•  Ph.D (Molecular Biology) Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) and University College London, UK, 2021
• M.Phil (Molecular Biology), CEMB, University of the Punjab, 2015
• BS (Honors) (Biotechnology) Forman Christian College University, Lahore, 2013

Dr. Rabbia Pervaiz is working an Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, at the Qarshi University Lahore. She holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab and has availed HEC IRSIP Fellowship at the University College London, UK. Prior to this, she has received her M.Phil. and B.Sc. (Hons.) degrees from CEMB and Forman Christian College University, respectively. Before joining Qarshi University, she has worked with the Forman Christian College as a Temporary Assistant Professor. Dr. Rabbia has been a Visiting Researcher at the National Institutes of Health, King Edward Medical University. She has authored publications in leading peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Rabbia’s specific areas of research interest include biotechnological exploitation of green algal expression system, biocontrol agents, synthetic biology tools, recombinant proteins, in silico protein-protein interactions, Bacillus thuringiensis toxins, yeast expression system and biopharmaceuticals.

Work Experience (Summary)

Publications

• Amjad, F., Khan, H., Khan, I. M., Ayub, S., Bhatti, R., Pervaiz, R.,Malik, K., & , Khan, A, M. (2024).An oral toxicity assessment of a mosquito larvicidal transgenic algae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) using adult zebrafish and its embryos. PLOS ONE (manuscript accepted).
• Taunt, H. N., Jackson, H. O., Gunnarsson, Í. N., Pervaiz, R., & Purton, S. (2023). Accelerating chloroplast engineering: a new system for rapid generation of marker-free transplastomic lines of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Microorganisms, 11(8), 1967
• Khan, H., Khan, M. A., Ahmed, N., Tawakkal, F., Amjad, F., & Pervaiz, R.(2023). A 90-day subchronic oral toxicity assessment of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii biomass, genetically modified to express Cry11Ba protein, by using Han Wistar rats. Journal of Applied Phycology, 1-13
• Akram, M., Khan, M. A., Ahmed, N., Bhatti, R., Pervaiz, R.,Malik, K., … & Ali, Q. (2023). Cloning and expression of an anti-cancerous cytokine: human IL-29 gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. AMB Express, 13(1), 1-9.
• Pervaiz, R.,Khan, M. A., Raza, F. A., Ahmad, S., Zafar, A. U., Ahmed, N., & Akram, M. (2022). Expression of a mosquito larvicidal gene in chloroplast and nuclear compartments of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Journal of Biotechnology, 360, 182-191.
• Pervaiz, R., Khan, M. A., Ahmed, N., Naeem, H., & Zafar, A. U. (2018). Determination of Mosquito Larvicidal Potential of Bacillus thuringiensisCry11Ba Fusion Protein Through Molecular Docking. Biologia, 1-9.
• Khan, M. A., Ahmed, N., Pervaiz, R., Bhattie, R., Malik, K., Shahid, A. A., Purton, S., & Taunt, H. N. (2021). Genetically engineered algae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) strain expressing constitutively mosquito larvicidal cry11Ba gene and its derivatives (IPO Patent Application No. 359/2021). Government of Pakistan, Intellectual Property Organization, The Patent Office, Karachi.

Achievements / Certificates  

®IRSIP HEC Fellowship Award-University College London, UK (2019)

®HEC Indigenous PhD Scholarship Award (2015)

®Cum Laude Honors Graduate FCCU (2013)

®Participant of one-day seminar on “Evidence-Based Approaches in Eastern Medicine”, held at Qarshi University, Lahore (2023)

®Member Organizing Committee of “4th International Symposium on Advances in Molecular Biology of Plants & Health Sciences”, held at CEMB, Lahore (2021)

®Member Organizing Committee of “One-Day International Symposium on Development of CKC Technology”, held at CEMB, Lahore (2020)

®Participant of workshop on “Moving Towards Success: Strategic Time Management”, held at CEMB, Lahore (2019)

®Winner Poster Presentation at “3rd International Symposium on Advances in Molecular Biology of Plants and Health Sciences”, held at CEMB, Lahore (2018)

®Participant of “International Symposium on Advances in Molecular Biology of Plants and Health Sciences”, held at CEMB, Lahore (2015)

®Member Senior Biology Society as Information Secretary at FCCU, Lahore (2013)