CURRICULUM VITAE
Ms. AYESHA IHSAN
Tel: off:(92-41) 2651475-312
Email: aishaehsan@gmail.com
PERSONAL PARTCULARS
Father’s Name:
Date of Birth:
N.I.C.
Religion:
Nationality:
Postal Address:
Permanent address:
Ihsan Ullah
13-06-1980
33100-0566734-0
Islam
Pakistani
Industrial Biotechnology Division, P.O. Box # 577,
NIBGE, Jhang Road, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
18-C, GTL, Steam Power Colony, Mananwala, Faisalabad
ACADEMIC RECORD
PhD
Quaid-e-Azam Univeristy (Thesis Submitted)
M. Phil
NIBGE (School of Biotechnology) affiliated with Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad, 2003-2005 Biotechnology 1st div.
M. Sc.
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 2002, Chemistry Ist div.
B. Sc.
University of The Punjab, Lahore, 1999, Botany, Chemistry,
Zoology.
Ist div.
Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Faisalabad
1997, Pre-Medical, 2nd div.
F. Sc.
Secondary School
Certificate
Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education, Faisalabad,
1995, Science Subjects, Ist div.
M.Sc THESIS TITLE
Validation of gel permeation chromatography for the clean up of pesticide contaminated fatty
food commodities
M. Phil THESIS TITLE
Development of an enzyme biosensor employing different matrices.
PhD Thesis Title:
Synthesis of functionalized metal nanoparticles/nanoclusters for application in gene/drug
delivery system
SKILLS ON TECHNIQUES
 Field Emission Scanning electron Microscopy
 Atomic Force Microscopy
 Transmission Electron Microscopy
 Photon correlation spectroscopy
 Particles Size Distribution Analyzer
 PGSTAT (Potentiostat Galvanostat)
 HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chroamtography)
 GPC (Gel Permeation Chromatography)
 FTIR (Fast Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy)
 FPLC (Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography)
 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
 Helios Gene Gun
 Isolation of bacterial cultures
 Genomic and Plasmid DNA extraction from bacterial cultures
 PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)
 Agarose Gel Electrophoresis.
 Phase contrast microscopy.
 Paper chromatography.
 Cloning of bacterial gene
 Double beam spectrophotometer
Academic Honours:
Merit Scholarship from Punjab University in B Sc
Higher Education Commission Scholarship in M Sc
Foreign Trainings
Six Month Training at University of Liverpool, UK for the synthesis and characterization
of Nanoparticles especially for the purpose of gene delivery
Six Month Training at University of Massachusetts USA to develop fluorescent clusters
for bio-imaging/biolabelling and drug delivery.
One week operational training on Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy at
JEOL Factory, Tokyo, Japan
One week operation training on Atomic Force Microscope at Shimadzu factory, Japan
Publication:
S. Rauf, A. Ihsan, K. Akhtar, M.A. Ghauri, M. Rahman, M.A. Anwar and A.M. Khalid, (2006)
Glucose oxidase immobilization on a novel cellulose acetate–polymethylmethacrylate
membrane. Journal of Biotechnology, 121, 3, 351-360
Irshad Hussain, Syed Zajif Hussain, Habib-ur-Rehman, Ayesha Ihsan, Asma Rehman, Zafar
M. Khalid, Mathias Brust and Andrew I. Cooper. In situ growth of gold nanoparticles
on latent fingerprints— forensic applications to inkjet printed nanoparticle patterns.
Nanoscale, 2010, 2, 2575-2578
Asma Rehman, Muhammad Irfan Majeed, Ayesha Ihsan, Syed Zajif Hussain, Saif-ur-Rehman,
Muhammad Afzal Ghauri, Zafar M. Khalid and Irshad Hussain. Living fungal hyphae
- templated porous gold microwires using nanoparticles as building blocks. Journal of
Nanoparticle Research (25 September 2011), pp. 1-8.
Ayesha Ihsan, Irshad Hussain, Waheed S. Khan, Asma Rehman, M. Afzal Ghauri and
Chuanbao Cao, Facile synthesis of metallized nanocontainers for the entrapment
and controlled release of hydrophobic compounds. Material Letters. Accepted
Waheed S. Khana, Chuanbao Cao, Faheem K. Butt, Zulfiqar Ali, Zahid Usman, Ghulam Nabi,
Ayesha Ihsan, Asma Rehman, Irshad Hussain, M. Tanveer, Sajad Hussain. Hydrogen
storage and PL properties of novel Cd/CdO shelled hollow microspheres prepared under
NH3 gas environment. International Journal of Hydrogen Storage (In Press)
Waheed S. Khan, Chuanbao Cao, Faheem K. Butt, Zulfiqar Ali, Ayesha Ihsan, M. Tanveer,
Imran Aslam, Ghulam Nabi, Asma Rehman, Tariq Mahmood, Sajad Hussain. Preparation
of highly pure CdSe hollow structures: Their PL and hydrogen absorption properties.
Material Letters (In Press)
Waheed S. Khan, Chuanbao Cao, Imran Aslam, Zulfiqar Ali, Faheem K. Butt, Tariq Mahmood,
Ghulam Nabi, Ayesha Ihsan, Zahid Usman, Asma Rehman. Single crystalline multipetal Cd nanoleaves prepared by thermal reduction of CdO. Material Research Bulletin
(In Press)
Waheed S. Khan, Chuanbao Cao, , Faheem K. Butt, Zulfiqar Ali, Ghulam Nabi, Asma Rehman,
Ayesha Ihsan, M. Tanveer, Imran Aslam, Sajad Hussain, Zahid Usman, and Tariq
Mehmood. Preparation of Single-Crystalline Zinc Nitride Dandelion-Like
Nanostructures: Their Photoluminescence and Hydrogen-Absorption Properties. Science
of Advance Materials (American Scientific Publishers). (In Press
Research Interests:
My area of research is nanomaterial synthesis and their applications in biotechnology and
advance material fabrication. Being close to the molecular level, nanomaterials have remarkable
potential to be used as a tool of molecular biologists and also have remarkable potential to
improve the sensing applications. We have screened a phospholipid from human sweat which
was found responsible for in situ development of finger prints. This molecule has ability to selfassemble itself in a hollow lamellar fashion. We have successfully template the architecture of
this self-assembly using gold nanoparticles as building blocks, and synthesized porous
nanocontainers in the size regime of ~100 nm and successfully demonstrated their potential for
the encapsulation and controlled release of hydrophobic compounds. Using this approach we
have also templated fungal hyphe using gold nanoparticles for the synthesis of gold micro-wires.
We have synthesized hollow and porous nanostrucutures using wet chemical and solid phase
synthetic approaches and successfully studied their potential for hydrogen storage.
Also I have interest to develop fluorescent gold and silver nanoclusters (less than 1nm) for
sensing applications. In this regard, my focus is to use protein protected fluorescent clusters for
the advance material fabrication while using modern biotechnological tools. Also I am working
to develop heavy metal ions sensor using these fluorescent clusters based on the fluorescence
quenching.
REFEREES
 Dr. Irshad Hussain, Chair Chemistry Department, LUMS School of Science and
Engineering. DHA, Lahore Cant. Office Ph # 042-35608133
 Dr. M.A.Ghauri, Principle Scientific Officer, National Institute For Biotechnology &
Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), P. O. Box No.577, Jhang Road, Faisalabad. Pakistan.
Office Ph. #. 0092-041-651475/252.