Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Aim is to combine the knowledge of Agronomy and Microbiology and to fulfill the following interests; weed control by biocontrol methods, composting and biofertilizer, water and wastewater treatment, application of microbiology in Agriculture, human health and industry, biodegradation and bioremediation, microbial ecology, microbial taxonomy, use of biologically active compounds produced by microbes.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, , Sub-Campus Toba Tek Singh
Research Intersts: Analysis has shown that government and donor priorities in investments are often at odds with the outcome at the village level. Any promising possibilities are closely linked to research on farmer practices, on-farm trials, farmer participation, and the collaboration of scientists who take feedback from farmers seriously. Rural Poultry can play an important role in poverty eradication, as witnessed by the investment choices made by many landless and poor people, in credit projects generally. In an alternative scenario, poor and landless people are enabled to compete on these animal product markets, through development projects. My research interest is to enhance the development of rural poultry in Pakistan.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Hyper gene expression of bioactive peptides with potential insecticidal activity for the development of sustainable insect control programmes. Isolation and characterization of bioactive genes and proteins from insect parasitoids. EST sequence analysis through bioinformatics tools.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
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Position & Department: Lecturer, , Sub-Campus Toba Tek Singh
Research Intersts: My research interests incorporate the expansion of statistical methods for the examination of data that are qualitative or categorical, and statistical tactics in the social sciences. Also my main hypothetical concern is in understanding why we are capable to do statistics as well as we do on very high dimensional data sets without understanding much.
Position & Department: Professor, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Urban Entomology with special focus on vector borne diseases and their Management
Position & Department: Incharge, Business Incubation Center/ Manger University Industry Linkage and Techonology Transfear, , Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC)
Research Intersts: Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Marketing, Econometric Modeling, Industrial Organization, Production Economics, Pricing and Game theoretical modeling, Brand Competition, Quantitative Techniques
Research Intersts: IPM of vegetable and stored grain insect pests
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: software engineering, automata theory, agent oriented software engineering
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Veterinary Science
Research Intersts: 1. Bioequivalence and Disposition Kinetic studies of drugs 2. Pharmacological and therapeutic screening of medicinal plants
Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Home Sciences, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences
Research Intersts: The bond of clay with the human is very strong. My area of interest is ceramics & sculpture. There are two types of forming ceramics 1. Hand build, 2. On pothers wheel sculpture and relief is a form of visual Art and operates with three dimensional effects.
Research Intersts: The ways that plants coordinate and integrate numerous physical, chemical and biological processes to produce new biomass and maintain existing biomass, fascinates me. I want to combine the knowledge of Agronomy and meteorology to maximize crop yields. Finally I wish to understand how variation in atmospheric temperature, carbon dioxide and precipitation affect plant growth and maintenance metabolism. To pursue these interests my research focuses on mechanistic modeling of crop growth, development and yield. The models are framed within the context of biological and ecological hierarchies and explain the linkages between environmental constraints and plant functioning. A second approach I used to address my interests involves synthesis results of experimental studies on crop environment interactions. This includes collaboration with interdisciplinary research teams addressing high priority agricultural issues about effects of climate change on crop productivity. I want to build novel bridges between experimental research, in both field and laboratory, and process modeling for improving understanding of environmental and genetic constraints in agro-ecosystem. As a member of faculty, I look forward to exciting interaction with undergraduate and post graduate students.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: databases, Data Mining/Machine learning
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Environmental stresses are major constraints to the productivity of crops throughout the world. It is therefore imperative that mechanisms and causes of the stress effects on plant growth and development may be determined systematically, and strategies may be adopted to overcome adverse effects of stresses in order to achieve maximum productivity from the salinity, high temperature and drought-hit areas. My current interests are focused on the expression of stress proteins and other stress related primary and secondary metabolites under water, salinity, heat and cadmium stresses, and finding strategies to fetch greater yields under such conditions. Among various crops, major emphasis is on wheat, barley, rice, sugarcane and maize.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, , Sub-Campus DG Khan
Position & Department: Lecturer, , Sub-Campus DG Khan
Research Intersts: Exploration & exploitation of non-conventional feed resources for optimal performance of livestock
Research Intersts: My mind is to research on the development of such functional foods that can help to prevent and cure these disorders. My work is on Dietary fiber supplementation in the food product and further to use this product as a diet therapy against hypercholesterolemia while comparing it with the normal subjects. It will help to improve the health quality and ultimately a reduction in the medical issues and increased efficiency of the people.
