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Email: hassan.mushtaq@uvas.edu.pk
Cell: 0346-4488875
Phone: +92-42-99211374
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curriculum vitae
Dr. Muhammad Hassan Mushtaq

Professor / Chairman (Tenured)

DVM, M.Sc (Hons), PhD

HEC Approved Supervisor

Biography

Muhammad Hassan Mushtaq graduated as Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from College of Veterinary Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan in year 2000. He started his professional career as Entrepreneur in Poultry Production Sector. Afterwards, completed M.Sc. (Hons.) Veterinary Pathology from University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore. Joined Hi-Tech Poultry Breeders Pvt Ltd and worked at Broiler Breeder farms and Diagnostic Laboratory of the company. He was awarded scholarship for PhD studies from overseas through Higher Education Commission of Pakistan in year 2005 and completed doctoral degree in discipline of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in year 2008 from Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P. R. China. After completion of PhD in 2008, he worked as Assistant Professor in National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Pakistan for one year. He worked in Hepatitis Control Project focusing on large scale commercial production of Interferon as biopharmaceutical product. Later, he joined department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science at his parent institution, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan in year 2010. Currently, he is working as Professor and Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

He is involved in teaching One Health, Epidemiology and Public Health courses to undergraduate students of different degree programs including Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Medical Laboratory Technology, BS Applied Microbiology and BS Poultry Sciences. As postgraduate supervisor he is supervising MPhil students of Epidemiology and Public Health program, One Health program and PhD student of Epidemiology and Public Health program. He is actively involved in research activities focusing on Epidemiology of Livestock Diseases, Zoonotic Diseases, Food Safety and research using One Health Approach.

He is regular member of statutory bodies, academic and non academic committees of university. He is also member of several committees/working groups to extend services to community, industry and other government departments or non government departments. He has been part of Policy making, Act drafting/approval process and published several Policy documents. He worked as consultant in various national/international funded projects and developed strategies/Action Plans for disease prevention and control.

He attends professional training courses from recognized national/international institutions to explore research opportunities with solid foundations for successful research work. He is member of Editorial board and review committee of International Journals. His research work has been published in well reputed international refereed journals. He also presented and shared significant research finding at different national and international scientific platforms. He is member of different national and international professional societies and associations.

Area of Interest

Epidemiology of emerging and re-emerging diseases, Zoonotic diseases (Influenza, Rabies, Mycobacterium, Brucellosis, Toxoplasmosis etc), Molecular Characterization and Phylogenetic analysis of different pathogens, Foodborne pathogens, One Health approach, Food safety management system, Legislation and policy work related to disease control

Publications

Professional Trainings as Resource Person/Organizer

 

Sr. # Title Organization/Institution Period
01. Workshop on Public health significance of MTB and multidrug resistance in TB Treatment. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UVAS, Lahore (Organizer) 24 February 2022.
02. Workshop on Epidemiology of Bovine Tuberculosis and it’s public health significance in Punjab, Pakistan. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UVAS, Lahore (Organizer) 16-17-Feburary, 2022
03. One day international workshop on food and water borne zoonoses in One Health perspective. Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bahaud Din Zakariya University, Multan, September 20, 2022.
04. Qualification development committee for the development of curriculum for the trade “environmental technology” Park lane Hotel, Lahore. Organized by; Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Center (PITAC), Lahore (Member, Curriculum development committee) 07-11 Nov. 2022.
05. Qualification development committee for the development of curriculum for the trade “environmental technology” Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Center (PITAC), Lahore (Member, Curriculum development committee) 14-18 March, 2022.
06. Qualification development committee for the development of curriculum for the trade “environmental technology” Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Center (PITAC), Lahore (Member, Curriculum development committee) 09-13 May, 2022.
07. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Antimicrobial Use (AMU),

Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) and Herd Health Management

