Dr. Tariq Mahmood
Ph.D (Massey University, NEW ZEALAND)
Assistant Professor
Email: mtariqmahmood@cuvas.edu.pk
Work Experience
- Prior to moving to New Zealand for Post-graduate studies, worked for Forestry & Wildlife Department (Pakistan) for a period of one year.
- Seven years laboratory work experience within both PC1 and PC2 facilities (2008-2015), while supervising Biochemistry of Cells, and Biology of Cells classes for various professional disciplines at Inst. of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University.
- “Taxonomic and Ethno botanical studies of some species of Matricaria in Pakistan” I International Symposium on Chamomile Research, Development & Production, 7-10 June 2006. Presov (Slovak Republic).
- Effects of Different Preservation Techniques on External Body Parameters of Colisa fasciata”. 25th Pakistan Congress of Zoology (International), 2005. Sind Agricultural University, Tandojam, Sind (Pakistan).
Qualifications
- Ph.D. (Sci.) (2015)– Massey University, New Zealand
Dissertation Title: Avian Raptor Evolution (https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/7198)
Summary: My study encompasses both Macro- and Micro-evolution with the help of mitogenomic data.
I built a relational database (an NCBI pipeline) of the online available sequence data for avian ‘raptors’.
My thesis focused on unraveling their inter-ordinal relationships as well as the overall position on the avian tree.
The last aspect of my study was to look into the population genetics of a common owl species.
Dissertation Co-Chairs: Dist. Prof. David Penny, Prof. Michael P. Wink, Assoc. Prof. Barbara Holland, Dr. Gillian Gibb
- Post Grad. Cert. in Computational Biology - (2008-2009) - Massey University, New Zealand
Research Reports:
(1) Phylogenetic studies on Raptors of Pakistan.
(2) Reanalysis of Tree of Life data for birds.
(3) Raptors Data Manager (A software application based on VB .NET and SQL server)
- M.Sc. Zoology (2004-2005), Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan
Dissertation: Comparison of Growth performance and Body composition parameters of some Fish species from Kallar Kahar Lake (Chakwal, Pakistan) and Bismillah Fish Farm (Muzaffar Garh, Pakistan).
- B. Sc. Hons. Zoology (2001-2004) - Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan
Research Report: Prevalence of Diabetes mellitus in relation to Age, gender, prognostic changes and associated complications, among the population of Multan
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Evolutionary Biology
- Phylogenetics
- Biological Anthropology
- Quantitative and Population Genetics
- Molecular Ecology
- Ethno-botany
- Zoology
PUBLICATIONS
- Mahmood, MT., Mclenachan, PA, Gibb, GC, and Penny, D. 2014. Phylogenetic Position of Avian Nocturnal and Diurnal Raptors. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(2) 326-332
- Mahmood, MT., McLenachan PA, Zhong B, Wink M, and Penny, D. Four new mitochondrial genomes support the distinctiveness of three separate groups of raptors.Genome Biology and Evolution (Submitted)
- Mahmood, MT., Truglio, M, and Penny, D. RaptorBase: a database of raptors’ nucleotide sequences. BMC Bioinformatics. (Under review)
- Mahmood, MT., Mclenachan, PA, Gibb, GC, and Penny, D. (in prep). Genetic diversity of Spotted Owlet (Athene brama) from the agro-ecosystem of Punjab, Pakistan.
District Wildlife Officer
CONFERENCES
- “How often did raptor ecology evolve?” Raptor Research Foundation Annual Meeting. Sept. 24th-28th, 2014. Corpus Christie, Texas (USA).
- “Phylogenetic position of avian nocturnal and diurnal raptors”. 17th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles, Sept. 17th-20th, 2013. (France).
- “Taxonomic and Ethno botanical studies of some species of Matricaria in Pakistan” I International Symposium on Chamomile Research, Development & Production, 7-10 June 2006. Presov (Slovak Republic).
- Effects of Different Preservation Techniques on External Body Parameters of Colisa fasciata”. 25th Pakistan Congress of Zoology (International), 2005. Sind Agricultural University, Tandojam, Sind (Pakistan).
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- Higher Education Commission, Pakistan Scholarship for Doctoral Studies in New Zealand (2008-2014).
- Claude McCarthy Fellowship – Universities NZ (2014).
- IFS, Massey University, Travel award (2013)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Background in quantitative genetics and Zoology with a keen focus on Ornithology integrating both field based and molecular approaches.
- DNA Sequencing
- High throughput /Next Generation Sequencing (Illumina MiSeq platform, mapping, De novo assembly, and alignments)
- Traditional Sanger Sequencing
- Molecular biology skills including qPCR, RT-PCR.
- Microscopy, biochemical and cellular biology techniques.
- Basic understanding of acoustic communication apparatus, and environmental data loggers.
- PAUP*, Mr Bayes, RAxML, Garli, NGS data analysis, Geneious Pro, DnaSP 5.10 (DNA Polymorphism), MEGA, PhyLIP, CLC genomics workbench
- Development of relational databases/MySQL databases.
- PBS scripting on servers using Unix/Linux environment.
- Programming languages: BioPerl and Python.
- Familiarity with, and user of CIPRES science gateway.
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