

Dr. Syed Sikander Azam Associate Professor of NCB has been elected as Member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) on November 20, 2018
Five Ph.D. students of comparative genomics lab (Dr. Amir Ali Abbasi) NCB, has joined the Beijing Institute of Genomics, BIG data center for the period of three months (from Oct 2018-Dec 2018). These students will learn modern techniques related to Next Generation Sequencing Technology, Health Big data management, programming skills related to big DNA sequence data analysis.
This training program is fully sponsored by the Beijing Institute of Genomics, BIG data center under the Project Title: Global omics data sharing initiative: PI: Prof. Yiming Bao, Co-PI: Prof. Amir Ali Abbasi
The Name of these five students.
Rabail Zehra
Irfan Hussain
Nashaiman Pervaiz
Fatima Batool
Huma Shireen
Dr. Amir Ali Abbasi from Department of Bioinformatics will represent Pakistan and Quaid-i-Azam University in the Global Platform of Big Data in Life sciences that will be held in Beijing from Oct 11 to Oct 14th. This international forum is organized by BIG data center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. World-renowned scientists from prestigious international institutes will deliver seminars to highlight Next Generation DNA Sequencing Technologies and their role in accelerating biological and biomedical research through the wide applications on pharmaceutical sciences, precision medicine, forensic investigations, targeted DNA sequencing and gene expression profiling of cancer patients, and small RNA sequencing of infectious diseases like hepatitis and AIDS. Global Platform of Big Data in Life sciences also aims to highlight the application of genomic analysis to the preservation of the viability of populations and the biodiversity of living organisms.
Dr. Amir Ali Abbasi will deliver a seminar titled " Human Brain Evolution in Context of Enhancer Divergence".
Dr. Amir Ali Abbasi is honoured to participate third time in this forum. Previously he attended the forum in 2016 and 2017 as an invited speaker.
See the details of events and other speakers list in the following link,
web link: http://bigd.big.ac.cn/conference/bdf2018