 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UVAS, Lahore 7th April 2022
08. International virtual conference on Rabies Awareness and its control Vets care club, UVAS, Lahore (Resource Person) 19 September, 2021
09. An international webinar on Responsibilities of veterinary in Preventing the emerging zoonotic infections Organized by Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health (Organizer/moderator) July 06, 2021
10. Virtual training Workshop on “Capacity building of Female veterinarians, Veterinary assistants and faculty members about One Health and Emerging Zoonosis”. Pakistan Agricultural Research Council(PARC), Islamabad (Resource person) 8th to 12th March, 2021
11. Two days training workshop on “Patent Drafting” Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC), UVAS Lahore 7th  -8th January 2020
12. The Global Rinderpest Post-Eradication Security: Phase II FAO, Islamabad. Thursday 18 June 2020
13. Epidemiological Investigation of Norovirus in Children And Its Associated Risk Factors In District Lahore, Punjab-Pakistan Two day Virtual One Health conference (OHC-2020) Postcovid-19 perspective,  CVAS, Jhang Pakistan 25-26 November, 2020
14. Rabies – Awareness and current status in Pakistan Chief Organizer; Rabies free Pakistan initiative, Global UGrad, Pakistan, A community initiative by US state department and International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) 28 February, 2020
15. Seminar on Antimicrobial Resistance Organized by Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health - Overview by expert from Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), Lahore 22 November, 2019
16. Anti-rabies campaign Organizer: No killing of Dogs: Livestock and Dairy Development Department and Society for Protection of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) at UVAS 7th November, 2019
17. Rabies in animals and humans; One Health Concept FVS, UVAS, Lahore. Resource person 27 September, 2019
18. What are the Causes and Preventive Measures of Hepatitis A Organized public awareness talk by inviting expert from KEMU, Lahore 19 September, 2019
19. Slaughter house HACCP/Food safety Management system; documentation training Organized By; Export Facilitation Center for Food Processors and Punjab Food Authority, (Organizer and Resource person)   2018-2019
20. Slaughter house postmortem training to veterinarians and workers Organized By; Export Facilitation Center for Food Processors and Punjab Food Authority, (Organizer and Resource person) 2018-2019
21. National Seminar on Prevention and  Control of Rabies Organized By; KBCMA, CVAS, Resource Person 23 April, 2019
22. Cascading of Halal Laboratory Techniques to Food Processors (Food Authority for Detection of  Alcohol, Gelatin and Fatty acids in different food products) Organized By; Export Facilitation Center for Food Processors and Punjab Food Authority, (Organizer and Resource person) March, 2019
23. OIE Advance Competancy Training Program Organized by IVPD, Resource person November 25-29, 2019
24. One Health Approach Towards Control of Rabies: 5-Days Training for Veterinary Professionals  (IVPD) & FVS, UVAS, Lahore. (Organizer & Resource Person) 13-17- September, 2018
25. Basic Chinese Language Course UVAS Pak-China Desk (Organizer & Resource Person) 11-04-2018 to 04-05-2018
26. Two week training course for wildlife officers and veterinary officers titled “wildlife animals disease management” Training school Punjab Wildlife Research Center, Gatwala, Faisalabad (Resource Person) 5-3-18 to 18-3-18
27. Field Training program for slaughterhouse workers (Lahore) Project of Export Facilitation center for Poultry and Livestock (Organizer & Resource Person) March to April, 2018
28. In Field Training program for slaughterhouse workers (Karachi) Project of Export Facilitation center for Poultry and Livestock (Organizer & Resource Person) 27 May to 03 June, 2018
29. Workshop on role of migratory birds in disease dissemination Resource Person in Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB) Funded Project 15-16th November , 2017
30. One Day Hands on Training Workshop

“Basic Concept of Biosafety”

 

 Organized by Dept of Epidemiology and Public Health and University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore 10 May, 2017
31. Basic Chinese Language Course UVAS Pak-China Desk (Organizer & Resource Person) 27-03-2017 to 10-04-2017
32. The Awareness and

