Skills:   Gene cloning, construct designing, transformation, real-time PCR, microarray, protein/antibody purification, EMSA, ChIP-on-CHIP, TALENs, CRISPR/Cas9 etc Fields of Specialization:   Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Environmental Science; Chemistry; Medicine; Energy; Immunology and Microbiology; Chemical Engineering He has been working on cotton to engineer resistance against Cotton Leaf Curl Virus Disease (CLCuD) using CRISPR/Cas9 and TALENs; CRISPR/Cas based genome editing in plants

Research team

  • Nisar Ahmed

    Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB),University of Agriculture Faisalabad

  • Shingo Goto

    Okitsu Citrus Research Station, NARO Institute of Fruit Tree Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan

  • Sultan Habibullah Khan

    1-Center of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan 2-Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security (CAS-AFS), University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan

  • Yinong Yang

    1-Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University, USA 2-The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA

  • Caixia Gao

    Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology

  • Abhaya M Dandekar

    Department of Plant Science, University of California Davis, USA