Curriculum Vitae

Name: Shaukat Hussain

Date of Birth: February 04, 1964

Address: Department of Plant Pathology, Agriculture University

Peshawar 251 Pakistan

Email: Shussa64@yahoo.co.uk
Academic Qualifications:
Degree /Certificate Year GPAlGrade Institution
Univ. of Abertay, Dundee
PhD (Plant Pathology) 2003 -
U.K
Oregon State University,
M.S. (Plant Pathology) 1994 3.59
USA
M.SC. (Hons)
1988 1st Agric. University Peshawar
Agriculture.
B. Sc. (Hons) Agriculture 1986 1st -do-

F. Sc (Science) 1981 2nd BISE Peshawar

Secondary School
1979 2nd BISE Peshawar
(Science)
Distinction: First class first in Department of Plant Pathology in B.Sc (Hons)

Ph.D. Thesis: Diagnostics and epidemiology of Phytophthora infestans, the cause of late
blight of potato.

M.S. Thesis: Effect of soil water pressures on population dynamics of Fusarium equiseti,
Gliocladium virens, Talaromyces flavus and Trichoderma viridae,
biocontrol agents of Verticillium dahliae in potatoes.

M.SC. Thesis: Seed health testing of soybean

Teaching and Research experience:

Professor (AUP, Peshawar PAK) 2009-

2005-
Associate Professor (A UP, Peshawar PAK)
2009
1998 -
Assistant Professor (AUP, Peshawar PAK)
2004
 1988-
Lecturer (AUP, Peshawar, PAK)
1998
(Oregon State Univ.,
Graduate Research Asstt 1994
USA)
Assistant Research (ARI, Tarnab, PAK) 1986-
Offi 1987

Responsibilities: Co-ordinate research activities on seed and soil borne diseases.

Provide technical advice to growers on diagnostics and management of
plant diseases

Research Activities: Recently completed a project titled 'Pathogens associated with pea
root rot in the NWFP and screening of pea germplasm against the
disease' funded by Higher Education Commission (HEC) in 2006.

Currently supervising a three year project titled "Integrated control

of root rot of peppers in the NWFP" funded by Pakistan Agriculture
Research Council, Agricultural Linkages Programme.

Supervising a three year project as co-PI on "Development of

oyster and button mushroom spawn" funded by Higher Education
Commission.

Membership: Academic Council AUP 2009

Pakistan Phytopathological Society 2008
British Society for Plant Pathology 2001
American Phytopathological Society 1992-1996
Sarhad Journal of Agriculture 1990-1991

Editorial board Member/Reviewer Asian J. of Plant Pathology

Pakistan J. of Biological Sci
Sarhad J. of Agriculture

Subject Editor Pakistan J of Phytopathology (2008 to date)

Associate Editor Sarhad J. of Agriculture (2009 to date)

Awards: USAID Scholarship for MS at Oregon State

University, Corvallis, USA in 1991.

Commonwealth Academic Staff Scholarship for Ph.D

at Univ of Abertay, Dundee, UK in 1999.

International Conferences and Symposia attended and papers presented:

1. Attended a conference 'Building effective teams' held at Imperial College London
on December 7, 2002.

2. Presented a poster on 'Use of molecular markers in genotyping of Phytophthora

inftstans isolates in Scotland' at GILB Conference 2002 held at Hamburg,
Germany from July 11-13, 2002.

3. Attended Crop Protection in Northern Britain (CPNB) Conference held in

Dundee, Scotland, U.K from 19-20 February 2002.

4. Presented a paper titled 'Use of diagnostics and molecular markers in

epidemiological studies of late blight of potato' at Molecular Biology of Fungal
Pathogens XII Conference held at St. Martin's college Ambleside Cumbria,
England, UK from September 14-16,2001.

5. Presented a paper titled 'The development of P. infestans specific primers and

their use in epidemiological studies' at a meeting of the Scottish Mycology and
Plant Pathology Club in Edinburgh in May 2001.

6. Attended a symposium on 'Accessing International Funding for Research

organized by Association of Commonwealth Universities in Glasgow, Scotland,
UK in May 2000.

7. Presented a poster titled 'Effect of soil water pressures on population dynamics of

Fusarium equiseti, Gliocladium virens, Talaromyces flavus and Trichoderma
viridae, biocontrol agents of Verticillium dahliae in potatoes at the annual
meeting of the American Phytopathological Society at Nashville, Tennessee,
USA in 1993.

8. Attended a workshop on 'strengthening communication skills' at Southern Illinois

University Carbondale, Illinois, USA in 1993.

9. Participated in the annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society

held at Portland, Oregon, USA in 1992.

