Dr. MUHAMMAD AHSAN FAROOQ
House#1288 Ward#13 Mohalla Mudarssa Arabia Mazahr-ul-aloom Street School No#2 Kot Addu District M.Garh, Punjab, Pakistan Cell: +86-13082821059^ E-mail: ahsanfarooq143@yahoo.com
SUMMARY
To work with a reputed institution, that will provide me a good platform to utilize my expertise & administration skills and will help me to grow my career.
FIELD OF INTEREST
Plant stress Physiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology & Molecular biology, Genomic & Proteomic analysis, Pollution research, Environmental & Ecological studies.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. From 2016 to 2018 worked as Assistant Professor (IPFP) at Institute of Pure and Applied Biology (Botany Division), Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
2. From March 2019 till to date. working as Post-Doctoral Researcher at Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China
FUNDINGS
1. Proteomics and transcriptional profiling analyses of arsenic-induced toxicity under hormonal control reveal mechanism of tolerance in Brassica napus (31950410554)，国家自然科学基金外国青年学者研究基金项目，经费34万，2020.1-2021.12（五类）
2. International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program (YJ20180202)，2018年度博士后国（境）外交流项目（引进项目），中国博士后科学基金会，经费60万，2019.3-2021.2（七类）
3. International Cooperation Bureau of the Science Foundation of China 2020 (QNJ20200011008)，外国青年学者国家基金配套研究项目（七类）
4. Foreign Scholars Research Fund Project 2021 (QNJ2021147003)，国家外国专家局资助项目（七A类）
5. Zhejiang Provincial Postdoctoral Research Project 2019 (First Level)，浙江省博士后科研项目（七A类）
List of Research Publications (With impact Factor) (*corresponding author):
以一作或通讯作者身份发表论文19篇，其中二区9篇，三区6篇，四区4篇。
1. Farooq, M. A., Hannan, F., Islam, F., Ayyaz, A., Zhang, N., Chen, W., Zhang, K., Huang, Q., Xu, L., & Zhou, W. (2022). The potential of nanomaterials for sustainable modern agriculture: present findings and future perspectives. Environmental Science. Nano, 9(6), 1926–1951. (I.F. 9.473)（中科院2区）
2. Farooq, M. A., Islam, F., Ayyaz, A., Chen, W., Noor, Y., Hu, W. H., Hannan, F., & Zhou, W. (2022). Mitigation effects of exogenous melatonin-selenium nanoparticles on arsenic-induced stress in Brassica napus. Environmental Pollution, 292, 118473. (I.F. 9.988). （中科院2区）
3. Chen W, Miao Y, Ayyaz A, Hannan F, Huang Q, Ulhassan Z, Zhou Y, Islam F, Hong Z, Farooq M.A.* and Zhou W (2022) Purple stem Brassica napus exhibits higher photosynthetic efficiency, antioxidant potential and anthocyanin biosynthesis related genes expression against drought stress. Front. Plant Sci. 13:936696 (I.F. 6.627). （中科院2区）
4. Farooq, M.A. Hong Z, Islam F, Noor Y, Hannan F, Zhang Y, Ayyaz A, Theodore M. Mwamba, Zhou W, Song W*. 2021. Comprehensive proteomic analysis of arsenic induced toxicity reveals the mechanism of multilevel coordination of efficient defense and energy metabolism in two Brassica napus cultivars. Ecotoxicology and Environment Safety. 208, 111744 (I.F. 6.291) （中科院2区）
5. Ayyaz, A., Farooq, M. A.*, Dawood, M., Majid, A. H. A., Javed, M., Athar, H., Bano, H., & Zafar, Z. U. (2021). Exogenous melatonin regulates chromium stress-induced feedback inhibition of photosynthesis and antioxidative protection in Brassica napus cultivars. Plant Cell Reports, 40(11), 2063–2080. (I.F. 4.570) （中科院2区）
6. Ayyaz, A., Miao, Y., Hannan, F., Islam, F., Zhang, K., Xu, J., Farooq, M. A.,* & Zhou, W. (2021). Drought tolerance in Brassica napus is accompanied with enhanced antioxidative protection, photosynthetic and hormonal regulation at seedling stage. Physiologia Plantarum, 172(2), 1133–1148. (I.F. 4.148). （中科院2区）
7. Farooq, M. A., Islam, F., Ali, B., Ullah, N., Mao, B., Gill, R. A., Yan, G., Siddique, K. H. M., & Zhou, W. (2016). Arsenic toxicity in plants: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of its transport and metabolism. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 132, 42–52. (I.F. 4.369). （中科院2区）
