Sameer H Qari: Received PhD from KAU University in 2008. He is the Head of the Biology Department at Umm Al-Qura University, Aljumum College since March 2016 until March 2020 and he is the founder and the Director of the Central Lab of Molecular Research. He is full Professor of Genetics and Molecular biology. He is a supervisor of many graduate students in genetics field. His research interest covers genotoxicity, molecular biology, genome editing, protomics and biocontrol, transcriptomes.