Dr. Iqbal Ahmad Alvi Biography

Dr. Iqbal Alvi (alumnus of the Microbiology Department, Hazara University, Mansehra) has joined the Department of Microbiology, Hazara University, Mansehra in April 2008 and now serving as Assistant Professor . His research focuses on human and animal health with emphasis on bacteriophage therapy against multiple drug resistant bacteria. He has worked on Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa, antibacterial efficacy of different medicinal plants and Bacteriophage therapy of P. aeruginosa. He has a good command on screening bacteria, Isolation, genetic characterization, protein expression, gene editing using CRISPR and in-Vivo application of bacteriophages as therapeutic. Dr. Alvi is studying the ESKAPE group pathogens and is researching to devise alternative therapeutic approaches to treat MDR ESKAPE pathogens. During the Covid-19 pandemic he has conducted several online awareness sessions for the service of community. Dr. Alvi is a team member of an international consortium working on "Development and Commercialization of Antibiotic Alternatives for Pakistan Poultry Production" (https://ag.purdue.edu/poultryinpakistan/research-team.html). In the post doctoral fellowship, Dr. Alvi has worked on engineered phages, gene deletion using CRISPR-Cas system and learning bioinformatics tools for genome analysis. His area of interest include Bacteriophage Biology, Bacteriophage Therapy, Molecular Bacteriology, Molecular Virology, ESKAPE Pathogens, Poultry Pathogens, Molecular Genetics and Bioinformatics. Dr. Alvi has been the founder member of Pakistan Society for Bacteriophages (www.phagepakistan.com)

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Academic Background

S.No	Degree Title	Institute	Degree Completion Year
1	Post Doctorate	Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab	2023
2	Ph.D	Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab	2020
3	M.Phil Microbiology	Department of Microbiology, Hazara University, Mansehra	2013
4	B.S Microbiology	Department of Microbiology, Hazara University, Mansehra	2007

