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Dr Abdul Nazeer

Dr Abdul Nazeer

Tenured Professor

Area of Interest: PhS

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

PhD

Profile / Bio

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS
    Institute of Information University Islamabad,
    Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
  • Nov. 2013 till now
  • Ø  Senior
    Lecturer, OPF Boys College H 8/4 Islamabad                  
    ( 2010 – 2013)
  • Ø  Lecturer
    Beaconhouse School System, Rawalpindi                     
    (2004 -2010)
  • Ø  Senior
    Teacher in PAF College Chaklala, Rawalpindi     (2000
    – 2004)

Research Interests

  • Ø  Phytoremediation
  • Ø  Plant
    Taxonomy
  • Ø  Stress
    Physiology
  • Ø  Ethnobotany
  • Ø  Medicinal
    Plants

 

Students Supervised

  • Ethnobotanical
    Study of Wild Plant Resources among the Local Communities of Surgahr Range
    Mianwali  FA16
  • Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Vegetation Cover
    and Distribution Pattern Using Remote Sensing and Field Observation in Skardu       FA18
  • Heavy Metals Impact on Morpho-Anatomical and Selected
    Biochemical Characteristics of Wheat          SP19                                       

 

Journal Publications

1. Muhammad Ghazanfar Abbas,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=513" title=" Dr Muhammad Azeem">M. Azeem</a>,Muhammad Binyameen,Shahid Majeed,Zahid Mehmood Sarwar,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Mahar Muhammad Imran Sharif,Amna Parveen,Raimondas Mozuratis Chemical analysis, repellent, larvicidal, and oviposition deterrent activities of plant essential oils against Aedes aegypti, Anopheles gambiae, and Culex quinquefasciatus, Frontiers in Insect Science , 2025
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Health risk assessment and levels of heavy metals contaminated drinking water used by both adults and children from Nawanshahr town , Global NEST Journal, 2025
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a> Effects of Cd and Cr stress on physiological and morphological traits of two cultivars of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under hydroponic system. , Global NEST Journal, 2025
4. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Edible wild plant species used by different linguistic groups of Kohistan Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine., Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2023
5. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced tillering in field-grown wheat, nutritional enrichment, and soil properties. , PeerJ, 2023
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Edible wild plant species used by different linguistic groups of Kohistan Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicines, , 2023
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=116" title="Dr. Adnan Ahmad Tahir">A.Tahir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a> Analysis of the relationship among land surface temperature (LST), land use land cover (LULC), and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) with topographic elements in the lower Himalayan region. Heliyon, 9(2)., Heliyon, 2023
8. Muhammad Ghazanfar Abbas,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=513" title=" Dr Muhammad Azeem">M. Azeem</a>,Abdullah Haris,Muhammad Binyameen,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Raimondas Mozuratis Chemical Composition, Larvicidal and Repellent Activities of Wild Plant Essential Oils against Aedes aegypti, Biology, 2023
9. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Ethnoecological knowledge of wild fodder plant resources of district buner Pakistan. , Journal, 2022
10. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=116" title="Dr. Adnan Ahmad Tahir">A.Tahir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,Syed Umair Shahid,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=115" title="Dr. Romana Khan">R.Khan</a> Trends and projections of land use land cover and land surface temperature using an integrated weighted evidence-cellular automata (WE-CA) model, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2022
11. Amna Sarwar,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=608" title="Dr. Nadia Riaz">N. Riaz</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=2" title="Dr. Umar Farooq">U.Farooq</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=112" title="Dr. Qaisar Mahmood">Q.Mahmood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=675" title="Dr. Muhammad Saqib Khan">M. S. Khan</a>,Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah,Abdulaziz A Alqarawi, Al-Bandari Fahad Al-Arjani,Abeer Hashem,Jin Wang Iron Oxide (Fe3O4)-Supported SiO2 Magnetic Nanocomposites for Efficient Adsorption of Fluoride from Drinking Water: Synthesis, Characterization, and Adsorption Isotherm Analysis, Water, 2021
12. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Antibacterial activity of Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb., 05/07/2021, 2021
13. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Evaluation of heavy metals effects on morpho‐anatomical alterations of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings. , 04 April 2021, 2021
14. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> "Evaluation of heavy metals effects on morpho-anatomical alterations of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seedlings, 03/24/2021, 2021
15. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Iron Oxide (Fe3O4)-Supported SiO2 Magnetic Nanocomposites for Efficient Adsorption of Fluoride from Drinking Water: Synthesis, Characterization, and Adsorption Isotherm Analysis. , 04 April 2021, 2021
16. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Quality assurance and authentication of herbal drug (Argyrolobium roseum and Viola stocksii) through comparative light and scanning electron microscopy, Microscopy Research and Techniques, 2021
17. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Cornus macrophylla, the Antibacterial Activity of Organic Leaf Extracts and the Characterization of the More Lipophilic Components by GC/MS, Molecule, 2020
18. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=500" title="Dr. Abdul Rehman Khan">Abdul Rehman Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Ghulam Shabir,Kashif Aslam Evaluation of Sequence Related Amplified Polymorphic Markers for genetic characterization of Mentha species from Pakistan, Philippine Journal of Crop Science, 2019
19. Mushtaq Ahmed,Shahzeb U Khan,Farida Anjum,Shazia Sultana,Omer Kilic,Fatehi A Ozdemir,Ghulam Yaseen,Sheikh Z.U. Abdein,Qamar Abbas,Manzoor Ahmed,Farhat Ullah,Salman Majeed,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Muhammad Zafar Pollen micromorphological analysis of tribe Acacieae(Mimosaceae) with LM and SEM techniques, 03 July 2019, 2019
20. Usma Anwer,Muhammad Zafar,Mushtaq Ahmed,Omer Kilic,Muhammad I. Ali,Fatehi A. Ozdemir,Shazia Sultana,Farida Anjum,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Naumana Kalsoom Taxonomic significance of caryopsis in subfamily Panicoideae (Poaceae) using scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy, 29 June 2019, 2019
21. Mushtaq Ahmed,Shazia Sultana,Farida Anjum,Lubna,Fatehi Ahmet Ozdemir,Akash Tariq,Ghulam Yaseen,Sheikh Z. U. Abedein,Hina Gul,Shafiq u Rehman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Muhammad Zafar Light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy: Implications for authentication of misidentified herbal drugs, 24June2019, 2019
22. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=116" title="Dr. Adnan Ahmad Tahir">A.Tahir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Siddique Ullah Analysis and simulation of land cover changes and their impacts on land surface temperature in a lower Himalayan region, Journal of Environmental Management, 2019
23. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=513" title=" Dr Muhammad Azeem">M. Azeem</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Cystatin Genes Identification and Antibacterial Activity in Medicinal Plants Used Against Clinical Pathogens, SYLWAN journal, 2018
24. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=382" title="Dr. Fazli Wahid">F. Wahid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Phytochemical profiling and antiviral activity of Ajuga bracteosa, Ajuga parviflora, Berberis lycium and Citrus lemon against Hepatitis C Virus, Microbial Pathogenesis, 2018
25. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=134" title="Dr. Sabaz Ali Khan">S.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=173" title="Dr. Abdul Mannan">A. Mannan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a> Identification of Cystatin Genes and Antibacterial Activity Against Clinical Pathogens in Selected Medicinal Plant Species , SYLWAN Journal, 2018
26. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=493" title="Shahid Masood Shah">S.M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=382" title="Dr. Fazli Wahid">F. Wahid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=673" title="Dr. Sidra Rehman">Sidra Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Cellular and Molecular Studies on Selected Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection, Pakistan Journal of Botany, 2017
27. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Xinbo Guo Preparation of environment-friendly pectin from sugar beet pulp and assessment of its emulsifying capacity. , International Journal of Food Science and Technology, 2015
28. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=404" title="Muhammad Nadeem Khan">MN. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=116" title="Dr. Adnan Ahmad Tahir">A.Tahir</a> Traditional uses of medicinal plants against malarial disease by the tribal communities of Lesser Himalayas–Pakistan, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2014
29. Nadeem Khan, Xinbo Guo,Mir Ajab Khan,Manzoor Hussain, Sultan Bibi,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=116" title="Dr. Adnan Ahmad Tahir">A.Tahir</a>,Ghulam Mujtaba Shah Traditionalusesofmedicinalplantsagainstmalarialdisease bythetribalcommunitiesofLesserHimalayas–Pakistan, Journal ofEthnopharmacology, May 2014, 2014
30. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=138" title="Dr. M. Maroof Shah">M.Shah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a> Ethnobotanical and antimicrobial study of some selected medicinal plants used in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) as a potential source to cure infectious diseases., 2014, 2014
31. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,Mir Ajab Khan,A. M. Abbasi,Nadeem Khan,Khalid Ahmad Validation of Setaria (L.) P. Beauv species based on palyonological and anatomical techniques. , 15, January 2014, 2014
32. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Nadeem Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=497" title="Dr. Khalid Ahmad">K. Ahmad</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,Mir Ajab Khan Validation of Setaria (L.) P. Beauv Species Based on Palyonological and Anatomical Techniques , International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 2014
33. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=376" title="Dr. Arshad Mehmood Abbasi">Dr. AM Abbasi</a>,Dr. Mir Ajab Khan, ZahidUllah Palynological Studies in Tribe Aveneae (Poaceae) from Potohar of Pakistan, International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 2013
34. Muhammad Zafar,Abdul Rab,Muhammad Afzal,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=400" title="Dr. Abdul Nazir">A.Nazir</a>,Naseem Akhtar PERFORMANCE AND FEEDING RESPONSE OF TOR PUTITORA TO FORMULATED DIET IN RELATION TO TEMPERATURE UNDER CAPTIVE CONDITIONS , 3/12/2004, 2005
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