As a senior researcher at NVI, I work in the OneHealth framework to improve the overall health of the ecosystem by answering interdisciplinary questions from evolution, microbiology, disease biology using advanced methods of genomics and bioinformatics, considering the holobiont (host and associated microbial communities) as a unit of evolution.

For more information about my work, visit my lab website, https://wasimlab.weebly.com/

Skills and competence:

Microbiomes, pathogens, AMR, high-throughput sequencing, bioinformatics, statistics

Employment:

• Senior Scientist:Current (2023-till date)-Department of Animal Health and Food Safety, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway
• Scientist: 2021-2023-CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India
• Postdoctoral Scientist: 2018-2021-Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Postdoctoral Scientist: 2015-2018- Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Germany
• Postdoctoral Scientist: 2014-2015- Institute of Vertebrate Biology-Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic
• Research Assistant: 2011-2012- Institute of Vertebrate Biology-Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic
• Project Assistant: 2007-2009- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India