Publications

S.No	Publication Title	Authors	Action
1	• A Single dose of a virulent bacteriophage vB PaeP-SaPL, rescues bacteremic mice infected with multi drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Virus Research, 198250.	Alvi, I. A., Asif, M., & ur Rehman, S.	Click to View
2	(Characterization of a lytic EBP bacteriophage with large size genome against Enterobacter cloacae	Asif, M., Naseem, H., Alvi,I.A., Basit, A., & Rehman, S.U.	Click to View
3	RLP, a bacteriophage of the family Podoviridae, rescues mice from bacteremia caused by multi-drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Archives of Virology, 1289-1297.	• Alvi, I. A., Asif, M., Tabassum, R., Aslam, R., Abbas, Z., & Rehman, S. U	Click to View
4	TAC1, an unclassified bacteriophage of the family Myoviridae infecting Acinetobacter baumannii with a large burst size and a short latent period. Archives of Virology, 165(2), 419-424.	• Asif, M., Alvi, I. A., Tabassum, R., & Rehman, S. U	Click to View
5	Storage of Bacteriophages at 4 C Leads to no Loss in Their Titer after One Year. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 50(6).	• Alvi, I. A., Asif, M., Tabassum, R., Abbas, Z., & ur Rehman, S.	Click to View
6	Insight into Acinetobacter baumannii: pathogenesis, global resistance, mechanisms of resistance, treatment options, and alternative modalities. Infection and Drug Resistance, 11, 1249	Asif, M., Alvi, I. A., & Rehman, S. U.	Click to View
7	Assessment of biofilm removal capacity of a broad host range bacteriophage JHP against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Apmis, 125(6), 579-584	• Shafique, M., Alvi, I. A., Abbas, Z., & ur Rehman, S.	Click to View
8	Complete genome analysis of a Siphoviridae phage TSK1 showing biofilm removal potential against Klebsiella pneumoniae. Scientific reports, 8(1), 1-11.	• Tabassum, R., Shafique, M., Khawaja, K. A., Alvi, I. A., Rehman, Y., Sheik, C. S., & Abbas, Z.	Click to View
9	TSP, a virulent Podovirus, can control the growth of Staphylococcus aureus for 12 h. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-12	Tabassum, R., Basit, A., Alvi, I. A., & Asif, M.	Click to View
10	Demographics and Critical Analysis of Smear-Positive Tuberculosis in District Abbottabad, Pakistan: Implementations for Future Challenges. Pak-Euro Journal of Medical and Life Sciences, 4(4), 319-326	• Ahmad, J., Ahmad, F., Zareen, Z., Khalid, H., Akram, M. B., Khan, Alvi, I. A., & Javed, S.	Click to View
11	Other Applications of Bacteriophages (book Chapter)	Muhammad Saleem Iqbal Khan, Jinbiao Zhan, Zeeshan Umar, Kabeer Haneef, Sana Ghaffar and Iqbal Alvi	Click to View
12	In Vitro and In Vivo Studies of Phages Active Against Multidrug Resistant Bacteria	Alvi.I.,A.	Click to View
13	A K-17 serotype specific Klebsiella phage JKP2 with biofilm reduction potential	Muhammad Asif , Iqbal Ahmad Alvi, Muhammad Waqas , Abdul Basit, Faiz Ahmed Raza, Shafiq-ur Rehman	Click to View
14	Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles from Ganoderma Species and Their Activity against Multi Drug Resistant Pathogens	Iffraz Ali Syed, Iqbal Ahmad Alvi , Muhammad Fiaz , Junaid Ahmad , Sadia Butt , Amin Ullah , Iftikhar Ahmed , Zeeshan Niaz , Sayab Khan , Shubana Hayat, Sumel Ashique , Gokhan Zengin Arshad Farid	Click to View
15	BACTERIOPHAGE COCKTAIL EXHIBITED SUPERB ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTIBIOFILM ACTIVITY AGAINST SELECTED UROPATHOGENS	Iqbal Ahmad Alvi Atia Ajaz, Shafiq Ur Rehman*, Zeeshan Niaz, Zahid Ahmad, Saman Saqib, Qazi Ajaz Ahmed	Click to View
16	Efficient Reduction of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms Using the Myoviridae Lytic Bacteriophage vBPaeM MLG	Muhammad Fayaz Khan, Aamer Ali Khattak, Afshan Saleem, Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Asif , Iqbal Ahmad Alvi 5	Click to View
17	Reducing Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae via the Efficient Use of Bacteriophages ZI3 and HI3	Ullah, Z., Alvi, I. A., Niaz, Z., Ullah, I., Ullah, A., & Rehman, S. U	Click to View
18	Bacterial profile, antimicrobial susceptibility pattern and associated risk factors of urinary tract infection among pregnant women attending tertiary care hospital in Rawalpindi	Fahad Ishaq Ameer1, Waqar Habib1, Muhammad Yousef1, Aizaz Ajmal1, Muhammad Adeel2*, Obaid Ullah3, Iqbal Ahmad Alvi4, Muhammad Hassan4	Click to View
19	Co-Incidence of Human Papillomavirus and Epstein-Barr virus in oral cancer Patients: A pilot study	Muhammad Ikram Iqra Bibi, Sumaira Sarwar, Afsheen Ishfaq, Iqbal Ahmad Alvi, Afshan Saleem, Maimoona Sabir	Click to View
20	Multiple drug resistance and ESBL production in bacterial urine culture isolates	Riffat Iqbal, Abdul Majid, Iqbal Ahmad Alvi, Azam Hayat, Farah Andaleeb, Saira Gul, Sabeena Irfan, Mujaddad Ur Rahman	Click to View
21	Distribution of Toxoplasma gondii in the pregnant women of district Swabi Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan	Iqbal Alvi Faisal, Asad Ullah Khan, Muhammad Waqar, Tauseef Ahmad, Tariq Shah, Muhammad Ilyas Khan, Niyaz Ali, Shah Faisal, Irfan Saif, Waqar Ahmad, Umar Javid	Click to View
22	In Vitro Evaluation of Bacteriophage Efficacy against Diarrhea-Causing Escherichia coli	H Arshad, IA Alvi, MF Khan, M Hassan, Javed M, Afshan Saleem	Click to View
23	Molecular Profiling, Characterization and Antimicrobial Efficacy of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized from Calvatia gigantea and Mycena leaiana Against Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens	Sayab Khan ,Muhammad Fiaz ,Iqbal Ahmad Alvi ,Muhammad Ikram ,Humaira Yasmin ,Junaid Ahmad ,Amin Ullah ,Zeeshan Niaz ,*,Shubana Hayat ,Ajaz Ahmad ,Prashant Kaushik and Arshad Farid	Click to View
24	Bacteriophages RCF and 1-6bf can control the growth of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli	Farah Khan, Hafsa Naseem, Muhammad Asif, Iqbal Alvi, Shafiq ur Rehman, Abdul Rehman	Click to View
25	Characterization and genomic analysis of a Herelleviridae bacteriophage UHP46 infecting mastitis-causing Staphylococcus aureus	Sara Najeeb, Imran Khan, Javed Muhammad, Muhammad Jahangir, Iqbal Ahmad Alvi, Anza Abbas, Aman Ullah, Arif Ullah, Wajiha Sajid, Hashir Khan, Amjad Khan	Click to View