Position & Department: Professor, National Institute of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences
Research Intersts: Food science and technology is an ever-expanding profession, in processing, packaging, preservation, value addition, nutrition, and consumer food safety. Pakistan (5th largest milk-producing country) needs to be exploited in processing and production technology (cheese, butter, yoghurt, condensed milk, ghee, sweets) to compete in the World market utilizing effective resources. Opportunities for value-added products: Nutritional, Functional, infants formula for newly borne and Probiotic foods are the potential areas yet to be designed and roofed in Pakistan. To accomplish the needs of industrial technology in this regard is a fascinating challenge. Food microbiology is the basic underpinning for study in the field of food safety, bio-technology, bio-preservation and product development (starter cultures, fermented foods, etc.). Several research activities (identification, isolation, purification, preservation and control of bacteria) not only in dairy processing technology but also for other food groups require diligent attention. Hence, to work with the objectives stated herein is of great personal and professional interest, while simultaneously providing services for safe, qualitative and versatile food with respect better communications for science and humanity.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, National Institute of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences
Research Intersts: Novel Technologies, High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing, Ultraviolet Light processing, Food microbiology, Juices and dairy processing
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Rural Sociology , Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Intersts: Sociology of family, population studies, food security, climate change, fertility, social change, anthropology, cultural anthropology.
Position & Department: , , Sub-Campus Burewala
Research Intersts: 1) Mango Fruit genetic Conservation and Post Harvesting Technology. 2) Landscaping and Ornament of Plant Production
Position & Department: Assistant Executive Engineer, Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology
Research Intersts: Freeze Drying of Food Products
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Point-of-care diagnostic assays
Research Intersts: Rural urban migration and demographic change
Position & Department: Associate Professor, , Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB)
Research Intersts: Since the past eighteen years I have been engaged in the fields of plant breeding, genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology. My career goals centre on tailoring crop varieties with better tolerance to the changing environment through breeding and genome engineering. In my earlier research at NIBGE and UC-Berkeley, I worked on the characterization of leaf curl disease and examined transgene stacking using site-specific recombinases in cotton. Before joining CABB, I also worked at the Department of Plant Breeding and genetics (UAF) where I focused on mapping genes for yield and water stress tolerance through association mapping. Currently, I am working as an Associate Professor (Tenured) at CABB in the area of cotton biotechnology with the aim to developing site-specific genome engineering technology for stacking multiple transgenes and recycling selectable marker genes. An 8.3 million rupees grant has been provided by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan to support this activity. In addition to site-specific genome engineering, my Lab also interests in Plant Phenomics to bridge the genotype-phenotype gap for more efficient gene mapping. A 40 million rupees grant from ICT R&D Fund is currently in process.
Research Intersts: Insect toxicology and biochemistry
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Farm Machinery and Power, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology
Research Intersts: Agricultural process engineering Instrumentation. Farm Machinery.
Research Intersts: Computer Algorithms, UX/UI in Usability Engineering and Human Computer Interaction
Research Intersts: Pharmacokinetic and Bioequivalence evaluation of Pharmaceutical Drugs and Nanomedicine formulation.
Research Intersts: My area of research is focused on Environmental Horticulture and to develop projects regarding improvement of urban environment upto quality standards.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Intersts: Agri. extension systems, agricultural Policies and regulations, history of agri. extension, Farmers’ association and cooperatives, Value addition and value chain
Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture
Position & Department: Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: I am working on physiological aspects of seed development and enhancement. I have established a very dedicated working group on seed and stress physiology. We have developed a functional seed testing and physiology lab. We have established seed priming protocols for all major and many other crops. We are also working on induction of abiotic stress tolerance by seed priming and foliar application of synthetic and natural growth enhancer especially in wheat, rice and maize against salinity and drought. I have explored many plant extracts and Moringa oliefera discovered as ideal plant to use its extract as priming and foliar agent as growth enhancer. I am also working on introduction of new crops to increase the biodiversity to meet the challenges of food security and climate change. I have successfully introduced Chenopodium quinoa, a climate proof grain crop, linola, improved linseed and Camolina sativa, a potential drought tolerant oilseed.
