Dr. Sonia Ben Younes
Assistant ProfessorCentre of Biotechnology of Sfax, Tunisia
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Centre of biotechnology of Sfax, Tunisia
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Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Centre of biotechnology of Sfax, Tunisia
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Dr. Sonia Ben Younes is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Gafsa, Tunisia. She obtained her PhD in Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Environmental Bioprocess, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax-Tunisia. She has assured the teaching of the practicum of many courses such as: Biotechnology cell and tissue, Valorization products and by-products of animal origin, Molecular biology, Molecular biotechnology, Introduction to biomolecules of interest, Structural biochemistry, Cell biology and Environmental biochemistry. Her research area focused on the improvement and the production of fungal laccase, on the purification and characterization of this enzyme and at developing new tools and technologies for biological treatment of pollutants. More recently (2011) this expertise was expanded to treat synthetic dyes, real effluent in Erlenmeyer and in bioreactor. She is also reviewer in number of international journals. She is also supervising 15 technicians, 3 undergraduates and 1 PhD student. She also attended number of workshops. She has published (10) articles in peer-reviewed journals, (8) oral communications and (4) posters as author/co-author.