PERSONAL
Born: 13 November 1994, Prizren, Kosovo
Tel: +420 773 598 244
Email: celina@ftz.czu.cz
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8699-2279
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EXPERIENCE
PHD RESEARCHER/RESEARCH ASSISTANT | 2021 - CURRENT | CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS ANIMAL DISEASES, CZU, CZ
▪ Department of Animal Science and Food Processing
▪ Member of the e4 (Ecology, Evolution, Emergence & Epidemiology of Zoonoses) Research Group
PHD RESEARCHER | 2021 - CURRENT | SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY LAB,EGYPT
▪ I am a part of the Spatial Epidemiology Group at Ain Shams University, and our work focuses on using a combination of field and lab experiments related to vector-borne diseases, GIS, remote sensing, and ecological modeling, trying to understand the major drivers of disease spread and identifying the possible shifts in disease risk in response to global warming.
JUNIOR RESEARCHER | 2021 - 2022 | CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS ANIMAL DISEASES, CZU, CZ
▪ Project HERA: Enhancing Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and/or Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) national infrastructures and capacities to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in the European Union and European Economic Area.
HEALTH & SCIENCE EDITOR | 2021 - CURRENT | PRIZMA MEDIUM, KOSOVO
EDUCATION
MASTER'S STUDIES | 2019 - 2021 | CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES, CZ
▪ Master thesis: Genetic Background of Adaptation of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus to the Different Tick Hosts. Including molecular evolution, codon usage & adaptation, phylogeny, ecological niche modeling.
▪ e4 Research Group, Center for Infectious Animal Diseases.
▪ Czech Government Scholarship (Full Scholarship International Student 2019-2021).
▪ Merit Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Czech Republic (2020).
▪ Scholarship of Achievement, FTZ, CZU (2020).
▪ Final grade honors (1.00/1.00), Graduated Cum Laude.
BACHELOR'S STUDIES | 2012 - 2016 | HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY, TURKEY
▪ Turkey Government Scholarship (Full Scholarship International Student 2012-2016).
▪ Award from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Science - 'The 2nd Best Student' among 1200 students/High Honor Student ( 3.61/4.00 ).
▪ Graduated Cum Laude.
HIGH SCHOOL | 2009 - 2012 | GYMNASIUM, GJON BUZUKU, KOSOVO
▪ Science & Mathematics (5.00/5.00).
SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE
▪ Molecular virology, virus culture, virus isolation, whole genome sequencing, NGS, bioinformatics.
▪ Molecular methods on detection of Lyme disease pathogen.
▪ Research activities: understanding the population structure, intra/inter-specific interactions of sand flies and mosquito species, understanding the effects of climatic changing on vector populations and vector-borne diseases, epidemiology of cutaneous/visceral leishmaniasis and malaria.
▪ Learning methods/skills: DNA & RNA isolation, PCR, qPCR, QF-PCR, Gel electrophoresis, Comparative genomic hybridization, MLPA, NGS, Misec-Illumina, Sanger Sequencing, Karyotype, Tissue culture, Fluorescence in situ hybridization, Chromosomal staining techniques.
▪ This project supports the data collection on vectors and pathogens related to animal and human health. The project includes information on the distribution of ticks, mosquitoes, sand flies and biting midges.
TRAINING/WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE
WSV2023 ONE HEALTH - ONE WORLD - ONE VIROLOGY | 2023 | RIGA, LATVIA
▪ Poster Presentation: Mapping the potential distribution of the principal vector of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus Hyalomma marginatum in the Old World.
8th EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF VIROLOGY | 2023 | GDANSK, POLAND
▪ Poster Presentation: Re-Emergence of BTV-4 in Sheep Farms in Kosovo, 2020: A Retrospective Study.
10th TICK AND TICK-BORNE PATHOGENS CONFERENCE | 2022 | MURIGHIOL, ROMANIA
▪ Oral Presentation: Genetic Background of Adaptation of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus to the Different Tick Hosts.
INTERNATIONAL VIRUS BIOINFORMATICS MEETING (ViBioM 2022)| 2022 | GERMANY
ADVANCED MOLECULAR ANALYSIS AND PHYLOGENETICS | 2018 | CAIRO, EGYPT
▪ Organized by Institut Pasteur, France.
▪ Sequencing, Multiple Alignments, Phylogenetics for Veterinarian Virology and Medical Entomology, Phylodynamics, Evolutionary Models (Distance, Parcimony, ML), Bayesian Methods.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
▪ Ticks and tick-borne viruses
▪ Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus
▪ Zoonotic diseases
▪ Ecology and evolution of zoonotic pathogens
▪ Disease emergence and epidemiology
▪ Modeling pathogens and vectors
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
▪ General Epizootology and Prevention of Animal Diseases
▪ Nutritional Epidemiology
▪ Molecular Ecology
▪ Molecular Genetics
▪ Husbandry of Pigs, Poultry and Rabbits
▪ Human Nutrition and Prevention of Food-Borne Diseases
▪ Consultant of one diploma thesis student (successfully finished) at the Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources
MEMBERSHIP
▪ Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology: Prague, CZ
▪ World Society for Virology: Northampton, Massachusetts, US
PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES
1. Johana Alaverdyan, Seyma S. Celina, Miloslav Jirků, Marina Golovchenko, Jignesh Italiya, Libor Grubhoffer, Natalie Rudenko, and Jiří Černý. A First Look at the Relationship Between Large Herbivore-Induced Landscape Modifications and Ixodes ricinus Tick Abundance in Rewilding Sites. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/vbz.2023.0146.
2. Seyma S. Celina, Jiří Černý. Genetic Background of Adaptation of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever Virus to the Different Tick Hosts. PLOS One 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302224.
3. Seyma S. Celina, Jiří Černý, Abdallah M. Samy. Mapping the potential distribution of the principal vector of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus Hyalomma marginatum in the Old World. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010855.
4. Jignesh Italiya, Vojtěch Vacek, Petr Matějů, Christophe Dering, Seyma S. Celina, Arame Ndiaye, Jiří Černý. First Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in White Rhinoceros during a Small-Scale Coronavirus Surveillance in the Bandia Reserve, Senegal. Animals 2023, 13, 2593. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13162593.
5. Seyma S. Celina, Simon King, Martin Ashby, Katie Harris, Noemi Polo, Mentor Alishani, Avni Robaj, Afrim Hamidi, Driton Sylejmani, Carrie Batten, Jiří Černý, "Re-Emergence of BTV-4 in Sheep Farms in Kosovo, 2020: A Retrospective Study", Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/3112126.
6. Seyma S. Celina and Jiří Cerný (2022) Coxiella burnetii in ticks, livestock, pets and wildlife: A mini-review. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 9:1068129. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1068129.
