Dr. Muhammad Luqman

Ph.D Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor (TTS)

HEC Approved Supervisor

Email: muhammad.luqman@uvas.edu.pk

Biography:

Dr. Muhammad Luqman has done his PhD in Environmental Science from Govt. College University, Lahore. Earlier, he did his M.Phil. in Marine Biology from Centre of Excellence in Marine Biology (CEMB), University of Karachi. He served as an Assistant Professor and Chairperson of the department of Environmental Science at BUITEMS, Quetta for more than five years. He has also earned valuable experience of working in private sector in his career. Dr. Luqman has reported novel blooms of pollution-indicator diatom from Northern Arabian Sea along Karachi coast. He has got foreign training on Environmental aspects of cancers from International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France. He has joined UVAS in April, 2019.

Areas of Interest:

  • Biodiversity of Marine and Freshwater Diatoms
  • Ecology
  • Water Pollution
  • Environmental aspects of cancers
  • Gene-Environment interaction

Publication:


 

 

  1. Firdaus-e-Bareen and Muhammad Luqman*. Freshwater hyphomycetes Spora of the River Ravi. Mycopath, 2003, 1(2): 171-177.
  2. Muhammad Luqman*, Muhammad Mohsin Javed, Jamil Ahmad and Amin-ul-Haq Khan., An Overview of Sustainable Techniques used for Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water in Rural Areas of the Indo-Pak Subcontinent, Soil Environ. 32(2): 87-95, 2013. (HEC)
  3. Muhammad Luqman*, Muhammad Mohsin Javed, Asma Yusafzai, Muhammad Saeed and Jamil Ahmad, Furqana Chaghtai, Blooms of Pollution Indicator Micro-alga (Synedra acus) in Northern Arabian Sea along Karachi, Pakistan., Indian journal of marine sciences, Sep 2015, 14 (9): 1377- 1381. (0.5)
  4. Muhammad Luqman*, Muhammad Mohsin Javed, Shahjahan shabbier Ahmed, Asma Yousafzai, Sara Naudhani, Agha Muhammad Raza and Muhammad saeed, Adaptable Technologies of Arsenic Removal from drinking water for arsenic hit areas of Pakistan, J. Appl. Emerg. Sci, 6 (1): 43-48, 2016. (0.9)
  5. Abdul Hameed Baloch, Shakeela Daud, Nafeesa Raheem, Muhammad Luqman, Adeel Ahmad, Abdul Rehman, Jameela Shuja, Saeeda Rasheed, Akhtar Ali, Naseebullah Kakar, Hafiz Khush Naseeb, Mohammad Alam Mengal, Muhammad Arif Awan, Muhammad Wasim, Dost Mohammad Baloch, Jamil Ahmad. Missense mutations (p.H371Y, p.D438Y) in gene CHEK2 are associated with breast cancer risk in women of Balochistan origin, Mol Biol Rep., 1103-1107, 2014. (2.3)
  6. Muhammad Luqman* , Muhammad Mohsin Javed, Shakeela Daud, Nafeesa Raheem, Jamil Ahmad and Amin-ul-Haq Khan, Risk Factors for Lung Cancer in Pakistani Population, Asian Pacific journal of cancer Prevention, 15 (7): 3035-3039, 2014. (1.2)
  7. Muhammad Saeed, Costas A. Thanos, Agha Muhammad Raza, Muhammad Mushtaq and Muhammad Luqman., Comparative Ecophysiology Of Seed Germination In Two Pairs Of Closely Related Pines Of Mediterranean And Himalayan Origins, Pak. J. Bot., 48(3): 963-969, 2016. (HEC)
  8. Muhammad Hussain Khajjak, Agha Muhammad Raza, Muhammad Luqman, Asma Yousafzai, Sara Naudhani, Ghazala ali and Muhammad saeed, Evaluation of Seed viability of Juniperus excels (M. Bieb.) found in Balochistan, Pakistan by Tetrazolium assay, J. Appl. Emerg. Sci, 6 (1): 31-35, 2016. (HEC)
  9. Shahjahan shabbier Ahmed Rana, Hafiz Umair Ahmed, Imran Ali Sani, Nazeer Ahmed, Muhammad Luqman, Arshad ghani, Salman Aziz, abdul Razzaq and Asif ur Rehman, Detection and the amplification of the E8 promotor in tomato plant and sequencing of the E8 gene, J. Appl. Emerg. Sci, 6 (1): 14-17, 2016. (HEC)
  10. Shakeela Daud, Sara Naudhani, NisarAhmed, Tahir Yaqub, Abu Saeed Hashmi, Ali Raza Awan, Abdul Wali, Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Wasim, Mutational analysis of the equine Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS2) in horses of Pakistani origin: No evidence found for motor neuron disease, Int. J. Bios, 10 (3): 157-162, 2017. (ISI-Indexed)
  11. Muhammad Luqman*, Asma Yusafzai, Shakeela Daud, Asad Ullah, Abdul Hameed Baloch, Sara Naudhani, Jamil Ahmad, Identification of two Missense Mutations (p.Ile198Thr & p.Ser44Arg) in TYR gene in Pakistani families, Int. J. Bios, 10 (4): 232-238, 2017. (ISI-Indexed)
  12. Asma Yousafzai, Nisar Ahmed, Muhammad Luqman, Hafiz Khush Naseeb, Neelam Hashmi, Kiran Rani, Muhammad Murad, Muneeza Arbab, Mahnoor Ejaz, Umair Ahmed, Abdul Wali, Naheed Sajjad, Abdul Hameed Baloch, Jamil Ahmad, Clinical presentation and lifestyle related risk factors of breast cancer among different age and ethnic groups, IAJPS 2017, 4 (11), 4464-4475.
