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Zoology

• SCUBA DIVER: Certified advanced open water diver for under water biodiversity.
• Cage culture (Floating net Cages) preparations, handling and installation.
• Fish rearing in hatchery from small size to large size.
• Preparations & formulations of commercially important protein balance diet.
• Fish species identification from genus to species level
• Identification of fish and shrimp disease
• Identifications of Microbial disease in frozen sea food

• One week training courses on “Aquaculture & Fisheries Management” at CEMB by NaniGopal Das, Prof: Chittagong University, Bangladesh & Anton Immink, University of Scotland in 2011.
• One Day Live Video Seminar on Aqua Feed by Prof. Dr. Kim Jens (Sterling University of U.K) organized By CEMB.
• A training course on “Coastal Zone Management” at CEMB, University of Karachi.
• One day Training course on Fish Identification by Mr. M Moasam Ali Khan (Director General, Marine Fisheries Department), Fish Harbor Karachi.
• Attended 35th all Pakistan Science Conference, Held in University of Karachi, December 20-23, 2008 Univ of Karachi, Pak Association for advancement of Sci. & Pak Society for Marine Biology.
• Attended two days Seminars on ‘’Marine biodiversity’’ organized by Center of excellence in Marine biology and Institute of the marine sciences university of Karachi, December 21, 22, 2010.
• Actively participated in the 35th Pakistan Congress of Zoology (international) organized by Center of excellence in marine biology university of Karachi, March, 1-4, 2015.
• 7 days training course on fish identification by Dr.  Y. Iwatsuki (Professor University of Miyazaki, Japan) at Centre of excellence in marine biology university of Karachi Pakistan in 2014.
• Participating in the Maritime Winter School Organized by Maritime Study Forum in collaboration with the National Center for Maritime Policy Research (NCMPR), and with the help of NIMA held at Karachi from January 20-24 (2020).
• Attending one day work shop on Marine protected area in Pakistan organized by WWF.
• Participated in Conference and Panel Discussion on “Importance of Global best Practices in Food Industry” organized by Pakistan Food Association in Collaboration with Food Asia  held on 22^nd November 2019 in Expo & Convention Center Karachi.
• Two days training on “Awareness to Quality Management System ISO 9001: 2015” organized by BUREAU VERITAZ on 01-02 October 2020.

• Worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Aquatic Diagnostic Laboratories Bahria University, Karachi, from 09^th October 2019 to 08^th October 2020.
• Taught Oceanography to graduate students from 2009 to date in department of E & Es. Bahria University Karachi.
• Two years junior research fellow experience (M. Phil) at the center of excellence in marine biology university of Karachi.
• Three years senior research fellow experience (PhD), at the center of excellence in marine biology university of Karachi.
• Six months experience as a research expert on the project ‘’Assessment of stock and market potential of consumable seaweeds along on-shore and near-shore waters of Karachi Coast” from June 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 funded by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Experience as a senior research associate in the project ‘’Development of Cage Culture Technique and Assessment of Fish Performance in The Coastal Waters of Pakistan” funded by Higher Education commission of Pakistan (HEC) from 01. 01. 2016 to 31.12.2017.
• Two years Research experience on Floating cage culture of yellowfin seabream on coastal region of Sonehri Karachi.
• Vast experience of conducting underwater and intertidal ecological as well as protection of underwater biodiversity surveys with international scientists having authority in their fields.

• Short-term Consultancy to conduct a study on ‘assessment of standing stock of consumable seaweeds in submerged waters at Buleji, along the Karachi coast with Department of Remote Sensing & GIS, Institute of Space Technology, Karachi under the IUCN program Mangrove for the future, in February 2016. The article has been published. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 51(5): 1819-1830, 2019.  DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30848/PJB2019-5 (2).
• Short-term Consultancy service for IUCN (Nov. 2017 and January, 2018) to conduct studies on ‘Ecological Baseline Survey of Astola Island, the first designated protected area in Pakistan. A book has been published by IUCN. https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/resrecrepattach/Astola%20Ecological%20Baseline%20Report%202018_0.pdf
• Consultant as aquaculture expert in establishment of Biofloc system for shrimp culture in captivity.

