Prof. Dr. Arfan Ahmad

(PhD Microbiology, DVM)
Professor
Institute of Microbiology, University of Veterinary and Animal Scienecs, Lahore 54600, Pakistan

Mobile: +92-300-5517500

Email: iffivet@uvas.edu.pk

Biography

Professor Dr. Arfan Ahmad is serving this highly esteemed institute since 2006. Currently he is working as Professor (Tenured) in University Diagnostic Laboratory (UDL), Institute of Microbiology. He holds DVM, M.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in Microbiology. He conducted significant part of his Ph.D. research at Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI Canada. He is involved in teaching, research and disease diagnosis. He has been part of national and International collaborative research projects. His area of research interest is to diagnose various infectious diseases which are prevailing in Pakistan and ultimately developing control strategies using biosafety and biosecurity measures to prevent their trans-boundary transmission. He is also serving the institute as research supervisor for undergraduate and postgraduate students and produced over 35 MPhil and 4 PhD students. He is qualified assessor for ISO/IEC 17025:2017. He is on the panel of Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC), Islamabad as technical assessor to assess the quality of testing activities under the requirements of international standards in the area of Microbiology

Area of Interest

• Molecular Characterization of bovine Pestiviruses, NewCatle disease, and Avian influenza viruses, Salmonellosis, avian mycoplasmosis etc
• Food safety

Publications

Abstracts Published:

• Hammad ur Rehman,Arfan Ahmad, Masood Rabbani, Muhammad YasinTipu, Aamir Ghafoor. “Geographical distribution of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) antibody in bovine serum samples collected from seventeen districts of central Punjab, Pakistan”. Proceedings of IX Asian Buffalo Congress-2018 “Climate Resilient Buffalo Production for Sustainable Livelihood”, Feb. 1-4,2018, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar, Haryana, India. p.157
• Abdul Raheem, Arfan Ahmad, Aamir Ghafoor, Aneela Zameer Durrani and Hammad Ur Rehman. “Determination of seroprevalence and associated risk factors of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in bovine population from southern Punjab, Pakistan”. Proceedings of IX Asian Buffalo Congress-2018 “Climate Resilient Buffalo Production for Sustainable Livelihood”, Feb. 1-4,2018, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar, Haryana, India. p.157.
• M.U.S. Khan, A. Ahmad, M. Rabbani, Muti-ur-Rehman Khan, A. Ghafoor, A.A. Ajnum , M. Avais and Hammad-ur-Rehman. Detection of bovine viral diarrhea virus and bacterial contaminants in commercial bovine semen in Pakistan. Proceedings of IX Asian Buffalo Congress-2018 “Climate Resilient Buffalo Production for Sustainable Livelihood”, Feb. 1-4,2018, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar, Haryana, India. p.62
• Qurat ul Ain, Arfan Ahmad,  Muhammad Nawaz,  Mamoona Chaudhry, Muhammad Avais, Aqeel Javed, Hammad Ur Rehman. Study on the effects of antibiotics and vaccine administration on tissue tropism and shedding pattern of local isolate of salmonella enterica serovarenteritidis in commercial broiler chicken. Proceedings of OHC 2017 One Health International Conference  held in UVAS Lahore, Pakistan: 13-15 Nov, 2017.
• Arfan Ahmad, Aamir Ghafoor, Hammad ur Rehman,Fareeha Akhtar. Retrospective study  on Lab Samples  for Diagnosis of  Fecal and Blood Parasite of Small Ruminants in Pakistan. p. 22. Iran J Parasitol. ISSN :1735-7020, Vol. 12, Supplementary Issue, No. 1, 2017. Proceedings of PARACON 2017 International Parasitology Conference "Recent Advances and Emerging Issues in Parasitology" held in UVAS Lahore, Pakistan: 25-26 Oct, 2017.

Trainings, Workshops, Conferences And Symposiums:

