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Dr. Muhammad Zakir Ali
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Multan Road, Vehari-Pakistan. Email: [email protected] Phone: +92 (0) 334 0634526
Personal Details CNIC No: 31101-7206574-1 Date of Birth: November 10, 1980. Place of Birth: Bahawalnagar, Pakistan. Sex: Male. Marital Status: Married. Nationality: Pakistani Education PhD Division of Chemical Ecology, Department of Plant Protection Biology,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp-Sweden. Specialization: Biology esp. Chemical Ecology Duration: 2007-2012
B. Sc. (Hons) Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture (UAF), Faisalabad-Pakistan Subject: Agronomy (Agriculture) Duration: 2002-2006
F. Sc. Govt., Degree College, Bahawalnagar-Pakistan Subject: Pre-Medical Duration: 1996-2001
Matriculation Govt., High School Haroonabad, Bahawalnagar-Pakistan. Subject: Science Duration: 1995-1996
Current and Previous Position Oct 2014 – Present: Assistant Professor (IPFP) in the Division of Biochemistry & Microbiology, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Vehari, Pakistan. Mar 2013 - Sep 2014: Assistant Professor (TTS) in the Department of Plant Sciences, Institute of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, Pakistan. Nov 2007- Nov-2012: PhD Student, Division of Chemical Ecology, Department of Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden.
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Laboratory and data analysis skills l Electrophysiological analyses; GC-MS analyses using DB-Wax and fused SiO2 columns; l Plant volatile collection, Identifications and Applications l Omics data analyses including Metabolomics, Proteomics, Lipidomics data processing and
analyses. l Hematological parameter analyses including CBC, Haemoglobin (Hb), white platelet
counts and targeted biomarkers in smokers; Morphophysiological and histological analyses of chick embryos to targeted heavy metals such as As accumulations.
l Targeted and Non-Targeted Pesticide residual analyses in human blood and milk on HPLC/GCMS. Microbial degradation of Municipal Solid waste and Industrial waste water; Risk assessment of carcinogens in occupational workers and farmers.
l Statistical: Minitab, Prism, R, MATLAB, Various bioinformatics Pipelines. l Electrophysiological, Chemical, Ecological and Behavioural data analyses Teaching l 2013 - 14: Assistant Professor QAU-Islamabad: Involved in teaching Courses at Master
level such as Evolutionary Biology, Plant Physiology, Origin and Diversity of Green Plants, Research Techniques and Instrumentation and Post-graduate level such as Research Planning & Scientific Writing and Stress Physiology.
l 2014 - to date: Assistant Professor CIIT-Vehari: Involved in teaching Courses at Graduate level such as Fundamentals of Biology and Introduction to Statistics Evolutionary Biology and MS level such as Energy and Environment, Environment and Development.
Supervision of MS/MPhil Students l Mr. Waheed Aslam Khan (2014-15). Systematic Assessment of Milk Quality in Vehari:
Evaluation of Public Health Concerns. l Mr. Muhammad Ali Sial (2014-15). Determination of pesticide residues in cattle milk being
produced in District Vehari, Pakistan. l Mr. Muhammad Asim (2014-15). Determination of Heavy Metals Residues in Blood
Samples from Inhabitants of District Vehari. l Ms. Saima Faqir (2014-15). Human health risk assessment of pesticide residues via dietry
intake of market vegetables of District Vehari, Pakistan. l Ms. Shagufta Guljan (2014-15). Effect of cadmium and plant growth promoting
rhizobacteria (PGPR) on potato plant and Spodoptera litura. l Ms. Noreen Aslam (2015-16). Qualitative, quantitative and socioeconomic analyses of
animal feed on dairy milk in Multan region, Pakistan. l Ms. Nida Ahmad (2016-17). Determination of cigrarette smoke induced morpho-
physiological effects in developing chick embryos and adult males. l Ms. Shabana Kouser (2016-17). Prevalences and Risk factors of Hepatitis in city Vehari
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Conferences and Meetings Participation l Oral Presentation: Two days workshop organized by Chemical Ecology Alnarp in
collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Jena from April 14-15, 2008 at Häckeberga, Genarp, Sweden.
l Poster Presentation: Presented poster entitled; Herbivore induced volatiles reduce egglaying in Egyptian cotton leafworm (2009) in the 25th Annual meeting of International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE), Neuchatel, Switzerland.
l Poster Presentation: Presented poster entitled; Identification of oviposition deterring volatiles in Spodoptera littoralis from infested cotton Gossypium hirsutum (2010) in the 26th Annual meeting of International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE), Tours, France.
l Oral Presentation: Two days workshop organized by Chemical Ecology Alnarp in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Jena from Sep 29-30, 2010 at Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden.
l Poster Presentation: Presented poster entitled; Herbivore-induced de novo synthesized volatile compounds in cotton repel oviposition in Spodoptera littoralis (2012): 16th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT)-2012, Stockholm, Sweden.
l Poster Presentation: Presented poster entitled; Herbivore-induced de novo synthesized volatile compounds in cotton repel oviposition in Spodoptera littoralis (2012) in the 14th International Behavioral Ecology Congress (ISBE)-2012, Lund, Sweden.