Position & Department: Accounts Officer, , Sub-Campus Depalpur Okara
Research Intersts: Office Work; Account and Administration
Position & Department: Assistant Professor/Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Medical and veterinary Entomology, Urban entomology especially vector-borne diseases (diseases caused by mosquitoes, ticks, bed bugs, tsetse fly, etc.) and their control strategies. Integrated vector management (IVM), Insect Chemical Ecology, Insect-insect interaction, insect-plant interaction, plant-plant interaction, Ecology and evolutionary prospects of insects, Climate change in relation to insects, Insect physiology and electrophysiology, insect behavior (laboratory and field), insect neuroscience, insect biodiversity and biosystematics, Analytical chemistry. Selected Publications: Khan R. R, Ali R. A, Ali A, Arshad M, Majeed S, Ahmad S, Khan S. A and Arshad M. 2018. Compatibility of entomopathogenic nematodes (Nematoda: Rhabditida) and the biocide, spinosad for mitigation of the armyworm, Spodoptera litura (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 28:58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41938-018-0063-y Chaudhary M.Z, Majeed S. Tayyib M, Javed N, Farzand A, Moosa A, Shehzad M, Mushtaq F. 2017. Antagonistic potential of Steinernema kraussei and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora against Dengue fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. Journal of Entomology and zoology studies 5(5): 865-869. Majeed S, Hill SR, Dekker T, Ignell R. 2017. Detection and perception of generic host volatiles by mosquitoes: responses to CO2 constrains host-seeking behaviour. Royal Society Open science 4:170189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170189 Majeed S, Hill SR, Birgersson G, Ignell R. 2016. Detection and perception of generic host volatiles by mosquitoes modulate host preference: context dependence of (R)-1-octen-3-ol. Royal Society Open science 3:160467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160467 Shah R.M., Ali Q., Alam M., Shad S.A.,, Binyamin M., Majeed S . 2016. Effects of larval rearing in different water sources on the fitness and vectorial capacity of Culex quinquefasciatus say (Diptera: Culicidae). J. M. Ento. doi:10.1093/jme/tjw211 Naeem M, Khan RR, Ahmed S, Arshad M, Majeed S, Sufyan M and Rasul A, 2016. Relative effectiveness of different insecticides against pea leaf minor (Phytomyza Horticola Goureau) on pea under field conditions. Journal of Pakistan Entomologist 38 (1): 47-53. Hill SR, Majeed S, Ignell R., 2015 Molecular basis for odorant receptor tuning: a short C-terminal sequence is necessary and sufficient for selectivity of mosquito Or8. Insect Molecular Biology 24(4), 491–501, doi: 10.1111/imb.12176. Bonaventure A, Majeed S, Ignell R., 2015. Functional development of carbon dioxide detection in the maxillary palp of Anophees gambiae Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 2482-2488; doi: 10.1242/jeb.116798. Majeed S, Hill RS, Ignell R, 2014. Impact of elevated CO2 background levels on the host- seeking behaviour of Aedes aegypti. Journal of experimental biology (217): 598-604. Cook J.I., Majeed S, R. Ignell, J.
Position & Department: Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: My research interests include studies on the biology, epidemiology and management of bacterial diseases of plant especially citrus canker, blackleg of potato and bacterial blight of rice. Furthermore I am interested in research on exploring the biochemical basis of resistance in plant against diseases
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Science
Research Intersts: Cardiovascular diseases are one of the major causes of human mortalities. Among the various cardiovascular diseases, coronary artery disease is mainly responsible for atherosclerosis and is major cause of human death toll. Maternal nutritional status during pregnancy influences health status of each and every organ of a new born, including cardiovascular system. These influences have been linked with incidence of cardiovascular diseases during later stages of life. Studies have shown that thicknesses of carotid and aortic intima and media can help predicting the risk of cardiovascular diseases. However, there is scarcity of literature about if maternal nutrition effects the thickness of tunica intima and media of coronary vessels or not. My area of interest encompasses influence of maternal under-nutrition upon coronary vasculature during different stages of pregnancy.
Research Intersts: Agriculture and environmental pollution, Stress agronomy, Allelopathy, Bioremediation.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economincs, Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Intersts: My research interests include international trade and growth, comparative advantage of agricultural sector in Pakistan and food security.
