Syeda Azka Jaffri (PhD)
Curriculum Vitae
| 05/2017 - present | Ph.D. student at the Institute for Insect Biotechnology (Department of Insect Biotechnology in Plant Protection), Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany |
| 2012 - 2016 |
MSc Water Sciences University of Duisburg Essen, Germany 'Generation of C. elegans transgenic strains to investigate neuronal role in mitochondrial control of longevity' |
| 2007 - 2011 | BSc Biotechnology, Forman Christian College University, Lahore, Pakistan |
Ph.D. Project
Invasive insect pests (i.e., Drosophila suzukii) cause a significant loss in fruit production. The Sterile Insect Technique has been used as an environmentally friendly method to reduce insect pest populations. To improve the development of strains for the application of the SIT in D. suzukii, new genetic methods and combinations thereof will help and be used in my project on this serious crop pest.
I am highly interested in applied sciences to overcome significant agricultural issues in insect pest management, biosafety, GM food, and biotechnology for SIT to contribute to integrated pest management. The use of conditional systems and establishing new ways to control the expression of genes in pest control systems are my main subject and specialty.
Publications
Jaffri SA, Yan Y, Scott MJ, Schetelig MF (2020) Conditional expression systems for Drosophila suzukii pest control. In: Drosophila suzukii management. Garcia FRM (eds). pp 195-215. Springer, Cham.
Jaffri SA, Yan Y, Schwirz J, Schetelig MF (2020) Functional characterization of the Drosophila suzukii pro-apoptotic genes reaper, head involution defective and grim. Apoptosis 25:864-874.
Yan Y, Jaffri SA, Schwirz J, Stein C, Schetelig MF (2020) Identification and characterization of four Drosophila suzukii cellularization genes and their promoters. BMC Genetics 21:146.
Poster & Talks
- Poster presentation: Jaffri SA, Yan Y, Schwirz J, Schetelig MF (2019) ‘Functional characterization of cellularization and pro-apoptotic genes from Drosophila suzukii’ at the 12th Annual GGL Conference on Life Sciences 2019.
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Poster presentation: Jaffri SA, Yan Y, Schwirz J, Schetelig MF (2019) ‘Isolation and functional characterization of cellularization and pro-apoptotic genes from Drosophila suzukii and their applications in pest management’ at the 12th Arthropod Genomics symposium, June 12-14,2019, K-State University, Manhattan, Kansas
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Poster presentation ‘Development of conditional expression systems for the pest management of Drosophila suzukii’ at the 11th Annual GGL Conference on Life Sciences 2018
- Chairman of Section 7 'Bioresources, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology' at the 11th Annual GGL Conference on Life Sciences 2018
- Poster presentation at the 10th Annual GGL Conference on Life Sciences 2017
- Chairman of Section 7 'Bioresources, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology' at the 10th Annual GGL Conference on Life Sciences 2017
Links
Time to modernize agriculture to fight against the global food shortage, Daily Times (2018)