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Dr. Fouzia Tanveer Mirza                                                                       

Senior Lecturer, department of Biosciences, faculty of Pharmaceutical & Allied health sciences

 

faouzia.dbs@stmu.edu.pk

+92-51-8840600 EXT 714

Profile Summary

Dr. Faouzia Tanveer Mirza is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biosciences, Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad. She holds an M.Phil and a PhD in Biotechnology from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, a Masters in Environmental Sciences and is an IFBA certified professional in Bio-risk Management (BRM). During her PhD, she worked with marine microbes to explore their biosynthetic potential to produce bioactive natural products. She was also a visiting researcher at Institute for Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia on an International Fellowship from Higher Education Commission (HEC). Her current research interests include microbial natural products, microbial metabolomics and plant microbe interaction. She has presented her research work at international conferences held in Dubai (UAE), Amman (Jordan) and Bangkok (Thailand) and published 9 research articles in impact factor journals and 4 book chapters. Besides that, she has undertaken national and international trainings, facilitated in organizing workshops and produced key publications to promote biosafety/biosecurity/bioethics in life sciences. One of her papers received an honorable mention for proposing a multi-dimensional management strategy to improve biosecurity in the low resource countries in a biosecurity competition (2019) held by NextGen Global Health Security (GHS) Network. She is a lifetime member of Pakistan Biological Safety Association (PBSA) and GHS NextGen Network as well as an alumnus of international cultural exchange program conducted by Japan International Cooperation Centre (JICE).

Qualification

PhD Biotechnology Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad 2022
M.Phil Biotechnology Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad 2014
MSc Environmental Sciences Fatima Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi 2011
BSc Botany, Zoology, Chemistry University of Punjab Lahore 2008
Senior Lecturer Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University Islamabad Since – 2022
Visiting Lecturer Abasyn University Islamabad Campus 2021
Research Associate Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad 2014-2016
Chairperson Student Affairs Committee Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad Since – Dec 2022
Administrative & Financial Project Assistant Pakistan Academy of Sciences 2019-2020
 
Certified Professional BRM International Federation of Biosafety Associations (IFBA)
Member Pakistan Biological Safety Association (PBSA)
1. “Honorable Mention” for paper “Integrating Biosecurity in Low Resource/Developing Countries: Multi-dimensional Management Strategy” in Next Generation for Biosecurity Competition (2019)
  1. Microbial Natural Products
  2. Microbial Metabolomics
  3. Plant Microbiomes (role in plant health and disease management)
  4. Bio-Risk Management
  5. Bioethics/Dual Use Education
     
1. Alam, A., Tanveer, F., Khalil, A. T., Zohra, T., Khamlich, S., Alam, M. M., … & Maaza, M. (2021). Silver nanoparticles biosynthesized from secondary metabolite producing marine actinobacteria and evaluation of their biomedical potential. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 1-20.
2. Khan, T., Tanveer, F., & Muhammad, J. (2021). Improving biosecurity in Pakistan: An overview of the current efforts, challenges and recommendations on a multi-dimensional management strategy. Health Security, 19(3), 254-261.
3. Tanveer, F., Shehroz, M., Ali, M., Xie, Y., Abbasi, R., Shinwari, Z. K., & Yasmin, A. (2021). Genome sequence analysis and bioactivity profiling of marine-derived actinobacteria, Brevibacterium luteolum and Cellulosimicrobium funkei. Archives of Microbiology, 1-10.
4. Tanveer, F., Khalil, A. T., Ali, M., & Shinwari, Z. K. (2020). Ethics, pandemic and environment; looking at the future of low middle income countries. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19(1), 1-12.
5. Basharat, Z., Tanveer, F., Yasmin, A., Shinwari, Z. K., He, T., & Tong, Y. (2018). Genome of Serratia nematodiphila MB307 offers unique insights into its diverse traits. Genome, 61(7), 469-476.
6. Rahman, L., Shinwari, Z. K., Iqrar, I., Rahman, L., & Tanveer, F. (2017). An assessment on the role of endophytic microbes in the therapeutic potential of Fagonia indica. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 16(1), 53.
7. Sumaira, Khan, T., Abbasi, B. H., Afridi, M. S., Tanveer, F., Ullah, I., Bashir, S., & Hano, C. (2017). Melatonin-enhanced biosynthesis of antimicrobial AgNPs by improving the phytochemical reducing potential of a callus culture of Ocimum basilicum L. var. thyrsiflora. RSC Advances, 7(61), 38699-38713.
8. Khalil, A. T., Ali, M., Tanveer, F., Ovais, M., Idrees, M., Shinwari, Z. K., & Hollenbeck, J. E. (2017). Emerging Viral Infections in Pakistan: Issues, Concerns, and Future Prospects. Health Security, 15(3), 268-281.
9. Shinwari, Z. K., Tanveer, F., & Khalil, A. T. (2017). Ethical Issues Regarding CRISPR Mediated Genome Editing. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 26, 103-110.