Research Intersts: Nutraceuticals are the natural bioactive, chemical compounds that have heath promoting, disease preventing or medicinal properties. Nutraceutcal and functional foods are used to combat the nutritional disorders. Efficacy study is a way to check the effectiveness of certain nutrient or drug. Efficacy can be defined as the performance of an intervention under ideal and controlled circumstances. Efficacy means that the tested dose of the drug or specific nutrient is effective at ameliorating the treated condition. A typical goal of a safety and efficacy (SE) study is to estimate certain clinical end points with a specified amount of precision.
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases, qualitative and quantitative analysis of different environmental toxicants.
Research Intersts: Plant growth under stress conditions with special reference to evaluating the role of rhizobacteria for reducing the negative impact of stress. Studying the behavior of bacterial strains in natural environment and their interactions with the other microbial population in the soil. Also making the use of molecular techniques to study the exact mechanisms of growth promotion and quantifying the bacterial population density necessary for plant growth under stress conditions. Moreover combined application of bacteria with other microbial population like fungi for enhancing growth.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Biological management of plant parasitic nematodes
Position & Department: Research Officer, , Sub-Campus Burewala
Research Intersts: The focused interest areas are women empowerment in context of their socio-economic and health aspects, Migration and its implications, urbanization, rural development and its linkages with sustainable agriculture production.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: My area of interest is psychology, with particular emphasis upon child, environmental, abnormal, educational, developmental; and counseling and career counseling psychology; primarily focusing on one’s interests, abilities, strengths and hobbies regarding the development of career.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Animal and Dairy Sciences, Faculty of Animal Husbandry
Research Intersts: Genetic and phenotypic aspects of adaptation to climate change in Indigenous animal genetic resources (AnGR).
Research Intersts: Study of abiotic stresses as major constraint in agricultural productivity. Screening of genotypes/cultivars of field crops for drought tolerance and enhancing/improvement of drought tolerance in field crops by application of abscisic acid and compatible solutes like glycinebetaine, proline, salycilic acid. Among the field crops my major emphasis is on oil seed and cereal crops.
Research Intersts: Super dosing of trace minerals to set their optimum recommendations for modern broiler birds
Research Intersts: To analyze drought and heat tolerance conferred by fungal and viral endophytes in commercial crops; and to assess the losses caused by plant viruses, epidemiological studies, role of insects in virus transmission and integrated plant viral disease management.
Position & Department: Professor, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Fruit production technology and post harvest technology of fruit.
Position & Department: Lecturer, , Sub-Campus Burewala
Research Intersts: My areas of interest are basically communication skills, British Literature, American Literature, and Literature around the World, Existential Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, while my current research interests are Post-Colonial in nature with primary focus upon the post-colonial study of literary and non-literary text that expose the subtle phenomenon of educational neocolonialism and the construction of oppressive ideology.
Research Intersts: Methods of nutritional assessment and nutrition education and counseling to promote behavior change about dietary patterns. Study of the health effects of Nutritional disorders, determination of Food composition, Functional Foods benefits and conduct community based Dietary Surveys to diagnose the nutritional deficiency in children and exercise intervention to promote healthy diets.
Research Intersts: Lot of natural fibers are being used in making textile products as cotton, just etc. however, still there are such natural fibers that need utmost attention of researchers for being having great potential of fulfilling needs of modern world both in terms of comfort and versatility. Sisal fiber is the big example of such neglected natural fiber and it has great potential of generating powerful revenue for the country. The area of my research is to soften the sisal fiber before spinning. Such fibers will be helpful in home textile industry that can be established women entrepreneurship.
Research Intersts: My research centers on molecular mycology of devastating fungal plant pathogens. Much of my research focuses on plant pathogen variation as measured by phenotypic and genotypic analyses. I am interested in detection and diagnoses of emerging and endemic plant diseases. I am also interested in viral disease of crop plants, especially Potato Leaf Roll virus, Potato Virus X and Y.
