Date of Birth:
December 7, 1935
Nationality:
Pakistani /Canadian
Present Address: Adviser
Science, COMSTECH,
COMSTECH Secretariat,
3-Constitution Avenue,
G-5/2, Islamabad-44000,
Pakistan
Tele: 92 51 9220681-83
Fax: 92 51
9211115/9205264/9220265
E-mail:
anwar_nasim@yahoo.com
Education:
Ph.D. (Biochemical Genetics, 1966)
Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K.
M.Sc. (Botany, 1957) Punjab University,
Pakistan.
Employment Record:
Aug.1996 - todate Adviser
Science, COMSTECH,
3-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad
1994-1996 Executive
Secretary, Pakistan Academy of Sciences,
3-Constitution Avenue, G-5/2, Islamabad--44000,
Pakistan.
1989-1993 Principal
Scientist and Head, Molecular Genetics Group, Biology and
Medical Research Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
1973-1989 Senior
Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa,
CANADA.
1978-1979 A year of
Sabbatical Leave at Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany,
and the Biology Department of Stanford University, California
USA.
1966-1973 Research
Officer, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Chalk River, CANADA.
Teaching Experience: Lecturer
(1957-1962) Govt. College, Multan and Lahore.
Adjunct Professor (1983-1989) Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Univ. of Ottawa.
Adjunct Professor (1984-1989) Department
of Biology Carleton University, Ottawa.
Research Publication: More than one
hundred Scientific papers published in prestigious
international Journals World wide since 1965.
Editorial Experience: Member,
Editorial Board, Mutation Research (1975-1981)
Member, International Editorial Board
“Journal of Genetics and Molecular Biology”, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
(1991-Present)
Member, Editorial Board “Eubios Journal of
Asian and International Bioethics” Japan. (1994-Present)
Member, Editorial Board “Journal of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology” (1995).
Overseas Member, Editorial Board
“Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences”.
Member, Editorial Board “Pakistan Journal
of Microbiology”.
Research Interests: DNA repair
mechanism and mutational processes in microbes. Mutagenicity Testing
of Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens.
Teaching Experience and Involvement with
Universities:
A. Teaching: Research
Supervisor for several Master’s and Ph.D. students at Carleton
University, University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Canada.
External Examiner for several M.Sc. and Ph.D
Thesis in Canadian Universities
Member of Teaching Faculty and Organizing
Committee for the two courses on “Recombinant DNA Methodology” held
in Ottawa, Canada in 1981 and 1982
B. Research: Ph.D.,
Edinburgh University, worked with Prof. C. Auerbach, FRS, on the
problems of chemical mutagenesis, heteroduplex repair and unstable
genes in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
1963-1966.
At the Biology and Health Physics Division of
Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories on the questions related to
radiation-induced mutations and DNA repair in yeast, Postdoctoral
year. 1966-1967
Independent research at Chalk River Nuclear
Laboratories. Supervised summer students, graduate student and one
Postdoctoral Fellow. 1967-1973
Research on various aspects of the mechanisms of
mutagenesis, heteroduplex repair and unstable genes in yeast at
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1973-July 1989.
Research studies related to gene transfer within
different yeasts. This approach involved the techniques of strain
improvement, protoplast fusion, transformation and gene cloning.
International Involvement’s:Invited by
Government of Pakistan to work at Nuclear Institute, Faisalabad,
Pakistan in 1981 and at Center for Advanced Molecular Biology,
Punjab University, Lahore Pakistan in 1985.
Member of Teaching Faculty of the UNESCO
Regional Training Course on Gene cloning held in Singapore, 1983.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the
International Symposium on DNA repair, Mutation and Human III Health
held in Ottawa, Canada. 1978
International Coordinator and Member of the
Executive Committee for the XVI International Congress of Genetics,
Toronto, Canada 1988.
Professional Committees: For several years
Member of the Committee on Environmental Mutagenesis of the Genetics
Society of Canada.
Chairman Committee on Environmental Mutagenesis
of the Genetic Society of Canada, 1976-1977.
Member of the Committee on “Biotechnology and
Genetic Engineering” of the Genetics Society of Canada. 1981-1982
Chairman of the Committee on “Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology” of the Genetics Society of Canada. 1982-1983
Secretary, Canadian National Committee for the
International Union of Biological Sciences (CNC-IUBS) (1985-86)
