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DETAILED SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Monday 25 November, 2013
Vice-Chancellor, University of the Punjab, Lahore M. Iqbal Choudhary H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Session I (Venue: Al-Razi Hall) Clinical Genetics and RNA Interference School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Shool of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore The genetics of moderate to severe hearing loss in Pakistan Sadaf Naz, Ayesha Imtiaz , Rasheeda Bashir, Ghulam Mujtaba, Azra Maqsood, Robert J Morell and Thomas B Friedman Use of RNA interference to generate broad spectrum resistance against M. Zia-Ur-Rehman , U. Hameed, M.J. Iqbal, M.S. Haider and J.K. Brown A study on molecular genetics of microcephaly Association of SOD2 gene polymorphism with noise induced hearing Relationship of human papilloma virus with trismus in chewable tobacco Zile Rubab, Arsalan Manzoor Mughal, Saeeda Baig, Mohammad Antiviral effect of Phoenix dactylifera, Ficus carica, Prunus armeniaca and Amlook extracts on hepatitis C virus propagation in huh-7 cell line Antioxidant activity of Rosa damascena flowers, Cichoriumintybus roots and their mixture on gentamicin-induced nephrotoxicity in albino rabbits Gln223Arg in LEPR gene as a novel predictor of urothelial bladder cancer susceptibility Inhibition of dengue virus2 in mammalian cell culture by synthetic small interfering RNAs targeting highly conserved sequences Ummar Raheel and Najam us Sahar Sadaf Zaidi Concurrent Session II (Venue: IBB Auditorium) Protein Engineering and Characterization Dynamics in electron transfer complex studied by NMR, X-ray crystallography and Monte Carlo simulations Qamar Bashir, Alexender N. Volkov, Jonathan A. R. Worrall, G. Matthias Ullmann and Marcellus Ubbink Prebiotic galacto-oligosaccharides produced by tansgalactosylation of lactose using β-galactosidases from lactobacilli Sanaullah Iqbal, Thu-Ha Nguyen, Thomas Maishberger, Dietmar Intracellular dextransucrase: characterization of a unique glucosyltransferase from leuconostoc mesenteroides X-Ray diffraction analysis of lipase crystals from Geobacillus SBS-4S Muhammad Tayyab, Naeem Rashid, Sehrish Firyal, Muhammad Wasim, Quantitative proteomic analysis of post translational modifications in Saadia Zahid , Michael Oellerich , Abdul R Asif and Nikhat Ahmed Recombinant production and characterization of protein antigens of Functional characterization of truncated version of putative endo- xylanase Xyn10B from Acidothermus cellulolyticus 11B Saher Shahid, Razia Tajwar, Sajjad Ahmad and M. Waheed Akhtar Directed evolution of Clostridium phytofermentans endoglucanase for Sajjad Ahmad, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Yi-Heng Percival Zhang HBV immunization: engineering the synonymous hepatitis B surface antigen in Kluyveromyces lactis expression system Hajra Sadia, Sajjad Asif, Sanila Amber and Miriam Kathleen Gomez Concurrent Session III (Venue: Institute of Chemistry Auditorium) Signal Transduction and Biocatalysis Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors play distinct roles in the differentiation of trophoblast stem cells Comparative gene expression profiling study of cells expressing the Naveed Shahzad, Tarik Gheit,Hernandez-Vargas Hector orence, Rosita Accardi and Massimo Tommasio Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol attenuates haloperidol-induced deficits in food intake, memory and serotonin metabolism in rat hypothalamus Farhat Batool, Asad Hussain Shah, Syed Dilnawaz Ahmed and In-vitro R7BP interaction with RGS11 is activated by Gαoa Yasar Saleem, Key-Sun Kim, Shaista Nawaz and Quratulain Syed A flash on novel cyclodextrinase activity possessed by pullulanase from Nasir ahmed, Naeem Rashid, M. Saleem Haider, Muhammad Akhtar Structure-function analysis of MuSK during the formation of complex Genome-wide analysis of cytosine- DNA methylation, the transcriptional regulation and genes expression in rice (Oryza sativa. L) plant for salt and drought stress. Fiaz Ahmad, Ji Huang and Hong-Sheng Zhang Nickel metal stress tolerance in Cenhrus cilliaris, a cholistan desert perennial grass, and associated