Research Intersts: Encapsulation, Food and Nutrition,
Research Intersts: Investment
Research Intersts: 1.Gross Anatomical studies of different animals. Biometry, age and sex related changes. 2.Different Reproductive physiological changes in relation to treatment with different hormones. 3.Oxidant and antioxidant status of different animal species.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: “Muslim Educational Movements in British Rule” Through this Research, we can acquire knowledge about the background, aims & objectives, courses, teaching methodology, methods of evaluation, the recourses of income and the problems of different educational movements in British India. In this way, we gain such knowledge that we can summit recommendations not only for the educational system of Pakistan but also for the Muslim ummah.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Science
Research Intersts: Anatomy is the fundamental and basic unit of medical science. My research area is related to macroscopic as well as microscopic studies of birds and animals. The mammary glands are very important part of large animals in respect to milk production, I also worked on the macroscopic and microscopic anatomy of mammary glands and their secretions i.e., physiochemical and compositional analysis of milk from buffalo and cow.
Research Intersts: Fruits & Vegetables Production
Research Intersts: My current research is focused on better understanding of the physiological limitations to productivity of field crops (wheat, rice corn, cotton and sunflower) under various abiotic stresses. One goal of my research is to identify the morphological/physiological and biochemical characteristics that can impart enhanced tolerance of abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity and excessive heat. Related activities include screening of available germplasm for variability in these traits, development of screening methodologies and technologies development for productivity enhancement under stress conditions.
Research Intersts: Insect Toxicology and Pest Management
Position & Department: Associate Professor, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Science
Research Intersts: The research interests are mainly on the epidemiology and control of parasitic diseases of animals in Pakistan. This includes determination of factors contributing to parasitic diseases in local conditions, screening of different existing compounds and others particularly of plant origin for their efficacy as antiparasitics. The current research focus is on the documentation of traditional veterinary practices (ethnopharmacology) and their scientific validation using standard scientific procedures. Collaborations are also underway for working on development of anti-tick vaccine.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, , Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB)
Research Intersts: Plant Biotechnology, Insect-Plant Molecular Interaction
Research Intersts: 1-Allelopathic effect of weeds and crops on crop plants. 2-To study weed seed bank. 3-Use of agro-chemicals and their effect on plant and soil. 4-Weed management in crops. 5-Studies into biology and ecology of weed. 5-Integrated weed control.
Position & Department: Deputy Treasurer, , Sub-Campus Toba Tek Singh
Research Intersts: : Food Security, Livelihood, Agricultural Productivity, Communication, Climate Change, Farmers’ Education, Gender and Development Studies
Research Intersts: Non-thermal processing techniques, sonication, thermosonication, Pulsed Electric Field, High Pressure Processing, fresh juice processing
Research Intersts: Clinical Pharmacy Practices, Pharmacology, Biopharmaceutics.
Position & Department: Research Assistant , , Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC)
Research Intersts: based software engineering, Machine learning applications in software engineering, Software quality assurance. Software requirement Engineering, Verification and validation, Software Process Engineering, Software product families and variability, Internet of things (IOT).
Research Intersts: Socio-Linguistics, Syllabus Designing
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Focuses on research, outreach and education to strengthen the quality of everyday life and the well-being of human. To assist with schools, Psychologists and to explore the culture.
Position & Department: , Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences
Position & Department: Director/Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science
Research Intersts: Disease Diagnostics/Immunoprophylaxis/Food Safety/Microbiological Quality Assurance/One Health Program. Accomplished research task on state of the art technology on the development of serodiagnostic tests including IHA, SRH, ELISA, CCIE and CFT. Development of immunoprophylaxis modules on Mycoplasma capri, Pasteurella multocida, E.coli, Salmonella, Streptococcus equi, Staphylococcus aureus etc Developed STAF test for the determination of antibiotic residues in Animal Food Reported new strains of Mycoplasma, NDV, Pasteurella to NCBI, USA Recently working on the Food pathogens and focusing on the Food security and food safety issues. Climate Change and emerging infections.
Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Forestry & Range Management, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Fertilizer requirements and nutrient dynamics of teak (tectona grandis l.f) plantations in peninsular malaysia
Position & Department: Professor, , Sub-Campus Burewala
Research Intersts: Forest Ecology, Scrub Forests, Range Management, Desert flora in USA, Thal and Cholistan
Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Irrigation & Drainage, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology
Research Intersts: Water is the most important vital input for crop productivity. The efficient use of it is very important. There are number of ways to increase the water use efficiency. The advanced techniques of efficient use of water and modeling approach can guide the user to apply optimum water for the crop. This will ensure water use efficiency without yield reduction. It can also simulate crop water productivity under changing climatic scenarios.
Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: My present focus is on management of vertebrate pests’ (small mammals and birds) through use of biological and mechanical measures. Technologies have been developed to effectively manage their depredations on the variety of crops and stored grain structures. Work has been done mainly using the trap barrier system, an ecologically friendly approach against rodent pests and also on avian trichomonosis in the feral pigeons and common myna. Studies have also been incorporated using the microsatellite markers against house sparrow (Passedr domesticus) in various regions of the Punjab, Pakistan.
Position & Department: Dean/Professor, Department of Irrigation & Drainage, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology
Research Intersts: Water Management for Sustainability, HEIS
Position & Department: Director/Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB)
Research Intersts: Prof. Amer Jamil is group leader of Molecular Biochemistry group in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. In fact he established the research group in the University with advanced research facilities from research grants from various national and international funding agencies such as HEC, IFPRI, USAID, IFS etc. So far he has produced 17 PhD scholars, 49 M.Phil. and 75 M.Sc. students under his supervision. Specialization of Prof. Jamil is Molecular Biology with research emphasis on gene expression. His research group has isolated some peptides with high bioactivities that have therapeutic potential. He has also exploited his expertise in molecular biology towards DNA barcoding of medicinal plants. His group has barcoded more than 150 medicinal plants of Cholistan desert and Swat valley. He also organized awareness workshops in both of these regions for community. Prof. Jamil has contributed many publications to the journals of international repute. To create awareness about the subject in the country, Prof. Jamil has published many articles in the national newspapers. Prof. Jamil has attended many national and international conferences and presented papers. He himself has organized many seminars, lectures and scientific meetings. He has organized two international conferences as Organizing Secretary, and an and international symposium as Chief Organizer with more than 1000 participants from all over Pakistan and abroad in each activity. Prof. Jamil also has organized several workshops and hands-on trainings in the area of Molecular Biology. Prof. Jamil has done tremendous contribution towards community service. He has established an entrepreneur with multi-dimensions under the name Molecular Care (www.molcare.org). It is offering diagnostic services in molecular biology and special biochemistry meeting international quality standards under biosafety level-2 environment. It is also offering hands-on trainings, bioinformatics services, research solutions for researchers and students especially from the newly emerging universities, etc. In recognition of his research work, Prof. Jamil was awarded Young Scientist Fellowship by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the 18th International Congress of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, U.K., from amongst the research scholars around the world. Owing to his contributions in the field of biological sciences, Prof. Jamil was awarded TWAS (Third World Academy of Sciences) prize for Young Scientists in the South in the field of Biology. He is included in the list of leading scientists of Pakistan, published by the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology. He has also earned research productivity award several times from the Government of Pakistan. He earned PAS Gold Medal in the subject of Biochemistry by the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He represented Pakistan in general assembly of a very august forum IUBMB held in Brazil.
Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: # Development and standardization of physical, chemical, and biological techniques for the identification of gamma irradiated foods as well as the evaluation of quality characteristics of irradiated foods. # Degradation of toxic chemicals by radiation treatment present in the environment and to make them environmental friendly. # Synthesis and characterization of the polyurethane elastomers. # Study the effect of radiation treatment on extraction and dying of fabrics using natural and synthetic dyes. # synthesis and applications of nano-photo-active-materials for catalytic and solar cell applications.
Position & Department: Web Developer , , Information Technology Resource Center and Data Bank
Position & Department: Director, National Institute of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Food, Nutrition & Home Sciences
Research Intersts: Pakistan has the potential to increase the milk production from cow, buffalo, sheep, goat and camel. Milk from each dairy animal has particular nutritional importance. With the increase in the milk production, its transformation into product becomes compulsory. Goat milk has more digestibility and suitable for the children and can be transformed into goat milk type chesses. Milk is the suitable medium for the growth of friendly bacteria because of the prebiotic components it contains. Many bioactive peptides are produced during fermentation which promotes the health of consumers. Among the probiotic products, a small work has been conducted on yoghurt, acidophilus milk and cheese. Main area of interest is to work on the comparative study of milk from different species and its transformation into different products: yoghurt, cheese, pasteurized and UHT milk, powders and whey products. The factors which can influence the yield, production and quality of these products during storage have to be discovered in Pakistan.
