Contact information

Email: asad.ali@uvas.edu.pk
Cell: +92-332-4142746
Phone: +92-42-99211374
Ext. 291, 179, 232
Dr. Muhammad Asad Ali

Associate Professor

DVM (UVAS, Lahore), M.Phil Microbiology (UVAS, Lahore), Ph.D. Microbiology (UVAS, Lahore)

Biography

Dr. Muhammad Asad Ali is PhD in Microbiology and serving at Institute of Microbiology for the last eleven and half years as a faculty member. He is secretary, Board of Faculty, Faculty of Veterinary Science. He has more than 50 publications in national and international impact factor and HEC recognized journals on his credit. He is focal Person, BSL-3 Laboratory for Emerging Pathogens, Institute of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore, involved in the testing of COVID-19 suspected human samples and has been awarded the certificate of appreciation from CM, Punjab, Secretary P&S Health Department, Punjab and President, Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council for his outstanding performance in fight against COVID-19. He also has co-authored one extension booklet; one popular press publication, two manuals, won 04 research grants including one as PI and three as Co-operative scientist; supervised 28 M.Phil students; currently supervising 01 PhD and 04 M.Phil students. He has participated in more than 50 national and international conferences as organizer, presenter or invited speaker.

Area of Interest

  • Isolation, Identification, and characterization of pathogenic microbes of veterinary and human importance.
  • Isolation, characterization and development of probiotics for poultry and human

Publications

Trainings and Courses (Attended)

Participation in Colloquia, Seminars, Conferences, Trainings, etc.

Title
Year
Organized/Participated
Postgraduate Student Orientation Program (Training)
February 26, 2008

 

