductive System, and Soil Microbial

Community.” Small, vol. 9, no. 1, pp 115-123, 2013.

Ahmed Abuhalimeh, M. Eduard Tudoreanu, Thikra Mustafa. “Task-dependence of subjective

believability in integration of scientific data.” International Journal of Information Quality

(IJIQ), vol. 3, no. 1, pp 71-84, 2012.

  • Taylor Ingle, Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru R. Biris, Thikra Mustafa, Roger A. Buchanan,

Alexandru S. Biris. “Raman Spectroscopy Analysis and Biodistribution of Inhaled Carbon

Nanotubes in the Lungs and Blood of Mice.” Journal of Applied Toxicology, vol. 33, no. 10,

pp 1044-1052, 2012.

  • Yang Xu, Wolf E. Heberlein, Meena Mahmood, Ioana Anamaria Orza, Alokita Karmakar,

Thikra Mustafa, Alexandru R. Biris, Daniel Casciano, Alexandru S. Biris. “Progress in

Materials for Thermal Ablation of Cancer Cells.” Journal of Material Chemistry (JMC), vol.

22, pp 20128-20142, 2012.

  • Viney Saini, Omar Abdulrazzaq, Shawn Bourdo, Enkeleda Dervishi, Anca Petre, Venu Gopal

Bairi, Thikra Mustafa, Laura Schnackenberg, Tito Viswanathan, Alexandru S. Biris.

“Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of P3HT-Graphene Composites Prepared by insitu

Oxidative Polymerization.” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 112, no. 5, pp 54327-54329,

2012.

  • Yang Xu, Alokita Karmakar, Wolf E. Heberlein, Thikra Mustafa, Alexandru R. Biris,

Alexandru S. Biris. “Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles for Synergistic Enhancement

of Cancer Treatment by Combinatorial Radio Frequency Thermolysis and Drug Delivery.”

Advanced Healthcare Materials, vol. 1, no. 4, pp 493-501, 2012.

  • Rakhshinda Sadiq, Javed A. Bhalli, Jian Yan, Robert S. Woodruffc, Mason G. Pearce, Yan Li,

Thikra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Lindsay M. Pack, Alexandru S. Biris, Qaiser M. Khan, Tao

Chen “Genotoxicity of TiO2 anatase nanoparticles in B6C3F1 male mice evaluated using

Pig-a and flow cytometric micronucleus assays.” Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and

Environmental Mutagenesis, vol. 745, no. 1-2, pp 65-72, 2012.

  • Thikra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, William Monroe, Meena Mahmood, Yang Xu, Lamya

Mohammed Saeed, Alokita Karmakar, Dan Casciano, Syed Ali, Alexandru S. Biris. “Impact of

Gold Nanoparticle Concentration on their Cellular Uptake by MC3T3-E1 Mouse

Osteoblastic Cells as Analyzed by Transmission Electron Microscopy.” Journal of

Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology, vol. 2, no. 118, 2011. doi:10.4172/2157-7439.1000118.

  • Thikra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Meena Mahmood, Yang Xu, William Monroe, Alexandru

S. Biris. “TEM Study of Cellular Uptake of Gold Nanoparticles by MC3T3-E1 Bone Cells.” Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 17, issue S2, pp. 284-285, 2011.

  • Alokita Karmakar, Stacie Bratton, Enkeleda Dervishi, Anindya Ghosh, Meena Mahmood, Yang

Xu, Lamya Mohammed Saeed, Thikra Mustafa, Dan Casciano, Anna Pandya Radominska,

Alexandru S. Biris. “Ethylenediamine Functionalized-Single Walled Nanotube (f-SWNT)-

Assisted In Vitro Delivery of Oncogene Suppressor p53 Gene to Breast Cancer MCF-7

Cells.” International Journal of Nanomedicine, vol. 6, no.1, pp 1045-1055, 2011.

  • Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru R. Biris, Fumiya Watanabe, Jean Umwungeri, Thikra Mustafa,

Joshua Driver, Alexandru S. Biris. “Few Layer Nano-Graphene Structures with Large

Surface Areas Synthesized on a Bimetallic MgO-Supported Catalyst System.” Journal of

Materials Science, vol. 47, no. 4, pp 1910-1919, 2011.

  • Alexandru R. Biris, Meena Mahmood, Lazar Diana Mihaela, Enkeleda Dervishi, Fumiya

Watanabe, Thikra Mustafa, Grigore Baciut, Mihaela Baciut, Simion Bran, Alexandru S. Biris.

“Novel Multicomponent and Biocompatible Nanocomposite Materials based on Few-Layer

Graphenes Synthesized on a Gold/Hydroxyapatite Catalytic System with Applications in

Bone Regeneration.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 115, no. 39, pp 18967-18976,

2011.

