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Syed Habib Bokhari, PhD Commonwealth Scholar & Fellow (LSHTM, UK)

Fulbright Fellow (Perelman School of Medicine, UPENN, USA)

Professor and Chair, Department of Biosciences

COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Office: +92-51-250-1223; FAX: +92-51-444-2805

Mobile: +92-300-512-7684

E-mail: habib@comsats.edu.pk; habibbokhari58@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

1999-2002 Ph.D. Microbiology & Immunology. University of Glasgow, UK

1995-1997 M. Phil. Biotechnology. Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Pakistan

1993-1995 M.Sc. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, QAU, Pakistan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2018 to Present Professor & Chairman

Department of Biosciences

CUI, Islamabad

2017 to Present Professor

(Microbiology & Public Health Research Group)

2017 to 2017 Fulbright Fellow

Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine,

UPENN, USA

2015 to Present Professor

(Microbiology & Public Health Research Group)

June 2012 to June 2015 Professor & Chairman

Department of Biosciences

CIIT, Islamabad

2013-2013 Commonwealth Fellow

Department of Microbial Pathogenesis/Welcome Trust, Sanger

Center, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

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2011 to 2013 Head & Chairman,

Department of Biosciences

CIIT, Islamabad

2010 to 2013 Associate Professor

Department of Biosciences

CIIT, Islamabad

2008-2008 Head,

Department of Biosciences

CIIT, Islamabad

2003-2010 Assistant Professor (Pionerring

Department of Biosciences

CIIT, Islamabad

2009-2010 Post Doc

Department of Microbial Pathogenesis

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

2007-present: Affiliate Faculty

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

College of Science, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia

2005-2006: Visiting Scientist

Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030

2001- 2002: Demonstrator (Microbiology and Molecular Biology)

Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences

Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow

1996-2003: Lecturer

Post Graduate Botany Department

Govt. S. E. College, Bahawalpur

1995-1997: Junior Research Assistant (M. Phil)

Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad/National Institute of

Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad

Total Post PhD Research & Teaching Experience: ~17 years

Total Pre PhD Research & Teaching Experience: 7 years

Total Research & Teaching Experience at Undergraduate & Post graduate level: 24 years

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

The main focus of the Microbiology & Public Health Laboratory (PHL) is to use high-

throughput sequencing and other functional genomic technologies to understand the biology and

genomic diversity of gut and respiratory bacterial pathogens with significant impact on human

and animal health. With better understanding of ecological and environmental niche, developing

rapid assays (including nanodiagnsotics) for surveillance/source tracking of pathogens as well as

control strategies such as vaccines is another research interest. My lab uses primarily genetic and

molecular techniques to characterize environmental isolates (Biotechnology Applications),

pathogens, study their biofilm formation and drug resistance capabilities as well as their control

using safe nanomaterials. More recent funding allows an opportunity to determine the

association of typical microbiota and its impact on host immune cascades to influence diseases

such as Colorectal Cancer and Stunted Growth. Specifically, I am interested in:

1. Epidemiological investigation and molecular pathogenesis of commonly occurring pathogens

such as B. pertussis/parapertussis, V. cholerae, E. coli, C. jejuni, Salmonella spp, Shigella

spp, K. pneumoniae, P. aeroginosa, A. baumanii, S. auresu, M. tuberculosis

2. Study of the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in community and hospital acquired

infections & Controlling Superbugs(Using Phage, Probiotics and Nanomaterials)

3. Vaccine development (Glycoengineering)

4. Microbiome in assocation with Disease & Health

5. Developing Biosensors based on bioreporters such as fluorescent molecules HriGFP &

HriCFP

6. Extremophiles & Their Biotechnology Applications: Bioremediation to Industrial

Applications

Research Highlights

My work in field of infectious diseases such as whooping cough and Diarrhea are of significant

importance and will serve the basis of their control in future in Pakistan. My research on

whooping cough was covered by media/science division “Whooping Cough Resurgence in Sindh

Province" published in SciDev.Net: http://www.scidev.net/en/health/infectious-

diseases/news/whooping-cough-found-in-vaccinated-children-in-pakistan). First Pakistani to

initiate the extensive sequencing projects most notably of Diarrheal pathogens. Identified novel

fluorescent proteins HriCFP & HriGFP and these proteins have vast potential applications for

researchers, being the shortest molecular fluorescent proteins. I am currently developing rapid

diagnostic tests and Biosensors for detecting pathogens and environmental pollutants such as

pesticides and heavy metals. In addition, developing control strategies such as using natural

pathogen predators i.e. probiotics, bacteriophages as well as vaccines are other research areas of

interest. I am editor of various scientific journals and member of various national and

international societies/forums. I have delivered invited talks at various national and international

forums and also chaired sessions at various national and international forums such as

“Informatics & Basic Science” at Microbial Forensics conference, Zagreb. My students won best

poster awards on many occasions such as UNESCO’s World Science Day; 6th Annual Public

Health Scientific Conference-Health Academy, Islamabad.

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AWARDS & HONORS/ACHIEVEMENTS

1. USEP-Fulbright-Fellowship Award: @ UPENN-2017-2017 (PENN-MED)

2. Shortlisted as Candidate for the Position of VC, University of Punjab, 2016

3. Recipient of Commonwealth Fellowship. 2013

4. Recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship for Ph.D. 1999-2002

5. COMSATS Science Ambassador (Microbiology), COMSATS Science Diplomacy Program

6. British Council: Strategic Partnership Extension: Knowledge Exchange Award 2012

7. British Council: Pak-UK linkage/INSPIRE Award, 2009-2012

8. PCST Productive Scientist 2008, 2012-2017

9. CIIT Productive Scientist 2008-2016

10. Nominated for the Best Teacher Award From CIIT in 2011

11. Higher Education Commission NRPU Grant 2008-2011

12. Higher Education Commission NRPU Grant 2008-2010

13. Pakistan Science Foundation Grant, 2008-2010

14. Higher Education Commission PORC Grant, 2005

15. As Pioneering faculty-Strengthened Department preparing PC-1 documents (2003-2006)

16. Obtained 3 foreign fundings as well as 4 National fundings to improve the Lab facilities

17. As Pioneering faculty-Designed curriculum for Bioinformatics and Biosciences

undergraduate degree program (CIIT) and started this program at COMSATS in 2003

18. Selected for Fulbright Scholarship for Ph.D 1998-1999 (did not pursue)

19. Roll of Honor for standing first in B.Sc. in Botany, Zoology, Chemistry group

20. President Talent Scholarships at B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels

21. Infaq Foundation Scholarship (HEC) at M. Phil. Level

22. French Scholarship for Ph.D. 1998-99 (did not pursue)

23. Selected for cultural scholarship for Ph.D. 1998-1999 (did not pursue)

24. Contributed Significantly in Developing first Natioal Bioinformatcs Policy Document for HEC in

2004

25. Examiner/Subject Specialist (Biology)-Federal Public Service Commission

26. Affiliate Faculty Bioinformatics and Computational Biology College of Science, George Mason

University, Manassas, Virginia

27. I have played a pivotal role for the past 16 years in strengthening the Department in different

roles; as Incharge, HOD, Chairman and faculty.

MEMBERSHIPS IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

1. Member, Zoological Society of Pakistan

2. Member, HEC curriculum committee for Bioinformatics

3. Member National Computing Education Accreditation Council, Higher Education

Commission

4. Expert Member, HEC Project Reviewer’s committee

5. Expert Member, PSF Project Reviewer’s committee

6. Member, Society for General Microbiology, UK

7. Member, General Council, University of Glasgow

8. Member, American Nano Society

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9. Member, Board of Studies, Department of Microbiology, QAU, Islamabad

10. Member, Board of Studies, Department of Biochemistry, QAU, Islamabad

11. Editor, "Journal of Integrative Computational Biosciences

12. Editor, journal "Advances in Infectious Diseases"

13. Editor, "Journal of Integrative Computational Biosciences"

14. Editor, journal "Remote Sesnsing”

15. Editor Current Proteomics

16. Public Health Frontier (PHF)

17. Member International Microbial Forensic Consortium

18. Member Evaluation Team of Science Projects (INTEL) for school/college students

ADMINISTRATIVE PROFILE

1. AS CHAIRPERSON (2012-2015)

Developing New Programs Advising HR for Recruiting suitable

Faculty

Developing New Courses for existing

Programs

Chairing Board of Studies Meetings

Member f Board Faculty & Academic

Council

Reviewing/Evaluation of Faculty

Performance at the end of each term

Taking steps to enhance Faculty

Research output

Looking after two campuses where

Departments are functional with more

than 100 PhD faculty for all above

mentioned activities

Preparing documents for accreditation

of programs & Quality Assurance

Coordination with University

administration and Dean’s office

2. AS Head of Department of Biosciences, Islamabad (2008-2008; 2011-2013)

Looking after Day to Day affairs of

students (Undergraduate >600 &

Graduate > 150)

Admission Campaign & Selection

Faculty Evaluations and Assessments Managing Timetable and Resources

TEACHING PROFILE

Introduced Problem based learning strategies while teaching various Molecular and

Microbiology Courses. In addition taught various courses such as

1. Graduate Courses Taught

Microbial Forensics Advances in Microbiology

Research Techniques Advanced Topics in Microbiology

Fundamentals of Genomics &

Proteomics

Medical Microbiology

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Microbial Pathogenesis

2. Undergraduate Courses Taught

Cell Biology Fundamentals of Bioinformatics

Introduction to Genomics Microbiology & Immunology

RESEARCH PROFILE

1. Research Publications

a. International publication >100

b Impact Factor ~250

2. Research Supervision 2006 till to date

a. Supervised Ph.D. 5

M.Phil./ MS 40

M.Sc. or equivalent 50

3 Research

Funded Projects

Completed

Ongoing

International

National

National

International

1-British Council

3 National (2 HEC, 1 PSF)

1 National-HEC (>5 M. Rs.)

1-British Council

1 EU H2020 (CRC/GC Associated

Microbiota)

1 uBiome (Stunted

Growth/Malnourishment Associated

Microbiota)

TUBITAK (Pakistan-Turkey): >15 M.