Participated/Organized by Institute of Continuing Education, UVAS, Lahore
Environmental Sampling (Training)
March 18, 2009
Participated/Organized by UVAS, Lahore
Serodiagnosis of Animal Microbial Diseases (Training)
September 7, 2009
Participated/Organized by QOL, UVAS Lahore
SMEDA Accounting Package (Training Program)
September 7, 2009
Participated/Organized by SMEDA & FPCCI, Lahore
Fermentation for Biomass Production of Pasturella multocida (Training)
September 19, 2009
Participated/Organized by QOL, UVAS Lahore
Primer Designing for Microbial Identification using PCR (Training)
November 10, 2009
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Molecular Techniques (PCR/RT-PCR) for Diagnosis of Animal Microbial Diseases (Training)
November 23, 2009
Participated/Organized by QOL, UVAS Lahore
National 6th Asian Buffalo Congress
November 27, 2009
Participated/Organized by Asian Buffalo Congress
Indirect Sandwich Enzyme Linked Immunosorbant Assay (Training)
March 01, 2010
Participated/Organized by University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
Preparation and Evaluation of Oil based Foot and Mouth Disease and Hemorrhagic Septicemia Vaccine (Training)
August 2, 2010
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Isolation, Screening and Preliminary Characterization of Antimicrobial Metabolites from Food Microbesac (Training)
August 19, 2010
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Lab Management System ISO/IEC 17025
September 19, 2010
Participated/Organized by University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
Postgraduate Student Orientation Program
September 28, 2010
Participated/Organized by Institute of Continuing Education, UVAS, Lahore
Nuclear and Other Advanced Techniques in Agricultural and
November 22, 2010
Participated/Organized by NIAB, Faisalabad
Diagnostic Approaches Towards Avian Mycoplasmosis
January 6, 2011
Participated/Organized at University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
National Seminar and Workshop on Environmental Toxicology and Health
March 8-10, 2011
Participated/Organized by Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology UVAS, Lahore and HEC
International 31st Pakistan Congress of Zoology
March, 2011
Participated/Organized by Pakistan Zoological Society and AJK University, Muzaffar Abad
One-month Professional Competency Enhancement Program for Teachers (PCEPT)
2011
Participated/Organized by QEC, UVAS, Lahore & HEC
One-day Workshop on Awareness and Field Test for Diagnosis of Rabies
Jun 08, 2011
Participated/Organized by Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UVAS, Lahore and HEC
Application of SDS-PAGE for Molecular Characterization of Pasteurella multocida (Training)
Jun 15, 2011
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Application of Bio-Fermenter For Bio Mass Production of Pasturella multocida (Training)
August 09, 2011
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
GIS/GPS Applications in Epidemiology of Human and Animal Disease and in Biological Science Research (Training)
August 16, 2011
Organized at University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
International Conference on Latest Techniques for Conservation of Animal Genetic Resources in Pakistan
September 14, 2011
Participated/Organized by IBBT, UVAS, Lahore
National seminar on “The Awareness & Current Status of Rabies
2011
Participated/Organized by Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UVAS, Lahore and HEC
Protein Profiling of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates From Human Skin
February 16, 2012
Participated/1st National Symposium on "New Horizons of Microbiology" Steps of Microbes on the Ladder of Life. Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technology, Karachi.
Use of Endnote Software in Article and Thesis Writing (Training)
February 22, 2012
Organized/Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Summer Research Camp in Experimental Design and Data Analysis
February 24, 2012
Participated/Organized by Jackson State University in collaboration with UVAS, Lahore.
Techniques in Isolation and Identification of bacteria (Training)
March 17, 2012
Organized at Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Poly Acrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (PAGE) for Microbial Characterization (Training)
April 19, 2012
Organized at Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Isolation and Identification of Food-born Bacterial Pathogens from Food of Animal Origin (Training)
April 24, 2012
Organized at Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Bio-statistics and Data Analysis Concepts (Training)
May 07-11, 2012
Participated/Organized by Department of Statistics and Computer Sciences, UVAS, Lahore
Application of Bioinformatics in Understanding the Nature of Microbes (Training)
August 1-2, 2012
Participated/Organized by University Diagnostic laboratory and Quality Operations Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
International Conference of Toxicology on “Influence of Seasonal Dynamics on Prevalence of Soil Mycoflora”
2012
Participated/Organized by UVAS, Lahore
Developing Research Plans and Proposals (Training)
September 03-21, 2012
Participated/Organized by UVAS, Lahore
New Horizons of Microbiology
November 07-08, 2012
Participated/ Organized by HEC
6 hours GRE Training Session by USEF Pakistan
2013
Participated/Organized by USEFP and UVAS, UVAS, Lahore
Genome Extraction from Soil Samples (Training)
September 24, 2013
Participated/Organized by UDL, UVAS, Lahore
Common Laboratory Practices in Food Microbiology (Training)
October 09, 2013
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology and University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
Basic Laboratory Techniques in Microbiology (Training)
December 11, 2013
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology and University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
Genome Extraction from Soil Samples (Training)
January 09, 2014
Participated/Organized by UDL, UVAS, Lahore
Protein Profiling of Mycoplsma gallisepticum using SDS PAGE (Training)
February 16, 2014
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology and University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
Immunity and Immunogensis (Training)
March 04, 2014
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology and University Diagnostic Laboratory, UVAS, Lahore
Diagnosis of Viral Diseases (Training)
March 18, 2014
Participated/Organized by NIAB, Faisalabad
Data Analysis and Proposal Development (Training)
March 27, 2014
Participated/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