10. Attended a workshop on 'microcomputer skills' at Southern Illinois University

Carbondale, Illinois, USA in 1992.

National conferences and symposia attended:

I. Attended a workshop on "cutting edge issues and quality concerns in the

emerging agricultural scenario" at University of Sargodha, Pakistan from March 3-
4, 2008.

2.Presented a paper titled 'Barley yellow dwarf virus-an emerging wheat problem-its
prevalence and field host resistance in NWFP, Pakistan' at international symposium
on characterization and management of emerging viral diseases in the developing
world held in Faisalabad, Pakistan in September, 2006.

3.Presented a paper titled' Field Assessment of candidate and commercial wheat

varieties under natural infection of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) in Peshawar,
Pakistan' at the International Wheat Seminar held in Faisalabad, Pakistan in
February, 2006.

4.Presented a paper titled 'Virulence assessment of yellow rust on field grown yr

differentials and their slow rusting behavior in Peshawar, Pakistan' at the
International Wheat Seminar held in Faisalabad, Pakistan in February, 2006

5.Presented a paper titled 'post-release monitoring of Bakhtawar-92 and screening of

CIMMYT/ICARDA bread wheat germplasm for resistance to yellow rust in Pakistan'
at the 2nd regional yellow rust conference for central and west Asia and N. Africa
held in Islamabad, Pakistan in March, 2004.

6.Presented a paper titled 'Survey for disease scouting of tomato in the NWFP at a
symposium on 'Technologies developed for commercialization challenges and
opportunities' held in Peshawar, Pakistan from September 2 22, 2003.

7.Attended a workshop on vegetable diseases, their diagnosis and control at National

Agriculture Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad, Pakistan in 1989

8.Attended a 15 day course on Virological Techniques at National Agriculture

Research Centre (NARC), Islamabad in 1986.

Publications:

1. Shah, S.J.A., Mohammad, T., Hussain, S., Ibrahim, M., Khan, W. and Ali, S.
2007 Resistance against African stem rust (Puccinia graminis tritici) race ug99 in
advanced wheat lines and varieties developed by public breeding programs in NWFP
Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 50: 210-212.
2. Hussain, S., Lees, AX., Duncan, J. M. and Cooke, D.E.L. 2005. Development of a
species-specific and sensitive detection assay for Phytophthora infestans and its
application for monitoring of inoculums in tubers and soil. Plant Pathology 54:373-
382.

3. Hussain, S., Powelson, M.L., Christensen, N.W. and Shah, SJA. 2005. Soil water
pressure affects population dynamics of biocontrol agents of Verticillium dahliae,
The cause of potato early dying. Plant Pathology J. 4: 113-121.
4. Hussain, S., Young, V. and Shah, S.J.A. 2005. Use of real-time quantitative PCR
in determining Phytophthora infestans(Mont) de Bary inoculum in soil. Sarhad J
Agriculture 21 :719-722.
5. Bibi, S., Hussain, S. and Shah, S.J.A. 2005. Effect of different fungicides on
control of Rhizoctonia solani, the cause of black scurf of potatoes. Sarhad J
Agriculture 21 :713-718.

6. Ajmal, M., Ahmad, S. and Hussain, S. 2002. Distribution pattern of tuber borne
diseases of potato in district Abbotabad. Pakistan Journal of Phytopathology 14 (1)
44-46
7. Ajmal, M., Ahmad, S. and Hussain, S. 2001. Effect of soil moisture on black scurf
disease and yield of potato. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 4: 150-151
8. Zeb, S., Ahmad, S. and Hussain, S. 2001. Effect of time of application of diathane
M-45 on control of black scurf disease of potato. Pakistan Journal of Biological
Sciences 4: 1339-1340
9. Shah, S. J. A., Ali, I., Shah, S. A., Ahmad, M., Rahman, K. and Hussain, S. 2000.
Losses induced by Alternaria blight in yield and oil of rape and mustard in Pakistm
Cruciferae Newsletter 22: 61-62
10 Shah, S. J. A., Muhammad, T., Shah, S. A., Ali, I., Hussain, S., and Jabbar, A.
1998. Screening of exotic wheat lines for high yield and resistance to stripe rust
(Puccinil striformis) under natural conditions. Sarhad J Agriculture 14: 109-111.
11 Hussain, S., Powelson, M. L., and Christensen, N. W. 1993. Osmotic pressure
effects on growth of biocontrol agents of Verticillium dahliae in vitro.
Phytopathology 83: 1384 (Abstr).
12 Hussain, S., Hassan, S., and Khan, B. A. 1989. Seedborne mycoflora of soybean
in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Sarhad J Agriculture 5: 421-424