Dr Toufic Arnaout (Bio)
Speaker and visitor at international events
Speaking at the Bernal Institute, Ireland
Speaking at the EuPAT and European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Austria
At the International Foundation -
Process Analytical Chemistry (IFPAC), USA
At the European Commission, Belgium
At the White House, USA
At the Frontiers in Materials Characterisation towards Industrial Translation
(FRIMACHAT), Ireland (first to the left)
At the MIT, USA
At Harvard, USA
At the International Conferences on the Crystallization of
Biological Macromolecules (ICCBM) (2nd from top right)
At a dairy plant, the EU
At the Advanced Photon Source (APS), USA
Visiting a new €6M Cryo-TEM, Ireland
At the Diamond Light Source synchrotron (DLS, UK)
At a food plant, the EU
At a pharma plant, Spain
With science professors in Qatar
With biotechnology professors in Singapore
Worked on private and public projects involving varying agencies, companies and institutions
- Technological University Dublin (previously the DIT), Ireland - 2019
- Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Ireland - 2014-2018
- Dairy Processing Technology Centre (DPTC) - 2016
- Washington University School of Medicine, USA - 2013
- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - 2009-2013
- University Paris Orsay, France - 2008
- University of Poitiers - 2007
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
- European Commission FP7
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France (CNRS)
- National Institutes of Health, USA (NIH)
- Studied at the universities of Poitiers, Paris V, Ecole Polytechnique, and Trinity College Dublin
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Academic engagement
Senior authored papers:
- Targeting lipoprotein biogenesis: considerations toward antimicrobials
Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2019
- The N-acyltransferase Lnt: structure-function insights from recent simultaneous studies
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2018
- Immersible optical imaging assembly for observing microparticles
filed patent, UK, GB1813034.4
- 3D-360° micro-surface feature imaging of transparent particles
Scientific Reports, 2017
- Structural basis of lipoprotein signal peptidase II action and inhibition by the antibiotic globomycin
Science, 2016
- Crystallization monitoring using simultaneous Bright Field and PlasDIC imaging
Chemical Engineering Journal, 2016
- A novel backlight probe and image algorithms for real time size-shape analysis during crystallization
Chemical Engineering Science, 2016
- The crystal structure of a membrane peptidase bound to antibiotic (PDB: 5DIR)
The Protein Data Bank, 2016
Other work:
- Rapid analysis of magnesium in infant formula powder using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
International Dairy Journal, 2019
- Multipoint NIR spectrometry for real-time monitoring of protein conformation
International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 2015
- A conformational landscape for alginate secretion across the outer membrane
Acta Crystallographica D, 2014
- The αN helix of the archaeal XerA Tyrosine recombinase is a molecular switch of recombination
PLOS ONE, 2013
- In meso structure of alginate transporter - crystal forms 1, 2 and 3 (PDB 4AZL, 4AFK, 4AZL)
Protein Data Bank, 2013
- The structure of a dimeric recombinase (PDB: 4A8E)
Protein Data Bank, 2012
Meetings and invited talks
Frimachat and the EMCC (European Materials Characterisation Council), Bernal Institute, Ireland, 2017
"Process analytical technology (PAT) for pharmaceutical and protein crystallization"
International Foundation Process Analytical Chemistry (IFPAC), USA, 2015
"Developing a new PAT Device and Algorithms for the In situ Imaging of Crystallization"
7th pan-European Science Conference on QbD and PAT Sciences (EuPAT), Austria, 2015
"Towards greater crystallization process control using optical engineering techniques and algorithms"
Bernal Institute and the Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), Limerick, Ireland, 2017
“Particle engineering in pharmaceutical and biological sciences”
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2017
“Process analytical technology (PAT) and quality by design (QbD) for API and protein crystallization”
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and Qatar Foundation, Qatar, 2017
“Process analytical technology (PAT) for pharmaceutical and protein crystallization”
- School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, 2013
“Crystallization of membrane proteins using the lipidic cubic phase”
- Talks on the structure and function of site-specific DNA recombinases"
at: - Max Planck Institute, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tübingen, Germany
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven, Belgium
- NKI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- EPFL Polytechnique, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena, Germany
Conference posters and abstracts
- Pharmaceutical process analytical technology for the Industry 4.0
H2020 European Commission, Belgium, 2017 (proposed at a panel, parallel sessions)
- Detecting offal adulteration in meat using Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
Food Factor I, Barcelona Conference, Spain, 2016
- Multipoint NIR Spectroscopy for Moisture Content Determination of Powered Formula
IFPAC (pharmacy), USA, 2015
- Multipoint NIRS: Overcoming the limitation of sample heterogeneity in static and motion conditions
ICEF12 (food tech.), Canada, 2015
- Moisture content determination of powdered infant formula utilising multiprobe spectroscopy
ICEF12 (food tech.), Canada, 2015
- Cloning, expression and purification of a prolipoprotein signal peptidase
Science Foundation Ireland visitors’ day, Ireland, 2011
- Applying a GFP fusion-based expression system for crystallization and structural studies
ICCBM13, Ireland, 2010
Advanced training and certifications
Accomplished trainings such as:
Awards and associateships, for example:
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the DCU Ryan Academy, Ireland
- Business programme with the Enterprise Office, Ireland
- Licence to interview, Irish Times training, Ireland
- Biological safety, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Biacore training, GE Healthcare, Ireland
- Predoctoral schools with the University of Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
- Protein studies and radioactive methods, the Commission for Atomic Energy (CEA), France
- Language certification, Georgetown University, USA
- Trainings at Medical analysis laboratories
- Technology Innovation Development Award (SFI-TIDA), Ireland
- Postdoc on EU FP7 and US NIH projects
- PhD fellowship, Science Foundation Ireland
- Internship at the CNRS, France. Also one of fifteen selected for a MSc of Eng. of Biomolecules in Paris, France
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