Position & Department: Chairman/Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Root knot nematodes are the major threat to the vegetable crops and causing yield losses. So management of root knot nematode is important. Among the many management strategies major emphasis is on biological management of root knot nematode through Pasteuria penetrans and entomopathogenic nematodes.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Continuing Education, Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Intersts: Skill Development
Research Intersts: An accomplished software engineer specialization in object oriented design and analysis with extensive experience in the full life cycle of software design process including requirement definition, analysis, proof of concepts, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance. Process expertise in object oriented analysis / design at problem statement to well determine design. Conceptual model, Normalization completeness, Quantitative parameters Software quality assurance characteristics such as Functionality, Reliability, Usability, Maintainability, Efficiency, and Portability. Reverse engineering, Forward engineering, Program restructuring, Software refactoring. Economics feasibility such as Line of Code, Function Point, Constructive Cost Model 1, Constructive cost Model 2, New Line of Code, Technical Feasibility, Operational Feasibility, Schedule Feasibility, Process Models, Component based development, Risk analysis and management, Software metrics, Graphics systems, Object Oriented Analysis / Object Oriented Design (UML, DFD, Pattern, Refactoring, Model and system level testing). Software expertise includes Rule Master, Rational Rose, MS Visio, Erwin, VB 6.0, and Java.
Position & Department: Chairman/Lecturer, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Constitutional development in Pakistan: Constitution plays key role in the development of country. It reflects the political philosophy of a nation. So far Pakistani nation is experience in third constitution will lot of amendments. We are not yet clear about the role and place of Islam in the constitution. We are still confused about the federation or confederation. To what extant the powers should be transfer to the provinces? Unprecedented constitutional history of Pakistan is very unique and complexed as well.
Research Intersts: The focus of my research interest is in the environmental sociology to study different environmental problems like; Climate change, Urbanization, domestic/solid waste disposal, patterns of land use changes, toxic chemicals, soil loss, forest cover etc. in the rural areas. I am interested to study their socio economic impacts, gender roles to control these problems and their relationship with agriculture. I am also interested in the application of GIS for understanding the socio-economic and environmental conditions in the rural areas.
Research Intersts: Food product development and improvement with the application of Food Biotechnology is the main area of entrust. However functional foods, food safety, processing of plant materials and Nutrition are also under focus. Soy products possess significant nutritional potential to meet the nutritional deficiencies of Pakistani population; therefore, the development of products with modified flavor to meet the requirements of this community will help the popularization of these products in Pakistan.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Fibre Technology, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology
Research Intersts: Department of Fibre and Textile Technology is the sole depart all over the country and offering Master level degree program in textile fibre sciences, which covers the entire textile sector in particularly in spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing and applications of advanced techniques on synthetic fibre technology. My current area of interests are focused on applications of modern techniques applied on Natural as well as Synthetic Fibres and their end products.
Research Intersts: Molecular Plant Pathology, Plant-Phytophthora Interactions, Protein Expression and Purification, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Plant Biotechnology, Plant disease etiology
Research Intersts: Mushrooms are rice source of proteins and proteins are the part of nutrients which are very important of growth of body because it play very vital role to build up the damage body parts for its repairement. Malnutrition is a great problem in developing countries like Pakistan. Its economy is mainly dependent on agriculture. My current focus is to provide sufficient mushroom food to people and to alleviate poverty from our country as edible fungi are natural recycler which converts lignocelluloses wastes into protein rich health food.
Research Intersts: Clothing & Textile
Research Intersts: Rural Development, Population Studies, Climate Change, Food Security, Gender Studies, Rural Sociology, Migration, Education.
Research Intersts: My current interest is focused on developing statistical models according to the land fertility patterns and increasing precision through modeling.
Position & Department: Lecturer, , Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Applied Statistics (Survey Designing, Time Series Analysis, Operational Research, and Demography).
Research Intersts: Rice is the major crop of the world especially in the Asia. In Pakistan it comes second after the wheat It is therefore imperative to develop advanced production technology to enhance the productivity of rice in this region .I am the member of the research group in department of Agronomy working on production Agronomy of major crops and cropping systems .My focus of research is the sowing techniques ad methodology of sowing rice. My area of interest is to evaluate and promote direct seeding culture in rice because it avoids lot of penalties entailed on raising, transporting and transplanting of rice nursery in transplanted rice.