Rs.

4 Ongoing

Research

Activity

----------- Molecular Pathogenesis; Microbial

Genomics and Gene Regulation,

Molecular Diagnostics,, MDR

pathogens. Bacteriophages, Members of

ESKAPE group, Microbiota associated

with Colorectal Cancer, Preterm birth

and Surveillance and Monitoring toxic

environmental pollutants.

Nanodiagnostics and Glycoconjugate

vaccines

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H Index: 20

I-10 Index: 39

Citations (Google Scholar): >1150

Publications: (Total Impact Factor: >250)

Biotechnology

1. Tahira Syed,Uzma Batool,Muhammad Aslam, Zobia Noreen, Ifra Farheen, Asif Gondal, Syed

Muhammad Usman Shah, Sandra Pucciarelli & Habib Bokhari. Bioremediation and

decontamination potential of flagellate Poteriospumella sp. Bioremediation Journal. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.1080/10889868.2019.1639611

2. Rafique S,Idrees M, Bokhari H, Bhatti AS. Ellipsometric-based novel DNA biosensor for label-

free, real time detection of Bordetella parapertussis. Journal of Biological Physics. 2019,

45(3):275-291. doi: 10.1007/s10867-019-09528-2

3. Zobia Noreen, N. R. Khalid, Rashda Abbassi, Sundus Javed, Imran Ahmad, Habib Bokhari,

Visible light sensitive Ag/TiO2/Graphene Composite as a potential coating material for control of

Campylobacter jejuni. Materials Science & Engineering C. doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2018.12.087.

98 (125-133). 2019

4. S Zeb, A Ali, SM Gulfam, H Bokhari. Preliminary Work Towards Finding Proteins as Potential

Vaccine Candidates for Vibrio cholerae Pakistani Isolates through Reverse Vaccinology.

Medicina 55 (5), 195. 2019

5. T Niaz, S Shabbir, T Noor, A Rahman, H Bokhari, M Imran Potential of polymer

stabilized nano-liposomes to enhance antimicrobial activity of nisin Z against foodborne

pathogens. LWT 2018. 96, 98-110 6. Bhandare S,Colom J, Baig A, Ritchie JM, Bukhari H, Shah MA, Sarkar BL, Su J, Wren B, Barrow

P, Atterbury RJ. Reviving phage therapy for the treatment of Cholera. The Journal of Infectious

Diseases. 15;219(5):786-794 doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiy563. 2018

7. Zobia Noreen, Imran Ahmad, Fairha Siddiqui, AB Ziya, Tahir Abbas, Habib Bokhari.

Size dependent structural, anti-bacterial and anti-biofilm properties of Er doped Li-Ni

ferrites synthesized by the sol-gel auto-combustion route. Ceramics International.

Ceramics International. . 2017. 43 (14), 10784-10790 8. Ayesha Talib, Zanib Khan, Habib Bokhari, Syed Hidayathula, Ghulam Jilani, Abid Ali Khan.

Respiring cellular nano-magnets. Materials Science & Engineering C. 2017. 80 (526-531).

9. Farah Masood, Tariq Yaseen, Habib Bukhari, Muhammad Mujahid. Characterization

and application of roxithromycin loaded cyclodextrin based nanoparticles for treatment

of multidrug resistant bacteria. Materials Science and Engineering C. 2016. 61. 1-7.

doi:10.1016/j.msec.2015.11.076 10. Umair Manzoor, Sumera Siddique, Rafay Ahmed, Zobia Noreen, Habib Bokhari, Iftikhar Ahmad.

Antibacterial, Structural and Optical Characterization of Mechano-Chemically Prepared ZnO

Nanoparticles. PLOS ONE. 2016: 11(5):e0154704

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154704

11. Muhammad Ali Syed, Arshad Saleem Bhatti, Chen-zhong Li, Habib Ali Bokhari. SPR

immunosensorfor the detection of Staphylococcus aureus. Proceedings of 2016 International 13th

Bhurban conference on Applied sciences & Technology, IEEE. 2016. DOI:

10.1109/IBCAST.2016.7429861

12. Bushra Jamil, Rashda Abbasi, Shahid Abbasi, Muhammad Imran, Siffat U. Khan, Ayesha

Ihsan, Sundus Javed, Habib Bokhari, and Muhammad Imran. Encapsulation of cardamom

essential oil in chitosan nano-composites: In-vitro efficacy on antibiotic resistant bacterial

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pathogens and cytotoxicity studies. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2016; 7: 1580.

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.01580

13. Bushra Jamil, Shahid Ahmed Abbasi, Habib Nisar, A Rahman, Asma, Habib Bokhari, M. Imran.

Cefazolin loaded chitosan nanoparticles to cure multi drug resistant pathogens Carbohydrate

Polymers 2016. 136: 682-691.

14. Bushra Jamil. Habib Bokhari, Muhammad Imran. Mechanism of action: How Nano-

antimicrobials act?. Current Drug Targets. 2016. 18(3); 363-373.

DOI: 10.2174/1389450116666151019101826

15. Tariq A, Hameed A, Bukhari H, Masood F. Is atomic rearrangement of type IV PHA

synthases responsible for increased PHA production?. Journal of Biomolecular

Structure & Dynamics.2015;33(6):1225-38. 16. Shahr Bano Mirza, Habib Bokhari and Muhammad Qaiser Fatmi. Exploring Natural Products

from the Biodiversity of Pakistan for Computational Drug Discovery Studies: Collection,

Optimization, Design and Development of A Chemical Database (ChemDP). Current Computer-

Aided Drug Design. 2015. 11(2):102-9.

17. M. Idrees, K. Thangavelu, M. Sikaroodi, C. Smith, J. Sivaraman, P. M. Gillevet, H.

Bokhari. Novel fluorescent protein from Hydnophora rigida possesses green emission.

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2014. 448(1); 33-38. 18. Saira Mumtaz, Rashad Hussain, Abdul Rauf*, H. Bokhari, M. Qaiser Fatmi, Michael

Oelgemöller and A. M. Qureshi. Synthesis, Molecular docking studies, and in vitro screening of

barbiturates/thiobarbiturates as antibacterial and cholinesterase inhibitors. Medicinal

Chemistry Research 2014. 23: 2715-2726.

19. H. Bokhari*, C. Smith, K. Veerendra, J. Sivaraman, M. Sikaroodi, P. Gillevet. Novel

Fluorescent Proteins From Hydnophora rigida Possess Cyano emission. Biochemical

and Biophysical Research Communications. 2010. 396(3):631-636

20. Syed MA and Bokhari SH. Gold nanoparticle based microbial detection and

identification. J. Biomed. Nanotechnol. 2011. 7;(2) 229-237.

21. Muhammad Idrees, Syed Ali-Musstjab-Akber-Shah Eqania and Habib Bokhari. Sol-Gel

immobilization of methyl parathion degrading bacteria isolated from agricultural areas

of Pakistan. Chemistry & Ecology, 2013. 29(8): 733-744 22. Ashfaq Mahmood, Muhammad Ismail, Muhammad Athar, Rashid Khushal, Mehmood Qadir, Riaz

Ahmed, Muhammad Idrees, Muhammad Rauf, Habib Bokhari*. Antimicrobial efficacy of metal-

barbiturate conjugates against pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.

Letters in Drug Design & Discovery; 2011. 8 (10), 980-987

23. Muhammad Ali Syed, Umair Manzoor, Ismat Shah and Habib Ali Bukhari*.Antibacterial

effects of Tungsten nanoparticles on the Escherichia coli strains isolated from

catheterized urinary tract infection (UTI) cases and Staphylococcus aureus. New

Microbiologica. 2010. 33(4):329-35.

24. Muhammad Ali Syed, Shaista Babar, A. S. Bhatti, & Habib A. Bokhari*. Antibacterial

effects of silver nanoparticles on the bacterial strains isolated from catheterized urinary

tract infection cases. Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology. 2009. 5: 209-214. 25. S. Habib Bokhari* & P. Blackburn. Purification and protective efficacy of re-natured C-terminal

domain (P.30) of pertactin autotransporter protein of B. pertussis. Pak. J. Bot. 2008. 40(2):825-

832.

26. S. Habib Bokhari* & P. Blackburn. Pertactin processing and secretion in protease(s) deficient

strains of Escherichia coli suggestive of the possible role of proteases in folding of

autotransporter proteins. Pak. J. Bot. 2008. 40(2):815-824.

