Faculty & Staff
Dr. Aayesha Riaz
Associate Professor (HEC Approved Supervisor)

PhD, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Department of Parasitology & Microbiology
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Address : Department of Patho-Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Animal Sciences, PMAS- Arid Agriculture University Shamsabad Murree Road Rawalpindi
Work Experience : 9 Year(s)
Research Interest :
  • Molecular Biology
  • Veterinary Virology
  • Gene expression analysis
  • Functional analysis of viral MicroRNAs; Crosslinking and Hybridization of RNA-RNA complex
  • Epidemiology; Molecular characterization and phylogenetic analysis of DNA viruses (Hepesvirus; Poxvirus; Polyomavirus).
  • Total Publications : 10
    Publications (Latest Ten)
    1. Khalid, A., Riaz, Aayesha., Yousaf, A., Khan, I.H., Ur-Rehman, S., Moaeen-ud-Din, M., Li, S., Tang, C. and Shah, M.A., 2023. Epidemiological survey of bovine gammaherpesvirus 4 (BoHV-4) infection in cattle and buffalo from Pakistan. Veterinary Research Communications, pp.1-7 (I.F: 3.02) W Category.

    2. Rashida Khan, Aayesha Riaz, Samina Asghar Abbasi, Tanzeela Sadaf, Ruqia Mehmood Baig, Qaisar Mansoor Identification of transcriptional level variations in microRNA-221 and microRNA-222 as alternate players in the thyroid cancer tumor microenvironment. Scientific Reports, 13(1), p.15800 (I.F: 4.6) W Category.

    3. Rasheed MB, Ahsan A, Irshad H, Shahzad MA, Usman M, Riaz A, Chaudhry TH, Amir A, Zubair M, Khan A and Yousaf A (2023). Occurrence of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in zoo animals of Rawalpindi and Islamabad zoos. Asian J. Agric. Biol. 2023(2). 2022080DOI: https://doi.org/10.35495/ajab.2022.080 (I.F: 1.85) X Category.

    4. Huang, Y., Lu, Y., Song, C., Wei, Y., Yang, Y., Ren, J., Wang, M., Tang, C., Riaz, A., Shah, M.A. and Deng, Y., 2023. Advances in Nanopore and Photoelectron-Based High-Throughput Sequencing Technology for Single-Molecule Sequencing. Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics, 18(4), pp.381-395 (I.F: 0.697) Y Category.

    5. Yang, J., Zhang, N., Wang, Z., Wang, Q., Han, J., Khan, M.A., Riaz, A. and Chang, C., 2023. B-hydroxybutyrate inhibits cellular proliferation, EMT, stemness, migration, and invasion in glioma cells. Precision Nutrition, 2(2), p.e00038.

    6. Jabeen, F., Mushtaq, M., Qayyum, M., Ul Hasan, M., Zafar, M.A., Riaz, A. and Nasir, F., (2022 December). Tick Taxonomy and Nucleotide Sequence Analysis by Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS 2) in Large Ruminants of Pothohar, Pakistan. Pakistan Veterinary Journal, 42(4), pp.554-560 (I.F: 2.3) X Category.

    7. Yang, J., Zhang, N., Khan, M.A., Wang, Q., Wang, Z., Liu, Q., Li, L., Han, J., Farooq, A.A., Riaz, A. and Zhang, R., 2023. Dynamic Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Autophagy and Cell Cycle in a Mouse Model of CT26+ Colon Cancer. Pakistan J. Zool., pp 1-14, 2023. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17582/journal.pjz/20230222080203 (I.F: 0.6) X Category.

    8. Farooq, F., Riaz, A., Rehman, Z.U., Yousaf, A., Iqbal, J., Ahmad, T. and Mukhtar, N., 2023. Investigating the Bacteriological Contamination after Artificial Insemination in Early, Mid and Late Production Period in Broiler Breeder. Pak Vet J, 43(1): 17-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2022.068 (I.F: 2.3) X Category.

    9. Riaz A, Dry I, Dalziel R, Rehman SU, Shah MA, Akhtar HMN, Yousaf A, Baig R. Molecular detection and characterization of ovine herpesvirus-2 using heminested PCR in Pakistan. Journal of Veterinary Science. 2021; 22(4): e51. Epub June 2021. PMID: 34170092; PMCID: PMC8318789, doi: 10.4142/jvs.2021.22.e51. (I.F 2.3).

    10. Aayesha Riaz, Bilal Javid, Muhammad Ali Abdullah Shah, Sohail Raza, Arfan Yousaf, Saif-ur-Rehman, Awais Sial, Sadam Abbas (2021) First report on the detection and molecular characterization of bovine herpesvirus 1 from a clinical case of Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis in Pakistan. Pakistan Veterinary Journal, March 2021, 41(1): 160-162 (I.F: 2.3).

    Awards & Honors
    1. Winner of UAAR Research Awards in 2020 and 2023