Field Test for

Diagnosis of Rabies

 Department of

Epidemiology and Public health, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore (Organizer & Resource Person)

 20 Dec,

2011
33. The Awareness and

Current Status of

Rabies

 Department of

Epidemiology and Public health, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore (Organizer & Resource Person)

 28

July, 2011
34. Use of Endnote software for citation

and referencing in research

 University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

(UVAS), Lahore (Organizer & Resource Person)

 08 Feb ,2011

 

Professional training courses and workshops attended / participated

Sr. # Title Organization/Institution Country Period
1. Workshop on Bioinformatics for Genomic Epidemiology Johns Hopkins University-Applied Physics Lab and Institut Pasteur, Tunis United Arab Emirates 25-29 July 2022
2. One Day International Workshop On Food And Water Borne Zoonoses In One Health Perspective

 

 Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University , Multan Pakistan 20 September, 2022
3. Virtual Genomic Epidemiology for Public Health Laboratories -Welcome and
Software Pre-installation and Slack		 DIEPS/FIC/NIH March, 2022
4. Webinar: World Food Safety Day FAO, UNEP, WFP, WHO and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Bangkok 2 June 2022

 
5. An international webinar on Responsibilities of Veterinarians in preventing the emerging zoonotic infections Epidemiology and Public Health in collaboration with OZDAC Pakistan 06 July, 2021
6. Dengue Awareness Epidemiology and Public Health in collaboration with Govt. of Punjab Pakistan 07 Oct, 2021
7. OIE virtual regional awareness raising workshop on veterinary workforce and VPPS (Veterinary Parap) The Pacific. Ministry of National food security & research, Pakistan 10th , 15th, 22nd 29 June & 6 July,  2021
8. 05 day virtual training on Biorisk management Avian Influenza Laboratory – UVAS Lahore Pakistan January 18-22, 2021
9. Seminar on Cooperation in Animal Epidemic Prevention and Control for Belt&Road Countries Jiangsu Inspection and Quarantine Institute of Quality (Jiangsu Commodity Inspection Training Center) Belt & Road Countries, China May 12, 2021-June 1, 2021
10. Predicted Pattern and Update on Covid-19 Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore. Pakistan 2020
11. Updates and progress in the SAARC region towards
elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030		 Organised Jointly by WHO, FAO and OIE Rabies Webinar 2020
12. Controlling Disease Outbreaks of Especially Dangerous Pathogens by Strengthening One Health Strategies in Pakistan The University of Tennessee Indonesia 2019
13. Basic Chinese Language Course UVAS Pak-China Desk Pakistan 2019
14. National seminar on control of rabies Organized By KBCMA CVAS Narowal Pakistan 2019
15. International Buffalo Congress (IBC 2019) held at Pearl Continental, Lahore- Pakistan. Organized By UVAS, Lahore and International Buffalo Federation Pakistan 2019
16. Training workshop on Patent Drafting In-service Training Facility of Advance Veterinary Education and Professional Development for Veterinary Professional Development in collaboration with (TISC), UVAS Lahore Pakistan 2019
17. International Poultry Expo-2019 Lahore Expo Center Pakistan 2019
18. Rabies in Animals Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, UVAS, Lahore Pakistan 2019
19. Senior Management Program for UVAS Lahore University Management Sciences Pakistan 9-13 July, 2018
20. 1st workshop for biosafety officers (BSO) Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), UVAS, Lahore Pakistan April 12, 2018
21. 2nd workshop for biosafety officers (BSO) Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), UVAS, Lahore Pakistan April 13-14, 2018
22. Awareness level biosafety workshop FVS, UVAS, Lahore Pakistan 08-10 August, 2018
23. Advanced level biosafety workshop FVS, UVAS, Lahore Pakistan 26-207, November, 2018
24. Field Epidemiology, Lab diagnostics & vector analysis of arboviuses in Pakistan Agha Khan University Pakistan 8-10 May 2018
25. Advanced Agriculture Bio-risk Training Organized by University of Tennessee, USA Indonesia 02-05 Sep, 2018
26. One Health Strategic Framework Development Workshop Joint venture of Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta and National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan. Islamabad, Pakistan 16th to 20th July, 2018.
27. Halal Food Certification Export Facilitation Center for Livestock and Poultry, UVAS, Pakistan Halal Science Center, Bangkok, Thailand 20-28 June, 2018
28. Isolating Emerging Infectious Pathogens during Disease Outbreaks in Pakistan Organized by University of Tennessee, USA Thailand 08-11 Jan, 2018
29. National Workshop on Intellectual Property Protection for the Inventions Related to Agriculture and Animal Sciences Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization, UVAS, Lahore Pakistan  09-10 October, 2017.
30. Training course on diagnosis of viral diseases Nuclear Institute of Agriculture and Biology (NIAB), Faisalabad Pakistan 19-21 September, 2017
31. Workshop on “Bioinformatics Tools & Resources” Institute of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, Faculty of Biosciences, UVAS, Lahore

