Ms. Humaira Amin

MS Bioinformatics (CUI Islamabad), BS Bioinformatics (CUI Sahiwal)

Lecturer

Email: Humairaamin@cuvas.edu.pk

Biography:

Ms. Humaira Ami joined Department of Genomics and Bioinformatics (CUVAS) in April 2024 and currently she is working as Lecturer in the afore mentioned department.  Earlier, she worked as a Scientific Officer (Bioinformatics) for the duration of almost 2.5 year (Aug 2021 to March 2024).
She completed her MS (Bioinformatics) from COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan in 2020 and BS in Bioinformatics in 2018 at COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) Sahiwal, Pakistan. Her MS research work was on “Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Human Preterm related Placental Tissue with Maternal Obesity and Diabetes”.
Till date she has co-authored 3 publications in reputable International Scientific Journals.

Area of Interest:

• Next Generation Sequencing data analysis,
• Transcriptomics (RNA Sequencing/microarray),
• Whole Genome Sequencing data analysis,
• whole/targeted exome sequencing data analysis,
• Microbial sequencing data assemblies and annotations,
• metagenome (16S/ITS/whole metagenome) sequencing data analysis
• R and Python programming languages

Publications

• Muhammad Shahzad, Muhammad Saeed, Humaira Amin, Nada Binmadi, Zafar Ullah, Sana Bibi, Simon C Andrew. 2024. The oral microbiome of newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients; a pilot study. Genomics. 116(2):110816. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2024.110816.

• Qudsia Yousafi, Humaira Amin, Shabana Bibi, Rafea Rafi, Muhammad S. Khan, Hamza Ali & Ashir Masroor. 2021. Subtractive Proteomics and Immuno-informatics Approaches for Multi-peptide Vaccine Prediction Against Klebsiella oxytoca and Validation Through In Silico Expression. International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics. 27(4):2685-2701. doi: 10.1007/s10989-021-10283-z
  

Awards

• HEC merit-based scholarship for 4 years BS
• Laptop under PM Youth Laptop Scheme