CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Profile
Name:
Dr. Zubaida Yousaf/Wajahat
Father’s name:
Muhammad Yousaf Awan
Husband’s name:
Wajahat Hussain
Nationality:
Pakistani
Marital Status:
Married
Religion:
Islam
Date of Birth:
24th April 1976
Place of Birth:
Mianwali
Passport No.
NIC #:
AA6540501
38302-1064050-2
Postal Address:
Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University,
Lahore.
E-mail:
z4zubaida@yahoo.com
zubaida_yousaf@yahoo.com
z4zubeida@hotmail.com
Mobil No:
03335133479/ 03334272550
Home No:
(+92-042)7492534
Academic Data:
Certificate/
Major Subject
Degree
SSC
F.Sc
B.Sc
M.Sc
B. Ed
M. Phil
Ph.D
Year of
Division/Grade Board/University
Passing
Pre-Science
Pre-Medical
Bot, Zoo,Chem
Botany
Bio, Chem
Plant Taxonomy
Molecular Taxonomy
1992
1994
1996
1999
2000
2001
2007
1st div
1st div
2nd div
1st div
1st div
1st div
FBISE
FBISE
UOP, Lahore
UAAR, Rawalpindi
AOU, Islamabad
QAU, Islamabad
QAU, Islamabad
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Scholarships:
1. Merit scholarship in 2nd and 4th semesters of M.Phil
2. Merit scholarship of FF on Scoring more than 80% in M.Phil
3. Scholarship for Ph.D from TASO-PGR Japan
4. TWAS-CAS Post doc fellowship 2010
Research and Teaching Experience:
1.
Post doc fellow, TWAS-CAS 2011. South China Botanical Garden, Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Guangzhou, China
2.
Assistant Professor (BPS-19), Department of Botany, Lahore College for
Women University, Lahore (Feb 2009-Continue)
3. Lecturer (BPS-18), Department of Botany, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture
University Rawalpindi. (March 2005- Feb 2009).
4. Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Range land management and forest,
University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi (October 2003-July 2004)
5. Research associate in Plant Genetic Research institute, NARC, Islamabad
(May 2002-March 2005)
6. Research fellow in National Herbarium, NARC, Islamabad (Sept 2000August 2001)
Post PhD Experience: 05years and 09 months
Pre PhD Experience:
06 years and 08 months
Total Exp:
12 years and 05 months
Research report and Thesis:
1. M.Sc
1999
Phytosociological Analysis of UAAR
2. M.Phil
2001
Taxonomical studies of genus Allium L. of Pakistan
3. Ph.D
2007
Taxonomic and Biochemical studies of medicinally
Important species of family Solanaceae from Pakistan.
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Subject Taught to Post graduate classes
B. Sc (Hons)
M. Sc
Plant Taxonomy, Plant ecology
Research Planning and Report Writing, Environmental
Biology, Economic Biology, Medicinal Plants of
Pakistan, Anatomy of Vascular Plants, Vascular Plant
Morphogenesis
M. Phil
Forensic Botany, Molecular Advance in
Phytosystematics
Ph.D.
Project Planning and Management
No of Thesis So Far supervised
M.Sc Thesis so far Supervised
13
M.Phil Thesis so far Supervised
07
Research Projects completed
1. Ethnobotanical studies of Mianwali district (2000-2001) funded by WWF
2. Ethnobotanical studies of Swat (2001-2002) funded by WWF
3. Ethnobotanical studies of family Solanaceae of Pakistan (2002-2003)
funded by WWF
4. Taxonomic evaluation of the economically important Species of family
Solanaceae from Potohar region funded by Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid
Agriculture University, Rawalpindi (Jan 2007-Dec 2007)
5. Strengthening and up-gradation of Molecular Taxonomy Lab, in department
of Botany, Lahore college for Women University, Lahore. Funded by HEC
(July 2009-July 2010)
Research Achievements
1. Make New Addition of Allium longicupis in the genus Allium of Pakistan
2. identification of New variety of Solanum surattense
3. Identification of New sub species of Withania somnifera
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Work Shops and Conference Attended:
1: Workshop on Ethnobotany Applied to Participatory Forest Management in
Pakistan, Abbottabad, NWFP. (May 7-8, 2001)
2: 1st National Conference of Biology at Government College Lahore. (March 2530,2002).