 

 Pakistan 29th -30th March, 2017

 
32. “Prevention and detection of infectious zoonotic diseases in agricultural and public health sectors” Organized by University of Tennessee, USA Jordan. 08-14 April, 2017
33. International training on Risk Analysis; 2016 United States Department of Agriculture USA 28 March to 1st April, 2016
34. Strengthening of Lab Networking Pakistan Academy of Science, Islamabad Pakistan 2016
35. Three days international workshop on Biosafety. Collaboration of University Diagnostic Lab (UDL); Pakistan Biological Safety Association; Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Health, USA and ICLS (International council for life sciences), USA Pakistan 18-20, December 2014
36. Brucellosis Workshop

for Veterinarians.

 Organized by Continuing

Education, University of Pretoria. Held at Port Elizabeth

 Republic

of South

Africa

 18 -19

Aug, 2014
37. Laboratory animals

hands on workshop

 University Diagnostic

Laboratory and Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, UVAS, Lahore.

 Pakistan 18-19

June, 2014
38. International

Conference and Expo 2014 “Recent

Developments in

Human Nutrition”

 University of Veterinary

and Animal Sciences, Lahore and Nutritionists

Association of Pakistan

 Pakistan 19-20

March, 2014
39. Biological production

of Mycoplasma Gallisepticum antigen for diagnostic purpose.

 University Diagnostic

Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore

 Pakistan Sep, 2013
40. Water quantity and

quality assessment

 OIC Ministerial standing

committee on scientific and technological cooperation (COMSTECH), Islamabad

 Pakistan 16-18

October,

2012
41. Developing Research

Plans and Proposals

 Department of Statistics

and Computer Science, UVAS, Lahore

 Pakistan 03-21

July, 2012
42. A Practical Short

Course on Infectious

Disease Modeling

 Mahidol-Oxford Tropical

Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok

 Thailand 17-19

Jun, 2012
43. Biostatistics and Data

Analysis Concepts

 Department of Statistics

and Computer Science, UVAS, Lahore

 Pakistan 07-11

May, 2012
44. Understanding ISO

22000:2005. Food safety management system requirements (Covering topics; product recall and food hygiene):

 SMIS American

International Accreditation Organization. Abedin International, Lahore

 Pakistan 31 March,

2012
45. Experimental design

and data analysis using SAS

 Department of Statistics

and Computer Science, UVAS, Lahore

 Pakistan 18-23

July, 2011
46. Professional

Competency Enhancement Program for Teachers

 Center for Educational

Policy and Administration. UVAS, Lahore

 Pakistan 23-27 Aug

2010 and

28 Sep-to-

01 Oct, 2010
47. Development of

sustainable and collaborative research networks

 Talented Research

Exchange Program- INSPIRE Pakistan, Organized by UVAS Lahore and British Council

 Pakistan 27-28

Sep, 2010
48. Animal Forensics:

DNA Finger printing

 Institute of Biochemistry

and Biotechnology, UVAS, Lahore

 Pakistan 21-22

Sep, 2010
49. Influenza virus and

respiratory pathogens

 Pasteur Research Center,

Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, S.A.R.

