Research Scholars' Data 

Research Supervision: PhD thesis supervised (PhD’s Produced)
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Researcher’s Name
 
Thesis title
 
Year
 
1
 Rashid Minhas Cis-acting Control of Human Developmental Regulator GLI2 2016 
2
 Nazia Parveen Comparative Studies of Gene Regulatory Networks Involved in Brain Development 2016 
3
 Rabail Zehra Brain Enhancers and their Role in Distinguishing Human CNS from that of non-Human Primates. 2018 
4
 Nashaiman Pervaiz Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Human MCPH Genes and its Implication in Human Brain Size and Intelligence 2019 
5
 Shahid Ali Elucidation of Cis-acting Regulatory Control for Human GLI Paralogs 2019 
6
 Irfan Hussain Roles of Vertebrate Gli3 Gene in Brain Development and Evolution 2021 
7
 Hizran Khatoon Elucidating the Events of Transcription Factor Binding in Human Brain Enhancers 2023 
8
 Muhammad Abrar Human TRSP1 Gene: Endogenous Expression and Cis-acting Regulatory Control 2024 
Research Supervision: M. Phil thesis supervised (M. Phil Produced)
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Researcher’s Name
 
Thesis title
 
Year
 
1
 Bushra Fazal Minhas Human CNE-Enhancers and Target Gene Association Through Comparative Syntenic Analysis Across Vertebrates 2011 
2
 Hafsa Hanif Testing the Validity of Vertebrate Octaploidy Hypothesis by Phylogenetic Re-scrutiny of Proposed Paralogons on Hsa 20(q11-q13), 8(q12-q24), 1(p36-p34) and 2p24/6(q21-q23) 2011 
3
 Faiza Riaz Characterization of Non-coding Sequence Elements in Tetraodon nigroviridis and Gasterosteus aculeatus through whole genome sequence Comparison 2011 
4
 Muhammad Azhar Sequence Evolutionary Patterns of the Functionally Defined Human Enhancer Regions 2011 
5
 Nazia Parveen Defining the Cis-regulatory Networks of Human genes through Comparative Genomic Analysis of Functionally defined CNE-enhancers across tetrapod-teleost Lineages 2012 
6
 Anam Naz Computationally Predicted Map of Replication Initiation Sites in Human Genome 2012 
7
 Ayesha Masood Functionally defined Human CNE-enhancers are Associated with their Concerned Genes through Orthology and Paralogy mapping 2012 
8
 Farhan Haq Molecular Phylogenetic History of Subset of Multi-gene Families with Members Residing on HOX Cluster Paralogons 2012 
9
 Zainab Asrar Testing the Validity of WGD Hypothesis in the Vertebrates by Phylogenetic Analysis of Gene Families with at least three members Residing on HSA2, HSA7, HSA12, and HSA17 2012 
10
 Nouman Iftikhar Evolutionary Conserved Syntenic Association of Vertebrate Enhancers and their relevant genes, assists in defining Gene Regulatory Networks in Human Genome 2012 
11
 Aysha Yousaf Unraveling Evolutionary Patterns of Functionally defined CNEs employing Molecular Phylogenetics 2013 
12
 Sohail Raza Primate – Specific Impact of Adoptive Evolution of HR Protein 2013 
13
 Bibi Ameena Deciphering the Regulatory code for Limb Specific CNE Enhancers across Vertebrates by Implying Comparative Genomics Approach 2013 
14
 Noor Afshan Evolutionary Conserved Cardiac Patterns in the Sequences of Functionally Defined Enhancers 2013 
15
 Sadaf Ambreen Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Multi-gene Families with Members Residing on HOX – cluster Paralogues 2013 
16
 Faiqa Khalil Testing the Validity of WGD hypothesis in Vertebrates through Phylogenetic Analysis of Multi-gene Families Residing on Human HOX cluster Paralogons 2014 
17
 Hiba Khan Examining the Authenticity of ‘One–to–Four Model’ in Vertebrates through Phylogenetic Analysis of the Proposed Paralogon; Hsa4, Hsa5, Hsa8 and Hsa10 2014 
18
 Shahid Ali Elucidating Cis-Acting Regulatory Elements in a Transcriptional Mediator Gene: GLI3 2014 
19
 Wajya Ajmal Evidence of Ancient Segmental Duplications during Vertebrate Evolution 2014 
20
 Nashaiman Pervaiz Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Human WDR62 Gene and its Implication in Human Brain Size and Intelligence 2014 
21
 Madiha Shabbir Investigating Hypothesis of Vertebrate Genome Duplication through Phylogenetic Analysis of Human Gene Families Residing on FGFR bearing Paralogons 2015 