changes in expression of antioxidant Asma Yaqoob, Muhammad Shafiq Choudhry and Faiz-ul Hassan Nasim Analysis of Swine H1N1 viral interactions with human SA-a-2, 6-Gal receptor Zaira Rehman, Rehan Zafar, Uzma Amir, UmerHasan Khan Niazi Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Designed peptide nanosystems: vehicles for targeted and tumor drug delivery Virander S. Chauhan International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore Symposium: Diagnosis and Therapeutics of Ttuberculosis (Venue: Al-Razi Hall) Interrogating host-pathogen crosstalk by charting metabolic perturbations: implications for understanding virulence Kanury V.S. Rao International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Diagnostic biomarkers for active tuberculosis in blood Tuberculosis: challenges for control and elimination Vitamin D accelerates clinical recovery from tuberculosis: results of the SUCCINCT study supplementary cholecalciferol in recovery from tuberculosis Zahra Hasan, Nisar Rao, Nawal Salahuddin, Farheen Ali, Masooma Aqeel and Faisal Mahmood 14:00-16:00 Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Session IV: (Venue: Al-Razi Hall) Biomarkers Discovery and Therapeutics I National Center for Proteomics, University of Karachi, Karachi Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, NUST, Islamabad Exploring proteins in health and disease using proteomics approach National Center for Proteomics, University of Karachi, Karachi angiotensogen genes polymorphisms in diabetes and nephropathy Syed M Shahid, Rozeena Shaikh, Qaisar Mansoor, Muhammad Ismail, Study of protein bio-markers in diabetes mellitus type 2 and role of To determine level of high sensitivity C reactive protein as a marker in coronary heart diseases in middle age individuals Nadia Haleem, Rubina Nazli, Nabila Sher Mohammad Genetic polymorphism/mutation in development of human amyloid precursor protein isoform: a therapeutic target in the Alzheimer’s Breaking the physical interaction between CRD-BP and its RNA targets GLI1 and MDR1 Serodiagnostic evaluation of multi-epitope fusion proteins of Concurrent Session V (Venue: IBB Auditorium) Clinical Genetics and Proteomics Chair: Relationship of body iron status with acute myocardial infarction Mohammad Perwaiz Iqbal Depression and anxiety in women with polycystic ovary syndrome from Importance of molecular epidemiology to control rabies Zaheer Hussain, Muhammad Saleem Haider, Zafar Ul Ehasan Qureshi, Recurrent mutations in functionally-related EDA and EDAR genes underlie X-linked isolated hypodontia and autosomal recessive Zahid Azeem, Syed Kamran-Ul-Hassan Naqvi, Muhammad Ansar, Abdul Wali, Abdul Khaliq Naveed, Ghazanfar Ali, Muhammad Jawad Hassan, Muhammad Tariq, Sulman Basit, Wasim Ahmad Apolipoprotein E polymorphism and diabetic nephropathy Sehrish Fatima, Syed M. Shahid, Obaid Y. Khan, Frederic Fumeron, Identification and characterization of protein markers in chronic myeloid Leukemia Iram Fatima, Saima Sadaf and M. Waheed Akhtar NMR structure of protein NP_888769.1, a phage-related protein in the Atia-tul-Wahab, M. Iqbal Choudhary, Kurt Wüthrich, Pedro Serrano, and Micheal Geralt Concurrent Session VI (Venue: Institute of Chemistry Auditorium) Plant Biotechnology I Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Delignification of agricultural residues by enzymes extract from trametes versicolor IBL-04 for bioethanol production Muhammad Asghar, Zanib Ahmad and Muhammad Bilal Genetic diversity in indigenous food legumes of Pakistan through molecular markers – challenges and opportunities Ageratum enation virus – a begomovirus of weeds with the potential to infect crops Muhammad Tahir, Imran Amin, Saleem Haider, Shahid Mansoor and Cyanobacteria in agro-biotechnology: a glimpse on mechanisms, Biotechnological approaches for exploitation and genetic improvement Asad Hussain Shah, Syed Dilnawaz Ahmed, Shazia Arif , Uzma Arif Association of PPO activities with molecular markers and yellow rust resistance in diverse bread wheat genotypes Azfar Ali Bajwa, Ahmad Ali, Tariq Mahmood, Tehseen Rubbab, Pathogenesis-related protein expression in the apoplast of wheat leaves following application of plant extract bioformulations is associated with protection against black rust (Puccinia triticina) Rabia Naz, Thomas H Roberts, Asghari Bano and David Guest Video Lecture (Venue: Al-Razi Hall) A structural genomics approach towards understanding proteins involved in inflammation Jade Forwood ARC Future Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Stuart University, Wagga Wagga 2650, Australia Wednesday 27 November 2013