Infectious Diseases

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27. Zobia Noreen, Fariha Masood Siddiqui, Ghunva Zaman, Nighat Noureen, Annam Hussain,

Muhammad Ibrahim, Habib Bokhari. Comparative Genomic Analysis of Campylobacter jejuni

cj255 Reveals Diverse Genetics, Pathogenicity, Determinants and Variation in T6SS. Pakistan

Veterinary Journal. 39 (2), 145-150. 2019

28. Zeb S ,Shah MA, Yasir M, Awan HM, Prommeenate P, Klanchui A, Wren BW, Thomson N,

Bokhari H. Type III secretion system confers enhanced virulence in clinical non-O1/non-O139

Vibrio cholerae. Microbial Pathogenesis. 2019, 135:103645. doi:

10.1016/j.micpath.2019.103645.

29. Asma Sadiq, Nazish Bostan, Habib Bokhari, Jelle Matthijnssens, Kwe Claude Yinda, Saqlain

Raza, Tayyab Nawaz. Molecular characterization of Human group A Rotavirus genotypes

circulating in Pakistan during 2015-2016. Plos One. 2019. 14(7):e0220387. doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0220387. eCollection

30. Javed K, Gul F, Abbasi R, Zaidi RA, Noreen Z, Bokhari H, Javed S Prevalence and role of type

VI secretion system in pathogenesis of emerging zoonotic pathogen Helicobacter pullorum from

retail poultry. Avian Pathology. 2019.1-7. doi: 10.1080/03079457.2019.1643450

31. Noreen Z, Siddiqui F, Javed S, Wren BW, Bokhari H Transmission of multidrug resistant

Campylobacter jejuni to children from different sources in Pakistan. Accepted. Journal of

Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 2019. S2213-7165(19)30184-5. doi:

10.1016/j.jgar.2019.07.018

32. Kanwal S, Noreen Z, Aalam V, Akhtar J, Masood F, Javed S, Bokhari H Variation in antibiotic

susceptibility and presence of type VI secretion system in Campylobacter jejuni isolates from

various sources. Comparative Immunology, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases: Accepted.

2019. 25;66:101345. doi: 10.1016/j.cimid.2019.101345

33. Sidra Saleem & Habib Bokhari. Resistance profile of genetically distinct clinical Pseudomonas

aeruginosa isolates from public hospitals in central Pakistan

Journal of Infection and Public Health: Accepted. 2019

34. Noreen, Zobia; Chacko, Jobichen; Abbasi, Rashda; Seetharaman, Jayaraman;

Sivaraman, Jayaraman; Bokhari Habib. Structural basis for the pathogenesis of

Campylobacter jejuni Hcp1, a structural and effector protein of the type six secretion

system: The FEBS Journal. 285(21):4060-4070, 2018

35. Muhammad Ibrahim, Asma Muhammad Yar, Ghunva Zaman, Changhui Yan, Muhammad

Khurshid, Habib Bokhari. Genome sequence and analysis of Mycobacterium

tuberculosis strain swlpk Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 2018.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2018.04.014.

36. Aqsa Humayun,Sidra Saleem, Fariha Siddiqui, N. Akrami, Tariq Iqbal, Ashok Tanwani,

and Rubina Kamran, Habib Bokhari. Incidence of Metallo Beta-Lactamase producing

Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates from Hospital Setting in Pakistan. International

Microbiology. 2018. //doi.org/10.1007/s10123-018-0006-1

37. Habib Bokhari. Exploitation of microbial forensics and nanotechnology for the

monitoring of emerging pathogens. Critical Reviews in Microbiology. 2018. DOI

10.1080/1040841X.2018.1444013- 38. Bushra Jamil, Mohammad Tauseef Mukhtar Bokhari, Azhar Saeed, Mohammad Zahid

Mukhtar Bokhari, Zakir Hussain, Ammar Ahmed, Habib Bokhari, Muhammad Imran,

Shahid Ahmad Abbasi. Multidrug resistance in Gram-negative pathogens isolated from

patients with chronic kidney diseases and renal transplant. Journal of the Pakistan

Medical Association. 2018., 68(4):642-645

39. Asma Muhammad Yar, Ghanva Zaman, Annam Hussain, Yan Changhui, Azhar Rasul,

Abrar Hussain, Zhu Bo, Habib Bokhari and Muhammad Ibrahim. Comparative Genome

Analysis of 2 Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Strains from Pakistan: Insights Globally Into

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Drug Resistance, Virulence, and Niche Adaptation. Evolutionary Bioinformatics-2018

14: 1–9

40. Habib Bokhari, Amjad Ali, Zobia Noreen, Nicholas Thomson, Brendan W. Wren.

Galleria mellonella is low cost and suitable surrogate host for studying virulence of

human pathogenic Vibrio cholerae. Gene. 2017. DOI:10.1016/j.gene.2017.07.019)

41. Bostan Nazish; Javed, Sundus; Amen, Nabgha; Eqani, SAMAS; Tahir, Faheem; Bokhari,

Habib. Dengue Fever Virus in Pakistan: Effects of seasonal Pattern and Temperature

change on Distribution of Vector and Virus. Reviews in Med. Virology. 2017, 27(1). doi:

10.1002/rmv.1899.

42. Sundus Javed, Farzana Gul, Kashaf Javed, Habib Bokhari. Helicobacter pullorum: an

emerging zoonotic pathogen. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2017. 8: 604;

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00604

43. Farha Masood, Muhammad Shafi, Habib Bokhari, A. Hameed. Characterization and

evaluation of antibacterial potential of guava extract loaded poly-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-

3-hydroxyvalerate nanoparticles against multidrug resistant bacteria. (Accepted). Micro

& Nano Letters. 2017

44. Mahwish Younas, Fariha Siddiqui, Zobia Noreen, Syeda Sadia Bokhari, Oscar G.

Gomez-Duarte, Brendan W. Wren, Habib Bokhari. Characterization of enteropathogenic

Escherichia coli of clinical origin from pediatric population in Pakistan. Trans. Royal

Soc of Trop. Med. Hyg. 2016. 110(7):414-20. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/trw047.

45. Uzma Khalil, Mahwish Younus, Naeem Asghar, Fariha Siddiqui, Oscar Gomez-Duarte,

Brendan Wren, Habib Bokhari. Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Isolates from Pediatric Population in Pakistan.

APMIS. 124(10):872-80. 2016. doi: 10.1111/apm.12577..

46. Fiza Rana, Ayesha khan, Sidra Sidiqui, Habib Bokhari. Resistance patterns of diversified

phylogroups of Escherichia coli associated with mothers having history of preterm births

in Pakistan. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine. 2016. 30 (1), 68-73.

DOI:10.3109/14767058.2016.1163538 47. Bushra Jamil, Mohammad Tauseef Mukhtar Bokhari, Azhar Saeed, Mohammad Zahid Mukhtar

Bokhari, Zakir Hussain, Tayyaba Khalid, Habib Bokhari, Mohammad Imran, Shahid Ahmad

Abbasi. Candidiasis: Prevalence and Resistance Profiling in a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan.

JPMA 2017. ;67(5):688-697. JPMA/ACCEPT/218/2016

48. Bushra Jamil, Mohammad Tauseef, Mukhtar Bukhari, Azhar Saeed, Zahid Bukhari, Zakir

Hussain, Tayyaba Khalid, Habib Bokhari, Muhammad Imran and Shahid Ahmad Abbasi.

Bacteremia: Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance profiling in chronic kidney diseases and

renal transplant patients. JPMA. 2016. 66(6):705-9.

49. Madiha Shabbir, Maha Aleem, Sundus javed, David Wagner, SAMAS Eqani, Paul Keim,

H. Bokhari. Spatial analysis and identification of high risk plague regions in Pakistan

based on rodent vector distribution and climate change. J. Infect. Dis. Develop.

Countries 2016 2;10(7):687-93. 50. Muhammad Ali Syed, Bushra Jamil and Habib Bokhari. 2016. “Shattering a Myth: Whooping

Cough susceptible to antibiotics” Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceuticals, 29:.3, 223-228.

51. Noreen Zobia, Abrar Mohammad, Siddiqui Fariha, Rani Faryal, Haroon Hamid,

Bokhari Habib. Antibiotic Susceptibility and Molecular Characterization of

Campylobacter jejuni Strain Isolated from a Child with Guillain Barre Syndrome- First

Case Report from Pakistan. The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 2016. 83(7), 728.

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52. Fariha Massod Siddiqui, Muhammad Ibrahim, Nighat Noureen, Zobia Noreen, Richard

W. Titball, Olivia L. Champion, Brendan W. Wren, David Studholme, Habib Bokhari.

Draft Genome Sequence of the Enteropathogenic Bacterium Campylobacter jejuni Strain

cj255. Genome Announcement 2015. (Available online)

53. Fariha Siddiqui, S.A.M.A. S. Eqani, David J. Studholme , Olivia L. Champion, Brendan

W. Wren, Richard W. Titball Habib Bukhari, Molecular Detection Identified a Type Six

Secretion System in Campylobacter jejuni from Various Sources but not from Human

Cases. Journal of Applied Microbiology.2015; 118(5):1191-8.

