Passionate, enthusiastic and dedicated scientist and keen researcher earned her degree from prestigious Institute of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. She has worked in the lab of Prof Dr Shahida Hasnain & Dr Mehboob Ahmed in MMG, PU and Prof. Murray Grant lab in School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK. She has worked on the fastidious Phyllospheric bacterial diversity, Bacterial and Fungal Consortium, Bacterial & Fungal Derivatives, Colonization Pattern of GFP Labelled microbes, and Microbial and Plant Metabolites, Hydrolytic Enzymes and effect of microbial bio-factories on plants in field trials. She is good in Sensitivity Testing, Confrontation assay, Re-watering assay, Imaging, CLSM, LC-MS. She is also interested in in-silico and in-vitro metabolic profiling of bacteria and plants and modelling of compounds. Research interest are Phyllosphere Microbiology, Microbial diversity, Metagenomics, Metabolomics, Proteomics, Fungal-Bacterial-Plant Interaction, Agricultural Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Applied Microbiology, Secondary Metabolites, in-silico natural product discovery.

• PhD

  Doctorate

  Institute of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore

  - 2021

• MPhil

  Post graduate

  Institute of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore

  - 2013

• 2nd Position in all Punjab Debate competition

  2002

• 3rd Position in Scientific Model Competition

  2004

• Merit-Based Scholarship, MMG, PU

  November 2011

• Selected as president of CBS for consecutive 4 years, MMG, PU

  March 2015 – October 2019

• Faculty Development Program Scholarship awarded by HEC

  December 2013

• Research scholarship awarded by the Higher Education commission (HEC) of Pakistan under, International research support initiative programme (IRSIP)

  January 2018 to July 2018