Minaleshewa Atlabachew (Associate Professor)

Home Department: 
Analytical Chemistry
Central Laboratories Directorate
Position: 
Head, Central laboratories management Directorate
Email: 
atminale2004@yahoo.com
Phone: 
+251-948-269841
Office: 
Wisdom tower, 5th floor, office no 502

 

 

 

Full Name:

Dr Minaleshewa Atlabachew

 

 

 

 

 

 

Directorate :

Central laboratories management

 

 

 

 

 

 

Position: Directorate head

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Membership of BNWI:  February 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home Base:

Science college

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office Address:   Wisdom tower, 5th floor, office no 502

 

 

 

 

 

Phone Number:

+251-948-269841

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-Mail Address:  atminale2004@yahoo.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year of Degree

 

 

Degree

Awarding Institution

 

 

Sep 2008- Jan 2013

PhD in analytical Chemistry

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

 

 

Sep 2005- Aug 2007

MSc in Analytical Chemistry

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

 

 

Sep 2001- July 2004

Bachelor of education in Chemistry   Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

 

 

Previous and current research work

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research title

 

 

 

started

 

 

status

 

 

Water quality Assessment of

 

Jan 2017

 

 

30 % complition

 

 

lake Tirba

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee Project

 

 

 

July 2017

 

 

Starting up

 

 

P. Edulis Project

 

 

 

Jan 2017

 

 

40 %

 

 

 
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  1. Member of the chemical society of Ethiopia
  2. Member of the Royal society of Chemistry ( RSC)

PUBLICATIONS (Exhaustively list your publications here )

  1. Atlabachew, M., Chandravanshi B.S., Redi M. 2017 Preparative HPLC for large scale isolation, and salting-out assisted liquid–liquid extraction based method for HPLC-DAD determination of khat (Catha edulis Forsk) alkaloids, Chemistry central Journal 107 (11),
  2.   Atlabachew, M., Mehari, B., Combrinck, S. and McCrindle, R., 2017. Single‐step isolation of embelin using high performance countercurrent chromatography and determination of the fatty acid composition of seeds of Embelia schimperi. Biomedical Chromatography

3.

Seifu, T., Mehari, B., Atlabachew, M. and Chandravanshi B.S.  2017. Polyphenolic content

 

and antioxidant activity of leaves of urtica simensis grown in Ethiopia. Latin American

 

Applied Research, 47 (1), 34-40.

4.

Haile, K, Mehari, B., Atlabachew, M. and Chandravanshi B.S 2016. Profile of selected

 

compositions of cladodes of cactus pear (opunta ficus indica) grown in Ethiopia. Bulletin of

 

the Chemical society of Ethiopia, 30(1), 1-15.

5.

Abebe, A.,   Tilahun, S.,  Mesfine, M.,  Atlabachew, M. 2017.  Removal of Cadmium Ions

 

from  Aqueous  Solution  Using  Very Small  Ionic  Liquids  to  Water  Ratio  without  Metal

 

Chelator and pH Modifications. Ethiop. J. Sci. & Technol. 10(1) 51-64

6. Bizuayehu, D., Atlabachew, M. and Ali, M.T., 2016. Determination of some selected secondary metabolites and their invitro antioxidant activity in commercially available Ethiopian tea (Camellia sinensis). SpringerPlus, 5(1), p.1.

7. Atlabachew M, Combrinck S, Sandasi M, Chen W, Viljoen A. (2016) Isolation and in vitro permeation of phenylpropylamino alkaloids from Khat (Catha edulis) across oral and intestinal mucosal tissues. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 194:307-315.

8. Mehari B, Redi-Abshiro M, Chandravanshi B.S, Combrinck S, Atlabachew M, McCrindle R. Profiling of phenolic compounds using UPLC–MS for determining the geographical origin of green coffee beans from Ethiopia. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 2016,45:16-25.

9. Mehari, B., Redi-Abshiro, M., Chandravanshi, B.S., Atlabachew, M., Combrinck, S., McCrindle, R. 2016. Simultaneous determination of alkaloids in green coffee beans from Ethiopia: Chemometric evaluation of geographical origin. Food Analytical Methods, 9(6), 1627 – 1627. DOI 10.1007/512161-015-0340-2..

10.. Atlabachew M, Combrinck S, Sandasi M, Chen W, Viljoen A. Rapid differentiation of Khat (Catha edulis Vahl. Endl.) using single point and imaging vibrational spectroscopy. Vibrational Spectroscopy. 2015, 81,96-105.