  13. Yousafzai , A., Nawaz, F., Yousafzai, A., Luqman, M., Ahmed, N., Arbab, M., Tabassum, J., Ahmad, J., & Daud, S. (2021). Mutational Studies of Gene HBB in β-Thalassemia Patients from Balochistan, Pakistan. Current Trends in OMICS, 1(2), 80-94. https://doi.org/10.32350/cto.12.05.
  14. Yousafzai, A., Luqman, M., Ahmed, N., Arbab, M., Murad, M., Sajjad, N., ... & Rauf, Z. (2019). Identification of Mutations in Gene BRCA1/2 in Breast Cancer Cases from Balochistan, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 51(4), 1579-1582. (0.76)
  15. Fariha Arooj , Kainat Jamshed , Saif ur Rehman Kashif , Haroon Jamshed &
  16. Muhammad Luqman (2020): Improvement in the absorbency of ozone bleached cotton fabric by the addition of surfactant, The Journal of The Textile Institute, DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2020.1847475  (1.77)
  17. Tabassum Jamila , Luqman Muhammad *, Hasan Fariha , Arooj Fariha , Kashif Saif Ur Rehman and Yousafzai Asma, Efficacy of Cavern Isolates for Biodegradation of Synthetic Plastic, Letters in Organic Chemistry 2022; 19 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1570178618666210602161857  (0.797)
  18. Bashir, I., Awan, M. U. F., Muhammad, S., Sardar, A. A., Luqman, M., & Arooj, F. Physiochemical Alterations and Air Pollution Tolerance Index in Ficus religiosa L. Planted Along Polluted Roadsides of Lahore City. Rev. Chim., 72(3), 2021, 112-121. (1.6)
  19. Ahsanullah, Shaukat Hayat Khan, Razzaq Ahmed & Muhammad Luqman* (2021) Morphological change detection along the shoreline of Karachi, Pakistan using 50 year time series satellite remote sensing data and GIS techniques, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 12:1, 3358-3380, DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2021.2009044 (3.922)
  20. Muhammad Luqman*, Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan, Sohaib Muhammad, Shakeela Daud, Asma Yousafzai, Fariha Arooja. Microbial Pollution in Inland Recreational Freshwaters of Quetta, Pakistan: An Initial Report. Journal of Water and Health. Doi: 10.2166/wh.2022.291   (2.264)
  21. Hameed, A., Arooj, F., Luqman, M., Kashif, S. U. R., Iftikhar, A., Aziz ur Rehman, S. Ahmed Somroo, Z. (2022). Assessment of Filtration System Efficiency of Artificial Groundwater Recharge wells in Lahore. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/143921 (1.871)
  22. Nawab, J., Ghani, J., Rehman, S.A.U., Idrees, M., Luqman, M., Khan, S., Asghar, A., Rehman, Z. Biomonitoring of mercury in water, sediments, and fish (brown and rainbow trout) from remote alpine lakes located in the Himalayas, Pakistan. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-21340-5.  (5.190)
  23. Saif-Ud-Din, Shaukat Ali, Sajid Hussain, Javid Hussain, Muhammad Luqman, Jamal Hussain Salar Ali. Evaluation of heavy metal contamination in indigenous fruits and associated human health risk: evidence from Fuzzy-TOPSIS approach. Global nest journal. DOI:https://doi.org/10.30955/gnj.004236. (1.134)
  24. John A, Yang H-H, Muhammad S, Khan ZI, Yu H, Luqman M, Tofail M, Hussain MI, Awan MUF. Cross Talk between Synthetic Food Colors (Azo Dyes), Oral Flora, and Cardiovascular Disorders. Applied Sciences. 2022; 12(14):7084. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12147084  (2.834)
  25. Hidayetullah, Shakeela Daud, Saba Manzoor, Adeel Ahmad, Palwasha Khan, Asma Yousafzai, Nabeela Tariq, Muhammad Luqman and Gohram Khan. Mutational Analysis of Gene BRD2 in Patients of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy. Int.j.pathol.2022;20(1): 7-13

 

 

  1. Shah, S.H., K.H. Gill, N. Syed, M. Luqman, A.A. Sheikh, M.A. Qazi and N. Din, Micronutrients uptake and yield of wheat as affected by humic acid application, 13th Congress Of Soil Science, Faisalabad-Pakistan 24-27 March, 2010.
  2. Muhammad Luqman, Furqana Chaghtai, Muhammad Javed, Jamil Ahmad, Appearance of unusual Blooms of Synedra acus in Northern Arabian Sea along Karachi, Pakistan, World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, organized by Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, on 12‐16 October 2014, Qingdao, China.
  3. Asma Yousafzai, Muneeza arbab, Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Murad, Jamil ahmad,  Paper presentation entitled “Identification of mutations in gene BRCA ½ in breast cancer cases from Balochistan, Pakistan ” in “International conference on applied biosciences (ICAB)” organized by Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi-Pakistan, held on December 5-6, 2019.
  4. Muhammad Luqman, Jamila Tabassam, Fariha Arooj, An epidemiological study of Crimean Congo hemorrhage fever in Balochistan, Virtual one health international conference, organized by University of Veterinary and Animal sciences, Lahore, held on 25-26 November 2020.