54. Sundus Javed, Fahad Said, Habib Bokhari. Bordetella parapertussis outbreak in

Bisham, Pakistan in 2009-2010: Fall out of the 9/11 1 syndrome. Epidemiology &

Infection. 2015. 143(12):2619-23.

55. Fariha Masood Siddiqui, Muhammad Akram, Nighat Noureen, Zobia Noreen, Habib

Bokhari. Antibiotic Susceptibility profiling and virulence potential of Campylobacter

jejuni isolates from different sources in Pakistan. Asia Pacific Journal of Tropical

Medicine. 2015; 8(3):197-202.

56. James W. Harrison , Tran Thi Ngoc Dung , Fariha Siddiqui , Sunee Korbrisate , Habib

Bukhari, My Phan Vu Tra , Nguyen Van Minh Hoang , Juan Carrique-Mas, Juliet Bryant

, James I. Campbell , David J. Studholme , Brendan W. Wren, Stephen Baker, Richard W.

Titball, Olivia L. Champion. Identification of Possible Virulence Marker from

Campylobacter jejuni Isolates. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014, 20(6):1026-9.

57. Syed M Shah, Ankur Mutreja, Nick Thomson, Stephen Baker, Julian Parkhill, Gordon

Dougan, Habib Bokhari and Brendan W. Wren\*. Genomic Epidemiology of Vibrio

cholerae O1 associated with Floods, Pakistan, 2010. Emerging Infectious Diseases,

2014, 20 (1): 13-20. 58. Saba Asad, Ayesha siddiqa, Qurrat-ul-Ain, Habib Bokhari. Detection of Molecular Markers by

Comparative Sequence Analysis of Enzymes From Mycobacteria Species. Pakistan Journal of

Botany. 2014. 46(3): 1065-1070.

59. Bokhari H, Shah MA, Asad S, Sania A, Akram M and Wren BW.. Escherichia coli

pathotypes in Pakistan from consecutive floods in 2010 and 2011. Am J Trop Med Hyg,

2013, 88(3):519-525.

60. Syed M. A. Waqas A, Aisha N and Bokhari H.. Seroprevalence of Bordetella pertussis

antibodies to Pertussis toxin among healthy children from two cities of Pakistan. J. col.

Phy. Surg. 2012, 22 (10): 677-678.

61. A. Mughal, Y. F. Kazi, H. A. Bukhari, M. Ali. Pertussis resurgence among vaccinated

children in Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan. Public Health, 2012 , 126 (6):518-22

62. Bokhari Habib, Bilal Iram, Sadia Zafar.. BapC autotransporter protein of Bordetella

pertussis is an adhesion factor. Journal of basic Microbiology, 2012, 52(4), 390-396.

63. H. Bokhari, F. Said, M.A. Syed, A. Hussain, Y. F. Kazi, Teemu Kallonen, Qiushui He,

Audrey J. King K. Heuvelman and F. R. Mooi . Molecular typing of Bordetella

parapertussis isolates circulating in Pakistan. FEMS Immunology & Medical

Microbiology, 2011, 63: 373-380.

64. H. Bokhari,F. Said, M.A. Syed, A. Hussain, Y. F. Kazi, K. Heuvelman and F. R. Mooi..

Whooping cough in Pakistan: Bordetella pertussis vs Bordetella parapertussis in 2005-

2009. Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases, 2011, 43: 818-820.

65. Mojtaba Noofeli, Habib Bokhari, Paul Blackburn, Mark Roberts, John Coote & Roger

Parton. BapC autotransporter protein is a virulence determinant of Bordetella pertussis.

Microbial Pathogenesis: 2011, 51(3):169-77.

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66. Idrees, M., Mussarat, U., Badshah, Y., Qadir, M and Bokhari, H*. Prevalence of

antimicrobial resistance and integrons in uropathogenic Escherichia coli, from Punjab,

Pakistan : Brazilian Journal of Microbiology 2011, 42: 462-466.

67. Idrees, M., Mussarat, U., M., Badshah, Y., Qamar, R. and Bokhari, H*. Virulence factors

profile of drug resistant Escherichia coli isolated from urinary tract infections, in

Punjab, Pakistan. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.

2010. 29(12):1533-7.

68. Muhammad Ali Syed, Syed Habib Ali Bukhari*. Adult and adolescent pertussis should

not be underestimated!. Pak J Med Sci. 2010. 26(1); 44-45.

69. Atefeh Taherian Fard, Amna Salman, Bahram Kazemi and Habib Bokhari*. In silico

comparative genome analysis of malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum and

Plasmodium vivax chromosome 4. Parasitology Research. 2009. 104 (6): 1361-1364.

70. Muhammad Idrees, Muhammad Ali Shah, Raheel Qamar and Habib Bokhari*.

Antimicrobial Resistant Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Food Animals in Pakistan.

Pakistan Journal of Zoology. 2011. 43(2), 303-310.

Environmental Sciences

71. Sohail M, Eqani SAMAS, Podgorski J, Bhowmik AK, Mahmood A, Ali N,Sabo-Attwood T,

Bokhari H, Shen H Persistent Organic Pollutant emission via dust deposition throughout

Pakistan: Spatial patterns, regional cycling and their implication for human health risks. Science

of the Total Environment. 2018 15;618:829-837. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.224.

72. Ambreen Alamdar, Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani,Nida Hanif, Syeda Maria Ali,

Mauro Fasola, Habib Bokhari, Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis, Heqing Shen. Human exposure

to trace metals and arsenic via consumption of fish from river Chenab, Pakistan and

associated health risks. Chemosphere. 2017 168; 1004–1012.

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.10.110.

73. Muhammad Aqeel Kamran,·Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani,·Sadia Bibi,·Ren-kou

Xu, Amna,·Muhammad Farooq Hussain Monis, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Habib

Bokhari, Hassan Javed Chaudhary. 2016. Bioaccumulation of nickel by E. sativa and

role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) under nickel stress.

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 126:256-263 74. Hanif N, SAMAS Eqani, SM Ali, IA Katsoyiannis, A Mahmood, ZI Tanveer, H Bokhari. Geo-

accumulation and enrichment of trace metals in sediments and their associated risks in the

Chenab river, Pakistan. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 2016. 165; 62–70.

75. Muhammad Rizwan Riaz, Abdul Rauf Siddiqi, Habib Bokhari. Structural and Functional Studies

of BapC Protein of Bordetella pertussis. Microbiological Research; 2015; 174:56-61.

76. M Abdullah, A Muhammad, SA Malik, N Boston, H Bokhari, MN Shafaqat, A Alamdar,

M Fasola, SAMAS Eqani. Avian feathers as a non-destructive bio-monitoring tool of

Toxic Metals Signatures: A case study from severally contaminated areas of Pakistan.

Chemoshpere. 2015. 119:553-61 77. Bhowmik AK, Alamdar A, Katsoyiannis I ,Shen H,Ali N, Ali SM, Bokhari H, Schäfer RB, Eqani

SA, Mapping human health risks from exposure to trace metal contamination of drinking water

sources in Pakistan Journal: Science of the Total Environment. 2015;538:306-316.

78. Mudassar Khan, Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Salman

Akbar Malik, Alamdar Hussain, Azhar Rashid, Karam Ahad, Mauro Fasola, Habib

Bokhari, Ashiq Mohammad. Cattle egret as a Biosentinels of Persistent Organic

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Pollutants (POPs) exposures from different areas of Pakistan. DOI: 10.1007/s10653-

013-9556-; Environ. Geochem & Health. 2014. 36(3): 375-84 79. Jabir Hussain Syed & Ambreen Alamdar & Ashiq Mohammad & Karam Ahad & Zunera Shabir

& Haroon Ahmed & Syeda Maria Ali & Syed Gul Abbas Shah Sani & Habib Bokhari & Kevin D.

Gallagher & Iftikhar Ahmad & Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani. Pesticide residues in fruits

and vegetables from Pakistan: a review of the occurrence and associated human health risks.

Environment Sciences and Pollution Research. 2014. 21(23):13367-93.

80. Syed Ali-Musstjab-Akber-Shah Eqani, Riffat Naseem Malik, Alessandra Cincinellic, Gan

Zhang, Xiangdong Lie, Ashiq Mohammadf, Abdul Qadirg, Azhar Rashidh, Habib

Bokhari, Kevin C. Jonesi, Athanasios Katsoyiannisj. Uptake of organochlorine pesticides

(OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by River water fish. The case of River

Chenab. STOTEN. 2013. 450-451: 83-91.

Genetics & Diseases 81. Idrees M, Siddiq AR, Ajmal M, Akram M, Khalid RR, Hussain A, Qamar R, Bokhari H.

Decreased Serum PON1 Arylesterase Activity in Familial Hypercholesterolemia Patients with

Mutated LDLR Gene" Genetics and Molecular Biology 2018. 41(3):570-577. doi:

10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2016-0287

82. Muhammad Imran Khan, Muhammad Ajmal, Shazia Micheal, Maleeha Azam, Alamdar Hussain,

Amjad Shehzad, Hanka Venselaar, Habib Bokhari, Ilse J.de Wijs, Lies H. Hoefsloot, Mukhtar

Gill, Nadia Khalida Waheed, Rob W.J. Collin, Anneke I.den Hollander, Raheel Qamar, Frans P.