• Reviewer in Brazilian Journal of Biology,
• Pakistan Journal of Botany.
• Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Pakistan journal of agriculture research.
• Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences
• Selected external reviewer (Principal Investigator) for an M.Phil thesis entitled “Prevalence of Leishmaniasis in a population of Karachi, Pakistan and its therapeutics” by the Board of Advance Study and research (BASR) University of Karachi.
• Conducted Viva Voce as external examiner of M.Phil candidate’s department of Zoology, University of Karachi on 15^th December 2020.

3.       Assessment of stock and market potential of consumable seaweeds along on-shore and near-shore waters of Karachi Coast” funded by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

2         Naveed Ahmad, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Amjad Ali, Khan Mir Khan,  Noor ul Akbar, Muhammad Amin and Mohammad Attaullah (2020). Effects OF Partial Substitution of Fishmeal by Soybean Meal in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) Diet. Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, 20 (2); 364-370. (IF: 0.48)

3         Farah Naz Khokhar, Zaib-un-Nisa Burhan, Tahira Naz,  Javed Abassi, Naveed Ahmad, Amjad Ali, Pervaiz Iqbal and Pirzada Jamal Ahmed Siddiqui (2020).  Phytoplankton Community Dynamics during Asian Monsoon system Preponderate in the Coastal Waters of Northern Region of Arabian Sea Bordering Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Botany. 52 (2), 703-709. (IF: 0.8)

4         Amjad Ali, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Munawwer Rasheed, Naveed Ahmad, Seema Shafique, Farah Khokhar (2020). Status of corals along the Sindh coast of Pakistan: Prevailing environmental conditions, their impacts on community structure and conservation approaches. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 39 (101391). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2020.101391. (IF: 1.18)

5         Amjad Ali, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Naveed Ahmad,  Shabir Ali Amir, Rafaqat Masroor, Seema Shafique and Zaib-un-Nisa Burhan (2020). Ecology of fish communities in coral habitats along the coast of Pakistan, potential threats and conservation strategies. Pakistan Journal of Zoology; 53 (1); 1-11. DOI:  https://dx.doi.org/10.17582/journal.pjz/20180602100601. (IF: 0.79)

6         Habib Ul Hassan, Qadeer Mohammad Ali, Naveed Ahmad, Mohammad Attaullah, Anser Mahmood Chatta, Umer Farooq and Amjad Ali (2020).  Study of Vertebrate Diversity and Associated Threats in Selected Habitats of Sindh and Baluchistan, Pakistan. International Journal of Biology and Biotechnology. 17 (1); 163-175. (HEC Recognized) 

7         Naveed Ahmad, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Khan Mir Khan, Amjad Ali A,  Farah Naz Khokhar and Shabir Ali Amir (2020). Feeding frequency influences the growth Performance of yellowfin seabream (Acanthopagrus arabicus) in cage culture. Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences.19 (3); 1073-1082. (IF: 0.71)

8         Mustafa Kamal, Ghazala Arshad, Noor Us Sahar, Fara Naz, Naved Ahmad and Wali Khan (2020). Morphotaxonomic variation and Allometry of Oestrus ovis larvae (Diptera: Oestridae: Oestrinae). Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences, 31 (2); 604-609.

9         Muhammad Amin, Masarrat Yousuf, Mohammad Attaullah, Ghulam Nabi, Islam Buneri, Naveed Ahmad, Ubaid Ullah & Zaibullah Khan (2020) Comparative acute toxicity of organophosphates and synthetic pyrethroid pesticides in vivo exposed fresh water fish Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758). Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 23:3, 366-372. (IF: 0.76).

10     Habib Ul Hassan, Qadeer Mohammad Ali, Naveed Ahmad, Zubia Masood, Md. Yeamin Hossain, Karim Gabol, Wali Khan, Muneer Hussain, Amjad Ali, Mohammad Attaullah, Mustafa Kamal (2020). Assessment of growth characteristics, the survival rate and body composition of Asian sea bass Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) under different feeding rates in closed aquaculture system. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.11.056. (IF: 2.84).

