Mohammad Farouq Sharifpour

Mohammad Farouq Sharifpour

School of Animal and Veterinary Science

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Mohammad Farouq Sharifpour received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Urmia University, Iran in 2014. After graduation, he started to work as a veterinary practitioner for three years. Being offered the Adelaide Scholarships International from the University of Adelaide, SA, Australia in 2016, he travelled to Adelaide to commence his PhD project on transcription regulatory systems in the model Apicomplexan, Toxoplasma gondii, which is currently ongoing. During his PhD, he has also spent 7 months at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, as well as four weeks at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research (WEHI), Melbourne, as a visiting researcher, working on finding new artificial transcription factor fusion proteins for Toxoplasma.”

I am working on a project that involves genetic engineering of notorious pathogens like the malaria agent. To date, no effective live vaccine has been introduced for any of these organisms to be used in humans. My PhD project aimed to adapt a molecular system to Toxoplasma which helps scientists to take over the vitality of these organisms by addicting them to a small molecule. The ability to condition an organism to a small molecule would lead us to produces lines of modified pathogens that can be efficiently controlled, both in laboratory condition and in the animal model. 

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2021 Sharifpour, M. F., Khadiv, S., Meissner, M., & McAllister, M. M. (2021). A GRA2 minimal promoter improves the efficiency of TATi / Tet-Off conditional regulation of gene expression in Toxoplasma gondii. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 244, 111384.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2020 Fadaeifard, F., Rabiei, M., & Sharifpour, M. F. (2020). Genetic characterization of Lactococcus garvieae isolated from farmed rainbow trout by random amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR in Iran. JOURNAL OF THE HELLENIC VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY, 71(1), 2023-2030.
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    2016 Sharifpour, M., Mardani, K., & Ownagh, A. (2016). Molecular identification and phylogenetic analysis of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium spp. isolated from gut of honeybees (Apis mellifera) from West Azerbaijan, Iran. Veterinary Research Forum, 7(4), 287-294.
    WoS4 Europe PMC1
    2014 Sharifpour, M. F., Hobbenaghi, R., Alyali, P., & Morvaridi, A. (2014). Squamous cell carcinoma in a black tetra, Gymnocorymbus ternetzi (Boulenger). Journal of Fish Diseases, 37(11), 985-987.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC1

  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2020 Al-Farha, A. A. B., Petrovski, K., Moffat, J., Sharifpour, M. F., Khazandi, M., Jozani, R., . . . Hemmatzadeh, F. (2020). Phylogenetic relationship among field isolates of mycoplasmas and acholeplasmas in two south australian dairy herds based on sequencing of a short 16s rrna gene fragment. In PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare Vol. 2 (pp. 410-416). online: EAI.
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  • Awarded with the School of Animal & Vet. Sciences (SAVS) Collaboration Grant; Round 1, 2020.
  • Won Hans-Jürgen and Marianne Ohff Research Grant.
  • Won Australian Society for Parasitology (ASP) Network Researcher Exchange, Training and Travel Award
  • Won the SAVS Research Seed Grant Award; Round 1, 2019.
  • Won Adelaide Scholarship International (ASI) Award for Round 1, 2017.
  • Won Melbourne University’s ‘Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship’ Award for Round 1, 2017.
  • Tutor for Systems pathology course 2019 at SAVS, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Tutor for Pathology and Diagnostic Services Rotation program at SAVS, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Tutor for General Pathology course at SAVS, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Tutor for Microbiology course at SAVS, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Tutor for Systems pathology course 2018 at SAVS, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Tutor for Microbiology course at SAVS, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Tutor for ILA course at SAVS, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia.
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