M. Cremers.. Homozygosity mapping identifies genetic defects in four consanguineous families

with retinal dystrophy from Pakistan. Clinical Genetics. 2013. 84(3):290-3.

83. Muhammad Ajmal, Muhammad Imran Khan, Shazia Micheal, Waqas Ahmed, Ashfa Shah, Hanka

Venselaar, Habib Bokhari, Aisha Azam, Nadia Khalida Waheed, Rob W.J. Collin, Anneke I. den

Hollander, Raheel Qamar, Frans P. M. Cremers. Identification of recurrent and novel mutations

in TULP1 in Pakistani families with early onset retinitis pigmentosa. Molecular Vision 2012.

18:1226-1237

84. Maleeha Azam, Rob W.J.Collin,Ayesha Malik, Muhammad I. Khan, Syed Tahir A. Shah1 Aftab A.

Shah, Alamdar Hussain, Ahmed Sadeque, Kentar Arimadyo Muhammad Ajmal, Ayesha Azam

Nadeem Qureshi, Habib Bokhari, Tim M. Strom, Frans P. M. Cremers, Raheel Qamar, Anneke I.

den Hollander. Identification of novel mutations in Pakistani families with autosomal recessive

retinitis pigmentosa. Archives of Ophthalmology. 2011. 129(10):1377-8.

85. Muhammad Ajmal, Waqas Ahmed, Ahmed Sadeque, Syeda Hafiza Benish Ali, Syed Habib

Bokhari, Nuzhat Ahmed and Raheel Qamar. Identification of a recurrent insertion mutation in

the LDLR gene in a Pakistani family with autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia. Molecular

Biology Reports. 2010. 37(8); 3869-3875.

86. Maleeha Azam, Muhammad Imran Khan, Alamdar Hussain, Syed Tahir Abbas Shah, Muhammad

Shakil Khan, Ahmed Sadeque, Habib Bokhari, Rob W.J. Collin, Maria M. van Genderen, A.I. den

Hollander, Frans P. M. Cremers, Raheel Qamar. A homozygous p.Glu150Lys mutation in the

opsin gene of two Pakistani families with autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa: Molecular

Vision. 2009. 3;15:2526-34.

87. Shahid Mahmood Baig, Ayesha Azhar, Hammad Hassan, Jamshaid Mahmood Baig,

Ayesha Kiyani, Uzma Hameed, Fazli Rabbi, Habib Bokhari, Muhammad Aslam,

Mohammad Amin Ud Din, Shehla Anjum Baig, Khalid Hassan, Javed Anwar Qureshi

and Tariq Zaman. Spectrum of beta-thalassemia mutations in various regions of Punjab

and Islamabad, Pakistan: establishment of prenatal diagnosis. Haematologica/The

hematology journal. 2006. 91(1), 3-5.

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Other Publications (ISI-Indexed)

1. Nighat Noureen, Madiha Tariq, Amna Farooq, Ayesha Arif and Habib Bokhari. In silico

identification of receptor specific epitopes as potential vaccine candidates from Vibrio cholerae

strains. Gene Reports. 2016. 4(222–232). doi:10.1016/j.genrep.2016.07.002.

2. H. Bokhari, H. Bilal, M. Anwer & Patrick Gillevet. 2011. Evidences of lateral gene transfer

between Archaea and pathogenic bacterial genomes Bioinformation, 6(8): 293-296);

3. Asif Raza, Hira Shareef, Hira Salim, Rashid Khushal, Habib Bokhari& 2011. Selection of

predicted siRNA as potential antiviral therapeutic agent against influenza virus. Bioinformation,

6(9): 340-343

4. Sadia Zafar, Arshan Nasir, Habib Bokhari. 2011. Computational analysis reveals abundance of

potential glycoproteins in Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. Bioinformation, 6(9): 352-355

5. Syed Tabish, Abbas Raza, Arshan Nasir, Sadia Zafar and Habib Bokhari. 2011. Analysis of

glycosylation patterns and glycosyltransferases in Bacteria and Archaea Bioinformation, 6(5):

191-195

6. Amna Salman, Atefeh Taherian Fard Arshan Nasir & Habib Bokhari. 2010. Comparative

analysis of organophosphate degrading enzymes from diverse species. Bioinformation 5(2): 67-

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7. Nazish Bostan1, Nabgh-e-Amen and Habib Bokhari. Current and Future Prospects of Torque

Teno Virus. , J Vaccines 2013, S:1

8. M. A. Syed1*, A. S. Bhatti2, R. Guduru3, C. Z. Li3 and S. H. A. Bokhari. 2011. Use of SPR

biosensor for the study of proteolytic action of a serine protease enzyme. American Journal of

Biomedical Sciences, 3(4): 253-257

9. Amjad Ali Mughal, Yasmeen Faiz Kazi, Syed Habib Bukhari. 2011. Diagnosis of pertussis in

vaccinated children of Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan by Cough Plate Method. Journal of

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 1(2): 68-72

10. Taimoor Hashmi1, Shakil Khan1, Valeed1, Habib Bokhari*1 2010. In silico identification of

vaccine candidates against enteric pathogens by comparative genome sequence. (Asian Pacific

Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, 18(3): 327-331/0. ( IF= ~0.05)

11. Hasan Bilal Mirza, Maryam Anwar & Habib Bokhari. 2010. In silico identification of potential

horizontal gene transfer events between Archaea and pathogenic Bacteria. Journal of

Bioinformatics and Sequence Analysis (JBSA). 2(3), 36-41/1.

12. Muhammad Ali Syed, Fahad Said, S. Habib Ali Bukhari*. 2009. Seroepidemiology of Bordetella

pertussis infections in the twin cities of Pakistan.

North Am J Med Sci. 1(7): 353-355/2.

13. Shahid M. Baig, F. Rabbi, U. Hameed, J. A. Qureshi, Z. Mahmood, S.H. Bokhari, A. Kiani, H,

Hassan, J.M. Baig, A. Azhar, T. Zaman. 2005. Molecular characterization of mutations causing

β-thalassemia in Faisalabad Pakistan using the amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS-

PCR). Ind. J. Hum. Gen. 11(2), 80-83 (PubMed Indexed)/3.

14. Asma Sana , Mah-laka , Sidrah Hamidani , Habib Bokhari. Predictive Mathematical Modeling

and Statistical Analysis for Bacterial Inactivation Using Microwave Treatment. Pak J Public

Health Vol. 3, No. 4, 2013.

15. Siddiqa, A., Niazi, M., Mustafa, F., Bokhari, H., Hussain, A., Akram, N., Shaheen, S., Ahmed, F.

and Iqbal, S. 2009. A new hybrid agent-based modeling & simulation decision support system

for breast cancer data analysis. In: Proc Information and Communication Technologies, pp. 134-

139. ICICT '09 International Conference on Aug. 15-16. .

Papers & Posters Presented and Published at Refereed International Conferences:

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1. Yasir M, Syed Q, Naureen Fatmi Q, N, Nadeem M, Nasir A, Bokhari H. 2015. Type VI

secretion system and Dam methylation pattern in V. cholerae. Bioinformatics approaches

to adaptations, genome evolution and biological associations” Training Workshop,

Department of Computer Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 23-27 March, 2015 (Organized by -

EU-H20202 Funding and COST Action BM1102.

2. Zobia Noreen, Muhammad Ibrahim, Fariha Siddiqui, Nighat Noureen, Habib Bokhari.

2015. Prediction and Functional Analysis of the T6SS Novel Gene Components in

Campylobacter jejuni. Bioinformatics approaches to adaptations, genome evolution and

biological associations” Training Workshop, Department of Computer Sciences,

Cambridge, UK, 23-27 March, 2015 (Organized by -EU-H20202 Funding and COST

Action BM1102

3. Syed A.M.A.S. Eqani, Nadeem Ali, R.N. Malik, A. Katsoyiannis, G. Zhang, Habib

Bokhari, Nida Hanif , Mohammad Sohail, Ambreen Alamdar, Maria Ali, A.

Mohammad. Organochlorine residue in the riverine ecosystem of Pakistan: distribution

and risk assessment. Dioxin 2014. Organohalogen Compounds 76, 1082-1084.

4. Isolation, Identification And Drug Susceptibility Profile Of Candida Sp. From

Gastroduodenal Pathology Patients In Islamabad-Pakistan S. Sherwani1, M. Muhammad

Umar, F. Rasheed, S. Bokhari, S. U. Kazmi; Federal Urdu Univ. of Arts, Sci. and

Technology-Karachi Pakistan, Karachi, PAKISTAN, 2Holy Family Hosp., Rawalpindi

Med. Coll.-Rawalpindi-Pakistan, Karachi, PAKISTAN, 3Breath MAT Lab-NORI Hosp.-

Islamabad-Pakistan, Karachi, PAKISTAN, 4Dept. of BioSci.-COMSATS Inst. of

Information Technology-Islamabad-Pakistan, Karachi, PAKISTAN, 5Immunology and

Infectious Disease Res. Lab. (IIDRL)-Dept. of Microbiol.-Univ. of Karachi-Pakistan,

Karachi, PAKISTAN. 16-19th June, ASM 2012, San Francisco, California. A-014

5. Siddique F, Shah MA, Akram M, Wren BW, Bokhari H. 2012. Analysis of

Campylobacter jejuni from diverse sources in Pakistan. Department of Biosciences, CIIT,

Islamabad, Pakistan; Department of Pathogen., Molecular Biology, LSHTM, UK.

