Name : Dr. Munawar Saleem
Designation : Assistant Professor
Department : Zoology
Qualification(s) : Ph.D (Molecular Biology) (University of Punjab)
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Email : saleemsbs@uoswabi.edu.pk
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1. Hesham M.Abd El Halim, Baida M. H.Alshukri1, Munawar S.Ahmad, ErichY.T. Nakasu1, Mohammed H.Awwad, Elham M. Salama, Angharad M. R.Gatehouse1 & MartinG. Edwards. RNAi-mediated knockdown of the voltage gated sodium ion channel TcNav causes mortality in Tribolium castaneum. Sci. Rep. 6, 29301; doi: 10.1038/srep29301 (2016) (http://www.nature.com/articles/srep29301 ).
2. Genetic variants in fgfr2 and tnrc9 genes are associated with breast cancer risk in pakistani women. Ayesha Mazhar, Farrukh Jamil, Qamar Bashir, Munawar Saleem Ahmad, Misbah Masood, Imrana Tanvir, Naeem Rashid, Abdul Waheed, Muhammad Naveed Afzal And Muhammad Akram Tariq. Molecular medicine reports 14: 3443-3451, 2016.
3. Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Cry1C Gene Harboring Bacillus thuringiensis From Different Habitats and Localities of Pakistan. Munawar Saleem Ahmad and A.R.Shakoori. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 45(1), pp. 261-271, 2013.(http://zsp.com.pk/pdf45/261-271%20_35_%20PJZ-1218-13%20Munawar-PJZ%201.pdf)
4. Cloning and Molecular Characterization of cry1Ca and cry1Cb Genes from locally isolated Bacillus thuringiensis strains. Munawar Saleem Ahmad and A.R.Shakoori. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, Issue 45(3), pp. 759-778, 2013. (http://zsp.com.pk/pdf45/759-767%20_25_%20PJZ-1356-13%2025-5-13%20Munawar-PJZ%202%20Revised%2008-05-2013.pdf).
5. Genetic Assessment of Some Pheasant Species from Dhodial Pheasantry Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Lubna Shahi, Inamullah, Munawar Saleem Ahmad, Ikram Muhammad and Shahi Mulk. Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 47(6), pp. 1739-1742, 2015
6. Seroprevalence of anaplasma sp. In sheep (ovis aries) by elisa in peshawar, Pakistan, International Journal of Current Research , Vol. 6, Issue, 01, pp.4502-4504, January, 2014.
7. Molecular detection of Cryptosporidium parvum in different water sources of Tehsil Takhte Nasrati, District Karak Ihsan Ullah, Munawar Saleem Ahmad, Sultan Ayaz, Noor ul Akbar, Muhammad Naeem,Abdussalam, Muhammad Ismail, Asmat Ullah Biological Forum – An International Journal 7(2): 694-698(2015)
8. Molecular detection of Giardia lamblia in different water sources of District Karak, Pakistan Ihsan Ullah1 , Munawar Saleem Ahmad*,1, 2, Sultan Ayaz3,4, Muhammad Naeem1 , Noor ul Akbar3 , Abdul Khaliq1 and Asmat Ullah3 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Number 7 (2015) pp. 976-981
9. Quantitative Determination of Lethal Concentration Lc50 of Atrazine on Biochemical Parameters; Total Protein and Serum Albumin of Freshwater Fish Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) Ahsan Khan1, Nazish Shah, Muhammad, Mian Sayed Khan, Munawar Saleem Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Adnan, Sahibzada Muhammad Jawad, Hayat Ullah, Ali Muhammad Yousafzai. Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 25, No. 4 (2016), 1555-1561
10. Geographical seroprevalence of Anaplasma marginale infection (anaplasmosis) by ELISA in Ovis aries, in district Peshawar, Pakistan. The Journal of Zoology Studies 2014; 1(2): 15-18. http://journalofzoology.com/v1i2/pdf/4.3.pdf
11. Analysis Of Banana Bunchy Top Virus Gene Expression Ratio In Banana Crop Grown In Sindh Province Of Pakistan. Nehafta Bibi, Munawar Saleem Ahmad and Muhammad Zeeshan Hyder Bangladesh journal of Plant pathology, Vol. 32, No. 1 & 2, 2016 75-82.
12. Enzymatic Profile Aactivity of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella) After Exposure to the Pollutant Named Atrazine (Herbicide) Ahsan Khan, Ali Muhammad Yousafza, Nazish Shah, Muhammad, Munawar Saleem Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq, Fawad Aziz, Muhammad Adnan, Muhammad Rizwan, Shahibzada Muhammad Jawad. Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 25, No. 5 (2016), 2003-2008