 Hong Kong.

P.R. China

 01-23

July, 2010
50. Protocols for Basic

Molecular

Manipulation Training

 College of Life Science,

Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu.

 P.R. China 24-27

Jun, 2006
51. Techniques for

Writing and

Presenting a Scientific

Paper

 Michael Grossman,

(University of Illionis, USA) held at Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu.

 P.R. China 29-30

May, 2006
52. Dairy Farming Allama Iqbal Open

University. Islamabad

 Pakistan 02 Sep, 2002
53. Fish Nutrition and

Feeding

 Fisheries Research and

Training Institute. Punjab

Govt. Lahore

 Pakistan 10-15Sep, 2001
54. Practical Poultry

Farming

 Poultry Research Institute.

Punjab Govt. Rawalpindi

 Pakistan 16-31 Jan, 2001
55. Medical Transcription

Training Course

 Zeus Corporation. Lahore. Pakistan 14 Jan -to-

28 Feb 2001

Funded Research Projects

 

Sr.

No.

 Title Funding  Source and year

Year

 Status/Role Amount

(Million Rs)
1. Carrier status of Foot and Mouth Disease in Ruminants through Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction. Funded by Higher Education    Commission of Pakistan (2011) Principal Investigator Rs            0.5

Million
2. Molecular Detection Of Emerging And Reemerging Meatborne Bacterial Pathogens And Evaluation Of Various Control Strategies. Funded       by       Higher

Education    Commission of Pakistan (2013)

 Co-PI Rs           5.34

Million
3. Preparation             and

application of multi- epitopes   DNA vaccines against Newcastle Disease.

 Funded by Higher

Education Commission of Pakistan (2014)

 Co-PI Rs           7.64

Million
4. Development of indigenous inactivated Equine Influenza (EI) vaccine and Comparative efficacy study versus imported vaccines.

 

 Funded by Punjab Agriculture Research Board (2018) Principal Investigation Rs. 9.017 Million
5. Epidemiological investigation of food and beverages for Norwalk like viruses in Punjab. Funded by Higher Education Commission (2018) Principal Investigation Rs. 3.359 Million
6. In vitro evaluation of acaricidal resistance in Rhipicephalus microplus from Pakistan Funded by Higher Education Commission (2018) Co-PI Rs. 0.476 Million
7. Epidemiological disease modeling and molecular surveillance of SARS-CoV-2

 

 

 Funded by RRG, Higher Education Commission (August, 2020) (Principal Investigation) Rs 6.9 Million

 
8. Analytical and Molecular Epidemiology to Control Brucellosis in Small Ruminants and High risk Human Population in Punjab, Pakistan Higher Education Commission  (PI) Rs 19.88 Million

 

(Jan 2020)
9. Global Health Research for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Global Health Research Project

 

 Submitted (PI) 40,000 GBP

 

(Jan 2020)
10. One Health – Eco Health (OH-EH) Nexus for Improving Public Health in Pakistan Council on International Veterinary Medical Education Grants (CIVME- Grants) Submitted (CoPI) US$ 10000

(Jan 2020)
11. Development of a diagnostic kit using Reverse Line Blot Assay for simultaneous detection of multiple tick-borne pathogens. Pakistan Agriculture Research Board  (2022) Ongoing

(Team Member)

 Rs.14.691 Million

 