3: H.E.J, COMSTECH, TWAS International Workshop on the development of
Medicines from Plants. HEJ, Karachi-Pakistan. Sep 8-13, 2003.
4: PARC, JICA, WWF International symposium on Medicinal Plants beyond the
boundaries. NARC, Islamabad. Sept 7-9, 2004
5: HEC-PARC-NCB Training Course on Plant Molecular Genomics. PGRI,
NARC, Islamabad, Pakistan. June 6-10, 2005
6: HEC training workshop on Developing Research Skills: Qualitative paradigm,
Islamabad. Dec. 17-30, 2005
7: 7th faculty development Program of HEC. 6th June-9th September 2006
8: Role of Allelopathy in Sustainable Agricultural, 22-24 March 2007
9. Future Trends in Molecular Biological Research and its application in
Agriculture and Health.25th -28th March 2009.
10. 22nd Asian Pacific Weed Science Conference organized by Asian-Pacific
Weed Science Society at Government College University, March 08-12, 2010.
11. Seminar on Land Reclamation: Canadian perspective, Deptt of Environmental
Sciences, LCWU, Lahore, February 12, 2010.
12. 2nd International Seminar on Medicinal Plants, LCWU, Jan 16,
2010.
13.International
workshop
on
biodiversity
conservation
and
management, South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou, China. 626 Nov. 2011
14.The 6th World Congress on Allelopathy: Allelopathy for sustainable
development from theory to practice. South China Agriculture
University, Guangzhou, China. 15-19 Dec. 2011.
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15. A Training Workshop on Use of Turnitin. Directorate of faculty
development, Lahore College for Women University, Jail Road
Lahore. 14 August, 2012
16. Online workshop on Managing Patentable Research. Organized by
Center for Training and Development, Lahore Pakistan, 10 Nov
2012
17. Online workshop on Mastering Mixed Methodology. Organized by
Research Center for Training and Development. 13-14 Nov, 2012
18.Workshop on Academia Industry linkages organized by School of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS) NUST,
Islamabad. 15 Nov 2012
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Conference Organized
1: Biological Resources of Pakistan: Problems, Success and Future Perspectives
25th -27th April 2007
Proceedings Published
1: Yousaf, Z. and R. Asghar, 2009. Proceeding of international conference on
Biological Resources of Pakistan: Problems, Success and Future Perspectives
25th -27th April 2007.
Publications:
1. Shinwari, Z. K., T. Watanabe and Z. Yousaf 2000 Medicinal Plants of
Pakistan: An Overview. Proceedings Nepal-Japan Joint Symposium on
Conservation of Natural Medicinal Resources and their Utilization,
Kathmandu-Nepal, Nov. 5-11, 2000.
2. Gilani, S. S., M. A. Khan, Z. K. Shinwari and Z. Yousaf 2002. Leaf
Epidermal Anatomy of Selected Digiteria Species, Tribe Paniceae, Family
Poaceae of Pakistan. Pak. J. Bot., 34(3): 257-273.
3. Gilani, S. S., M. A. Khan, Z. K. Shinwari, F. Hussein and Z. Yousaf. 2003
Taxonomic Relationship of the Genus Digitaria in Pakistan. Pak. J. Bot. 35
(3): 261-278.
4. Yousaf, Z., Shinwari Z. K., Qureshi R.A., Khan, M.A. and Gilani, S.S.,
2004.Can Complexity Of Genus Allium L. Be Resolved Through Some
Numerical Techniques? Pak. J. Bot. 36(3): 487-501
5. Yousaf, Z., Shahid Masood, Zabta Khan Shinwari, Mir Ajab Khan, 2004.
Taxonomic relationship of medicinally important species of the family
Solanaceae revealed by SDS-PAGE. Proced. Int. Symp. on “Medicinal
Plants: Linkages Beyond National Boundaries”. Pp 70-75.
6. Yousaf, Z., Shinwari, Z. K. and M. Ali, 2004. Medicinally important Flora
of Dhibbia Karsal Village (Mianwali District, Punjab). Asian J. of Pl. Sci.
3 (6): 757-762.
7. Yousaf, Z., S. Masood., Z. K. Shinwari, M. A. Khan and A. Rabbani,
2006. Evaluation of taxonomic status of medicinal species of the genus
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Solanum and Capsicum based on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Pak.