Ata ur Rahman Lecture Foods as antiglycation agents: possible therapy for diabetes mellitus School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom Department of Zoology , University of Punjab, Lahore Concurrent Session VII (Venue Al-Razi Hall) Biomass and Biofuels Institute of Chemistry, University of Punjab, Lahore Molecular cloning and expression of endoglucanase gene from Thermotoga maritima into E. coli Influence of positioning of carbohydrate binding module on the activity of endoglucanase CelA of Clostridium thermocellum Muhammad Sajjad, M. Imran Mahmood Khan, Rehan Zafar, Sajjad Ahmad, Umar H. K. Niazi and Muhammad Waheed Akhtar Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) production from Enterobacter aerogenes Reema Aslam, Dr.Yasar Saleem, Dr. Faiza Saleem, Dr. Qurat ul ain Comparative assessment of biodiesel production from microalgae Comparison of cellulases production potential of thermophillic Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus sydowii Nazia Mehboob, M. Javaid Asad, M. Gulfraz, M. Asgher and Raja Tahir Development of lignocellulosic biomass for efficient conversion to fermentable sugars and ethanol through genetic engineering Edwin John, Asma Maqbool and Kauser Abdulla Malik Low cost cultivation and harvesting of microalgae for sustainable Highly thermostable 4-α–glucanotransferase from hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum calidifontis VA1: recombinant production and characterization Sumaira Mehboob, Nasir Ahmad and Naeem Rashid Concurrent Session VIII (Venue: IBB Auditorium) Bioinformatics and System Biology Centre of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Peshawar Department of Chemistry, University of the Punjab, Lahore Molecular mechanism of respiration in high altitude birds: primary structure and homology modeling of hemoglobin components from Ghousia Lutfullah, Zahid Khan and Atiya Abbasi Docking of D-alanine:D-alanine ligase from Streptococcus pyogenes with novel class of inhibitors Romana Shah, Ghosia Lutfullah and Noreen Azhar Identification, isolation and phylogenetic analysis of the radical-induced cell death1 (rcd1) homologue in Brassica napus Syeda Qamarunnisa, Sadia Anjum, Saboohi Razaand Abid Azhar Predicting the displacement of water molecules from drug targets - towards physically realistic computational drug design MAPS database: medicinal plants activities, phytochemical and Tahir ul Qamar, Arooj Mumtaz, Tabeer Fatima, Usman Ali Ashfaq DNA barcode analysis of Suaeda species based on rbcL and psbB-psbN- Uzma Munir, Anjum Perveen and Syeda Qamarunnisa Genome-wide analysis of copy-number changes in Pakistani population Syeda Saadia Fatim Ali, Muhammad Ilyas, Zulfiqar Ali Mir, Ziaur Phylogenetic analysis of Hepatitis delta virus isolates from HBsAg positive patients in Karachi, Pakistan Shadab Perveen Concurrent Session IX (Venue: Institute of Chemistry Auditorium) Biomarkers Discovery and Therapeutics II Premenstrual syndrome symptoms (PMS) and prevalence among university students in Karachi, Pakistan Sitwat Zehra, Afsheen Arif, Abid Azhar and Masood Qureshi Genetic polymorphism of GSTM1, GSTP1 in lung cancer patients of Bangladesh p53, p21 and P450 association studies with primary open-angle, primary close-angle and pseudoexfoliation glaucoma in Pakistani patients Sobia Shafique, Shazia Micheal, Farah Akhter, Muhammad Imran, Humaira Ayub, Mehmood Ali, Syeda Hafiza Benish Ali, Moeen Riaz, Liaqat Ali, Shakeel Khan and Raheel Qamar Effect of duration of COCs (combination of ethinyl estradiol (0.03mg) and norgestrel (0.3mg)) on serum lipid profiles, fasting blood sugar, blood pressure and BMI in child bearing age women in Khyber Pukhtun Rubina Nazli, Nabila Sher Mohammad, Mohammad Akmal Khan, Recombinant production and serodiagnostic evaluation of antigens from