11     Ghulam Nabi, Suliman Khan, Richard William Mclaughlin, Yujiang Hao, Naveed Ahmad, Muhammad Shoaib Kiani and Dongming Li (2020). Deteriorating habitats and conservation strategies to repopulate the endangered Indus River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor). Frontiers in Marine Science, Section Marine Megafauna (In Press). (IF: 3.66)

12     W. Khan, S.Arshad, N. Khatoon, I. Khan, N. Ahmad, M. Kamal, H. UlHassan, N. Khan, A.Ul Haq, M. Ilyas, S. Ullah, I. Ullah (2020). Food handlers: an important reservoir of protozoans and helminth parasites of public health importance. Brazilian Journal of biology Vol. 81 (In Press) (IF: 1.23)

13     Muhammad Amin, Mussarat Yousuf and Naveed Ahmad (2020). Sub-lethal toxicity of organophosphates and synthetic pyrethroid  insecticides in vivo exposed Nile Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 53 (1); Accepted. (IF: 0.79)

14     M. Attaullah, U. Ullah, I. Ilahi, N. Ahmad, F.U. Rahman, J. Ullah, O. Dad, M. Amin, H. U. Hassan, R. Ullah, I.D. Buneri (2020). Taxonomic, morphometric and limnological assessment of the commercially important ichthyofauna of Sakhakot Stream, Malakand, Pakistan. Brazilian Journal of biology Vol. 82 (In Press) (IF: 1.23)

15     Muhammad Amin, Masarrat Yousuf, Amany Magdy Beshbishy, Muhammad AttaUllah, Naveed Ahmad, Muhammad Ikram, Mohamed El-Esawi, Helal Hetta, Amany El-Mleeh, GABER BATIHA (2020). Sub-Lethal Effects of Organophosphates and synthetic pyrethroid insecticides on Muscle Tissue Transaminases of Oreochromis niloticus In Vivo. Journal of Animals (Accepted). (IF: 2.32)

16     Ihsanullah, Masarrat Jahan Yousuf, Naveed Ahmad, Farhan Mir Shaikh, Noshaba Zafar,  Emadullah Kirmani (2020). Prevalence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the largest populated city Karachi, Pakistan. Journal of industrial and scientific research 63 (2); 12-18. (HEC-Recognized)

17     W. Khan S.M.H.M.Naqvi, N. Ahmad, M. Kamal, H.Hassan, S. Khan, J. Ahmad, U.Ullah, S. Akhtar, M. Ur Rahman, M. Shadman (2020). Prevalence of rhabdochoniasis in snow trout of river Swat and river Panjkora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Brazilian Journal of Biology 81 (2) (In Press). (IF: 1.23)

18     Karim Gabol, Naveed Ahmad,  Muhammad Alam, Habib Ul Hassan,  Amad Ali, Khan Mir Khan, Yasmin Zameer, Saima Majeed and Ayesha Umer (2020). Bioaccumulation of Heavy Metals in Commercially Important Marine Fish Species Collected from Offshore Waters Along the Pakistan Coast. Journal of Animal and Plant Science. (Revised submitted). (IF: 0.48)

19     Habib Ul Hassan, Zannantul Mawa, Qadeer Mohammad Ali, Naveed Ahmad, Junaid Wattoo , Md. Rabiul Hasan, Md. Ashekur Rahman, Farzana Akter Rima, Sumaya Tanjin, Khatune Zannat and Md. Yeamin Hossain (2020). Estimation of Size at Sexual Maturity for 36 Species Caught by Bottom and Mid-Water Trawl from the Marine Habitat of Baluchistan and Sindh in the Arabian Sea, Pakistan through Maximum Length (Lmax) -Based Models. . Thalassas: An International Journal of marine science. (Revised). (IF: 0.65)

20     Farah Naz  Khokhar, Zaib-Un-Nisa Burhan ,  Naveed  Ahmad , Amjad  Ali , Javed  Abassi , Pervaiz. Iqbal , Luis Troccoli Ghinaglia  and  Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui (2020). Spatio-Temporal Variations of Diatom Community in the Coastal Waters off Karachi, Northern Arabian Sea. Thalassas: An International Journal of marine science (under review). (IF: 0.65)

