Dr. Mohammad Sayyar Khan Kazi

Education

1. Post Doc, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, China
2. Ph.D in Plant Biotechnology, The University of Tsukuba, Japan
3. M.Phil in Plant Biotechnology, IBGE, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, and NIBGE, Faisalabad

Area of Specialization

Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Molecular biology, Microbiology, Environmental Risk Assessment

Professional Responsibilities

Teaching, Research and Administration

Research Projects

1. Title of the proposed project: Environmental risk assessment studies for the potential production of transgenic oilseed rape lines with enhanced disease resistance.
   Total funds requested/Status: 0.5 million. Completed
   Funding agency: Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Science and Technology (DOST)
2. Title of the proposed project: Genetic Engineering of sugarcane with the rice tonoplast H+-PPase gene to improve sucrose content and salt tolerance.
   Total funds requested/Status: 2.5 million. Running
   Funding agency: Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF)
3. Title of the proposed project: Environmental Biosafety Assessment on Transgenic Oil Seed Rape Lines harboring the Synthetic Chitinase Gene (NiC) Conferring Fungal Disease Resistance
   Total funds requested/status: US$ 10,000. Running
   Funding Agency: Center for Environmental Risk Assessment (CERA)/ILSI Research Foundation (United States) under "The Biosafety Research in Pakistan Grants Program" (BRPGP).
4. Title of the proposed project: Production of fungal disease resistance in strawberry through genetic engineering with the antifungal synthetic chitinase gene
   Total funds requested/status: 0.5 million. Under review
   Funding agency: Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Science and Technology (DOST)

Awards

1. I was one of the members of the research team that developed an aphid res istant and high yielding brassica variety "IBGE approved by Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Feb, 2022.
2. I was awarded a Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (BAAFS) under the Talented Young Scientist Pr ogram (TYSP), Ministry of Science and Technology Chinese Government for the y ea r 2018/2019.
3. Based on my research achievements, I was awarded Research Productivity Award (RPA) by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST) for the year 2015/2016.
4. I was awarded with a PhD scholarship from Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, Japan (Monbusho, currently called MEXT Scholarship) 2006 2010

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