About me
After obtaining an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Peshawar, I worked as a Scientific Officer at the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan. I then proceeded to USA to work towards my Ph.D in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA.
During my stay in the US I worked as a Research Assistant at the Department of Biochemistry, University of North Texas and as a Research Associate at the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. After completing my Ph.D. I came back to Pakistan and joined Dr. A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories as a Senior Scientific Officer and was subsequently promoted to the position of Principal Scientific Officer. From 1998 to 2001 I worked for a while, with Dr. Chris Tyler-Smith at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK in the lab of Prof. E.M. Southern. In 2002 I joined Shifa College of Medicine as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and in 2003 was promoted to the post of Associate Professor & also appointed as the Director of PCR Labs. In 2004 I was appointed as the Research Director of Shifa College of Medicine. In 2005 I joined COMSATS University as Professor of Biosciences and also served as the Chair of the Department of Biosciences till 2008 when I was appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences. In the meanwhile I am continuing to serve as the Research & PCR Lab Director at the Shifa College of Medicine.....Read more
“Huanglongbing (Citrus Greening) A Major Threat to Citrus in Pakistan”.
Chohan, S., Holford, P., Beattie, A., Ahmad I., Ullah, F. and Qamar, R.
Introduction - Citrus decline: Citrus decline has been recognised in Pakistan for decades and adversely affects the general health of plants. The problem is widespread and is variously attributed to edaphic factors such as heavy clay soils, high water tables and inadequate drainage, deficiencies in trace elements or deleterious actions of a range of fungal pathogens or nematodes. While these causes of decline do affects citrus orchards in Pakistan, it is likely that the main cause of decline is due to a bacterial disease called huanglongbing (HLB), more commonly referred to as citrus greeting in Pakistan.
J.A. Mono- and Bi-Cistronic Chimeric mRNAs in *Arabidopsis* and Rice Genomes
Shahmuradov, I.A., Abdulazimova, A.U., Solovyev, V.V., Qamar, R., Chohan, S.N. and Aliyev
Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, (in press, June 2010)
“Population Genetics”
1st CIIT Science Conference. Organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, CIIT Abbottabad Campus, Abbottabad, 28th-29th July, 2009.
1st CIIT Science Conference “BICMAPE-2009”.
Organized by the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology at CIIT Abbottabad Campus, 28th-29th July, 2009.