ALIGARH, June 2: Dr. Abdul Malik, Chairman, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University has been sanctioned a joint International Collaborative research project entitled "Molecular screening, isolation and characterization of conjugative plasmids from contaminated soils" with Dr. Elisabeth Grohmann, Technical University Berlin, Germany under DST-DAAD (Germ nay) Academic exchange programme. Under the above progarmme Prof. Malik has visited Department of Umweltmikrobiologie, Technical University, Berlin, Germany and also delivered a lecture at Umweltmikrbiologie, TU-Berlin, Germany on Detection of conjugative plasmids and antibiotic resistance genes in contaminated soils of India and Germany and genotoxicity of wastwaters and soil.
Technical University, Berlin is considered as one of the best Universities in the world carrying research in various fields; Department of Environmental Microbiology and Department of Ecotoxicology of TU-Berlin are the best departments where scholar works on wastewater and contaminated soils for the Molecular detection of conjugative plasmids and antibiotic resistance genes and genotoxicity of waste and soil.
Dr. Malik has been teaching at the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University for last Fourteen years and he has received several prestigious awards and fellowships including BOYSCAST, Young Scientist project of DST twice during his career. He has received research grants from several funding agencies of Government of India such as DST, CSIR, UGC as Principal investigator.
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