8. Farooq, MA., Gill RA, Islam F, Ali B, Liu H, Xu J, He S and Zhou W (2016) Methyl Jasmonate regulates antioxidant defense and suppresses arsenic uptake in Brassica napus L. Front. Plant Sci. 7:468. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00468 (I.F. 4.298). （中科院2区）
9. Muhammad A. Farooq, Ali, S., Hameed, A., Ishaque, W., Mahmood, K., Iqbal, Z. 2013. Alleviation of cadmium toxicity by silicon is related to elevated photosynthesis, antioxidant enzymes; suppressed cadmium uptake and oxidative stress in cotton. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 96, 242-249. (IF. 2.203) （中科院2区）
10. Ayyaz A, Zhou Y, Batool I, Hannan F, Huang Q, Zhang K, Shahzad K, Sun Y, Farooq M.A*, Zhou W. 2023. Calcium nanoparticles and abscisic acid improve drought tolerance, mineral nutrients uptake and inhibitor-mediated photosystem II performance in Brassica napus. Journal of Plant growth Regulation. (I.F. 4.8) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00344-023-11108-7. （中科院3区）
11. Ayyaz, A., Fang, R., Ma, J., Hannan, F., Huang, Q., Athar, H., Sun, Y., Javed, M., Ali, S., Zhou, W., & Farooq, M. A.* (2022). Calcium nanoparticles (Ca-NPs) improve drought stress tolerance in Brassica napus by modulating the photosystem II, nutrient acquisition and antioxidant performance. NanoImpact, 28, 100423. (I.F. 6.038). （中科院3区）
12. Farooq, M. A., Zhang, K., Islam, F., Wang, J., Athar, H., Nawaz, A., Zafar, Z. U., Xu, J., & Zhou, W. (2018). Physiological and iTRAQ‐Based quantitative proteomics analysis of methyl Jasmonate–Induced tolerance in Brassica napus under arsenic stress. Proteomics, 18(10). (I.F. 4.04) （中科院3区）
13. Farooq M.A., Islam F, Yang C, Nawaz A, Athar HR, Gill RA, Ali B, Song W Zhou W. 2017. Methyl jasmonate alleviates arsenic-induced oxidative damage and modulates the ascorbate–glutathione cycle in oilseed rape roots. Plant Growth Regulation. 84, 135–148 (I.F. 2.68) （中科院3区）
14. Farooq, M.A., Ali, S., Hameed, A., Bharwana S.A., Rizwan, M., Ishaque, W., Farid, W., Mahmood, K., Iqbal, Z. (2016). Cadmium stress in cotton seedlings: physiological, photosynthesis and oxidative damages alleviated by glycinebetaine. South African Journal of Botany. 104; 61–68. (I.F. 1.427). （中科院3区）
15. Muhammad A. Farooq, Li L, Ali B, Gill RA, Wang J, Ali S, Gill MB, Zhou W (2015). Oxidative injury and antioxidant enzymes regulation in arsenic-exposed seedlings of four Brassica napus L. cultivars. Environ Sci Pollut Res, 22, 10699-10712. (I.F 2.741) （中科院3区）
16. Ayyaz, A., Shahzadi, A. K., Fatima, S., Yasin, G., Zafar, Z. U., Athar, H., & Farooq, M. A.* (2022). Uncovering the role of melatonin in plant stress tolerance. Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology, 34(3), 335–346. (2.656). （中科院4区）
17. Javed M, Ashraf M, Iqbal M, Farooq M.A.*, Ullah Zafar & Rehman H. Athar (2021): Chlorophyll fluorescence, ion uptake, and osmoregulation are potential indicators for detecting ecotypic variation in salt tolerance of Panicum antidotale Retz. Arid Land Research and Management, 36, 84-108 (I.F. 1.696) （中科院4区）
18. Ayyaz A, Noor Y, Bano H, Ghani M.A, Javed M, Iqbal M, Athar HUR, Zafar ZU, Farooq M.A.*. (2020).. Effects of exogenously melatonin on growth, photosynthesis, ion accumulation and antioxidant capacity of canola (Brassica napus L.) under chromium stress. PAK J BOT. Accepted (I.F. 0.972). 53(5) （中科院4区）
19. Farooq M.A , Rafaqat A. Gill , Basharat Ali , Jian Wang , Faisal Islam , Shafaqat Ali, Weijun Zhou (2016). Subcellular distribution, modulation of antioxidant and stressrelated genes response to arsenic in Brassica napus L. Ecotoxicology . 25: 350-366 (I.F 1.951) （中科院4区）
