Associate Professor | Faculty

Address: Office No. 072, Floor 3, Building 5. Department of Botany and Microbiology, Girls Campus | Phone: 00966118052795

Dr. Kahkashan Perveen

Bio: 
Dr. Kahkashan Perveen, Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science Girls Campus, King Saud University, Riyadh-11495, Saudi Arabia

Specialization: Plant Pathology

Educational Qualification: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Aligarh Muslim University (India).
 
Research interests: - Antimicrobial activity of plants,  silver nanoparticles, and other natural products. Isolation, identification, and characterization of plant pathogenic & bio-control agents. Eco-friendly management of plant pathogenic microorganisms.
 
Teaching & research experience:-
 
Associate Professor: September 2015- till date

  • Engage in teaching the microbiology courses to undergraduate and Ph.D. students.
  • Supervising the research projects of undergraduate students.
  • Co-supervisor of the research/thesis of a Ph.D. student.
  • Conducting research on antimicrobial activity of plants, peptides and silver nanoparticles. Isolation and characterization of bio-control agents of Saudi Arabia.
  • Co-Investigator of two Research group project funded by Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
  • Member of SSR & NCAA committee of Department of Botany & Microbiology, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA

 Assistant Professor:  June 2008- September 2015

  • Involved in teaching the microbiology and plant science courses to Graduate and Ph.D. students.
  • Supervised the research projects of graduate and Ph. D. students
  • Co-supervisor of the research/thesis of Master student.
  • Co-investigator in two Research group project funded by Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA.
  • Engaged in research on “Isolation, identification, and characterization of plant pathogenic microorganisms & bio-control agents”.

Before joining King Saud University, I was involved in research and teaching in India, which include working as a research fellow in a research project sponsored by UPCST, India titled “Influence of agrichemicals on Lectin mediated Rhizobium-Legume symbiosis and grain yield in leguminous crops” and teaching at Aligarh Muslim University, India.
 I have also qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) for lectureship conducted by Government of India. 

Courses teaching/taught at King Saud University   

  • Microbiology courses (Bachelor, Master and Ph.D.)

                  MIC-140, MIC-240, MIC-362, MIC-320, MIC 334, MIC-622, MIC-631, MIC-692, MIC- 470, MIC-499

  • Botany courses (Bachelor, Master and Ph.D.)

                  BOT-102, BOT-213, BOT-222, BOT-271, BOT-671, BOT-692 

Summary of research work 

Total number of research publications                                            

46                

Total number of papers presented at seminar/conferences                                 

11

Total number of research papers communicated

02

MSc. thesis Co-supervised

01

Ph.D. Thesis Co-supervisor

01

Co-investigator of university-funded research group

02

Research Experience

  • Co Investigator,   2011- till date, project RGP- VPP-066 sponsored by King Saud University.

  •  Co Investigator,   2011- till date, project RGP- VPP-086 sponsored by King Saud University. 

  • Research fellow, (3 Years), UPCST India sponsored research project titled: Influence of agrichemicals on Lectin mediated Rhizobium-Legume symbiosis and grain yield in leguminous crops.

Reviewer of Journals

  • Natural Products Research

  • Alliedacadiemies

  • European Journal of Phycology

  • Taylor & Francis Group Journals