Mohsin Gulzar Barq
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Mohsin Gulzar Barq obtained Ph.D. Microbiology from the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His area of expertise is Environmental Microbiology and Molecular Microbiology, with a research emphasis on Bacterial Biofilms as well as Microbiome of Complex Soils. He has accomplished his Ph.D. research work in Soil Microbial Ecology Lab, College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CFAES), Columbus, Ohio, USA. He has also performed a collaborative research project of Karolinska Institute and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden which aimed to identify the possible role of microorganisms in degradation of Swedish Vasa ship (a 17th century Swedish war ship kept in Vasa Museum that sank in 1628 at Stockholm harbour and salvaged in 1961). He has published 5 research papers in peer-reviewed Impact Factor journals.
| PhD | Microbiology | Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan | 2022 |
| MS | Molecular Microbiology | Skovde University/ Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden | 2012 |
| Assistant Professor | University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan | October 3, 2022 - to date |
| Research Assistant | The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA | February 2019 – July 2019 |
| Officiating Lecturer | Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan | September 2016 – May 2018 |
| Officiating Lecturer | University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan | 2013 - 2015 |
| 1 | Barq, Mohsin Gulzar, Muhammad Mubashar Hassan, Humaira Yasmin, Noshaba Hassan Malik, Nicola Lorenz, Abdulaziz Abdullah Alsahli, Richard P. Dick, and Naeem Ali. "Variation in archaeal and bacterial community profiles and their functional metabolic predictions under the influence of pure and mixed fertilizers in paddy soil." Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 28, no. 11 (2021): 6077-6085. |
| 2 | Ahmed, Asmaa Bashir, Mohsin Gulzar Barq, and Sidra Javed. "Bacteriological and physiochemical analysis of drinking water from different areas of district Gujrat, Pakistan." Int J Appl Biol Foren 1, no. 1 (2017): 25-33. |
| 3 | Shah, Ziaullah, Mohsin Gulzar, Fariha Hasan, and Aamer Ali Shah. "Degradation of polyester polyurethane by an indigenously developed consortium of Pseudomonas and Bacillus species isolated from soil." Polymer Degradation and Stability 134 (2016): 349-356. |
| 4 | Chattha, Sohail Arif, Syed Makhdoom Hussain, Arshad Javid, Muhammad Nadeem Abbas, Shahid Mahmood, Mohsin Gulzar Barq, and Majid Hussain. "Seasonal Diet Composition of Leopard (Panthera pardus) in Machiara National Park Azad Jammu and Kashmir Pakistan." Pakistan Journal of Zoology 47, no. 1 (2015). |
| 5 | Iqbal, Tahir, Asma Nosheen, Mohsin Gulzar Barq, Abdul Razaq, Rukhshanda Saleem, and Khizar Hayat Bhatti. "PCR-Based Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer of iucA and ipaA Virulence Genes in Clinical E. coli Isolate EPT09 from Pakistan." World Applied Sciences Journal 30, no. 12 (2014): 1726-1730. |