CampyUK 2012, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

6. Habib & Bokhari; Raheel Qamar, Muhammad Idrees, Yasmin Badshah & Uzma

Mussarat. 2007. The prevalence of integrons among Escherichia coli isolated from

different sources in Pakistan and associated drug resistance patterns. II International

onference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology; November–1

December, Seville, Spain

7. Habib & Bokhari; Umair Manzoor, Muhammad Ali, Asad Razzaq & Ismat Shah. 2007.

Antibacterial effect of Tungsten nanoparticles on the E. coli strains isolated from

catheterized urinary tract infection (UTI) cases and Staphylococcus aureus. II

International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology.

November–1 December, Seville, Spain

8. Bokhari, S. H., Blackburn, P., Coote, J., Roberts, M. and Parton, R. 2006. BapC, a newly

identified member of the Bordetella Pertussis autotransporter family & its pathogenic

potential. Proceedings of Fifth International Biennial Conference of Pakistan Society

for Microbiology, “Molecular Mechanism of Host-Pathogen Interactions”. Karachi,

Pakistan

9. Baig, S. M., Zaman, T., Hameed, A., Rabbi, F., Bukhari, S.H. et al. 2004. Molecular

characterization of mutations causing β-thalassemia in Pakistan using amplification

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refractory mutation system (ARMS) and allele specific oligonucleotide (ASO)

hybridization. HGVS Scientific and Annual General Meeting. Toronto, Canada.

10. Bokhari, S. H., Blackburn, P., Coote, J., Roberts, M. and Parton, R. 2003. The role of

Bordetella pertussis Bap-5 protein in serum resistance and colonization in vitro and in

vivo. First international and national symposium on Biotechnology. Jamshoro, Pakistan.

11. Bokhari, S. H., Blackburn, P., Coote, J., Roberts, M. and Parton, R. 2002. Bap-5, a

newly identified member of the Bordetella Pertussis autotransporter family. Poster 11.

American Society for Microbiology, Seventh International Symposium on Pertussis.

Hinxton, United Kingdom.

Press, Papers & Posters Presented and Published at National Conferences:

1. Aqsa Humayun, Zakirullah, Fizza Khalid, Neelam Akram, Ashok Tanawani, Rubina

Kamran, Tariq Iqbal, Habib Bokhari. Metallo Beta Lactamase in Hospital Setting:

Molecular Surveillance. 6th Annual Public Health Scientific Conference-Health

Academy, Islamabad (11-12 December, 2015). Best poster prize

2. Fariha Masood Siddiqui; Olivia Champion; Richard Titball; Zobia Noreen; Habib

Bokhari “Campylobacter jejuni Contamination in Poultry and its Risk of Association

with Type Six Secretion System (T6SS)”. November 12, 2014 (Best poster prize at

UNESCO’s World Science Day).

3.

Habib Bokhari, Paul Blackburn, Mark Roberts, John G. Coote and Roger Parton

Cloning, expression and purification of Bap-C antigen of Bordetella pertussis in E. coli

and in vitro bactericidal activity. 2010. 10th Biennial Conference of Pakistan Society for

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

4. Faheema Kalsoom, Saniya Hafeez, Saadia Muazzum, Muaz Niazi, Farah Mustafa and

Habib Bokhari. Retrospective Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Incidence in the

Islamabad/Rawalpindi Region between Years 2000-2008 and Bioinformatic Tool

Development to Assess Risk Factors 10th Biennial Conference of Pakistan Society for

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2010

5. H. Bokhari*, C. Smith, K. Veerendra, J. Sivaraman, M. Sikaroodi, P. Gillevet. Novel

Fluorescent Proteins From Hydnophora rigida Possess Cyano and Green Emissions. 10th

Biennial Conference of Pakistan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2010

6. Muhammad Ali Syed, Umair Manzoor and Habib Ali Bokhari Antibacterial effects of

silver nanoparticles on the bacterial strains isolated from catheterized urinary tract

infection cases 2009. At First National Conference of Microbiology organized by Shah

Abdul Latif University, Khairpur. Pakistan. (21/22.11.09:.First prize for the poster)

7. Muhammad Ali Syed, Umair Manzoor, Ismat Shah and Habib Ali Bokhari. 2009.

Development of SPR based immunosensor for the detection of Staphylococcus aureus’

First Conference of Microbiology at Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur, Sindh.

Pakistan.

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8. Muhammad Ali Syed, Umair Manzoor, Ismat Shah and Habib Ali Bokhari. 2008. Effect

of Silver and Tungston Nanoparticles on bacterial isolates from urinary tract infections

and, International thematic workshop on Nanomedicine: The use of nanoparticles in

medical diagnostics’ Comstech-Islamabad. Pakistan.

9. Asif raza, Hira shareef, Hira salim and Habib Bokhari. 2007. Bioinformatics

Approaches for Devising Antiviral/Therapeutic Agent against Influenza. Ist Symposium

of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics on Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics:

Recent trends in Biotechnology, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

10. Hasan Bilal Mirza, Maryam Anwar and S. Habib Bokhari. 2007. In silico identification

of potential horizontal gene transfer events from archaea to pathogenic bacteria. Ist

Symposium of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics on Genomics, Proteomics,

Metabolomics: Recent trends in Biotechnology, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

11. Muhammad Ali Syed, Arshad Bhatti and Habib Ali Bokhari. 2007. Effects of silver

nanoparticles on the E. coli isolates from urinary tract infection cases. Ist Symposium of

Microbiology and Molecular Genetics on Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics: Recent

trends in Biotechnology, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

12. Muhammad Idrees, Raheel Qamar and Habib Bokhari. 2007. Molecular characterization

and comparison of drug resistance patterns among E. coli isolates from human

subjects with UTI and food animals. Ist Symposium of Microbiology and Molecular

Genetics on Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomcs: Recent trends in Biotechnology,

University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

13. Yasmin Badshah, Safia Khatoon, Raheel Qamar and Habib Bokhari. 2007. Prevalence

of virulence factors among extraintestinal clinical isolates of Escherichia coli obtained

from clinically diagnosed urinary tract infection patients. Ist Symposium of Microbiology

and Molecular Genetics on Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics: Recent trends in

Biotechnology, University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

14. Bioinformatics: Science of Future. In Press (NEWS, 2003). S. Habib Bokhari, CIIT,

Islamabad, Pakistan.

15. Baig, S.M., Bukhari, S.H., Shah, W.A., Arshad, M., Shamsi, T.S. and Qureshi, J.A.

1997. -Thalassemia mutations in Pakistan: A strategy for prenatal diagnosis. First

National Symposium on Biotechnology for Sustainable Development. 24-27, November,

Lahore, Pakistan.

16. Baig, S.M., Bukhari, S.H., Shah, W.A., Arshad, M., Shamsi, T.S. and Qureshi, J.A.

1997. Characterization of mutations causing -Thalassemia in Pakistan. 21st National

conference of Pakistan Association of Pathologists, 14-16, November, Faisalabad,

Pakistan.

17. Baig, S. M., Bukhari, S.H., Shah, W. A., Khattak, K.F., Ahmad, M., Asghar, M.S. and

Qureshi, J.A. Detection of HCV by RT-PCR and genotyping by dot-blot hybridization in

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Pakistani patients with chronic hepatitis C and hepatocellular carcinoma. Third

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Symposium, 22-24, February, Lahore, Pakistan.

18. Baig, S.M., Bukhari, S.H., Shah, W.A., Khattak, K.F. and Qureshi, J.A. 1996.

Determination of the spectrum of -Thalassemia genes in Pakistan by use of

amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS) and radiolabelled allele specific

oligonucleotide (ASO) hybridization. Inaugural International Conference on Genetics,

26-28, November, Islamabad, Pakistan.

19. Baig, S.M., Bukhari, S.H., Shah, W.A. and Qureshi, J.A. 1996. Spectrum of -

Thalassemia mutations in Pakistan. Third National Symposium on Basic Health Care and

Social Development, 21-22, September, Karachi, Pakistan.

BOOK CHAPTER

1. Claudio Angione, Pietro Li´o, Sandra Pucciarelli, Basarbatu Can, Maxwell Conway ,

Marina Lotti, Habib Bokhari, Alessio Mancini, Ugur Sezerman, and Andrea Telatin

Bioinformatics challenges and potentialities in studying extreme environments. Chapter

in Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. Volume

9874 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 205-219. 2016 (LNBI-

Springer)

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

Fariha Massod Siddiqui, Muhammad Ibrahim, Nighat Noureen, Zobia Noreen, Richard W.

Titball, Olivia L. Champion, Brendan W. Wren, David Studholme, Habib Bokhari. Draft

Genome Sequence of the Enteropathogenic Bacterium Campylobacter jejuni Strain cj255.