  • Yongbin Zhang, Yang Xu, Zhiguang Li, Tao Chen, Susan M. Lantz, Paul C. Howard, Merle G.

Paule, William Slikker Jr., Fumiya Watanabe, Thikra Mustafa, Alexandru S. Biris, Syed F.

Ali. “Mechanistic Toxicity Evaluation of Pristine and PEGylated Single-Walled Carbon

Nanotubes in Neuronal PC12 Cells. ” ACS Nano, vol. 5, no. 9, pp 7020-7033, 2011.

  • Alokita Karmakar, Yang Xu , Meena W. Mahmood, Ashley Fejleh, Yongbin Zhang, Lamiya M.

Saeed, Thikra Mustafa, Syed Ali, Alexandru R. Biris, Alexandru S. Biris. “Radio-Frequency

induced in vitro thermal ablation of cancer cells by EGF functionalized multimodal

graphitic coated magnetic nanoparticles.” Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 21, no. 34, pp

12761-12769, 2011.

  • Adriana Popa, Dana Toloman, Oana Raita, Alexandru Radu Biris, Gheorghe Borodi, Thikra

Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Alexandru S. Biris, Alexandru Darabont, Liviu Mihail Giurgiu.

Co doped ZnO semiconductor materials: structural, morphological and magnetic

properties.” Central European Journal of Physics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp 1446-1451, 2011.

  • Alokita Karmakar, Cornel Iancu, Dana Monica Bartos, Meena W. Mahmood, Anindya Ghosh,

Yang Xu, Enkeleda Dervishi, Samuel L. Collom, Mariya Khodakovskaya, Thikra Mustafa,

Fumiya Watanabe, Alexandru R. Biris, Yongbin Zhang, Syed F. Ali, Dan Casciano, Zeid Nima,

Alexandru. S. Biris “Raman Spectroscopy as a Detection and Analysis Tool for In Vitro

Specific Targeting of Pancreatic Cancer Cells by EGF-Conjugated Single-Walled Carbon

Nanotubes.” Journal of Applied Toxicology, vol. 32, no. 5, pp 365-375, 2011.

  • Meena Mahmood, Zhiguang Li, Dan Casciano, Mariya V Khodakovskaya, Tao Chen, Alokita

Karmakar, Enkeleda Dervishi, Yang Xu, Thikra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Ashley Fejleh,

Morgan Whitlow, Mustafa Al-Adami, Anindya Ghosh, Alexandru S. Biris. “Nanostructural

Materials Increase Mineralization in Bone Cells and Affect Gene Expression Through

miRNA Regulation.” Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, vol. 15, no. 11, pp 2297-

2306, 2011.

  • Pradip Munshi, Sudhakar Padmanabhan, Shane Z. Sullivan, Thikra A. Mustafa, Anna M.

Brezden, Anindya Ghosh. “An economically viable process for the synthesis of a chiral

oxazolidinone((S)-4-benzyl-2-oxazolidinone) from amino acid.” Particulate Science and

Technology, vol. 29, no. 5, pp 466-474, 2011.Conference publications and presentations:

  • Thikra Mustafa. “Size-Dependent Thermotherapy of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles on Human

Breast Adenocarcinoma Cancer Cells.” Platform Presentation. - M&M 2013, Indianapolis,

Indiana.

  • Meena Mahmood, Daniel Casciano , Alokita Karmakar , Enkeleda Dervishi, Yang Xu, Thikra

Mustafa, Alexandru S. Biris. “The Effect of Functional Nanomaterials on Bone Minerals

Deposition.” Nanotechnology in Biomedicine, Nature Conference, 2012.

  • Thikra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Meena Mahmood, Yang Xu, William Monroe, and

Alexandru S. Biris “TEM Study of Cellular Uptake of Gold Nanoparticles by MC3T3-E1

Bone Cells.” Platform Presentation. - M&M 2011, Nashville, Tennessee.

  • Thikra Mustafa, Fumiya Watanabe, Meena Mahmood, Yang Xu, William Monroe, Lamya

Saeed, Alokita Karmakar, Alex S. Biris. “”TEM Study of Cellular Uptake of Gold

Nanoparticles by MC3T3-E1 Bone Cells.” University of Arkansas at Little Rock Student

Research Expo,. 2011.

  • Meena Mahmood, M. Phillip C. Fejleh, Hidetaka Ishihara,Thikra Mustafa, Alokita Karmakar,

Ashley Fejleh, Yang Xu, Rajesh Sharma, Alexandru S. Biris. “Enhancement of Osteobalstic

Bone Cell Proliferation Incubated on Plasma Treated Polymers.” Nanotech Spring 2010

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