The Women University Multan
Faculty Dr. Saadia Ijaz

Faculty

Dr. Saadia Ijaz

Dr. Saadia Ijaz

Assistant Professor

  • Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

  • saadia.6334@wum.edu.pk

  • Doctorate

Summary

Dr. Saadia Ijaz completed her Ph.D. from the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab specializing in Cyanobacterial Research. She has key interest in the role of Cyanobacteria in biotechnology including but not limited to nutraceuticals and pharmaceutically important natural products from cyanobacteria, environmental biosensors, cosmetics, food and biomedical research applications. She is also interested in the harmful aspects of cyanobacteria especially the cyanotoxins. Cyanobacteria are the most fascinating group of gram-negative, beautifully-pigmented prokaryotes that perform oxygenic photosynthesis like that of eukaryotic plants due to the presence of chlorophyll-a and phycobiliprotein which are also responsible for their signature blue-green appearance.

Academic Background
  • Ph.D.

    Doctorate

    University of the Punjab Lahore

    - 2017

  • M.S.

    M.S.

    University of the Punjab Lahore

    - 2008

Honours and Awards
  • Travel Grant Awarded by HEC, Pakistan to attend 22nd edition of international conference on biotechnology: novel trends and advances in biotechnology in Amsterdam, Netherland

    2018

  • Honor Code Certificate awarded by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

    2013

  • HEC-Pakistan International Research Support Initiative Program (IRSIP) Scholarship

    2013

Research
  • Principle investigator. Purification, identification and structure elucidation of anticancer carotenoid from cyanobacteria Nostoc sp. SI-SN against breast cancer cells of triple-negative pathologies. HEC-Start-Up Research Grant Program (SRGP). WUM

    1 year

  • Research Studentship. Role of Bacterial isolates in the Phytoextraction of chromium by Pistia stratiotes and Eichhornia crassipes. Bioremediation of Chromium and Arsenic from Industrial Wastewater, Pakistan-US Science and Technology Cooperation Program, Phase 3. University of the Punjab and University of Oklahoma, USA.

    3 years

Publications
  • Antioxidant potential of indigenous cyanobacterial strains in relation with their phenolic and flavonoid contents

    10.1080/14786419.2015.1053088

  • Biotransformation potential of hexavalent chromium by Bacillus pumilus-S4, Pseudomonas doudoroffii-S5 and Exiguobacterium-S8 in association with hydrophytes

    10.1007/s13762-013-0226-z

Experience
  • The Women University Multan
    Assistant Professor

    2017 to date

  • University of the Punjab Lahore
    Research Scholar

    3 years

  • University of the Punjab Lahore
    Research Scholar

    2 years

  • MMG, University of the Punjab, PAK-USA project
    Research Studentship

    1 year

  • University of the Punjab Lahore
    Teacher Assistant

    2 years