Language skills l Proficient: English, Urdu and Punjabi · l Basic: Swedish · Extra-curricular Activities l Football (Excellent) l Badminton (Excellent: represented club in Swedish Badminton League) l Travelling and Photography l Running (My favorite activity on weekends) l Tennis (Good) l Good in Vector Graphic Designing i.e., Illustrator and Photoshop
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Publications 1. Zakir, M. A. (2011). Inducible defenses in herbivore-plant interactions: functions
mechanisms and manipulations. Chemical Ecology Unit, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, PhD-Introductory paper ISN 1654-3580 (2011:2). (http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8209/)
2. Zakir, M.A. (2012). Influence of herbivore-induced changes in host plants on reproductive behaviours in Spodoptera littoralis. Chemical Ecology Unit, Department of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, PhD-thesis ISBN 978-91-576-7724-2. (http://pub.epsilon.slu.se/9141/)
3. Ali Zakir, Medhat M. Sadek, Marie Bengtsson, Bill S. Hansson, Peter Witzgall, Peter Anderson (2013). Herbivore-induced plant volatiles provide associational resistance against an ovipositing herbivore. Journal of Ecology, 101, 410-417. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12041. (IF: 5.69)
4. Ali Zakir, Marie Bengtsson, Medhat M. Sadek, Bill S. Hansson, Peter Witzgall, Peter Anderson (2013). Herbivore-induced de novo synthesized volatile compounds in cotton repel oviposition in the moth Spodoptera littoralis. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216, 3257-3263. (IF: 3.3)
5. Mehmood Zaffar, Muhammad Farooq Hussain Munis, Fahd Rasul, Sajid Masood, Syed Waqas Hassan, Muhammad Imran, Wajid Nasim, Ali Zakir, Umar Masood Quraishi and Hassan Javed Chaudhary (2014) Biological assays of plant extracts from Araucaria columnaris and Cycas revolute. Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment, Vol.12 (1): 128-131. (IF: 0.4)
6. Eduardo Hatano, Saveer M. Ahmed, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Martin Strauch, Ali Zakir, Marie Bengtsson, Bill Hansson, Rickard Ignell, Peter Anderson, Paul Becher, Peter Witzgall, Teun Dekker (2015). A herbivore-induced plant volatile interferes with host plant and mate location in moths through suppression of olfactory signalling pathways. BMC Biology (13:75) DOI 10.1186/s12915-015-0188-3 (IF: 7.98)
7. Ali Zakir, Muhammad Khallaf, Bill S. Hansson, Peter Witzgall, Peter Anderson (2016). Herbivore induced changes in host plant modulate reproductive behaviours in the moth Spodoptera littoralis. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00049.
8. Muhammad Farhan Saeed, Mussarat Shaheen, Iftikhar Ahmad, Ali Zakir, Muhammad Nadeem, Arif Ali Chishti, Muhammad Shahid, Khuda Bakhsh, Christos A. Damalas. Pesticide exposure in the local community of Vehari District in Pakistan: An overview. Science of the Total Environment. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.086 (IF=4.33)
9. Ali Zakir, Shagufta Gul Jan, Iftikhar Ahmad, Hafiz Faiq Siddique Gul Bakht, Muhammad Shahid, Hassan Javed Chaudhary, Ghulam Mustafa Shah, Farhan Saeed, Asghari Bano, Faisal Hafeez (2017). Growth promoting rhizobacteria facilitate growth of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants bypassing heavy metal stress and herbivore damage (Plant Biology, Submitted).
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Conference Proceedings 1. Eduardo Hatano, Saveer M. Ahmed, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Martin Strauch, Ali Zakir,
Marie Bengtsson, Bill Hansson, Rickard Ignell, Peter Anderson, Paul Becher, Peter Witzgall, Teun Dekker (2015). Something does not smell right: induced plant volatiles inhibit sensory input and behavioural output in insect herbivores. 24th Annual Meeting of the European-Chemoreception-Research-Organization (March 2015); Chemical Senses (Vol.: 40) (IF: 3.18)
References Prof. Dr. Peter Anderson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 102, S-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden Email: [email protected] Tel (office) +46 40 41 52 99 Tel (mobile) +46 (0) 702 214824 Prof. Dr. Peter Witzgall Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 102, S-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden Email: [email protected] Tel (office) +46 40 46 19 91 Tel (mobile) +46 (0) 702 426939
