Conferences
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
- 2018 Invited Keynote Speaker at “3rd International Symposium on Advances in Molecular Biology of Plants and Health Sciences” at CEMB, Punjab University on 19-21 December 2018. Title of talk: “Drosophila kinome and genome-wide RNAi screens reveal novel regulators of epigenetic cellular memory”
- 2018 Invited Speaker at ETH Zurich, Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, Basel, Switzerland. Title of talk: “Quest to identify novel regulators of trithorax group through reverse genetics in Drosophila”. August 29th, 2018.
- 2018 Poster Presentation at EMBL Conference: Transcription and Chromatin held on August 24th-28th at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. Title of poster: “Interplay between different chromatin modifying complexes to maintain epigenetic cell memory”.
- 2018 Invited Speaker in “The Fascination of Plant Genome Dynamics Symposium at St John’s School, University of Cambridge, UK. Title of talk: “Drosophila kinome and genome-wide RNAi screens reveal novel regulators of epigenetic cellular memory”. August 18th, 2018
- 2018 Invited Speaker at The Babraham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK. Title of talk: “Drosophila kinome and genome-wide RNAi screens reveal novel regulators of epigenetic cellular memory”. August 17th, 2018
- 2018 Invited Speaker at National Police Academy Sihala, Rawalpindi. Title of talk: “Creating leaders and leadership”. June 12th, 2018
- 2018 Invited Speaker at Multan Medical and Dental College, Multan. Title of talk: Expanding Horizons of Science: Should we mix religion with medicine”. June 26th, 2018.
- 2018 Invited Speaker at Bahaudin Zakariya University. Title of talk: “SRI: High economic returns and huge water savings in rice: a viewpoint from rice fields” June 2018.
- 2018 Invited Speaker at PCSIR Laboratories, Lahore. Title of talk; “Expanding Horizons of Science: Should we mix religion with medicine”. May 28th, 2018.
- 2018 Invited Speaker at Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore. Title of talk; Expanding Horizons of Science: Should we mix religion with medicine”. May 5th, 2018.
- 2018 Invited Speaker at Chemical Engineering Department, PU on March 3rd, 2018. Title of talk: Quest for Cell and Molecular Basis of Cure using Sounds and Vibrations.
- 2018 Invited Speaker at Lahore Grammar School Defense Phase 5, Boys Section. Title of talk: Biotechnology applications and implications. February 29th, 2018.
- 2018 Invited Speaker at Lahore Grammar School Defense Phase 2, Girls Section. Title of talk: Biotechnology applications and implications. February 2nd, 2018.
- 2017 Invited Speaker: Insecticide and Herbicide Resistance: a farmer’s viewpoint. Workshop on Food Security, Safety and Sustainability: exploiting synergies to optimize impact HUB held on Oct 27th, 2017 at SBA School of Science and Engineering, LUMS; Jointly organized by University of Swansea, UK, Punjab Agricultural Research Board and Dept. Biology, LUMS.
- 2017 Focal Person: Workshop on Food Security, Safety and Sustainability: exploiting synergies to optimize impact HUB. Jointly organized by University of Swansea, UK, Punjab Agricultural Research Board and Biology, LUMS ON Oct 27th, 2017 at SBA School of Science and Engineering, LUMS.
- 2017 Invited Speaker at Lahore Grammar School Defense Phase 5, Boys Section. Title of the talk: Life: from Bacteria to Humans. September 29th, 2017.
- 2015 Tech Connect World Innovation Conference. July 14th-17th, 2015 at Washington, DC. Poster title: Preparation & Investigation of nano-carbonated hydroxyl apatite/polymer composite spongy scaffold for biomedical application. (Co-author with S. A. Siddiqui et al.)
- 2015 80th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, 21st century Genetics: Genes at work held on 26th-31st May 2015 at CSHL, US. Poster title: Genome-wide RNAi screen to identify novel factors involved in epigenetic cell memory in Drosophila.
- 2014 Keynote Speaker at 14th Pakistan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Conference” held on Dec 4th-8th at Islamia University Bahawalpur. Title of talk: “Epigenetic cell memory: cell fate establishment and maintenance”.
- 2013 Plenary Speaker “Zain ul Abideen Memorial Lecture at 11th Pakistan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Conference” held on Nov 25th-28th at Punjab University, Lahore. Title of talk: “Quest for novel players involved in epigenetic cell memory in Drosophila”.