J. Bot. 38 (1): 99-106.
8. Athar, M., A. H. Chaudhary, Z. Yousaf and S. M. Shabbir, 2007.
Taxonomic reflections on the parasitic angiosperms of Pakistan.
Phyologia. 89(3): 339-348.
9. Yousaf, Z., Z. K. Shinwari, R. Asghar and A. Parveen, 2008. Leaf
epidermal anatomy of some selected species of Genus Allium from
Pakistan. Pak. J. Bot. 40(1):77-90.
10. Yousaf, Z., S. Masood., Z. K. Shinwari, M. A. Khan and A. Rabbani,
2008. Evaluation of taxonomic status of medicinal species of genus
Hyoscyamus, Withania, Atropa and Datura based on poly acrylamide gel
electrophoresis. Pak. J.Bot. 40(6): 2289-2297
11. Yousaf, Z., M. A. Khan and Z. K. Shinwari, 2009. A new variety of
Solanum surattense Brum from Pakistan. Pak. J. Bot. 41(4): 2097-2103
12. Aisha Anjum, U. Hussain, Z. Yousaf, F. Khan and A. Umer, 2010.
Evaluation of allelopathic action of some selected medicinal plant on
lettuce seeds by using sandwich method. JMPR. 4(7): 536-541.
13. Yousaf, Z., M. A. Khan and Z. K. Shinwari, 2010. Phenetic analysis of
genu Solanum from Pakistan. Pak. J. Bot. 42(3):1827-1833
14. Aisha Umer, Zubaida Yousaf and Farah Khan, 2010. Evaluation of
Allelopathic potential of some selected medicinal species. Aferican
Journal of Biotechnology: 9(25):
15. Khan F., Z. Yousaf, S. Rani and F. Khan, 2011. Taxonomic treatment of
medicinally important arboreal flora of tropical and subtropical region
based on leaf epidermal anatomical markers. JMPR. 5(28):6439-6454
16. Khan F. A. Younas, S. Shaheeen, Z. Yousaf, K. Gilani, M. Munawar, Z.
K. Sial, M. Ahmad and M. Zafar, 2011. Scavenging evaluation of copper
and cadmium during in vivo and in vitro growth of Lycopersicon
esculentum Mill. by atomic absorption spectroscopy. JMPR. 5(28):64686472
17. Yousaf, Z., Aisha Umer, Amina Younas and Farah Khan, 2011.
Allelopathic Plants. The genus Allium L.Journal of Allelopathy. 29(1): 112.
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Article submitted
1. Yousaf, Z., Weiming Hu, Yanjun Zhang, Shaohua Zeng and Ying Wang.
Systematic validation of medicinally important but taxonomically complicated
species of the genus Epimedium based on genomic and EST-SSR marker.
Journal of systematics and evolution
2. Yousaf, Z., Ying Wang and Elias Badyoun, 2011. Phytochemical and
Pharmacology of Solanum torvum Swartz: A review. Fitoterapia
3. Madiha Rashid, Z. Yousaf, Ayesha Rehman, Ayesha Arif, Afifa Younas,
Tabassum safdar, Farwa Abbas and Farah Khan. African Journal of Medicinal
plant research.
Chapters in Book
1. Yousaf, Z., U. Hussain and A. Anjum, 2010. Influence of Pre-Sowing
Dormancy Breaking Treatments on Germination of Medicinally Important
Species of the Family Solanaceae From Pakistan. In: C. P. Kala (editor).
Medicinal Plants and Sustainable Development. Nova Publishers, New Dehli,
India
2. Yousaf, Z. and Zeenat H., 2011. Evaluation of chemical relationship of
Parthenium hysterophorus Linn. On germination and seedling growth of some
economically important vegetables. In: C. P. Kala (editor). Biodiversity
communities and climate changes. Teri Publishers, New Dehli, India
Monographs:
1. Yousaf, Z., R. Ayub and A. Umer, 2010. Evaluation of allelopathic
potential of tropical and subtropical tress of Pakistan. LAP Lambert
Academic Publishing
2. Yousaf, Z., A. Akram and Y. Wang, 2011. Pollen morphology of some
medicinally important herbal flora of tropical and subtropical regions of
Pakistan. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
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