Dr. Attiq R Muhammad,Ph.D

Molecular biologist: Microbiome & Antibiotic Resistance

Molecular Epidemiology of Antimicrobial resistance and development of alternatives to antibiotics in poultry (Genomic Research and development initiative on AMR (GRDI-AMR).

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

93 Stone Road West

Current research and/or projects

Genomic Research and development initiative on AMR (GRDI-AMR).

Research and/or project statements

Initiated, planed, organized and executed research activities under established guidelines.
Designed, conducted, and analyzed results of in vitro and in vivo experimental trials
Coordinated a collaborative and multidisciplinary research project (GRDI-AMR)
Discovered a new fosfomycin resistance gene fosA7
Wrote research manuscripts and reports approved by colleagues
Participated in the training of students and research staffs

Professional activities / interests

Molecular microbiology, Pathogen subtyping and genomic epidemiology of foodborne pathogens, bioinformatics, Next generation sequencing (NGS), Bacterial genomics and Metagenomics, Microbial pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, Antimicrobial resistance, Microbial phylogenetic and evolution, Genotype-Phenotype correlations and machine learning

Education and awards

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Molecular Biology and Genetics

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph Ontario Canada

HONORS AND AWARDS

1st place winner of the 2015 Poster Competition of 13th Annual Food Safety Research Forum, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs Guelph Ontario Canada
1st place winner of the 2014 Poster Competition of 12th Annual Food Safety Research Forum, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs Guelph Ontario Canada
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) postdoctoral fellowship 2012
National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA, Fellows Award for Research Excellence, 2011
Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism NICHD Group meeting best participation award, 2011
National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA, Intramural postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2009
Dual Travel Award recipient of American yeast Genetics Society, 2008, 2010
Dual recipient of Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology, 2006, 2008
Richard and Sophia Hungerford Research Travel award, University of Guelph 2007
University of Guelph Graduate Scholarship 2006, 2007, 2008
Wood-Whelen International Research fellowship for Japan 2006
Student Mini-symposium speaker at University of Guelph, 2006
National Agricultural Biotechnology Conference Fellowship 2004
UNESCO Short-term training Fellowship 2003
United Nations University Japan Fellowship 2002
DR. J. H. Orbison Gold Medal for distinction in M.Sc., University of the Punjab, Lahore 1996

International experience and/or work

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Maryland, USA.
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Sciences Japan

Key publications

Shay et al (2020) Bait-capture metagenomics for detection of antimicrobial resistance genes and plasmid markers in livestock and a mock community. International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Ottawa - Virtual 2020/07/13
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