- 2012 Invited speaker at “Individuals and groups” Almora, India. An international meeting organized by TATA Institute of Fundamental Research on May 22-31, 2012 at G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Almora, India. Title of Talk: Molecular basis of (epi)genetic variation as a source of acquired traits.
- 2012 Invited speaker at “2nd Workshop on Young Researchers’ Skills Development” on Januray 7th, 2012 at Punjab University, Lahore. Title of talk: How to do Research and develop a successful research program”. Organizers “National Academy of Young Scientists, Pakistan and CEMB, Punjab University.
- 2011 Invited speaker at the 10th Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Symposium held on Nov18th-20th, 2011. Title of the talk: New Frontiers in Cancer Biology: Epigenetic Biomarkers
- 2010 Invited speaker at School of Biological Sciences, Punjab University on Dec 30, 2010. Title of Talk: Epigenetic cellular emory: Polycomb and Trithorax group paradigm in development.
- 2010 Invited speaker at the “Lahore Biotech Cluster meeting held on 15th March 2010 at FCC University, Lahore. Title of the talk: Epigenetics of cellular memory in disease and development
- 2010 Invited speaker at the Shaukat Khanum cancer hospital Jan 27th, 2010. Title of the talk: Epigenetics of cancer
- 2010 Invited speaker at NIBGE, Faisalabad, Pakistan on August 3, 2010. Title of talk: Epigenetic cellular memory in disease and development.
- 2009 Invited speaker at Agha Khan University on July 6th 2009. Title of the talk: “Chaperoning epigenetics: molecular link between Trithorax, Hsp90 and cellular memory”
- 2009 “International Symposium on Systems Biology” held on 5th June 2009 at Congress Centre Basel, Switzerland (poster presentation)
- 2009 “TriRhena Chromatin and Transcription meeting” held on May12th, 2009 at Max Plank Institute of Immunology, Freiburg, Germany
- 2009 “Swiss Drosophila meeting”, held on 25th April 2009 at Centre for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2009 “Molecular Mechanisms in Development and Evolution”, meeting held on 20th -21st March, 2009 at Biocentre, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2008 “Basel Fly club meeting”, held on November 17th, 2008 at BSSE, Basel, Switzerland (Oral presentation).
- 2008 Annual Swiss Drosophila meeting held on April 26th 2008. (Poster presentation)
- 2007 Gordon Research Conference on “Stress Proteins in Growth, Development and Disease” held on 19th to 24th August, 2007 at Magdalena College, Oxford, UK. (Poster presentation)
- 2007 The epigenome network of excellence, “3rd Annual Meeting of EU 6th Framework Programme” held in Stockholm, Sweden from 26th to 29th June, 2007. (Oral presentation and poster presentation)
- 2006 “EMBO fellows meeting” held on 26th-29th May at European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. (Oral presentation and poster presentation)
- 2006 Keystone symposia “Epigenetics and chromatin remodelling in development”. Conference held on 19th to 24th January 2006 at Keystone, Colorado, USA. (Poster presentation)
- 2005 Participation in “Chromatin and Epigenetics Alan Wolffe EMBO Workshop”. Conference held on 19th-22nd June 2005 at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 2003 “Chromatin and epigenetics, Alan Wolffe EMBO Workshop”. Conference held on 19th-22nd June 2003 at Heidelberg, Germany.
- (Oral presentation and poster presentation)
- (Best poster prize awarded for reporting new finding in the field of epigenetics)
- 2002 Friedrich Miescher Annual Meeting at International Conference Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland from 21st-25th September 1999. (Poster presentation)
- 2002 “Epigenetic programming of the genome”. The 12th IMP Spring Conference held on 23rd-25th May 2002 at Vienna, Austria.
- (Poster presentation)
- 2001 Participation at “Chromosome dynamics and expression“. The 14th John Innes Symposium held on 5th-8th Sept 2001 at John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
- 2001 Friedrich Miescher Annual Meeting at International Conference Centre, Saint Moris, Switzerland from 18th-21st September 1999. (Poster presentation)
- 2000 Friedrich Miescher Annual Meeting at International Conference Centre, Brunen, Switzerland from 18th-21st October 2000.
- 1999 Participation at “Chromosomes: domains & dynamics“, IIIeme Cycle Romand En Science Biologiques held on 26th-29th Sept 1999 at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland.
- 1999 Friedrich Miescher Annual Meeting at International Conference Centre, Davos, Switzerland from 18th-21st September 1999. (Poster presentation)