• One day training workshop on Immunophenotyping of poultry immune cells for vaccine research using flow cytometry held on June , 6th 2023 at UVAS LAHORE
• Attended Regional guidelines for collection and transporting priority pathogens samples in Pakistan sponsored by the US national academics of science, engineering and medicine national institute of health of Pakistan dated May 30th-June 1st 2023
• 3 days Hands–on training on food safety lab management in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025:2017 guidelines at Veterinary academy UVAS collaboration with UNIDO and JICA
• 3 days training on Antimicrobial  susceptibility testing , laboratory quality management system and AMR data analysis using WHONET held on Provisional disease laboratory dated March 8th-10th 2023
• One day training workshop on Bovine Leukemia Virus : An emerging issue in dairy industry of Pakistan held on University Diagnostic laboratory UVAS Lahore dated March 9th 2023
• Attended one training on How to respond to an emergency at Veterinary academy UVAS organized by Emergency response committee uvas in collaboration with civil defense
• All Pakistan international science conference held on UVAS dated December , 14th –15th 2022
• 2 days’ workshop on Personal reliability workshop organized by Pakistan biological safety association with chrome biorisk management and the foreign international center NIH-USA dated November , 8th- 9th 2022
• Two days refresher training on biorisk management organized by Association of Biorisk Management in collaboration with Health Security Partner, USA dated Jan 13-14, 2022
• Training course on diagnosis and control of Lumpy Skin Disease held at National Veterinary Laboratory, Islamabad on March16-17, 2022
• Five Day Virtual training on Biorisk Management organized by Association of Biorisk Management by Association of Biorisk Management in collaboration with Health Security Partner, USA on Jan 18-22, 2021
• Attended 4 day Virtual Training on Safe and Secure Sample collection and Transportation by Association of Biorisk Management in collaboration with Health Security Partner, USA, Oct 28-31 2021

• Attended 3 days’ workshop on Establishing Zoonosis Control Committees for Integrated Surveillance Detection and Reporting of High Risk Pathogens in Punjab, organized by Association of Biorisk Management in collaboration with Health Security Partner, USA on Nov 25-27, 2021
• Attended 2 days congress entitled” International Buffalo congress”(IBC-2019) organized by  University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences on Feb 18-19, 2019
• Attended two days’ workshop on Advanced level biosafety organized by Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences dated Nov 26-27, 2018
• Attended 5 days Assessor Training Course on ISO/IEC 17025:2017, organized by Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC), Ministry of Science & Technology, GOP, Islamabad on June 24-28, 2019

• Participated in 2 days Training Workshop on “Analytical Model Building and Proposal / Project Development” held on 28th- 29thDecember, 2017 Organized by Department of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated in 1 day National Workshop on “Basics Tools in Bioinformatics” held on 29th November, 2017 Organized by Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, GC University Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated in 2 days National Workshop on “Handling and Restraining of Migratory Birds with Tick Identification” From November, 22-23, 2017 Organized by Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

• Participated in 2 days National Workshop on “Role of Migratory Birds in Disease Dissemination” From November, 15-16, 2017 Organized by Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• “Diagnosis of Viral Diseases” held on September 19-21,2017organized by Nuclear Institute of agriculture and biology (NIAB) Faisalabad.
• Paper titled "Recent Advances and Emerging Issues in Parasitology" presented in International Parasitology Conference PARACON 2017  held in UVAS Lahore, Pakistan: 25-26 Oct, 2017.
• Paper titled “Study on the effects of antibiotics and vaccine administration on tissue tropism and shedding pattern of local isolate of salmonella enterica serovarenteritidis in commercial broiler chicken” presented in One Health International Conference OHC 2017 held in UVAS Lahore, Pakistan: 13-15 Nov, 2017

• Participated as resource person in “Lab Assisted Disease Diagnostic Techniques” From December, 26 2016 to January 06, 2017 Organized by University Diagnostic Lab, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
• “Lab Assisted Disease Diagnostic Techniques” from December, 26 2016 to January 06, 2017 organized by University Diagnostic Lab, UVAS, Lahore
• Participated as Participant in Hands on practical training on tools used for next generation sequencing based microbiome and sequencing data analysis From Dec, 14-15,2016 Organized by Quality Operations Laboratory , University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated as Participant in International Workshop on Regional Trans-boundary, Animal Disease Workshop (ITAD). The USDA Foreign Agriculture Service and the City University of Hong KongFrom Sep, 26-30,2016 Held in Hong Kong, China
• Participated as resource person in Molecular based testing of Microbial contaminants in Bull’s Semen From June, 02-06,2016 Organized by
• University Diagnostic Lab, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
• Participated as resource person in Lab Assisted Disease Diagnostic Techniques From June, 02-03,2016 Organized by University Diagnostic Lab, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated as resource person in Lab Assisted Disease Diagnostic Techniques From May 31-June 01, 2016 Organized by University Diagnostic Lab, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated  as  resource  person  in  Molecular  based  testing  of  Microbial contaminants  in  Bull’s Semen From May 30-June 01 , 2016 Organized by University Diagnostic Lab, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