Practical Aspects of Poultry Health Management (Training)
February 04, 2015
Participated/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
International Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Congress.
April 3-4, 2015
Participated/ Organized by Pakistan Veterinary Medical Association, Punjab, Lahore
6th One Day Workshop on Impact of Bioinformatics in Life Sciences
       2015
Participated/Organized by Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad
International Workshop on Controlling Laboratory Bio-risk
May 11-12, 2015
Participated/Organized by Institute of Public Health, Lahore & University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
Workshop on Basic Lab Techniques
August 3-7, 2015
Participated/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
Training of Presiding Officers and Senior Assistant Presiding Officers Local Government Elections, Punjab 2015
October 17, 2015
Participated/Organized by Election Commission of Pakistan
International Human Nutrition conference and expo-15
November 3-4, 2015
Participated/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
37th All Pakistan Science Conference.
November 16-17, 2015
Participated/Organized by Pakistan Association for the Advancement of Science (PAAS)
Recent Trends in Microbiology
2016
Participated/Organized by Abbottabad University of Sciences and Technology
In-service Training for University and College Faculty
May 16-20, 2016
Participated/Organized by Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) in collaboration with Centre for Educational Policy and Administration (CEPA), University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
Training of Young Faculty Members of SBBUVAS (sakrand) for Two Weeks
July17-30, 2016
Resource person/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
Workshop on “Advanced Lab techniques-1 for Lab assistants and Lab attendants of UVAS”
July 20-22, 2016
Resource person/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
In-service Training for University and College Faculty for Faculty of Bio-Sciences, UVAS, Lahore
August 1-5, 2016
Resource person/Organized by Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) in collaboration with Centre for Educational Policy and Administration (CEPA), University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
In-service Training for University and College Faculty for Department of Microbiology, FVS, UVAS, Lahore
August 3-5, 2016
Resource person/Organized by Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
Animal Disease Prevention and Control Strategies
September, 23-29, 2016
Participated/Organized by Guangxi Veterinary research Institute, Nanning, Guangxi province, China
Teaching Methodologies and Resource Management of Veterinary Anatomy and Histology Courses
October 3-7, 2016
Resource person/Organized by Department of Anatomy and Histology and Centre for Educational Policy and Administration (CEPA), University of Veterinary
Conference on Sustainable crop and Animal Production Systems
December, 8-10, 2016
Member/Technical Committee, University of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
1st National Conference on Recent Trends in Microbiology
December, 20-21, 2016
Resource person/Organized by Abbottabad University of Science and Technology in collaboration with Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan Biological Safety Association, Pakistan Society For Microbiology, American Society For Microbiology and Health Security Partner, USA
Modern Strategies in Drug Discovery and Vaccine Design
2016
Participated/Organized by LUMS, Lahore
14th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST) Islamabad, Pakistan
January 10-14, 2017
Participated/Organized by Centers of excellence in science & applied technologies (CESAT) Islamabad
Skills Enhancement of Teaching Staff of LSTCs/Training Institutes
March 30-31, 2017
Participated/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore City Campus Lahore
Halal Trade & Islamic Financing-Way Forward to Sustainable Economic Development
April 10-11, 2017
Participated/Organized by Punjab Halal Development Agency
Training on “Management of Equipment/Machinery for the Production Unit, Process Flow of Vaccine Production and Biosafety Measures”
May 07-14, 2017
Participated/Organized by Foot-and- mouth Disease Institute, SAP, Ankara, Turkey
Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) Training
July 18-20, 2017
Participated/Organized by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Pakistan
First National Conference on Emerging Trends in Bioinformatics and Biosciences
July 20-22, 2017
Participated/Organized by Department of Bioinformatics, Hazara University, Mansehra
Bio-Prism Laboratory Safety Training Workshop
July 29-August 03, 2017
Participated/Participated/Organized at Margala Hotel, Islamabad
Poultry Science Conference at International Poultry Expo
August 24-26, 2017
Participated/Organized by Expo Center, Lahore by PPA and UVAS, Lahore
National Workshop on the Intellectual Property Protection for the Inventions Related to Agriculture and Animal Science
October 05-06, 2017
Participated/Organized by Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) of UVAS in collaboration with Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB)
International One health Conference, CVAS Jhang
November 13-15, 2017
Participated/Organized by CVAS, Jhang Sub-Campus, UVAS, Lahore
International Conference on Halal Food Safety Standards
2018
Participated/Organized by Govt. of Pakistan
International Halal Conference
April 17, 2018
Participated/Organized by Govt. of Pakistan
International Poultry Science Conference (PSC@IPEX2018)
September 27-29, 2018
Participated/Pakistan Poultry Association
National 38th All Pakistan Science Conference
December 10-11, 2018
Participated/Organized by Pakistan Association for the Advancement of Science
International Buffalo Congress
February 18-19, 2019
Participated/Organized by L&DD Punjab
One Health Training Program In-Person Training
July 07, 2019
Participated/Organized by COMSTECH Secretariat Islamabad
International Poultry Expo-2019
September 13-15, 2019
Participated/Organized by Pakistan Poultry Association
National 2nd Annual Bovine Udder Health Symposium
November 27, 2019
Participated/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
Advance Detection of Food Borne Pathogens
December 26-27, 2019
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology, UVAS
Controlling Disease Outbreaks of Especially Dangerous Pathogens by Strengthening One Health Strategies in Pakistan
2019
Participated/Organized by The Center for Agriculture and Food Security and Preparedness, College of Veterinary Medicine

