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Awards

June 2021 Best Poster Presentation

September 2023 First position in all Pakistan Poster Competition

November 2023 First position (Medal) in oral presentation

December 2023 Third Position (Cash Prize) in poster presentation
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
American Society of Microbiology
Pakistan Biological Safety Association – PBSA

Degrees:

2020
Master     Biological Systems and Organisms
Research work mainly focused on the Rheumatoid arthritis
2016
Undergraduate     Biological Systems and Organisms

Publications resulting from Research
Ghouri, M., Lateef, M., Liaquat, L., Zulfquar, A., Saleem, S., & Zehra, S. (2023). Decreased muscle strength in adjuvant-induced rheumatoid arthritis animal model: A relationship to behavioural assessments. Heliyon. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23264
Khan, A., Kulsoom, U. ., Ghouri, M., Fatima, S., Saleem, S., & Zehra, S. (2023). A Comparative Analysis of Inflammatory Markers and Disease Activity Score between Seropositive and Seronegative Rheumatoid Arthritis. BioSight, 4(3), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.46568/bios.v4i3.133.
Zehra, S., Ghouri, M., Jafari, H., Saleem, S., Fatima, S., & Azhar, A. (2022). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs3736228 and rs4988321) in low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-5 gene with predisposition to rheumatoid arthritis. Gene, 147025. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2022.147025.
Ghouri M, Ismail M, Zaidi SA, Rehman S, Dahani A, et al. (2022) Multi-locus SNP analyses of interleukin 1 receptor associated kinases 2 gene polymorphisms with the susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis. Plos One 17(5): e0268496. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268496.
Afshan, N., Ghouri, M., Hayat, A., & Nadeem, S. G. (2023). Molecular and biochemical characterization of solid waste biodegrading microbes isolated from municipal waste dump site. Acta Brasiliensis, 7(1), 7-13. https://doi.org/10.22571/2526-4338629.
Saleem, S., Zia, M., Siddiqui, F., Ghouri, M., Kulsoom, U., Kawal, S., Fatima, S., & Zehra, S. (2023). Hyperfunction variant rs708035 of interleukin 1 receptor-associated kinases 2 gene involved in the predisposition of leprosy infection. The Journal of Gene Medicine, e3473. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgm.3473.
Fatima, A., Ghouri, M., & Sajid, T. (2018). Citrus Fruit Peels in Combating Various Foodborne Pathogens. RADS Journal of Biological Research & Applied Sciences, 9(2), 64-66.
Ghouri, M., Afshan, N., Javed, S., Fatima, A., Sadat, A., Chohan, A., & Nadeem, S. G. (2016). Physiochemical evaluation and liability of dromedary camels’ milk in combating various pathogens. African Journal of Microbiology Research, 10(41), 1739-1745.

Bio-safety: Navigating Biorisk Management in Pakistan
2025
icon-pin-location KIBGE, University of Karachi
44th Annual Conference of Pakistan Association of Pathologists (PAP) & 9th Joint Conference of Societies of Pathology
2025
icon-pin-location Pearl Continental, Lahore
All Pakistan Poster Competition, “From waste to worth: Mastering zero plastic use and innovation in plastic recycling under HEC Green Youth Movement The Green Youth Movement (GYM)”. An initiative of the Prime Minister's Youth Program.
2025
icon-pin-location Hazara University, Mansehra
ASM MICROBES2017
2025
icon-pin-location New Orleans, LA.

Research Proposal Writing-Secrets of Success and Reasons for Failures
2025
icon-pin-location Karachi Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (KIBGE), University of Karachi.
Countering Biological Threats and Securing Dual Use Information, Technology and Expertise in Pakistan
2025
icon-pin-location The University of Tennessee, USA.
Let’s break the chain of COVID-19 infection
2025
icon-pin-location The Muhammad Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Deep Exploration of the Genetic Dependencies of Antibiotic Function
2025
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“Stem Cell Therapeutics” at TIBC, “Next Generation of Microbial Therapeutics
2025
icon-pin-location Abbottabad University of Health and Sciences
Doing Safety Together. A Day of Leadership in Biosafety
2025
icon-pin-location KIBGE, University of Karachi, Conducted by Sean Kaufman