Biography:

Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences and holds the responsibilities as Head of the Department. A dedicated and hardworking academic, Dr. Ibrahim hails from the remote region of Tehsil Jatoi, District Muzaffargarh, Punjab. He has built a distinguished career marked by extensive teaching and research experience. Dr. Ibrahim has been the recipient of multiple research grants funded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan, particularly in the fields of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and the genetic mapping of opportunistic bacteria. His international academic journey includes a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at the Human Genome Centre, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China. His Bachelor is from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, and M.PhIl from Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad. To date, Dr. Ibrahim has published approximately 75 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, with a cumulative impact factor of around 300. His scholarly contributions continue to advance the fields of genomics, microbiology, and bioinformatics, both nationally and internationally

Research Interest: Bioinformatics focusing on Microbial Genome Information Analysis such as Genome Assembly, Genome Annotation, Comparative Genomics, RNA Sequencing and analysis using TopHat, Cufflink, Galaxy and Proteomics, Parallel computing framework for genome analysis. Cloud Computing, Molecular Biology such as Gene Cloning, Transformation, Gene Hybridization, LC-MS/MS, ICP-MS, RT-qPCR, BIOLOG, transmission and scanning electron microscopy.