13. Lead nitrate induced oxidative dysfunctions in Cyperinus carpio: Role of Typha latifolia",Irfan Ullah, *Munawar Saleem Ahmad, * Rahmat Ali Khan Life Science Journal 2016;13(8): 32-36.
14. Effects of Sub-Lethal Concentration of Cypermethrin on Histopathological and Hematological Profile of Rohu (Labeo rohita) during Acute Toxicity Nasir Khan, Munawar Saleem Ahmad, Sadia Tabassam, Faisal Nouroz, Ashfaq Ahmad and Shehzad Ghayyur Atta Ur Rehman and Muhammad Fiaz Khan Int. J. Agric. Biol., Vol. 20, No. 1, 2018, 601-608.
15. Fauna and Vaccination of Pet Dogs In Mansehra Pakistan: Are People At Risk By Their Pet Best Friends, Sundus Zahid1, Munawar Saleem Ahmad2, Aqeel Hamid3,Sajid Mehmood4& Nehafta Sabir, IJIR) Vol-2, Issue-10, 2016
16. Dominance and Influence of Social Context on Foraging by Eurasian Siskin (Carduelis spinus) Nehafta Bibi, Muhammad Shafiq, Munawar Saleem Ahmad and Haitao Wang Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 49(6), pp 2201-2208, 2017. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17582/journal.pjz/2017.49.6.2201.2208
17. Effect of Chlorpyrifos on Hematological and Seral Biochemical Components of Fish Oreochromis mossambicus Shehzad Ghayyur1,3, Sadia Tabassum1, Munawar Saleem Ahmad Naveed Akhtar1 and Muhammad Fiaz Khan1,*Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 51(3), pp 1047-1052, 2019.
18. Hesham M. Abd El-Halim, Maysa Mohamed Ali Hegazy, Aishah Mohamed Alatawi, Imtiaz Ali Khan and Munawar Saleem Ahmad. Effect of Extracts of Cupressus macrocarpa and Alpinia officinarum on Expression of Chitinase and FGF Receptor Genes in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf9 Cell Line. Pakistan J. Zool., pp 1-7,2019. https://dx.doi.org/10.17582/journal.pjz/20190717180748
19. Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Sphaerirostris picae (Rudolphi, 1819) (Acanthocephala: Centrorhynchidae), representative of the genus Sphaerirostris. 2019. Nehaz Muhammad & Suleman & Jun Ma & Mian Sayed Khan & Liang Li & Qing Zhao & Munawar Saleem Ahmad & Xing-Quan Zhu, Parasitology Research, 118:2213-2221. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06356-0. 1-9
20. Personality is associated with dominance in a social feeding context in the great tit Nehafta Bibi , YushengWei b, Hongwei Xu , Jingnan Liang , Ijaz Hussain Munawar Saleem Ahmad and HaitaoWang Behaviour 156 (2019) 1419–1434
21. Effects of Cypermethrin on the Hematological Parameters, Biochemical Components of Blood and Histopathological Changes in Different Organs of Chirruh Snow Trout (Schizothorax esocinus) Naveed Akhtar1 *, Muhammad Fiaz Khan1 *, Sadia Tabassum1 , Munawar Saleem Ahmad and Khan Dil BadshahPakistan J. Zool., 943-953, 2021
22. Assessment of ecto and endo parasites of Schizothorax plagiostomus inhabiting river Panjkora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, A. Ahmada ?, W. Khanb ?, S. N. Dasc ?, W. A. Pahanward S. Khalida ?, S. A. Mehmoode S. Ahmede ?, M. Kamalf ?, M. S. Ahmed H. Ul Hassanh ?, S. Zahoora ? and A. Maqboola Braz. J. Biol. 2021 2021?, vol. 81, no. 1 pp.92-97. https://doi.org/10.1590/1519-6984.222214.
23. In-vitro and in-silico anticancer potential of taxoids from Taxus wallichiana Zucc. Mughal Qayum , Muhammad Nisar , Abdur Rauf , Imran Khan , Waqar Ahmad Kaleem , Muslim Raza , Nasiara Karim , Munawar Ahmad Saleem , Saud Bawazeer , Sengul Uysal , Gokhan Zengin , Saqib Jahan and Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan. BIOLOGIA FUTURA 70, 295–300 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1556/019.70.2019.33
24. Muhammad N, Suleman, Ahmad MS, Li L, Zhao Q, Ullah H, Zhu XQ, Ma J. Mitochondrial DNA dataset suggest that the genus Sphaerirostris Golvan, 1956 is a synonym of the genus Centrorhynchus Lühe, 1911. Parasitology. 2020 Sep;147(10):1149-1157. doi: 10.1017/S0031182020000906. Epub 2020 Jun 3. PMID: 32487273.