11. Atlabachew M, Combrinck S, McCrindle RI. Cation-exchange solid-phase and liquid-liquid extraction for the determination of khat alkaloids by reversed phase HPLC-DAD. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia. 2015, 29, 331-9.

12. Atlabachew M, Torto N, Chandravanshi B,S. Mesfin Redi-Abshiro d, Samuel Chigome c, Kediemetse Mothibedi c and Sandra Combrinck. A ()-norephedrine-based molecularly imprinted polymer for the solid-phase extraction of psychoactive phenylpropylamino alkaloids from Khat (Catha edulis Vahl. Endl.) chewing leaves. Biomedical Chromatography,2015Mehari B, Redi-Abshiro M, Chandravanshi B.S, 12' Atlabachew M, Combrinck S, McCrindle R. Simultaneous Determination of Alkaloids in Green Coffee Beans from Ethiopia: Chemometric Evaluation of Geographical Origin. Food Analytical Methods. 2016, 9, :1627-1637.

13.Tadesse B, Atlabachew M, Mekonnen K.N. Concentration levels of selected essential and toxic metals in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) of West Gojjam, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. SpringerPlus. 2015, 4(1):1-8.

14. Sime, D, Atlabachew, M, Redi-Abshiro, M., Tewabech Zewde, T. Total phenols and antioxidant activities of natural honeys and propolis collected from different geographical regions of Ethiopia, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia, 2015, 29, 163-72

15. Hailu, Y. M., Atlabachew, M., Chandravanshi, B. S., & Redi-Abshiro, M. (2017). Composition of essential oil and antioxidant activity of Khat (Catha edulis Forsk), Ethiopia. Chemistry International, 3(1), 25-31.

16. Atlabachew, M., Chandravanshi, B.S., Redi, M. Selected secondary metabolites and antioxidant activity of Khat (Catha edulis Forsk) chewing leaves extract, International Journal of Food Properties, 2014, 17, 45-64. 

18Atlabachew, M., Torto, N., Chandravanshi, B.S., Redi, M. Matrix solid-phase dispersion for the liquid chromatographic determination of alkaloids of khat (Catha edulis Forsk) chewing leaves, Chromatographia, 2013, 76, 401-408.

19. Atlabachew, M., Chandravanshi, B.S., Redi, M., Torto, N., Chigome, S., Pule, B.O. Evaluation of the effect of various drying techniques on the composition of the psychoactive phenylpropylamino alkaloids of khat (Catha edulis Forsk) chewing leaves, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia, 2013, 27, 347-358.

20. Aregahegn, A., Chandravanshi, B.S. and Atlabachew, M. Mineral contents of fruits of cactus pear (opuntia ficus indica) grown in Ethiopia, Acta Hort. (ISHS), 2013 979:117-126.

21. Aregahegn, A., Chandravanshi, B.S., Atlabachew, M. Levels of major, minor and toxic metals in tubers and flour of dioscorea abyssinica grown in Ethiopia, African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND), 2013, 13, 1-18.

22. Atlabachew, M., Chandravanshi, B.S., Redi, M. Profile of Major, Minor and Toxic metals in soil and Khat ( Catha edulis Forsk) Cultivars in Ethiopia, Trends in Applied sciences Research, 2011, 6, 640-655.

23. Atlabachew, M., Chandravanshi, B.S., Zewge, F., Redi, M. Fluoride content of Ethiopian khat, Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry, 2011, 93, 32-43.

24. Atlabachew, M., Chandravanshi, B.S., Redi, M. Concentration level of essential and non essential minerals in Ethiopian khat, (Catha edulis Forsk), Biological trace element research, 2010,138, 316-325.

25. Atlabachew, M., Chandravanshi, B.S. Levels of major, minor and trace elements in commercially available enset(Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheesman) food products (Kocho and Bulla) in Ethiopia, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2008, 21, 545– 552.

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

_ I am  interested on

  • Identification and quantification of bioactive compounds (volatile oils, alkaloids and phenolic compounds) in medicinal plants and their absorptions as well as bioactivity study.
  • Chemotaxonomy ( metabolomic) study on traditional medicinal plants
  • Method development for the analysis of trace elements in biological and environmental samples
  • Lake and river Water quality monitoring
  • Developments of analytical protocols together with chemometrics for quality control of Ethiopian commodities and herbal medicines in crude extracts