• Participated as resource person in Molecular and Microbiological Lab TechniquesFrom May 24-June 06,2016 Organized by University Diagnostic Lab, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated as resource person in Lab Assisted Disease Diagnostic Techniques From Dec, 7-18,2015 Organized by University Diagnostic Lab, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
• Participated as resource person in International Workshop on Master Trainer Program for Laboratory From Sep, 7-11,2015 Organized in University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated as resource person in One week Workshop on Basic Laboratory Techniques From Aug, 03-07,2015 Organized by University Diagnostic Lab & Department of Microbiology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated in National Workshop on Controlling Biorisk in Lab as Participant on May, 11-13,2015 organized by Department of Microbiology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan Bacteriology Department, Institute of Public Health, Lahore.
• Participated as resource person in 3 days Training Course on Diagnosis of Viral Disease From May, 04-06, 2015 Organized by Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) Faisalabad, Pakistan.
• Participated as resource person in Three days National Workshop on Molecular Diagnostics From June, 23-25, 2015 Organized by UDL,IBBT & QOL , University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated as resource person in One Day Workshop on Practical Aspects of Poultry Health Management Feb, 04, 2015 Organized by University Diagnostic Lab, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated as resource person in workshop on Laboratory Animal Handling From Jan, 28-30,2015 Organized at Postgraduate Medical Institute/ Ameer-ud-Din Medical College Lahore, Pakistan.
• Participated as resource person in National Training course on Diagnosis of Poultry Diseases through Modern Diagnostic Techniques” organized by Department of Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad in collaboration with World Veterinary Poultry Association (WVPA-Pakistan Branch) on 03-04 April, 2014.
• Participated in National Workshop on Newcastle disease prevention and control in Pakistan as resource person on 5th Nov. 2012 organized by Institute of biochemistry and biotechnology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Eighteen days training from Sept. 22, 2012 to Oct. 10, 2012 on advanced molecular diagnostics of Avian Mycoplasmosis at Avian Research and Connecticut Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Labs, Department of Pathobiology, University of Connecticut, USA.
• Participate as resource person in two days training workshops on Application of bioinformatics in understanding the nature of microbes. 1st to 2nd August 2012 by UDL and QOL, UVAS, Lahore
• One year research study on “Comparison of diagnostic approached for the detection of Bovine viral diarrhea persistency  in  dairy  herds”  at  Department  of  Pathology  and  Microbiology,  Altantic  Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. January 2009 to December 2009.
• One day training session on “Internal auditing of ISO 17025; 2005” by QMS 9000, held at U.V.A.S, Lahore on 12 Dec, 2006.
• One  week  workshop  on  “Practical  Veterinary epidemiology”  by Institute of  Continuing  Education  and Extension, UVAS, Lahore on November 4 – 11, 2006
• 6th annual National training course on Modern Techniques in Biotechnology,5-9 May,2008 at National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad.
• Teacher Orientation Program for 15 days held at University of Veterinary and Animal sciences Lahore from March 12, 2007 to March 28, 2007.
• Six  days training  workshop on  “Laboratory diagnosis of important  diseases.” held  at National  VeterinaryLaboratories Islamabad.
• 6 days Workshop on “Cultivation and maintenance of BHK-21 Cell line” by Institute of Continuing Education and Extension, UVAS, Lahore from May 16, 2005 to May21, 2005

Training Courses (Participation):

• Organizer of One day training workshop on Bovine Leukemia Virus : An emerging issue in dairy industry of Pakistan held on University Diagnostic laboratory UVAS Lahore dated March 9th 2023
• Organizer of Training on NEW ISO-17025:2017 Standard organized by University Diagnostic Lab, UVAS, Lahore on August 18, 2020
• Facilitator in Poultry Science conference at International Poultry congress organized by Pakistan Poultry Association and University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore dated September, 27-29, 2018
• Participated in 5 days Assessor Training Course on “ISO 17025:2017” held on January 15-19, 2018 Organized by Pakistan National Accreditation Council (PNAC), Ministry of Science and Technology, Islamabad.
• Participated in 3 days Training Course on “Diagnosis of Viral Disease” held on September, 19-21, 2017 Organized by Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Conferences (Oral Presentation):

• Secretory of Three days training course on diagnostic and surveillance technique organized by Veterinary Academy on January 5-7, 2022
• Laboratory Biosafety, Equipment and Waste Disposal for Lab Assistants of L & DD, Punjab (Secretary Organizing committee)  organized at Institute of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore on 13-15 Oct, 2020
• Facilitator as secretary of Abstract review and poster presentation committee Poultry Science conference at International Poultry Expo Organized by Pakistan Poultry Association and University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore dated September, 13-15, 2019
• Facilitator as secretary of Abstract review and poster presentation committee in Poultry Science conference at International Poultry congress Organized by Pakistan Poultry Association and University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore on Sep. 27-28, 2018
• Participated in 3 days One Health International Conference (OHC 2017) From November, 13-15, 2017 Organized by College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Jhang - Pakistan (Sub Campus) UVAS, Lahore.
• Participated in 2 days International Parasitology Conference on Recent Advances and Emerging Issues in Parasitology FromOctober, 25-26, 2017 Organized by Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

Projects