25. Shehzad Ghayyur, Muhammad Fiaz Khan, Sadia Tabassum, Munawar Saleem Ahmad, Muhammad Sajid, Khandil Badshah, Muhammad Azhar Khan, Saira, Shahryar Ghayyur, Naveed Ahmad Khan, Bilal Ahmad, Samina Qamer,A comparative study on the effects of selected pesticides on hemato-biochemistry and tissue histology of freshwater fish Cirrhinus mrigala (Hamilton, 1822), Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, Volume 28, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 603-611, ISSN 1319-562X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.10.049.
26. Wali Khan, Noor-un-Nisa, Naseem Rafiq, Zubia Masood, Munawar Salim Ahmed, Hafeez Ur Rahman, Muhammad Kabir, Rukhsana Ghaffar, Attiqa Naz, Muhammad Ishaq Ali Shah,Zoonotic and non-zoonotic helminths in black rats of rain-fed and irrigated areas of Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, Volume 28, Issue 4,2021,Pages 2285-2290,
27. Saira, Muhammad Fiaz Khan, Munawar Saleem Ahmad, Sadia Tabassum, Samina Yasmin, Fawad Aziz, Mian Sayed Khan, Aamir Ali Khan, Sonia Ali, Johar Jamil, Kalsoom, Faheem Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Rauf Khattak, Rawail Ahmed, Aftab Alam Sthanader, Samina Qamer, Association of polymorphisms in inflammatory cytokine genes with the development of head and neck cancer in Pakistani population Journal of King Saud University - Science, Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021, 101277, ISSN 1018-3647, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksus.2020.101277.
28. Khan W, Khan I, Ullah H, Zain SNM, Panhwar WA, Mehmood SA, Ahmed S, Siyal GB, Ahmad MS, Shah M, Rafique T, Ali N, Salim M, Hussain A. Cutaneous leishmaniasis-Awareness, knowledge and practices among general population in rural and urban areas in Malakand region, Pakistan. Braz J Biol. 2021 Apr 2;82:e238665. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.238665. PMID: 33825759.
29. Khan W, Das SN, Ullah H, Panhwar WA, Ahmed S, Ahmad MS, Kamal M, Ahmad A, Mohsin MU, Hussain A, Khaliq G, Hussain I. Distribution of commensal rodents in some shops of three districts in Malakand region, Pakistan. Braz J Biol. 2021 May 21;82:e238735. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.238735. PMID: 34037077.
30. Khan W, Nisa NN, Pervez S, Ahmed S, Ahmed MS, Alfarraj S, Ali A, Tahreem S. Occurrence of Hymenolepis diminuta: a potential helminth of zoonotic importance in murid rodents. Braz J Biol. 2021 Aug 9;82:e242089. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.242089. PMID: 34378679.
31. Mehmood SA, MS Ahmad, A Zia, S Ahmed, M Shah, W Khan, WA Panhwar (2021). Molecular and Phylogenetic analysis of familyaeshnidae of hazar region, Pakistan. Intl J Agric Biol 25:109?116
32. Khan W, Panhwar WA, Mehmood SA, Ahmed S, Ahmed MS, Khan N, Khan MM, Akram W, Ullah S, Imran. Pinworm infection in school children of four districts of Malakand region, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Braz J Biol. 2021 May 21;82:e238769. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.238769. PMID: 34037078.
33. Luqman L, Saeed K, Muhammad K, Ahmad MS, Akbar F, Rasool A, Israr M, Jabeen H, Mehmood SA, Ahmed S, Alam A, Ullah S, Saeed N, Usman K, Hussain I, El Halim HMA, Khan W, Shah M. Biodiversity of orb-web spiders (family: araneidae) of buner valley, Pakistan. Braz J Biol. 2021 Jun 21;82:e238339. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.238339. PMID: 34161423.
34. Ullah N, Ullah I, Israr M, Rasool A, Akbar F, Ahmad MS, Ahmad S, Mehmood SA, Jabeen H, Saeed K, Khan W, Siraj M, Shah M. Comparative brain analysis of wild and hatchery reared Mahseer (Tor putitora) relative to their body weight and length. Braz J Biol. 2021 May 28;82:e231509. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.231509. PMID: 34076158.

