Dr. Arshia Amin Butt

PROFILE SUMMARY

Dr Arshia Amin has been working at CUST from last 6 years. Her research group “Environmental and Industrial Microbiology” has been working on molecular epidemiology and prevalence of antibiotics resistance genes in smog particulate matter; Implications on human health. Paleanbacteria and its AR genes present in air particulate matter 2.5 which could be inhaled were under consideration. This project has been successfully completed under NRPU-HEC grant. Second project is about “Resurrection bacteriology of glaciers”. After completing various studies related to this topic by MS students i.e., isolation of bacteria, characterization, identifications, antibiotic resistance patterns, seasonal shifts in psychochemical characteristics and metagenomic study of bacterial flora and resistome analysis data has been published. Third project is under completion and it includes “Microbially enhanced oil recovery. In collaboration with Ministry of petroleum this LCF-HEDP project is in the final phases and will be completed by June 2024. Additionally, my research group is also working on biofilm formation in sepsis areas of humans, its upregulation and downregulation of genes using genomic approaches. Secondary Infections causes, post-surgical complications, infection progression and mitigation will be worked on. Quorum quenching will be addressed as key process for mitigation of biofilms based secondary infections.

QUALIFICATION
PhD	Microbiology	Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan	2017
MPhil	Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan	2010
MSc	Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan	2008

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor	Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad	Since – 2018

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES
GHSA	Life Time Member Next Generation Global Health Security Network
PBA	Life Time Member Pakistan Biosafety Association
ASM	Member American Society of Microbiology