 

Training on Writing a Competitive Grant Proposal
January 21-23, 2020
Participated/Organized by Department of Microbiology, UVAS
Working in BSL-3 Laboratory
April 8-10, 2020
Organized at BSL-3 Laboratory for Emerging Pathogens, Department of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Training on “Diagnosis of COVID-19 Using RT-PCR At BSL-3 Laboratory for Emerging Pathogens”
April 13-14, 2020
Organized at Department of Microbiology, UVAS
Faculty Training Program for Veterinary Education Establishments of Pakistan on How to Effectively Teach Newly Introduced Course Bio Risk Management for DVM one Degree Program Curricula
September 02, 2020
Participated/Organized by University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
Training on BRM for DVM Degree Program
September

2-4, 2020

Participated/Organized by Sandia National Laboratories in collaboration with Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council (PVMC)
Training on Laboratory Biosafety, Equipment Maintenance and Waste Disposal
October 13-15, 2020
Participated/Organized by Institute of Microbiology, UVAS, Lahore
Training on Advanced Bio-risk Management for Officer of Diagnostic Lab Livestock & Dairy Development Department Punjab
March 03, 2021
Participated/Organized at Veterinary Academy, UVAS
5 days BRM training Anthrax Lab
June 28, 2021
Participated/Organized by Association for Biorisk Management in collaboration with Health Security Partners
Five Days Virtual Biorisk Management Training
Jun 28-July 02, 2021
Participated/Organized by Association for Biorisk Management in collaboration with Health Security Partners
Virtual Pak Advanced BRM/TDP Training Workshop
July 13-15, 2021
Participated/Organized by Sandia National Laboratories in collaboration with Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council (PVMC)

Membership Of Professonal Bodies

Society Name
Nature of Membership / Office Held
From
To
International Society of Global Health
Member
October-2021
October-2022
American Society for Microbiology
Global Outreach - Contributing Membership
2021-03-29
2021-12-31
Pakistan Biological Safety Association
Life Time
2017-08-17
Pakistan Association for the Advancement of Science
Life Time
2016-06-30
Alumni Association, UVAS, Lahore
Life Time Member
2012-04-06
 

Research Projects

Sr. #
                          Title of Project
Grant #

Agency

Amount (Rs. Million)
Status
1
Development and Preclinical Studies of Inactivated Covid-19 Vaccine
Government of Punjab
100
Cooperative scientist

In progress

2
Evaluation of anti-Campylobacter activity of indigenous probiotic lactobacilli alone and in combination with different organic acids in poultry (PI)
HEC

(NRPU)

 

3.4
P.I.

In progress

3
Development of inactivated polyvalent vaccines for the control of mastitis in dairy cattle (CO-PI)
PARB
10.905
Cooperative scientist

In progress

4
Optimization of smart surveillance for smart lock down strategy through monitoring SARS-CoV2 from Sewage water
P&SHD, Punjab
16.9
Cooperative scientist

In progress

Postgraduate Supervision

DesignationM. Phil StudentsPhD Students
in ProgressProducedin ProgressProduced
Supervisor041301-
Member061502-
Total102803-