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Muhammad Tariq

Department of Biology

Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering

Muhammad Tariq received his PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland. During his PhD, he worked in Jerzy Paszkowski's lab specializing in epigenetic gene silencing in Arabidopsis. In 2003, he joined Renato Paro's lab as a postdoctoral fellow at Zentrum fur Molekulare Biologie Heidelberg (ZMBH). He was awarded EMBO long term fellowship for his postdoctoral studies elucidating a link between molecular chaperones and epigenetics in Drosophila. From 2006-09, he served as an Oberassistant (Senior Researcher) at ETH Zurich in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Switzerland. In 2009, he joined the Department of Biology at SSE as an Associate Professor where he is actively involved in developing biology research and teaching program at undergraduate and graduate levels. He has developed first epigenetic research lab in Pakistan which uses Drosophila to teach basic concepts of genetics, epigenetics and development to the SSE students. His research interests include epigenetic gene regulation during development and the epigenetic basis of diseases. To pursue his research interests, he primarily focuses on a paradigm based on Polycomb group (PcG) and Trithorax group (TrxG) proteins using the Drosophila and mammalian cultured cells.

Associate Professor
BSc (Hons), Horticulture University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 1996
M.Phil, Biotechnology National Institute for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, Pakistan 1999
PhD, Molecular Biology Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland 2003

m.tariq@lums.edu.pk
+92 42 3560 8218

Research Interests

  • Epigenetics and Cell Signaling
  • Cell Fate Determination and Maintenance
  • Epigenetics of Diseases