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 INVOLVEMENTS

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)