POPULAR ARTICLES / POLICY BRIEF

  • “Women empowerment for sustainable livestock development: constraints and possible solutions to minimize financial, social and cultural barriers policy for review”. POLICY BRIEF
  • “Can Pakistan Meet the global goal of Rabies eradication by 2030? Possible Approaches”. POLICY BRIEF published by Center for Applied Policy Research in Livestock (CAPRIL)
  • “Tick-Borne Diseases: A threat to livestock economy and public health in Pakistan, Current status and control strategies”. POLICY BRIEF published by Center for Applied Policy Research in Livestock (CAPRIL)
  • “To boost livestock economy, Pakistan needs self-sufficiency in indigenous vaccine production: Limitations and Requirements” POLICY BRIEF published by Center for Applied Policy Research in Livestock (CAPRIL)
  • “Molecular Epidemiology of Equine influenza viruses for the first time in Pakistan isolated in the outbreak 2015-17 (Published in newspaper The Daily Heights 11 Oct, 2017)
  • Zoonotic Tuberculosis- Still a Problem in Developing Countries. The Daily Patriot Newspaper, page-4, http://dailythepatriot. 10 Feb 2016
  • “Global threat of influenza virus out break and importance of its preparedness”. Muhammad Hassan Mushtaq and Filza H National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, and Medical University of Vienna. Published online “Agri news and views” (20 April, 2010)
  • “Bird Flu” By: Pro Jiang Ping and M. Hassan Mushtaq (student PhD) Key Laboratory of Animal Disease Diagnostic And Immunology, College Of Veterinary Medicine. Published on “NAU News online” www.nau.edu.cn Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, P.R.China. (26 December, 2006).

COUNTRIES VISITED

  • UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: To attend training course on Bioinformatics for Genomic Epidemiology
  • INDONESIA: To attend training “Controlling Disease Outbreaks of Especially Dangerous Pathogens by Strengthening One Health Strategies in Pakistan” Organized by University of Tennessee, USA. (2019)
  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Visit to a research collaborator at “OIE Equine Influenza Reference Laboratory” at Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. (2019)
  • INDONESIA: To attend training “Advanced Agriculture Bio-risk” Organized by University of Tennessee, USA. (2018)
  • THAILAND: To attend training course “Halal Food Certification”, Halal Science Center, Bangkok, Thailand (2018)
  • THAILAND: To attend training course titled “Isolating Emerging Infectious Pathogens during Disease Outbreaks in Pakistan” Organized by University of Tennessee, USA. (2018)
  • JORDAN: To attend training course titled “Prevention and detection of infectious zoonotic diseases in agricultural and public health sectors”, Amman, Jordan.08-14 April, 2017
  • UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: To attend training course on “Risk Analysis” arranged by US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. 28 March to 01 April, 2016
  • SOUTH AFRICA: To attend 12th annual congress of the Southern African Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. Port Elizabeth, RSA. 20-22 August, 2014
  • KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA: To attend Conference of Sustainability of Camel Population and Production (CSCPP), Al-ahsa, KSA. 17-20 February 2013
  • THAILAND: To attend training course on “Infectious disease modeling” 17-19 June, 2012
  • IRAN: To attend 2nd international congress of food hygiene 30 April – 01 May, Tehran, I.R. Iran. 2011
  • HONG KONG (SAR), P.R.CHINA: To attend training course on virology “Influenza virus and respiratory pathogens” Pasteur Research Center, Hong Kong University 07-23 July, 2010.
  • MOROCCO: To attend 16th World Veterinary Poultry Congress, 8-12 November, 2009.
  • R.CHINA: To attend 15th World Veterinary Poultry Congress, 22-26 August, 2007.
  • REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA: Visited Botswana Meat Commission (BMC), Francistown by invitation in 2006
  • R.CHINA: Attended training course on Protocols for Basic Molecular Manipulation Training: College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University 24-27 June, 2006
  • R.CHINA: Attended training course on Techniques for Writing and Presenting a Scientific Paper: Michael Grossman, (University of Illionis) held at Nanjing Agricultural University 29-30 May, 2006