21     Shabir Ali Amir, Baidong Zhang, Rafaqat Masroor, Daniel Jablonski, Li Yu Long, Xue Dong Xiu, Naveed Ahmad, Safia Mushtaq, Moazzam Ali Khan, Muhammad Abbas and Jinxian Liu (2020). The first marine fish barcoding from the Pakistani coast of the Arabian Sea reveals high cryptic genetic diversity. Journal of Fish Biology (Under review). (IF: 1.48)

22     Farah Naz Khokhar*, Naveed Ahmad, Zaib-un-Nisa Burhan, Amjad Ali, Muhammad Jawed Abassi, Amjad Ali, Yasmeen zamir, and Pirzada Jamal Ahmed Siddiqui (2020). Distribution and Abundance of Dinoflagellates along the coast of Karachi. Brazilian journal of Oceanography (Submitted). (IF: 0.71)

23     Naveed Ahmad, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Amjad Ali, Khan Mir Khan, Mustafa Kamal, Muhammad Amin Mohammad Attaullah and Sufia Mushtaq (2020). Influence of stocking density on Growth performance, feed competition and survivals on yellowfin seabream in floating net cages. Brazilian Journal of Biology (submitted). (IF: 1.23)

24     Faryal Yousuf, Noor ul Akbar, Sultan Ayanz and Naveed Ahmad (2020). Detection of IgG and IgM in Breast Feeding Mothers, Infected with Cytomegalovirus by ELISA. Jundisphapur Journal of microbiology (Submitted). (IF: 0.59)

25     Ayesha Umer, Omer Mukhtar Tarar, Nida Saleem, Noman Syed , Safia Mushtaqand Naveed Ahmad (2020).  Biochemical evaluation with reference to nutritional aspect of edible species of crabs collected from the coastal waters of Pakistan. Journal of food composition and analysis (Submitted). (IF: 3.72)

26     Naveed Ahmad, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Khan Mir Khan, Noor ul Akbar, Muhammad Rashid and Rafaqat Masroor (2018). The growth performance of juvenile yellowfin seabream (Acanthopagrus arabicus) fed at different feeding rates while reared in floating. Journal of Animal & plant sciences. 28(4); 1014-1020. (IF: 0.52)

27     Naveed Ahmad, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Khan Mir Khan, Amjad Ali, Wali Khan and Farah Naz (2020). The growth performance of juvenile Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) fed at different feeding rates reared in net cages. Fisheries Science, (In process).  (IF: 1.17)

