Dr. Sumbul Khalid, PhD in Biochemistry, currently acting as Assistant Professor in the department. PhD Thesis title is “Cloning of somatotropin from indigenous buffalo breeds, over-expression, purification and characterization”. Areas of interests are Medical Biotechnology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology and Animal Biotechnology. During PhD won the HEC indigenous PhD scholarship and the PhD research has been selected and published by a German publishing group as a book under the title “Growth Hormone of Pakistani Buffalo”. During PhD 7 DNA sequences were submitted to NCBI, which are as follows:

Sequences at GenBank, NCBI:

1. DQ307367 Khalid,S., Mahmood,S.F., Mirza,I.S. and Khanum,A. Bubalus bubalis breed Nili Ravi growth hormone precursor, mRNA, complete cds.
2. DQ307368. Khan,M.J., Mahmood,S.F., Khalid,S., Mirza,I.S. and Khanum,A. Capra hircus breed Beetal growth hormone precursor, mRNA, complet cds.
3. DQ307369. Mahmood,S.F., Khan,M.J., Khalid,S., Mirza,I.S. and Khanum,A. Bos taurus breed Dhanni growth hormone precursor, mRNA, complete cds.
4. DQ307371. Mahmood,S.F., Khan M.J., Khalid,S., Mirza,I.S. and Khanum,A. Bos taurus breed cross of Dhanni and Australian Holstein-Friesian growth hormone precursor, mRNA, complete cds.
5. DQ307370. Mahmood,S.F., Khan,M.J., Khalid,S., Mirza,I.S. and Khanum,A. Bos taurus breed Red Sindhi growth hormone precursor, mRNA, complete cds.
6. EU086738. Khan, M. J., Awan, I. N., Mahmood, S. F., Khalid, S., Mirza, I. S. and Khanum, A. Capra hircus breed ‘Kamori’ growth hormone precursor, mRNA, complete.
7. EU074162. Shahzad, M. I., Awan, I. N., Mahmood, S. F., Khalid, S. and Khanum, A. Ovis aries growth hormone precursor, mRNA, complete cds.

PUBLICATIONS:

• Sumbul Khalid. 2010. Growth Hormone of Pakistani Buffalo: Cloning, Purification and Characterization. Lambart Academic Publishing, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-8383-5098-1.
• Khalid, S., S.F. Mahmood., I. S Mirza., Q. Bashir., A. Fatima., S. Z. Saba, Z. Mustansar and A. Khanum. Cloning, Expression and Modeling Studies of Somatotropin cDNA of Local Buffalo Breed Nili- Ravi. Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan, Volume 30 No. 5: p. 712 – 726, August 2008.