Pakistan Scientist Achievement

I was hand picked by suparco couple of years back, I was happy to be finally chipping in my abilities inside pakistan but it all went down the drain when I was asked to do the "mutthi garam" to few ppl in administration since it was a highly paid job with excellent benefits. I declined.

:D

Good to know that we have scientists too..world hardly hears anything other than mullahs, terrorists and army when it comes to Pakistan.
Thank you dawa-i-dil! you have warmed my heart!!

dawa behen, this mod tariq fellow really looks nice. but why does he like to dress in wpomen's clothes?

Tariq Muhammad
Associate Professor, Life Sciences

Ph.D., Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland

M.Phil., Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad and NIBGE, Faisalabad

B.Sc. (Hons), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
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Research Interests Epigenetic Gene Regulation in Development and Diseases



Biography

Muhammad Tariq received his PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland. In 2003, he joined Renato Paro’s laboratory as a post-doctoral fellow at Zentrum fuer Molekulare Biologie Heidelberg (ZMBH), Germany. He was awarded EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) long term fellowship for his postdoctoral studies at ZMBH. Since 2006, he is working as a Senior Assistant at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, an ETH Zurich Department in Basel, Switzerland. He has recently joined SSE-LUMS and will start working there from August 2009.

His research interests include epigenetic gene regulation during development and molecular link between epigenetics and disease development. To pursue his research interests, he will primarily focus on a paradigm based on Polycomb group (PcG) and Trithorax group (TrxG) proteins using Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) and mammalian cultured cells. The PcG/TrxG proteins act at the level of chromatin and are involved in cell fate determination and maintenance of cellular identity during development.



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Publications & Patents



Tariq, M., Nussbaumer, U., Chen, Y., Beisel, C and Paro, R. (2009). Trithorax requires Hsp90 in maintenance of active chromatin at sites of gene expression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106:1157-1162



Habu, Y., Mathieu, O., Tariq, M., Probst, A., Smathajitt, S., Zhu T and Paszkowski, J. (2006). Epigenetic regulation of transcription in intermediate heterochromatin. EMBO rep. 7:1279-1284




Tariq, M* and Paszkowski, J. (2004). DNA and histone methylation in plants. Trends in Genetics, 20:244-251




Bowler, C., Benvenuto, G., Laflamme, P., Molino, D., Probst, A., Tariq, M., Paszkowski, J. (2004). Chromatin techniques in plant cells. The Plant J. 39:776-789




Tariq, M*., Saze, H., Probst, A V., Lichota, J., Habu, Y. and Paszkowski, J. (2003). Erasure of CpG methylation in Arabidopsis alters patterns of histone H3 methylation in heterochromatin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100:8823-8827.
Faculty of 1000: evaluations for Tariq et al Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, 8823-8827 http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1014373/evaluation




Tariq, M*., Habu, Y. and Paszkowski, J. (2002). Depletion of MOM1 in non-dividing cells of Arabidopsis plants releases transcriptional gene silencing. EMBO reports 3:951-955