RESEARCH AREAS / INTERESTS
1.	Biosafety
2.	Bioethics
3.	Molecular Epidemiology

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Amin A, Ahmed I, Khalid N, Khan IU, Ali A, Dahlawi SM, Li WJ. Insights on comparative bacterial diversity between different arid zones of Cholistan Desert, Pakistan. 3 Biotech. 2020 May;10(5):224. doi: 10.1007/s13205-020-02204-6. Epub 2020 May 2. PMID: 32373416; PMCID: PMC7196105.
Arshia Amin, Ahmed, Iftikhar, Khalid, Nauman, Schumann, Peter, Busse, Hans-Jürgen, Khan, Inam, Ali, Ahmad, li, Shuai, Li, Wen-Jun. 2021/01/18 . Zafaria cholistanensis gen. nov. sp. nov., a moderately thermotolerant and halotolerant actinobacterium isolated from Cholistan desert soil of Pakistan. DOI 10.1007/s00203-02002176-4. Archives of Microbiology
E. Dilshad, N. Zahra, Z. Nooruddin, A. A. Butt, and S. M. Bakhtiar, “Single-cell editing: The CRISPR/Cas9 and applications,” in Single-Cell Omics. Elsevier, 2019, pp. 397-415. 2019
Amin, Arshia., Ahmed, I., Khalid, N., Osman, G., Khan, I. U., Xiao, M., & Li, W. J. (2017). Streptomyces caldifontis sp. nov., isolated from a hot water spring of Tatta Pani, Kotli, Pakistan. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 110(1), 77-86.
Amin, Arshia., Ahmed, I., Habib, N., Abbas, S., Hasan, F., Xiao, M., … & Li, W. J. (2016). Microvirga pakistanensis sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from desert soil of Cholistan, Pakistan. Archives of microbiology, 198(10), 933-939.
Amin, Arshia., Ahmed, I., Habib, N., Abbas, S., Xiao, M., Hozzein, W. N., & Li, W. J. (2016). Nocardioidespakistanensis sp. nov., isolated from a hot water spring of Tatta Pani in Pakistan. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 109(8), 1101-1109.
Amin, Arshia., Ahmed, I., Salam, N., Kim, B. Y., Singh, D., Zhi, X. Y., … & Li, W. J. (2017). Diversity and distribution of thermophilic bacteria in hot springs of Pakistan. Microbial ecology, 74(1), 116-127.
Khan, I. U., Habib, N., Hussain, F., Xian, W. D., Amin, Arshia., Zhou, E. M., … & Li, W. J. (2017). Thermus caldifontis sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 67(8), 2868-2872
Khan, I. U., Hussain, F., Habib, N., Xiao, M., Ahmed, I., Amin, Arshia., … & Li, W. J. (2017). Nocardioides thalensis sp. nov., isolated from a desert. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 67(8), 2848-2852.
Khan, I. U., Hussain, F., Tian, Y., Habib, N., Xian, W. D., Jiang, Z., Amin, Arshia., … & Li, W. J. (2017). Tibeticola sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 67(5), 1133-1139.
Amin, Arshia., Iftikhar Ahmed, N. Khalid, N. Habib, N. Salam, W-J. Li. Bacterial Community Structure in the Cholistan Desert, Pakistan: Comparative Analysis between Rhizospheric and Non-Rhizospheric Soil Samples. (under review process).
Amin, Arshia., I. Ahmed, G. Osman, N. Habib, F. Hussain, M. Xiao, M. N. Rao, W-J Li. Proposal of Allooarthrobacter solitudinis sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium isolated from hot water spring of Tatta Pani, Pakistan. (in submission process).
Afridi, M. I., Ali, N., Shinwari, K. I., Hassan, M. A., Butt, Amin. Arshia., Shah, A., … & Muhammad, A. (2015). Optimization of Aseptic Conditions for Micropropagation of Olive (OleaeuropaeaL.) Cultivar Uslu. Journal of Bio-Molecular Sciences (JBMS), 3(1), 35-43.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Screening of Bacteria from Oil Reservoirs in Punjab for their Metal Tolerance and Biotransformation, Identification of Major Fatty Acid Components Involved in Enhanced Surfactant Activity. Hafsa Raja, Sajjida Tayyaba, Zainab Rasheed Bhutto, Arshia Amin Butt. CBICS, 2019
Screening of Bacteria from Oil Reservoirs in Punjab for their Metal Tolerance and Biotransformation, Identification of Major Fatty Acid Components Involved in Enhanced Surfactant Activity. Hafsa Raja, Sajjida Tayyaba, Zainab Rasheed Bhutto, Arshia Amin Butt. CBICS, 2019
Impact of physicochemical characteristics of Himalayan Glacial Soil on Bacterial Community Distribution and shift. Tooba Khalid, Hareem Batool, Sundus Batool, Arshia Amin Butt. CBICS 2019.
Microbial analysis of soil for antibiotic producing bacteria. Muhammad Mobeen Qureshi, Muhammad Umar Aqiq, Shaukat Iqbal, Sahar Fazal, Syeda Marriam Bakhtiar, Erum Dilshad, Arshia Amin Butt, Shahid Hussain. CBICS 2019
Identification and Analysis of Bacterial Species Associated with Lead Bioremediation Found in Faisalabad, Pakistan Rida Fatima, Sarmad Habib Khan, Syed Ali Raza, Arshia Amin Butt. CBICS2020.
Microbial Analysis of Soil for Isolation of Secondary Metabolites from Antibiotic Producing Bacteria and Their Identification for Antimicrobial Properties. Urba Sajid, Hira Shaheen, Intiqash Saleem, Arshia Amin. CBICS 2021
Shooting, Rooting and Hardening of Cavendish and In-Silico Analysis of Bioactive Compounds of Biofertilizers. Noor ul Ain, Rameesha Batool, Arshia Amin. CBICS 2021.
Effect of different electrodes on process efficacy during anaerobic codigestion of cattle manure with green grocery waste coupled with microbial electrochemical system Kainat Tariq , Sharqa Naeem , Misbah Naeem , Mohammad Adil Nawaz , Malik Badshah , Arshia Amin. CBICS 2021.
Iftikhar Ahmed, Saira Abbas, Arshia Amin, Shakira Ghazanfar, Wen Jun Li. National culture collection activities of parc, Pakistan and the description of several novel species of bacteria from pakistani ecology. December 2017. Conference: 11th International biennial Conference of Pakistan Society for Microbiology “applied microbial genomics in public health, food, pharma and agriculture” At: Pakistan project: Establishment of “National Culture Collection of Pakistan (NCCP)”.
Iftikhar Ahmed, Saira Abbas, Asia Bangash, Arshia Amin, Wen Jun Li, Akbarr Ali Malik. Describing novel bacteria from Pakistan Ecology: Challenges and Opportunities. February 2015. Conference: Proceedings of International Conference of Soil Sustainability and Food Security. At: Pakistan. Project: Establishment of “National Culture Collection of Pakistan (NCCP)”.
Aish Muhammad, Arshia Amin. The international conference in Bahawalpur on date palm on the presentation entitled” Date palm tissue culture, Outstanding problems and solutions. 2014.

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