Genome Announcement 2015. (Available online)

Ongoing Research Projects

1. Campylobacter control in poultry through training for commercial poultry farm workers:

As PI, In collaboration with Prof. Brendan Wren, London School of Hygiene &

Tropical Medicine (British Council: “STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP EXTENSION:

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE”: Award 15,900 Pounds (To be Completed in 2016)

2. “Advanced bioinformatics for genome and metagenome analyses with discovery of novel

biocatalysts from extremophiles: implications for improving industrial bioprocesses”

European Union H2020: (RISE Project) as Partner in Collaboration with UNICAM,

UNI-MILANO, ITALY, Univ. Cambridge and Sebanci, Turkey-

3. Strengthening Biotechnology Industry in the country: Developing an educational tool kit

for training undergraduate students as well as for research purpose: Lab to

commercialization (HEC APPROVED: 5.37 Million Rs.)

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4. Developing Protocols for multiplex PCR based Screening and Computational Models for

Virulence Factors Associated with H. pylori and colibactin (genotoxin) producing E. coli

(PSF/TUBITAK: Turkish-Pakistan Joint Funding)

5. uBiome Funded Project on :Prevailing stress factors responsible for stunted growth in

Children

Projects Completed

1. Joint COMSATS Institute of Information Technology-George Mason University

Initiative in Bioinformatics” (Completed: POCR, HEC).

2. Cloning of Fluorescent protein from Coral, initial spectroscopic Analysis/

characterization and development of whole cell Biosensors (CIIT Project: Completed)

3. Distribution pattern of antimicrobial resistance genes and virulence factors among

isolates of E. coli from clinically diagnosed urinary tract infection patients and molecular

pathogenesis (CIIT Project: Completed)

4. Epidemiological investigation of Pertussis infection in Pakistan by studying the

distribution of ptx, prn & fim alleles (Pakistan Science Foundation): As PI, In

collaboration with Prof. Dr. Frits. R. Mooi, Lab for Vaccine Preventable Diseases (LTR)

RIVM, Bilthoven, Netherlands. (PSF Funded: 1.0 M. Rs.)

5. Development of an integrated whole-cell based biosensors to detect bioavailable

organophosphates from environment”: As PI, (HEC funded: 3.9 Pak M. Rs.)

6. Development of an integrated system comprising of engineered bacteria based Biosensors

for the detection of bioavailable toxic metals from environment: As PI, (HEC Funded:

1.6 M. Rs.)

7. Source Tracking and Surveillance System Of Diarrhea causing Bacterial Pathogens In

Pakistan: As PI, In collaboration with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,

Keppel Street, London, WCIE 7HT (British Council: Pak-UK linkage: Award ~60,000

Pounds)

RESOURCE PERSON/ SELECTED INVITED TALKS

1. Resource Person at Workshop on “Bioinformatics for computer scientists” at

COMSTECH 21st-26th May, 2007

2. Resource Person at Workshop on “National Workshop on Techniques in Molecular

Biology, Bio-informatics & Vaccine Production” at CASVAB at University of

Baluchistan, Quetta-28th-30th May, 2007

3. Resource Person at Workshop on “Use of Therapeutic agents and Diagnostic Kits” held

at Arid Agriculture University in 2005

4. Resource Person at 2nd International Symposium on “Biomedical Materials: Current

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Research and Future Signposting 2010” held at COMSATS, Lahore.

5. Resource Person & chair of session on “Informatics & Basic Science” at Microbial

Forensics conference, Zagreb, Croatia, 14-16 October, 2013 (Organized by U.S.

Academy of Sciences, Royal Academy of Sciences & Croatian Academy of Sciences).

6. Invited Talk for International meeting on “Biosafety & Bioethics” at COMSATS,

Islamabad, 2014

7. Invited Talk for International conference on “Innovative Biological & Public Health

Research” at GCU, Lahore, May 6, 2014

8. Resource Person“ Bioinformatics approaches to adaptations, genome evolution and

biological associations” Training Workshop, Department of Computer Sciences,

Cambridge, UK, 23-27 March, 2015 (Organized by -EU-H20202 Funding and COST

Action BM1102).

9. Resource Person @Pak-China Business Forum at Pak-China Friendship center,

Islamabad, Pakistan for three consecutive years i.e. 2013-2015.

10. Invited Talk @LUMS, Lahore 2015.

11. Invited Talk @ NCP, Islamabad (IBCAST) 2016

12. Invited Talk @ COMSATS Headquarter 2016

13. Invited Talk @ Academy of Sciences, Pakistan- Regional Workshop on Biosafety and

Biosecurity in Life Sciences Research -2016

14. Invited Talk @ Technical University Munich, -2016

15. Invited Talk @ US Agriculture Department, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA on

“NanoDiagnostics

16. Invited Talk @ PSF 2017 on EU Funding (Application Preparation)

17. Invited Talk @ Serena 2018 on EU Funding Application Preparation-Organized by

COMSATS & EU

18. Invited Talk @ Foreign Services Academy: Science Diplomacy Series: 2019

19. Invited Talk @ Belfast-UK CHRO 2019- 8TH-11TH September) on Bill & Melinda Gates

Funding

20. Invited Talk by MetaSub Project 2019- 29th-31TH (consortium of over 15 countries) @

Acibadem-Istanbul, Turkey

21. Invited talk @ London School of Hygiene @Tropical Medicine-2019-12th September

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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

1. Prof. Dr. Frits. R. Mooi, Lab for Vaccine Preventable Diseases (LTR) RIVM, Bilthoven,

Netherlands

2. Prof. Qiushui He, Pertussis Reference Laboratory, Department of Infectious Disease

Surveillance & Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku, Finland

3. Prof. Nicholas Thompson, Sanger Centre, UK

4. Prof. Brendan Wren, LSHTM, UK

5. Prof. Rick Titball, Univ. Exeter, UK

6. Prof. Patrick Gillevet, Environmental Biocomplexities, GMU, USA

7. Professor Paul S. Keim, Center for Microbial Genetics & Genomics, North Arizona

University, Flag Staff, USA

8. Dr. Jayaraman Sivaraman, Biochemistry, NUS, Singapore

9. Dr. Sandra Pussciarelli, UNICAM, Italy

10. Dr. Jun Zhu, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA

11. Dr. Chris Mason, Cornell, USA

12. Dr. Torsten Semmer, Robert Koch Institute, Germany

13. Dr. Jaap A. Wagenaar, Utrecht University, Netherland

WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS

1. Attended International workshop on genotyping the bacterium Yersinia pestis 19-22 June,

2012, San Francisco, California, USA as an expert from Pakistan

2. Attended SGM, UK meeting on “Glycoengineering” at Herriot Watt University,

Edinburgh, September 2009.

3. Attended International Workshop on Bioethics, Islamabad, 2004.

4. Attended Workshop on Identification Maintenance & Preservation of Microorganism,

Q.A.U, Islamabad, 2004.

5. Attended International Workshop on Bioinformatics, Islamabad, 2003.

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6. Attended Qiagen’s Workshop on Molecular Biology Research, Edinburgh, 2001.

THESIS SUPERVISION

BS (Bioinformatics): 52 students completed

BS (Biosciences): 08 completed

MS (Bioinformatics): 04 completed

MS (Microbiology/Immunology): 06 under supervision

MS (Microbiology/Immunology): 49 completed

MS (Microbiology/Immunology): 05 (Co-supervisor: completed)

MS: (Mol. Genetics): 02 (Co-supervisor: completed)

PhD: (Microbiology/Immunology): 05 (Completed)

PhD: (Microbiology/Immunology): 06 (under supervision)

PhD Thesis Supervised/Under Supervision/Co-supervision

S. # Student’s Name Thesis title Year

1 Muhammad Ali Syed

“Efficacy of DTP vaccine in Local Population and

Development of Rapid Diagnostic Techniques for

Microbes” Pass/2011

2 Muhammad Idrees

Development of a Biosensor for Methyl parathion

Detection And Genetic Risk Assessment of

Exposed Population Pass /2015

3 Muhammad Ali Shah

Molecular Characterization of Vibrio cholerae

isolates from Pakistan Pass/2015

4 Fariha Siddique

Molecular Epidemiology and Phylogenomics of

Pakistani Isolates of Campylobacter jejuni Pass /2015

5

Bushra Jamil (Co-

Supervised)

“Nano-antibiotics: Nano Encapsulation of Natural

and Synthetic Antimicrobials to Combat Multi

Drug Resistant Pathogens” Pass /2017

6 Zobia Noreen

Role of Type VI Secretion System in Stress

Adaptations and Developing Control Strategies for

Campylobacter jejuni.

