Ali Fakhar
Graduate Student
Pepper Lab
Email: azfakhar@tamu.edu
Education
- B.S. Biotechnology – Honors, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 2016
- M.Phil. Biotechnology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, 2018
- Ph.D. Biology, Texas A&M University, in progress
- Dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks in plants
- Zero-hunger initiatives via molecular and cellular components in crop species
- Population genetics structure and de novo genes
- Molecular biology, gene regulation, CRISPR/Cas, RNAi, VITGS
Publications:
Fakhar, A.Z., Liu, J., Pajerowska-Mukhtar, K.M., & Mukhtar, M.S. (2023). The Lost and Found: Unraveling the Functions of Orphan Genes. Journal of Developmental Biology, 11(2): 27.
Fakhar, A.Z., Liu, J., Pajerowska-Mukhtar, K.M., & Mukhtar, M.S. (2023). The ORFans’ Tale: Orphan Genes Provide New Insights in Plant Biology. Trends in Plant Sciences.
Fakhar, A.Z., Liu, J., & Pajerowska-Mukhtar, K.M. (2023). Dynamic Enrichment for Evaluation of Protein Networks (DEEPN): A High Throughput Yeast Two-Hybrid (Y2H) Protocol to Evaluate Networks. In Protein-Protein Interactions: Methods and Protocols (pp. 179–192). New York, NY: Springer US.