Dr Rabia

Dr. Rabia Naz
Associate Professor
Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University,  Chak Shahzad, Park Road, Islamabad
Impact Factor:  120.621
rabia.naz@comsats.edu.pk
            April 2014- Present Assistant Professor
Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University, Islamabad
Sep 2012 to March 2013 Visiting Research Fellow
Faculty of Agriculture and Environment University of Sydney, Australia
2010-2014 Research Fellow
Four year post graduation research project for Ph.D. under HEC Indigenous Fellowship at Plant Stress Physiology Lab. Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
2009-2010 Internship
NIP (National Internship Programme) in Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
March 2007-March 2008

 

Apprenticeship

PCST (Pakistan council for Science and Technology).

 

Field of specialization Plant stress physiology, Crop Pathology, Plant microbe interaction, Biocontrol, Plant Protection, Plant Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medicinal plants, Plant Stress Physiology,  Crop protection, Plant biochemistry & molecular biology (plant proteomics (1DE, 2DE), gene expression analyses (RT-PCR, qPCR), Biochemical and molecular mechanisms in plants under abiotic & biotic stress tolerance, plant-microbe interaction, plant microbial volatile organic compounds, Phytohormones, Phytochemistry and antimicrobial activities of medicinal plants, Allelopathy  Experimental designs and layout of pot and field experiments, Analysis of data   including Statistix, Correlation, Costate, ANOVA, PDQuestTM 2D analysis software, Image lab for gel detection, CFX Manager (3.0) software for gene expression, ChemDraw Ultra (8.0).
Projects completed 1. Biochemical and Molecular Responses of Maize (Zea mays L.) to Bioformulations Following Inoculation of Fungal Pathogen (PI) (0.5 m HEC).

2. Chemical elicitor application in maize (Zea mays L.) to counteract the effects of drought stress: An intrinsic study on stress related genes and antioxidant defense system (PI) (0.3m COMSATS University Islamabad)

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