Research Intersts: Research focuses on the best bet management practices for enhancing efficiency of NPK, fertilizer placement. Integrated nutrients management and their impact on crops under water deficit conditions. Physiological processes that determine the crop growth, development and yield. Mitigating the impact of drought stress on crops through exogenous application of different osmoprotectants/ osmolytes. Keeping in view the changing climate and late sowing wheat in rice-wheat and cotton-wheat cropping system, recent research focus is induction of thermotolerance in wheat by application of silicon and hydrogen peroxide.
Position & Department: Administrative Officer, Institute of Soil & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: HRM/HRD. Understanding the behavioral changes of workforce. Measurement and evaluation the role of Human capital in the success of an organizations.
Research Intersts: Artificial Intelligence (A.I), Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Position & Department: Lecturer, Institute of Business Management Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Intersts: High performance work system, Leadership, Organization innovation, Organizational performance, Integrated marketing Communications.
Research Intersts: My research interests include Generalized Linear Mixed Models, Multivariate Techniques & Analysis, Design & Analysis of Experiments, Econometrics, Statistical Modeling & Computing, R & LaTeX and Machine Learning. I have also developed three Statistical Softwares/Packages and three LaTeX Packages for Researchers. The first Statistical Software is DiallelAnalysisR which performs the Diallel Analysis and the second one is StroupGLMM which includes R functions and data sets for Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Modern Concepts, Methods and Applications by Walter W. Stroup and the third one is VetResearchLMM which includes R functions and data sets for Linear Mixed Models - An Introduction with Applications in Veterinary Research by Duchateau, L. and Janssen, P. and Rowlands, G. J..
Research Intersts: Farm machinery, instrumentation & machine automation, solar energy, environmental effects of machines, GIS.
Research Intersts: Farm Machinery, Solar Energy
Research Intersts: To exploit plant molecular biology and chloroplast transformation tools for a) Gene expression profiling and development of transgenic crops resistant to different biotic and abiotic stresses, b) Genetic characterization of existing gene pool of fruit and vegetable crops and c) Using tissue culture tools for crop improvement
Research Intersts: Agronomy, Advanced Production Technology of Sugar Crops, Management of crop nutrition, Seed science and technology, Crop Management on problem soils. Bio-fertilizers, Integrated use of organic and inorganic sources of plant nutrition.
Position & Department: Lecturer, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Molecular characterization of disease resistance genes in plants, in particular, identification of novel resistance genes against plant viruses. I am also interested to improve and exploit the variation in the germplasm.
Position & Department: , Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Insect biodiversity and systematics
Research Intersts: Biodiversity of Whitefly. Identification of different species of Whitefly on morphological and molecular basis.
Position & Department: Associate Professor/Manager Research Operations, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture
Research Intersts: Crop Nutrition Management of crops ,Role of macro and micro-nutrients in the improving the quality and yield of major and minor crops, Agronomy of cropping systems for enhancing yield of crops.
Research Intersts: Integrated Pest Management
Position & Department: Lecturer/Lecturer, , Sub-Campus Toba Tek Singh
Position & Department: Database Administrator /Steno Grapher, Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Social Sciences
Research Intersts: Insect Toxicology and biochemistry
Research Intersts: My research focus in on conservation agronomy and cropping system research with special emphasis on field crops and the management practices for plants and soils to address agricultural and environmental challenges. In addition, agronomy of fodder crops and to develop economically viable, highly productive and sustainable non-legume and legume forages sustainable for general adoption by the grower particularly the small growers of the country is also being emphasized.
Position & Department: Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences
Research Intersts: Crop growth and production is severely affected by various abiotic and biotic factors. Of various abiotic stresses, drought, salinity and temperature stresses are much common. Various strategies are used to enhance crop salt tolerance. These are including screening methods, genetic engineering and shot-gun approaches. In shot-gun approaches application of various compounds like compatible solutes, plant growth regulators and various inorganic fertilizers. My main focus is to study the effect of various shot-gun approaches on crop growth under abiotic stresses especially under drought and salt stress conditions.
Research Intersts: My current research is focused on tolerance induction by the use of exogenous application of plant growth regulators on oilseed rape species under various abiotic