Molecular epidemiology of subclinical tuberculosis in periurban Sadeem Shahzad, Muhammad Yasir Zahoor, Sehrish Firyal, Muhammad A panel of microsatellite markers for genetic diversity and parentage analysis of dog breeds in Pakistan Muhammad Sajid Tahir, Masroor Elahi Babar, Tanveer Hussain, Mudassar Naseer, Muhammad Haseeb Saeed and Imram Mehmood Genetic diversity among Staph aureus strains isolated from selected Exon 7 novel mutation of TP53 in the patients of oral squamous cell carcinoma Saima Saleem, Abdul Hameed, Mansoor Ahmed Khan, Zubair Abbasi, Navid Rashid Qureshi and Abid Azhar Zainul Abideen Memorial Lecture (Venue: Al-Razi Hall) Transcriptional apparatus of archaea Sohail A. Qureshi The Lahore University of Management Sciences , Lahore Concurrent Session X (Venue: Al-Razi Hall) Stem Cells Technology and Bionanotechnology Islamia University Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur Quest for novel players involved in epigenetic cell memory GnRH neurons generated from the monkey embryonic stem cells (Lyon ES) under the effect of Kisspeptin-10 Tanzeel Huma , Zhengbo Wang, Fiaz Ahmad, Muhammad Shahab, Fusion of SCF engineered mesenchymal stem cells with cardiomyocytes: strategy to enhance cell-based therapy of myocardial Kanwal Haneefa, Nadia Naeemb, Rakshinda Habibb, Siddiqua Jamallb Preconditioning of stem cells for the repair of diabetic myocardium Azra Mehmood, Mohsin Khan, Sadia Mohsin, Shoaib Akhtar, Fatima Ali, Muhammad Ali, Shaheen N. Khan and Sheikh Riazuddin Role for heat shock proteins in stem cells differentiation Zehra Hashim, Ian Davidsion, Evelyn Argo, Shamshad Zarina Virosomes as biomimetic drug delivery carriers Mutafeez Mujtaba Babar and Najam us Sahar Sadaf Zaidi Biological synthesis of silver nanoparticles Sania Arif, Misbah Nazir, Saadia Andleeb, Ayeesha Mujeeb, Faheem Amin and Hussnain A Janju Concurrent Session XI (Venue: IBB Auditorium) Plant Biotechnology II PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi Screening of soybean (Glycine max) nodule Bradyrhizobia from Azad Amanat Ali, Sohail Hameed, Muhammad Shahid, Khadim Hussain and Role of SOD and POD isoforms in thermotolerance of rice (Oryza sativa Muhammad Kazim Ali, Abid Azhar and Saddia Galani Isolation and characterization of ACC deaminase producing bacteria from rhizosphere of Cholistan desert plants Ayesha Ijaz, Muhammad Ashraf, and Faiz-ul Hassan Nasim Bio control of plant diseases using fungal biocontrol agents Exploitation of bioactive potential from a medicinal plant by proteomic approaches Awais Altaf, Leslie M. Hicks, Altaf Hussain and Amer Jamil Antimicrobial potential and biochemical profiling of garlic under fungal Seed yield stability of sunflower (Helianthus annuus l.) hybrids evaluated over different environmental conditions in Pakistan Ecotypic differences in the expression patterns of catalase (CAT) in Farhan Hameed, Saliha Malik, Amtul Ghafir , Sumaira Ali Bukhari, Muhammad Shafiq Choudhry and Faiz-ul Hassan Nasim Concurrent Session XII (Venue: Institute of Chemistry Auditorium) Fast comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography method for vegetable oil fatty acid separation and quantification Asia Nosheen, Blagoj Mitrevski, Asghari Bano and Philip Marriott Horizontal gene transfer through plasmid transport:multiple stress Phenolic profile and the appearance of anthocyanins during developmental stages of Grewia asiatica-a native fruit to Pakistan Saeed, A., Kauser, S., Siddiqui, N.J. and Iqbal, M. Genetic improvement of sugarcane for drought and salinity stress tolerance using Arabidopsis vacuolar pyrophosphatase (AVP1) gene Tanveer Kumar, Uzma, Muhammad Ramzan Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Rapid identification of infection and drug resistance of tuberculosis Aasia Khaliq, Imran H. Khan, M.Waheed Akhtar, M. Nawaz Chaudhary Bacterial isolates of neonatal septicemia and their antibiotic Sequence analysis BMP15 gene in patients of premature ovarian failure Zeenat Usman Antibacterial activities of the crude extract and compound isolated from (Cladosporium carrionii) Abid Ali Khan, Bashir Ahmad and Nafees Bacha Thursday 28 November, 2013

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