IIUI mission is to transform the society by promoting education, training, research, technology, and collaboration for reconstruction of human thought in all its forms on the foundations of Islam.
IIUI mission is to transform the society by promoting education, training, research, technology, and collaboration for reconstruction of human thought in all its forms on the foundations of Islam.
IIUI vision to be an excellent University in diversity, knowledge, research, and innovation for the benefits of society and the Muslim Ummah.
Dr. Naveeda Riaz had done her Ph.D in 2001 from Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology, Lahore where she worked with Plant Transformation Group. She transformed Basmati Rice with two genes from a soil Bacterium called Bacillus thrureingensis for development of insect resistant. These transgenic lines were subjected to successful field trials. She joined the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health, in the same year for her Post Doc. studies. She worked for the five years on Human Genetics especially on Genetics of Stuttering and taste. She identified a major locus at chromosome 12q using Linkage and Association approach that has the gene causing Stuttering. Her Ph.D and Post Doc. Work has been published in International Journals. She joined International Islamic University in 2007 where she worked on Bioinformatics in collaboration with other institutes and Universities. Her area of Interest includes Genetic Engineering and Human Genetics. PUBLICATIONS:
DR. ASMA GUL: Dr. Asma Gul is assistant professor of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. She has done her PhD from Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad. On the basis of her excellent academic background and research work, she got indigenous PhD fellowship from HEC. Her Research expertise includes Human Molecular Genetics, Molecular Microbiology and Molecular Immunology. She is an HEC approved supervisor and her research has been published in International journals with good impact factor. She has started her Post Doc. at the University of Cambridge, UK for Post doctorate research. Her Post doc is funded by HEC. Recently she has been selected as one of the members of Board of Advance Studies in Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad. PUBLICATIONS:
DR. SHAHEEN SHEHZAD: Dr. Shaheen Shehzad is working as Assistant Professor in the department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, at International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan. Her Research expertise includes Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Molecular and Population Genetics. She has done Ph.D. from Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad and has good experience of different Biotechnological Techniques like PCR, Linkage Analysis, Sequencing, Gene Mapping, Gel Electrophoresis, etc. Her work is published in reputed International journals. Her Master and M.Phil. was also from the Quaid-i-Azam University and she got distinction and bestowed with the Gold Medal in M.Sc. Her name has been included in the list of HEC approved supervisors. PUBLICATIONS:
DR. NYLA JABEEN: Dr. Nyla Jabeen is Assistant Professor of Biotechnology. She had done her Ph.D research work at Quaid-i-Azam University in collaboration with Agriculture Biotechnology Institute, National Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad. Her research expertise includes molecular biology, gene transformation, crop diseases and Plant tissue culture. She has successfully established a protocol for in vitro propagation and Agrobacterium mediated gene transformation of tomato. She developed tomato transgenic lines resistant to many fungal pathogens. She has published her research in National and International journals. She worked for the promotion of Biological Sciences in Pakistan at Higher Education Commission, Islamabad. During her stay at HEC she has been involved in programs related to the university teacher’s training, curriculum development, distant learning and researcher industry liaison. She has organized and participated in several National and International workshops/ conferences on teaching methodologies, advanced molecular techniques and researcher industry liaison for details please visit http://ncgls.hec.gov.pk, http://pakistantimes.net/2005/03/05/oped3.htm. She is HEC approved PhD supervisor. Now She is working on in vitro propagation and development of resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses in crops. Publications Nyla Jabeen, Bushra Mirza, Zubeda Chaudhary, Hamid Rashid and Muhammad Gulfraz. (2009). Study of the factors affecting Agrobacterium mediated gene transformation in tomato. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 41: 2605-2614. Muhammad Gulfraz, Sajid Mehmood, Nasir Minhas and Nyla Jabeen. (2008). Composition and antimicrobial properties of essential of Foeniculum vulgare. African Journal of Biotechnology. 7:4364-4368. Sajid Mehmood, Amina Bashir, Asif Ahmad, Zahid Akram, Nyla Jabeen and Muhammad Gulfraz. (2008). Molecular characterization of regional Sorghum bicolor varieties of Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 40(5): 2015-2021, 2008 Nyla Jabeen, Zubeda Chaudhry, Hamid Rashid and Bushra Mirza (2005). Genotype and Phenotype affects the shoot regeneration in Lycopersicon Esculentum. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 37(4): 899-903, 2005 N.Jabeen and B.Mrza (2002). Ethyl Methane Sulfonate enhances genetic variability in Capsicum annuum. Asian Journal of Plant Sciences 4(1): 425-428, 2002. N.Jabeen and B. Mirza (2002). Ethyl methane sulfonate induces morphological mutations in Capsicum annuum. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology DR. SOBIA TABASSUM: Dr. Sobia Tabassum is Assistant Professor of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. She had carried out her Ph.D research work at Washington State University, USA which kindled her interest for biotechnology. Her research expertise includes molecular biology, gene manipulation / genetic engineering and pharmaceutical Chemistry. She has published in National and International impact factored journals. She has authored one scientific book which has been published in various countries including UK and USA. She has made excellent progress with her research and gained invaluable experience in molecular analyses where she had identified 21 resistance gene analog polymorphism markers which would be helpful in DNA fingerprinting techniques for rust resistance. She was awarded Gold Medal in M.Sc. and won various other awards including foreign scholarship from HEC. Besides, she has been selected as HEC approved supervisor. Currently she is focusing on using efficient technologies that combine pharmaceutical agents and biotechnology. PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC BOOK Sobia Tabassum. 2010. Fingerprinting techniques for identification of rust resistance genes. Printed in USA &UK . ISBN 978-3-8383-3581-0. PUBLICATIONS:
DR. SUMBUL KHALID: Dr. Sumbul Khalid, Phd in Biochemistry, currently acting as Assistant Professor in the department. PhD Thesis title is “Cloning of somatotropin from indigenous buffalo breeds, over-expression, purification and characterization”. Areas of interests are Biotechnology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry. During PhD won the HEC indigenous PhD scholarship and the PhD research has been selected and published by a German publishing group as a book, titled “Growth Hormone of Pakistani Buffalo”. PUBLICATIONS:
Dr. ASIF MIR Dr. Asif Mir is Assistant Professor in departement of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology. In recent years, he is his focusing on the effort of gene identification has been mainly performed using large autosomal dominant or recessive pedigrees for genome-wide linkage analysis and subsequent gene identification. The identification of disease causing, predisposing and modifying genetic factors responsible for inherited disorder will find its application in new molecular genetic tests, genetic counseling services, development of new genetic therapies for disease through understanding the underlying pathogenetic mechanisms. The aim of our research is to analyse the molecular pathogenesis of autosomal recessive inherited disorders in our population by combining interdisciplinary research fields such as clinical science and family ascertainment, molecular genetics, bioinformatics and molecular biology.
Mehrosh has been a faculty member in the Department of Bioinformatics & Biotechnology since 2007. With my more than 2 years of progressively responsible experience, she offers a distinguished career earmarked by accomplishments in leading and directing information-technology operations across broad disciplines, including software development, software quality assurance, and project management and bear two international publications. Her research interests lay in the field of computer software engineering and database technologies in conjunction with the bioinformatics software development. PUBLICATIONS:
MS. ATIYA MAHMOOD AHMED: Atiya Mahmood Ahmed is working as Research / Teaching associate in Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology since December 2009. Her area of research includes computational identification and characterization of unknown proteins and finding their structural and functional determinants. Current research is on computational prediction of micro RNA targets in different viruses. Her MS Bioinformatics is in progress in IIUI with 1st position in course work MS. SAMINA BILAL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR BS (Bioinformatics) International Islamic University, Islamabad MS (In Progress) Muhammad Ali Jinnah University MS. ROBINA KHAN NIAZI LAB MANAGER M. Sc Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad
INTERIM FACULTY Dr. Sumaira Farrakh Dr. Sumaira Farrakh joined the department on 23th August 2010. She did her Ph.d from Quaid-e-Azam university in 2009 in cell biology and cytogenetic. She worked as Visiting Scientist for one and half year in Molecular biology Department of Wageningen university and Research center , The Netherlands. She worked for four years as Research fellow in National Agricultural Research Center Islamabad. Her areas of interest are recombinant DNA (cloning, PCR, restriction mapping, GATEWAY technology); PUBLICATIONS:
Dr. Bushra Uzair Zafar PUBLICATIONS
ADJUNCT FACULTY Dr. Abdul M. Awan Senior Scientific Officer, Institute of Biomedical & Genetic Engineering, KRL, Islamabad, Pakistan Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar Professor / FFHP, Department of Biochemistry, ARID Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Dr. Naeem Zafar Azeemi Director, Center for Advance Studies in telecommunication CAST, COMSATS Institute for Information Technology, Chak shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan Dr. Shahid Chohan Professor Biosciences, CMSATS institute of Science and Technology, Park Road, Chak Shehzad Islamabd Email: [email protected], Contact No. 03335685861 Dr. Muhammad Ashraf Professor, NUST, Center of Virology & Immunology, Islamabad, Pakistan Dr. Shaukat Iqbal Malik Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. Umar Hasan Khan Niazi Assistant Professor, NUST, Center of Virology & Immunology, Islamabad, Pakistan Dr. Jamil Ahmed Assistant Professor, Research center for Modelling and Simulation (RCMS), NUST H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan |
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