22
 Syed Aleem Haider Aging and Longevity in Humans: Functional Annotation of Single Nucleotide Variants in 1000 Genomes 2015 
23
 Noor us Sehar Elucidating Heterotypic Co-operation of Transcription Factors During Human Forebrain Development 2015 
24
 Madiha Hafeez Testing the Validity of Vertebrate Whole Genome Duplication Assumption through Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis 2015 
25
 Fouzia Altaf Insight into Phylogenetic History of Multi-gene Families Residing on Human Paralogon Comprising Hsa 4, 5, 8 and 10 2015 
26
 Anabia Sohail Molecular Evolution of Mammalian Specific desmoglein Genes 2015 
27
 Irum Javed Siddiqui Deciphering Evolutionary and Structural Insights of alpha synuclein (SNCA), a Gene Associated with Familial Parkinson’s disease 2015 
28
 Waqas Khokar Graphical Insight into Evolutionary History of Paralogy Blocks Residing on Vertebrate Genome 2015 
29
 Amna Farooq Chromosome wide Prediction of Tissue Specific Enhancers Employing Computational and Statistical Approaches 2016 
30
 Irum Arif Identification of Putative Regulatory Circuit for Human Key Development Gene GLI2 2016 
31
 Summaira Yasmeen A computational Study to Predict Co-occurring Transcription Factors Binding Sites in Genomic non-Coding DNA of Interest 2016 
32
 Salma Noreen Annotation of Human Forebrain Specific Cis-acting Gene Regulatory Networks through Comparative Genomic Analysis 2016 
33
 Sadaf Tahir Testing the Validity of Vertebrate WGD Assumption by Scrutinizing Phylogenetic Histories of Multi-gene Families Residing on Human Paralogon Comprising Hsa 1,6,9, and 19 2016 
34
 Rozeena Arif Dynamic Framework for Comparative and Interactive Phylogenomic Analysis of Human Paralogy Blocks 2016 
35
 Roheena Naz Investigating the Polyploidy Hypothesis by Phylogenetic Analysis of Multi-gene Families on MHC Paralogon 2016 
36
 Ayesha Iqbal Identification of Cis-acting Regulatory Elements in Transcriptional Mediator Gene GLI2 2016 
37
 Kanwer M. Zeshan Yousaf Functional Analysis of Human Putative Forebrain Enhancer in Transgenic Zebrafish Assay 2017 
38
 Ayesha Qasim Investigating the Whole Genome Duplication Hypothesis in Vertebrates Through Phylogenomic Analysis of Human Paralogon 1, 2, 8 and 20 2017 
39
 Nazia Shakeel Phylogenetic Investigation of Paralogy Blocks Residing on Human Chromosome 1, 2 8 and 20 2017 
40
 Huma Shireen Employing the Transcription Factors Co-operativity in Predicting the Human Forebrain Specific Enhancers 2017 
41
 Neenish Rana Genome-wide Mapping of Duplication on Human Paralogy Blocks to Infer Their Impact on Vertebrate Evolution 2017 
42
 Erum Yasmeen Cloning and Functional Analysis of Human GLI3 Specific Putative Enhancer Region 2017 
43
 Suman Seemab Investigating the Whole Genome Duplications in Vertebrates 2018 
44
 Qanta Khalid Whole Genome Analysis of Segmentally Duplicated Regions Residing on Human Paralogy Blocks to Scrutinize their Impact on Vertebrate’s Origin 2018 
45
 Asfia Shahid Prediction of Forebrain Specific Super Enhancers in Human Genome 2018 
46
 Saima Ghulam Nabi Molecular Evolutionary Basis for the Etiology of Parkinson’s disease 2018 
47
 Saba Arshad Invitro Validation of Human Forebrain Specific Transcription Factor Motifs 2018 
48
 Alia Rafique Evolutionary and Structural underpinnings of Neurodegenerative Disease Associated Gene 2018 
49
 Aniza Aziz Implementation of Phylogenetic features in Client-server Environment Using Multiple Developmental Platforms 2018 
50
 Raza Muhammad GLI3 Expression Profiling in Zebrafish by Whole Mount in situ Hybridization 2019 
51
 Sardar Syed Muhammad Junaid Evolutionary and Structural Analysis of Parkinson’s Disease Causing Proteins 2019 
52
 Farah Nazir Identifying Evolutionary Patterns on Brain Genes Associated with Enhancers 2019 
53
 Sidra Younas Development of Heuristic Searches for Character-Based Methods of Phylogenetic Inference 2019 
54
 Mansoor Khan Molecular Phylogenetics of Human EPH Multigene Family 2019 
55
 Maria Khalid Unveiling of Polymorphism in STRs and SNPs Forensic Markers in Pakhtoon and Gilgit Baltistan Samples 2019 
