Muhammad Shafiq (PhD) Assistant Professor Institute of Agricultural Sciences University of the Punjab New Campus, Lahore Pakistan Cell +92-3006561997 EMAIL [email protected] , [email protected] Education: Ph.D. Biotechnology (2014) NIBGE/QAU Pakistan PhD Thesis entitled “RNA interference based resistance against chilli leaf curl disease complex” M.Sc. (Hons) Horticulture (2005) University of Agriculture Faisalabad, B.Sc. (Hons) Horticulture (2003) University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Research and Academic Experience: Assistant Professor 1-1-2014 to date University of the Punjab Pakistan Lecturer 27-12-2010 to 31-12-2013 University of the Punjab Pakistan Borlauge Fellow 28-09-2013 to 20-11-2013 Texas A&M University USA Visiting Scientist 21-11-2013 to 20-12-2013 University of Arizona USA Research Fellow 05-10-2007 to 15-03-2008 University of Glasgow UK Internship 05-05-2003 to 15-07-2003 Parks and Horticulture Authority Lahore, Punjab Seed Corporation Pakistan, Ali Khan Tareen Farm Lodhran Fellowship Honors and Awards HEC indigenous PhD Fellowship 2006-2010 Travel grant by American Society of microbiology to attend Next Generation sequencing for pathogen surveillance conference at Washington DC 24-27 September 2015 Award of Research Project grant ($12000) entitled Cancer care using Broccoli plant by American institute for cancer Research in 2016 Borlauge Fellowship by the United State department of Agriculture (USDA) 28-09- 2013 to 20-12-2013 HEC IRSIP Fellowship 05-10-2007 to 15-03-2008 for University of Glasgow ICGEB Fellowship for training course in Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Cairo University entitled “Biotic stress in plants” (February 2010) ICGEB fellowship for training course in Abuja Nigeria entitled “plant tissueculture a tool for genetic engineering in plants” (10-21 August 2014) Merit Scholarship by Faisalabad Borad of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Pakistan for achieving excellent mark during SSC (Matric) exams at GHS 343 G.B Toba Tek Singh Award of Research project entitled “Molecular Characterization of Begomoviruses Infecting Solanaceous Crops” by University of the Punjab 2011-2012 Award of Research project entitled “Virus induced gene silencing based genetic screening for the identification of gene involved in geminivirus resistance ” by University of the Punjab 2013-2014 Award of Research project entitled ““Huanglongbing in Pakistan : PCR detection of the Candidatus liberibacter species associated with the disease.”” by Higher Education Comission Award of EMBO Scholarship for EMBO Course "Virus host: partners in pathogenicity" in San Jose, Costa Rica, from 23 - 26 February 2010. Fellowship by International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) to attend Theoretical Course "RNA Structure and Function" on 29 March - 1 April 2010, at Trieste - Italy Award of Research project (0.5 million) entitled “Standardization and identification of Murraya exotica species of Pakistan” by Higher Education Comission Islamabad in the year 2016 Award of Research project entitled “Establishment of disease free guava nursery plants using micro-propagation techniques ” by University of the Punjab 2014- 2015 Award of Research project entitled “Assesement of post harvest quality in broccoli by silencing Ethylene triple response factor (ETR) using floret specific promoter ” by University of the Punjab 2015-2016 Selected Research Publications: 1. Muhammad Shafiq, Shaheen Asad, Yusuf Zafar, Rob W. Briddon and Shahid Mansoor (2010), Pepper leaf curl Lahore virus requires DNA B of Tomato leaf curl New Delhi to cause leaf curl symptoms. Virology Journal 7:367 . 2. Bibi, A., Shafiq, S., Arif, S. Tanveer, A., Manzoor, M.T. and Haider, M.S. (2016). First report of the molecular characterization of the endosymbiont Candidatus portiera Aleyrodidarum from cotton whiteflies collected from Pakistan. International Journal of Agriculture & Biology, DOI: 10.17957/IJAB/15.0083. (Impact Factor: 0.902). 3. Ali, M., Ali, Q., Anwer, S., Khalid, H., Ahmad, A., Ali, A., M Shafiq, S., Haider, M.S., Nasir, I.A. and Husnain, T. (2015). Estimation of correlation among various morphological traits of Coronopus didymus, Euphorbia helioscopia, Cyperus difformis and Aristida abscensionis. New York Science Journal, 8(4): 47-52. 4. Khalid, H., Ali, Q., Anwer, S., Ali, M., Ahmad, A., Ali, A., M. Shafiq, S., Haider, M.S., Nasir, I.A. and Husnain, T. (2015). Biodiversity and correlation studies among various traits of Digeria arvensis, Cyperus rotundus, Digitaria adescendense and Sorghum halepense. New York Science Journal, 8(4): 37-42. 5. Anwer, S., Ali, Q., Ali, M., Khalid, H., Ahmad, A., Ali, A., M Shafiq, S., Haider, M.S., Nasir, I.A. and Husnain, T. (2015). Assessment of association among various morphological traits of Euphorbia granulate, Euphorbia hirta, Fumaria indica and Parthenium hysterophorus. Nature and Science, 13(5): 47-51. 