1. Member of organizing Committee 25th Pakistan Congress of Zoology. March 17-19, 2005. Agriculture University, Tandujam, Pakistan.

2. Member of organizing Committee 26th Pakistan Congress of Zoology. April 4-6, 2006, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Pakistan.

3. Member of organizing Committee International symposium on Nanochemistry of enzymes. September 20-21, 2006. School of Biological sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

4. Member of organizing Committee 27th Pakistan Congress of Zoology. February 27- 1st March, 2007, Bahauddin Zakriya University, Multan, Pakistan.

5. Member of organizing Committee International symposium on glycoproteins in health and diseases, May 27-29, 2008, School of Biological sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

6. Member of organizing Committee 28th Pakistan Congress of Zoology, 2008 Govt. College University, Faisalabad.

7. Member of organizing Committee 29th Pakistan Congress of Zoology. 25- 27 February 2009 University of Sind, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
8. Member of organizing Committee 30th Pakistan Congress of Zoology. February-march 2010, University of agriculture, Faisalabad., Pakistan.
9. Conducted one day seminar on role of universities in eradicating infectious diseases dated 18-10-2017 at university of Swabi as resource person.
10. Two days workshop on biotechnolgy, molecular biology and microbiological techniques for m.sc students. Dated 22_ 23 may 2017 at brc Islamabad as resource person and organizer.
11. Participation as invited trainer and organizer in National Workshop On Recombinant Protein Production & Purification (6th – 11th November 2017) at School of Biological Sciences, Punjab University, Lahore.
12. Session Chair at 38th Pakistan Congress Of Zoology international at School of Biological Sciences, Punjab University. Lahore Dated 27th Feb To 1st March, 2018.
13. Organizer 1st International Conference on Climate Change impacts on Agriculture and Food Supply (IC3AF-2018)” will be held during April 24-26th, 2018 in University of Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
14. Session chair at 39th Pakistan Congress Of Zoology international at Islamia college University, Peshawar Dated 4- 6 March, 2019.
15. Organizer Ist National Conference on Microbiology , Infectious Diseases and Health Safety "which is organized by Dept of Microbiology UoSwabi to be held on 3-5th April 2019
16. Organizer 2nd one day workshop entitled as Impact of hazardous Pollutants (Pesticides and Heavy Metals) on aquatic fauna and Human Beings Dated April 18, 2018.
17. Biosafety and Biosecurity for Researchers and Scientist" in Collaboration with NTRL (National Training and Research Laboratories) and Sure Bio-Diagnostic and Pharmaceutical-Pakistan has been organized by Zoological Science Society Swabi (ZSSS) on 23rd Feb, 2018.
18. Organizer in Institute Of Agricultural Sciences, Punjab Universty Lahore Seminar On “Sustainable Crop Production For Food Security Under Changing Climate” Date: 18-04-2017

• Proteomics
• Genomics
• Biological control.
• Bacillus thuringiensis and its proteins (cry) study.
• Study of protein receptors in plasma membrane.
• Comparative analysis of proteins of different insects which can serve as binding proteins.
• Cloning and expression of cry genes at wild and truncated level of proteins.
• Development of cheap media for growth of microbes.
• Conducting bioassays with different microbes and insects.
• RNAi technique to block ion channels in insects

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