Abdul Razaque Memon

Biography:

Dr. Abdul Razaque Memon (BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, DSc) is currently working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Usak University, Usak, Turkey. He got his BSc (Hons) and MSc. in Agricultural Chemistry from the University of Sindh, Pakistan. He obtained one PhD. from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in Agriculture and second one from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan in Biochemistry. He did 3 years postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, B.C., Canada and 1 year research fellowship in the Lund University, Sweden. He later joined the Department of Biology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, as an Assistant Professor and then promoted to an Associate Professor in the same department.  He moved to USA and worked as a visiting professor for one year at the University of North Carolina, Raleigh and then worked as a senior research scientist in  Molecular Biology at the University of Texas, Austin (4 years), Texas A and M University, College Station (2 years) and Louisiana Cancer Research Center, Louisiana State University, Shreveport (1 year). He later joined Turkish Science Research Council (TUBITAK) in 1997 as a Principal Scientific Officer and Head of the Plant Molecular Biology and Genetics Laboratory. After 12 year of research at TUBITAK, he moved to Bosnia and Herzegovina and joined as a full professor and coordinator of the Department of Genetics and Bioengineering at the International University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo. After 6 years of teaching and research he moved back to Turkey and joined Usak University. He also worked as a visiting professor at the Biochemistry Center, Heidelberg University, Germany, in the Department of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK and CNRS, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes (IBMP), Strassbourg, France and have still active research collaboration with Bielefeld University and Munich University, Germany. He authored 3 books and published around 200 papers in peer reviewed journals. His research work is mostly concentrated in two different areas of molecular biology and genetics. One is in the field of molecular cell biology and protein trafficking in plant cells and second one is on the heavy metal induced gene expression in plants. He supervised 20 PhD and MSc students in the area of stress induced gene expression and vesicular trafficking in plants. Currently 3 postgraduate students working on –omics technology under his supervision.