Finished-

Waiting for

final Exam

7 Aftab Ahmad

Analysis of Gut Microflora and Paraoxonase 1

(PON1) Mutation in Obese Subjects

FINISHING-

2019

8 Salma Saeed

Solving the Structures of Novel Fluorescent

Proteins (HriCFP &HriGFP) Isolated from

Hydnophora rigida and Directed Evolution for

Enhanced Emission Properties

Under

Supervision

9 Habiba

Microbes to Microbiome in Association with

Colorectal Cancer/Colon and Gut Cancer

Under

Supervision

10 Samia Zeb

Comparative Genomics and Proteomics Analysis

of Vibrio cholerae Isolates from Pakistan with

Different Genetic Backgrounds

Under

Supervision

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11 Abid Jan

Microbiome Analysis of Population at High Risk

of Developing Hepatocellular Carcinoma &

Assessing Associated Risk Factors

Under

Supervision

12

Olaniran Olwatoyin

(Nigeria)

Molecular Characterization of MDR Pseudomonas

aeruginosa from Nigeria

TWAS

Fellowship-

RESEARCH-

COMPLETE

D

13 Anas Muazu (Nigeria)

Microbiome in Association with Stunted Growth

in Children

TWAS

Fellowship-

Under

Supervision

M. Phil/MS Thesis Supervised/Co-supervised (Microbiology/Immunology/Genetics)

S. # Student’s Name Thesis title Year

1 Muhammad Idrees

Distribution of antimicrobial resistance patterns

among E. coli isolates from human subjects with

UTI and food animals 2007

2 Uzma Mussarat

Molecular Epidemiological Studies Of E. coli In

Urinary Tract Infections & Antimicrobial

Resistance Among Isolates In Pakistan 2007

3 Yasmeen Badshah

Prevalence of Virulence Factors Among

Extraintestinal Clinical Isolates of Escherichia

coli Obtained From Clinically Diagnosed

Urinary Tract Infection Patients & Molecular

Pathogenesis 2007

4

Muhammad Imran

(Co-Supervised)

Candidate Gene Analysis of Retinitis

Pigmentosa 2007

5

Ayesha Malik (Co-

Supervised)

“Exclusion Analysis of Retinitis Pigmentosa

Gene” 2007

6 Fahad Said

Differences of circulating Bordetella pertussis

population in Pakistan 2009

7 Syed Mehmood Qadir

Development of an integrated Green Fluorescent

Protein Based Assay for Diverse High

Throughput Screening (HTS) Applications 2009

8

Sara Riaz (Co-

Supervised)

“Synthesis of Novel Photochemical Precursors

and Biological Studies of Metal Barbiturates” 2009

9

Muhammad Javed

(Co-Supervised)

Studies of Antibiotic Resistance Patterns &

Genetic Diversity in Campylobacter population

isolated from broiler chicken 2010

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10

Sania Akhtar (Co-

Supervised)

Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Pathogens

Associated with Diarrhea Outbreaks in Pakistan 2010

11 Saba Asad

Surveillance Of Diarrheogenic Bacterial

Pathogens in Pakistan by PCR/restriction

fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and

amplified fragment length polymorphism 2010

12 Abrar Wali

Molecular Characterization of Campylobacter

jejuni Strains Isolated from Patients with

Gastroenteritis and Guillain Barre Syndrome 2010

13

Sadia Zafar (MS

Bioinformatics)

Modeling and Simulation of Wolinella

succinogenes’s Oligosaccharyl Transferase and

Development of Computational Program for

Statistical Analysis of Proteomes at ExPASy’s

Databases 2011

14

Sadaf Afzal (MS

Bioinformatics)

Mathematical Model for sterilization of drinking

water from Diarrheaogenic Bacteria 2011

15 Ayesha Khan

Phylotyping and Clonal group A screening of

Escherichia coli isolates from Pakistan 2012

16 Sarah Zaidi

Toxic Metals Residues in Poultry Chicken

Collected From Rawalpindi, Pakistan 2013

17 Mahwish Younas

Molecular Spectrum of Antibiotic Resistance

Among Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli Isolates 2013

18 Uzma Khalil

Characterization of Enteroaggregative E.coli

Isolates from Pakistan 2013

19

Shahr Bano (MS

Bioinformatics: Co-

supervised)

3D Structure Optimization and Database

Development for Pakistani Relevant Natural

Products and their Derivatives. 2013

20 Saba Andleeb

Sheep Casing as a Biosentinels of Human

exposure to Multi-Residual contamination 2014

21 Shafi Muhammad

Encapsulation of Crude Plant Extract for

Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Infections 2014

22 Junaid Jamshed

Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance profiling of

C. jejuni in Migratory Birds 2015

22 Kamran Khan

In Vitro Biofilm Formation of Vibrio cholerae

Isolated from Clinical and Environmental

Samples 2015

24 Kalsoom Bibi

Prevalence and Multidrug Resistance Profiling

of E. coli Phylotypes from Patients with UTIs,

Plus Diabetic UTIs Patients 2015

25 Sobia Shafique

Comparative Study of T6SS Positive and T6SS

Negative Campylobacter jejuni Isolates 2015

26

Allah Nawaz (Co-

supervised)

Exposure Risk of Toxic Metals and

Staphylococcus aureus via Dust: A case Study of

Internally Displaced People (K.P.K) 2015

27 Aqsa Humayun Identification and Characterization of Klebsiella 2016

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pneumoniae clinical isolates.

28 Tahira Yousaf

Effect of Electrospun Synthetic Polymers on

Biofilm Formation 2016

29 Qurat syed

Isolation and Characterization of Vibrio cholerae

Specific Phages from Environmental and

Clinical Sources 2016

30 Muhammad Yasir

Isolation and Characterization of Vibrio cholerae

in Clinical Samples from Pakistan 2016

31 Zakir Ullah

Molecular Characterization of New Delhi

Metallo-Beta Lactamase

Escherichia coli Isolates from Clinical Samples 2016

32

Nighat Perveen (Co-

supervised)

Isolation and Characterization of Vibrio cholerae

from Selected Reservoirs in the Environment 2016

33

Zafar Iqbal Tanveer

(Co-supervised)

Human Exposure of Metal and Metalloids from

Different Geographical Areas of Pakistan:

Occurrence, Distribution and Risk Assessment 2016

34

Shakiba Anwar (Co-

supervised)

Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Among General Public of Rawalpindi 2016

35 Fizza Khalid

Characterization of Putative Multidrug

Resistance Transporters of the Major Facilitator-

Superfamily Expressed in Vibrio cholerae and

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli 2016

36 Rabia Hakim

Rapid and Colorimetric Diagnosis of Diarrheal

Pathogens Using Gold Nanoparticle 2017

37 Uzma Batool

Predation Response of Vibrio cholerae Pakistan

Subclade I and Subclade II Biofilms to Ciliate 2017

38 Tarbia Amir Trace Element Contamination in to Drinking Water

and its Association with Male Reproductive Toxicity 2017

39

Hafiza Amina Rafique

(Co-supervised)

Characterization of Vibrio cholerae Strains and

Their Fitness In Relation To Survival In a

Competitive Water Environment 2017

40 Muhammad Umar

Frequency and Molecular Characterization of

Staphylococcus aureus from Placenta of Mothers

With Term and Preterm Deliveries 2017

41

Theophilus Bhatti

Prevalence and Molecular Characterization of E.

coli from Mothers with Preterm and Full Term

and Neonates

2017

42 Sohail Aslam Shaikh

Characterization of Lactobacillus species

Associated with Preterm Birth 2017

43 Sidra Saleem

Prevalence of Multi Drug Resistance Pseudomonas

aeruginosa Among Clinical Isolates and Developing

Improved Drug Delivery System 2018

44 Nighat Mushtaq

Detection and Molecular Characterization of

Norovirus in Infectious Diarrhea among Hospitalized

Children from Pakistan 2018

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45 Bismah Sarfraz

Seroprevalence and Incidence of Dengue Infection

2019

46 Ayesha Kaleem Microencapsulation of Lactobacillus species for

Treatment of Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens 2019

47 M. Israr

Characterization and antibiotic resistance profile of

E coli isolated from stunted growth children

2019

48 Hira Mehreen

Development of a Chip Using HriGFP/HriCFP

(novel fluorescent protein) For the Detection of

Heavy Metals 2019

49 Ifra Ferheen

Psychrophilic Bacteria as a Source of

Biotechnologically Important Proteins

2019

OTHER SOCIAL & NATIONAL SERVICES

1. Included in Approved supervisors list of HEC

2. Included in the panel of Examiners & Paper setter at Punjab University Lahore

3. Associated with Intel and Ministry of Education as an assessor of student’s innovative

projects in the field of Biosciences

4. Contributed in preparing the PC-1 for Infrastructure development for teaching and

research in Bioinformatics at CIIT, Islamabad

5. Contributed in formulating the National Bioinformatics Policy document

6. Helped through knowledge generation during 2010 FLOODS wrt the Clean Drinking

Water and Diarrhea and through relief effort

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REFERENCES:

Prof. Dr. S. M Junaid Zaidi (SI; HI)

Exécutive Director

COMSATS Secretariat, Islamabad.

COMSATS, Islamabad

E-mail: ed1@comsats.org

Brendan W. Wren (FRC Path)

Professor Microbial Pathogenesis

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,

London, UK

E-mail: brendan.wren@lshtm.ac.uk

Prof. Nicholas R. Thompson,

Group Head

Pathogen Program,

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,

Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.

E-mail: nrt@sanger.ac.uk

Richard Titball (BSc PhD DSc FRC Path)

Professor of Molecular Microbiology

School of Biosciences

Geoffrey Pope Building

University of Exeter, UK

E-mail: R.W.Titball@exeter.ac.uk

Prof. Patrick Gillevet,

Director

Microbiome Analysis Center

Environmental Science and Policy

George Mason University, USA

E-mail: pgilleve@gmu.edu

Prof. Dr. A. Hameed

Director (ORIC)

IIU, Islamabad