1         FARAH NAZ KHOKHAR*, ZAIB-UN-NISA BURHAN, MUHAMMAD JAWED ABASSI, NAVEED

2         AHMED, AMJAD ALI, YASMEEN ZAMIR, AND PIRZADA JAMAL AHMED SIDDIQUI

3         FARAH NAZ KHOKHAR*, ZAIB-UN-NISA BURHAN, MUHAMMAD JAWED ABASSI, NAVEED

4         AHMED, AMJAD ALI, YASMEEN ZAMIR, AND PIRZADA JAMAL AHMED SIDDIQUI

5         FARAH NAZ KHOKHAR*, ZAIB-UN-NISA BURHAN, MUHAMMAD JAWED ABASSI, NAVEED

6         AHMED, AMJAD ALI, YASMEEN ZAMIR, AND PIRZADA JAMAL AHMED SIDDIQUIFarah Naz Khokhar*, Naveed Ahmad, Zaib-un-Nisa Burhan, Amjad Ali, Muhammad Jawed Abassi,  Amjad Ali, Yasmeen zamir, and Pirzada Jamal Ahmed Siddiqui (2020). Distribution and Abundance of Dinoflagellates from Coastal waters of Karachi, Pakistan. Brazilian Journal of Oceanography (submitted).Naveed Ahmad, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Amjad Ali, Khan Mir Khan, Mustafa Kamal, Muhammad Amin  Mohammad Attaullah and Sufia Mushtaq (2020). Influence of stocking density on Growth performance, feed competition and survivals on yellowfin seabream in floating net cages. Brazilian Journal of Biology (submitted). Faryal Yousuf, Noor ul Akbar, Sultan Ayanz and Naveed Ahmad (2020). Detection of IgG and IgM in Breast Feeding Mothers, Infected with Cytomegalovirus by ELISA. Jundisphapur Journal of microbiology (Submitted).Ayesha Umer, Omer Mukhtar Tarar, Nida Saleem, Noman Syed , Safia Mushtaqand Naveed Ahmad (2020).  Biochemical evaluation with reference to nutritional aspects of edible species of crabs collected from the coastal waters of Pakistan. Journal of food composition and analysis (Submitted)Naveed Ahmad, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Amjad Ali, Khan Mir Khan,  Noor ul Akbar, Muhammad Amin and Mohammad Attaullah (2019). Dietary Protein Level in the Practical Diet of Yellowfin Seabream, Acanthopagrus Arabicus, Juveniles for Optimum Growth Performance, Survival and Carcass Composition. Pakistan Journal of Zoology. 51(3); 1003-1009. (IF: 1.23)

28     Amjad Ali, Saad Malik, Arjumand Z. Zaidi, Naveed Ahmad, Seema Shafique, Muhammad Noman Aftab, K. Aisha (2019). Standing stock of seaweeds in submerged habitats along the Karachi coast Pakistan, an alternative source of livelihood for coastal communities. Pakistan Journal of Botany.  51(5): 1819-1830. (IF: 0.8)

29     Islam Dad Buneri, Masarrat Yousuf, Mohammad Attaullah, Saifullah Afrid , Syed Ishtiaq Anjum, Habibullah Rana, Naveed Ahmad, Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Tahir, Mohammad Javed Ansari (2019). A comparative toxic effect of Cedrus deodara oil on larval protein contents and its behavioral effect on larvae of mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 26; 281-286. (IF: 3.2)

30     Naveed Ahmad, Pirzada Jamal A. Siddiqui, Khan Mir Khan, Noor ul Akbar, Muhammad Rashid and Rafaqat Masroor (2018). The growth performance of juvenile yellowfin seabream (Acanthopagrus arabicus) fed at different feeding rates while reared in floating. Journal of Animal & plant sciences. 28(4); 1014-1020. (IF: 0.52)

31     Muhammad Attaullah, Masarrat Yousuf, Sohail Shaukat, Syed Ishtiaq Anjum, Mohammad Javed Ansari, Islam Dad Buneri, Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Tahir, Naveed Ahmad and Shahid ullah Khan (2018). Organochlorine Pesticides in Serum and risk of cancer: a case-control study. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 25: 1284–1290. (IF: 3.2)

32     Faiz-ur-Rehman, Atta-ur-Rehman, Noor ul Akbar, Tahir Khan, Naveed Ahmad, Haroon Rashid, Muhammad Waqar, Noor-e-Fatima, Abdul Wahab (2017). The prevalence of dengue virus serotypes & dengue cases reported in district Peshawar. Journal of Lasbela university of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences.  Vol. VI, pp. 124-129.

33     Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Shoaib, Ghulam nabi, Naveed Ahmad and Muhammad Kifayatullahr (2016). A Comprehensive Review on Fishery Biology of catfishes.  Journal of Biology and Life Science, 7 (1):  1-11.

34     Hameed-Ur-Rehman,  Noor Ul Akbar, Muhammad Fahim Qureshi, Naveed Ahmad, Mohammad Masab, Iftikhar Ahmad, Waqar Ahmad, Haroon Rashid, Asmatullah and  Muhammad Mudasir Aslam (2015). Physicochemical Analysis of Water and Soil Collected From DandiIdharKhel Lake Karak and Its Effects on Fish Breeding. World Applied Sciences Journal; 33 (8): 1397-1401.

35     Ghulam Nabi, Yousaf Khan, Muhammad Amin, and Naveed Ahmad (2014). Link between chronic pesticides exposure and occurrence of Parkinson disease in Reckless Farmers.  Reviews of Progress; Vol-2 (9): 1-8.

36       Ghulam Nabi, Muhammad Amin, Noor Ullah, and Naveed Ahmad (2014). An overview on the causes, types and role of hormones in fish migration. International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research; 5 (8): 404-412.