56
 Muhammad Saqib Nawaz Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Insight into Parkinson Disease Causing Gene 2019 
57
 Ayesha Maqsood Molecular Evolution and Structural Insight of CHCHD Gene Family Linked to Neurodegenerative Diseases 2019 
58
 Saher Musrrat Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Analysis of Human Multigene Families Involved in AD 2019 
59
 Shoaib Saleem Protein Structure Prediction and Diseased Mutational Analysis of Human Developmentally Important GLI3 Gene 2020 
60
 Hadiqa Yasmeen PhyloEdit: A Web-based interactive Visualization and Manipulation of Phylogenetic Trees 2020 
61
 Washaakh Ahmad Computational Prediction of Human Limb Specific Enhancers Utilizing the Transcription Factors Cooperativity 2020 
62
 Hadia Haider Abbasi Chromosome Wide Prediction of Human Limb Specific Cis- Regulatory Module Employing Computational and Statistical Approaches 2020 
63
 Raheela Habib Comparative and Structure Analysis of Human-Octopus FZD4 Orthologs 2020 
64
 Itfa Safdar Prediction and Functional Analysis of Forebrain Specific Enhancers in Zebrafish 2020 
65
 Rida Mahmood Investigating the phylogenetic and evolutionary aspects of Parkinson’s disease associated genes 2021 
66
 Amina Sarwar Protein structural and mutational analysis of Parkinson’s disease associated human genes. 2021 
67
 Kashifa Akhtar Mughal Deciphering the role of SNCA mutants by employing comparative genomics and proteomics approaches 2022 
68
 Momina Jabeen Evolutionary and structural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Macrodomains of Pakistan’s Isolates 2022 
69
 Shifa Shoukat Comparative sequence analysis of SARS-CoV-2 pp1ab of Pakistan’s isolates 2022 
70
 Aiman Khan Comparative structural modeling of mutants and protein-protein interactions of SNCA 2022 
71
 Arshiya Qayyum Recruiting Transcription Factor Heterotypic cooperativity to design computational approach for chromosome-wide prediction of human limb-specific enhancers 2022 
72
 Ramsha Azhar PhyloEasy: A python framework for phylogeny inference and its integration into the PAHG database 2022 
73
 Aleena Murtaza Comparative analysis and population genetics of human TBX4 associated human limb-specific enhancer 2022 
74
 Atika khan Functional investigation of human limb specific enhancer in Transgenic zebrafish assay 2023 
75
 Ayesha Ikram Denovo genome assembly and annotation of Capra Falconeri (Markhor) 2023 
76
 Jaweria Hafeez Molecular sequence evolutionary analyses of the EGLN1 gene in Capra falconeri (Markhor), a gene involved in high altitude adaptation. 2023 
77
 Muhammad Faizan Malik Interactive view of 220 human multigene families spread across human genome available at PAHG database 2023 
78
 Syed Nouman Nasir Genomic variant analysis of SARS-CoV-2 macrodomain from globally sampled population of virus 2023 
79
 Areej Naveed Abbasi Comparative and Structural Analysis of Parkinson’s disease Associated Human Proteins 2024 
80
 Sania Mustafa Comparative Sequence and Protein Structural Analysis of Parkinson’s Disease-Causing Genes 2024 
Research Supervision: PhD thesis Currently under supervision
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Researcher’s Name
 
Thesis title
 
Year
 
1
 Fatima Batool Elucidating Fore-brain Specific Human Enhancers Through Heterotypic Interactions Among Transcriptional Factors Fall 2016 
2
 Huma Shireen Prediction of Human Forebrain Specific Cis-regulatory Modules by Employing Transcription Factors Cooperativity Fall 2017 
Research Supervision: M. Phil thesis Currently under supervision
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Researcher’s Name
 
Thesis title
 
Year
 
1
 Noor Afshan Molecular Evolution of EPAS1 (HIF2α) in Pantheria Unica, A gene involved in high-altitude adaptation Fall 2022 
2
 Shahab Ahmad Estimation of Genetic Diversity in Markhor Species in Pakistan Using Standard Microsatellite and Mitochondrial Genetic Markers Spring 2023 
3
 Ijaz ul Haq Phylogenetic Human History of Multigene Families and Their Relevance to Vertebrate Genome Evolution Spring 2023