6. Muhammad Ilyas. Kiran Nawaz. Muhammad Shafiq. Muhammad Saleem Haider. Ahmad Ali Shahid (2013) Complete nucleotide sequences of two begomoviruses infecting Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) from Pakistan, Arch Virol. 2013 Feb;158(2):505-10 7. Muhammad Tariq Manzoor. Muhammad Ilyas. Muhammad Shafiq. Muhammad Saleem Haider. Ahmad Ali Shahid, Rob W Briddon (2014) A distinct strain of Chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus (genus Mastrevirus, family Geminiviridae) identified in leaf curl disease affected cotton plant Arch Virol DOI 10.1007/s00705-013-1911- 4 8. Ruqeyah Abdul Majeed, Ahmad Ali Shahid, Gulraze Ahmad Liaqat, KAMRAN SALEEM, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Shafiq, and. Muhammad Saleem Haider (2016) First Report of Setosphaeria rostrata Causing Brown Leaf Spots of Rice in Pakistan Plant Disease, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-02-16-0220-PDN 9. Nafisa, Amna Shoaib , Muhammad Shafiq and Arshad Javaid (2016) Effect of Sclerotium rolfsii on Uptake of Heavy Metal Copper in Pea (Pisum sativum L.) International Journal of Agriculture & Biology DOI: 10.17957/IJAB/15.0226 10. Sehrish Mushtaq, Muhammad Shafiq, Ummad Hussain, Muhammad Asim, Muhammad Saleem Haider (2016) First report of Pantoea agglomerans associated with Barnyard grass (Echinochloa crusgalli L.) in Pakistan Plant Disease (Submitted) 11. Sehrish Mushtaq, Fakhra Shamim, Muhammad Shafiq, Muhammad Slaeem Haider (2014) Effect of Whitefly Transmitted Geminiviruses on the Physiology of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) and Tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana L.) Plants Journal of Natural Sciences Research Vol.4, No.9, 12. Bibi, A., M. Shafiq, S. Arif, A. Tanveer, M.T. Manzoor and M.S. Haider, (2016). First report of the molecular characterization of the endosymbiont Candidatus portiera aleyrodidarum from cotton whiteflies collected from Pakistan. Int. J. Agric. Biol., 18: 282‒ 285 13. W. Anwar, M. Shafiq, M. S. Haider, A. Bibi, and S. N. Khan (2013) First report of Cochliobolus australiensis causing leaf spot of Turfgrasses in Pakistan, Journal of Plant Pathology 95 (2), 447-452 14. M. Shafiq, Sehrish Mushtaq, Mukhtar Ahmad, Ayesha Nisar, Mamoona Asif Rehan, Ayesha Bibi, Muhammad Saleem Haider (2016) Molecular Characterization and Evolutionary Genetic Analysis of Tomato Leaf Curl Palampur Virus Infecting Cucurbita pepo L. In Pakistan, Archives of virology (submitted) 15. Uzma Bashir, Sidra Javed, Muhammad Shafiq (2012) Investigation of genetic variability among different isolates of Fusarium solani African Journal of Microbiology Research Vol. 6(24), pp. 5168-5172, 28 June, 2012 16. Arshad Jamal, Idrees Ahmad Nasir, Bushra Tabassum, Muhammad Tariq, Abdul Munim Farooq, Zahida Qamar, Mohsin Ahmad Khan, Nadeem Ahmad, Muhammad Shafiq, Muhammad Saleem Haider, M. Arshad Javed, and Tayyab Husnain (2012) Molecular characterization of capsid protein gene of potato virus X from Pakistan pp. 13854-13857 DOI: 10.5897/AJB11.2978 17. Muhammad Shafiq., Adnan. Yunas, Muhammad Aslam Khan, Asif Ali Khan and Atif Riaz (2006). Correlation Studies in Rosa Species under Faisalabad (Pakistan) Conditions. Journal of Agriculture and Social Sciences 2(1): 58-59. 18. Muhammad Shafiq, Saima Arif, Ayesha Bibi, Muhammad Ali, Shahbaz Ahmad, Muhammad Saleem Haider, Muhammad Tariq Manzoor, Asma Tanveer, Aleem Ahmad (2017) Detection and geographical distribution of Wolbachia endosymbiont in the natural populations of the cotton leafhopper, (Amrasca devastans Dist.) in Pakistan Pakistan Entomologist (Accepted) Articles: Haider M. S. and Shafiq M. (2011) Cotton leaf curl disease, a potential threat to Pakistan Cotton. The Agricultural News Vol. 1, Page 1 National/International conferences and proceedings: Muhammad Saleem Haider, Fasiha Qureshi, Muhammad Ilyas, Muhammad Shafiq (2013) Characterization of begomoviruse isolated from a weed Sonchus oleraceus (Sowthistle) from Pakistan, at The 7th International Geminivirus Symposium & 5th International ssDNA Comparative Virology Workshop Hangzhou, China. November 3-9, 2013 Muhammad Shafiq (2014) Title: Molecular characterization of new variant of tomato leaf curl palampur virus infecting Cucurbita pepo in Pakistan. Presentation at the The 37th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan November 25 (Tue.) -27 (Thu.), 2014 Yokohama Japan Muhammad Shafiq (2014) Oral presentation at the International Conference on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 17-19 April 2014, Vienna, Austria Muhammad Shafiq (2012) The role of Cauliflower mosaic virus P6 protien in modulating Auxin signaling pathways oral presentation at 10th Australasian Plant Virology Workshop (10th APVW) 19-22 November 2012 Hanmer Springs,
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