Fungal Omics

Dr. Imran Ul Haq, with a bright career in agriculture, plant pathology, and fungal molecular biology, has Post-Doc from University of California Davis, USA. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has supervised more than 40 graduate students and established Fungal Molecular Biology Laboratory Culture Collection (FMB-CC-UAF), an affiliated member of the World Federation for Culture. Collections (WFCC). He has published more than 60 articles, 09 books, 04 laboratory manuals and several book chapters. He has made colossal contributions in fungal taxonomy by reporting novel species of a fungal pathogen in plants. His research interests are fungal molecular taxonomy and nanotechnology integration with other control strategies for sustainable plant disease management.Dr. Siddra Ijaz, with a vibrant career in agriculture and biotechnology, has a Ph.D. from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan, and a Post-Doc from the Plant Reproductive Biology Laboratory, University of California Davis, USA. She is an Associate Professor at the Center of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. She is also serving as Managing Editor of an international Impact factored Journal, Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences. She has supervised more than 60 M.Phil and Ph.D. students. She was a National Curriculum Revision Committee member from 2013 to 2014. She has published over 50 articles, 10 books, 01 laboratory manual, and several book chapters. She is the Incharge of "Molecular Biology of Plant Disease Resistance Laboratory", CABB, UAF. She is the curator of the Fungal Molecular Biology Laboratory Culture Collection (FMB-CC-UAF) and an affiliated member of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC). Her research focuses on plant biotechnology, including genomics, genome probing for identifying disease resistance genes, genome engineering for fungal disease resistance in plants, and disease management through nanobiotechnology.Dr. Hayssam Mohamad Ali is working at the Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University. Dr. Hayssam M. Ali has a "WORLD RANKING OF TOP 2% SCIENTISTS" according to the Stanford Scientists' Ranking released by Stanford University in 2021 and 2022. He has more than 300 published papers, 10 published books, and he has reviewed more than 1000 papers in highly impacted journals. He is interested in studying plant physiology, biotic and abiotic stress, sustainability, molecular biology, environmental stresses, plant biotechnology, crop improvement, plant breeding, forestry, and plant biology.

• 1. Recapitulation of Fungi CommunicationSiddra Ijaz, Imran Ul Haq and Hayssam Mohamad Ali2. Genomics and Metagenomics of FungiShahzad Sabir, Hafiz Muhammad Usman Aslam, Mohamad Chikh-Ali, Saba Aslam, Seema Kanwal, Muhammad Hassan, Syed Zain Ul Abdin and Hasan Riaz3. Fungal Genomics: In the perspective of successful fungal parasitism in plants and toxin productionAmjad Abbas, Maham Sarwar, Saman Arif, Muhammad Huzaifa Tanveer, Effat Naz, Sabeeqa Khalid, Laraib Zulfiqar, Muhammad Jabran and Muhammad Amjad Ali4. The Cytogenomics and Cytomics of Fungi Muhammad Waris, Zobia Jabeen, Syed Abdul Sadiq, Ayesha Lutf, and Zakia Habib5. Fungal TranscriptomicsAhmad Nisar, Waqar Ahmad, Nabeeha Aslam Khan, Nasir Ahmad Khan, Amer Habib, Anjum Faraz, and Hayssam Mohamad Ali6. Fungal Metabolomics and Phenomics Dr. Barbaros Çetinel, İhsan Barışcan TUNÇKOL, Güliz TEPEDELEN AĞANER and Ghalia Nadeem7. Fungal Glycomics and LipidomicsNasir Ahmed Rajput, Muhammad Atiq, Muhammad Hamza Shahid, Muniza Baig, Nuzhat Jamal, Muhammad Wahab, Babar Khan, Faizan Ali and Yonghao Ye8. Fungal Proteomics: Identification of candidate fungal species by high-end proteomics approaches leading towards beneficial explorationAmjad Abbas, Akhlas Shafique, Muhammad Usman, Effat Naz, Muhammd Huzaifa Tanveer, Kiaenat Nazir, Abdalmenem I. M. Hawamda and Muhammad Amjad Ali9. Fungal SignalomicsZakia Habib, Abdullah, and Hayssam Mohamad Ali10. Industrial Application of FungiMohamed Mohany, Faiz Ur Rahman, Ayesha Ahmed, Salim S. Al-Rejaie, Riffat Malik, Munir Ahmad, Shahzad Munir, and Jinhao Zhang