Rafat Amin

I am Dr. Rafat Amin, currently working as Associate Professor, Dow College of Biotechnology, Dow University of Health Sciences. As a former background, I did my Ph.D. from the laboratory of Professor Dr. Wolfgang Wohlleben; Department of Microbiology/Biotechnology, University of Tuebingen, Germany. My Ph.D. work was aimed to understand the signaling mechanism involved in the regulatory control of nitrogen metabolic genes in antibiotic producer actinobacteria Streptomyces coelicolor. 

Dow College of Biotechnology, DUHS, Karachi, Pakistan – Associate Professor                                                       July 2021–Till Date 

Dow College of Biotechnology, DUHS, Karachi, Pakistan – Assistant Professor                                                        April 2019–July 2021 

Department of Pathology, Dow International Medical College, DUHS, Karachi, Pakistan – 

Assistant Professor                                              March 2013–March 2019

Dow Research Institute of Biotechnology and Bio-Medical Sciences, DUHS, Karachi, Pakistan –                                         2015–2019

In-charge Microbial Bioresource and Biotechnology Laboratory     

University of Tuebingen, Germany – Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbiology/Biotechnology                              2012–2013

Hiwi-Arbeit, University of Tuebingen, Germany – Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbiology/Biotechnology                                     2011–2012 

University of Tuebingen, Germany – Ph.D. Fellow in Microbiology/Biotechnology                            2008–2012

Dow University of Health Sciences – Research Associate                                            2007–2008H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan – Research Fellow       2003–2006

Postdoctoral Studies in Microbiology/Biotechnology                     2013

University of Tuebingen, Germany

Ph.D. in Microbiology/Biotechnology                                                             2012

University of Tuebingen, Germany

Diplomarbelt in Microbiology/Biotechnology                               2009

University of Tuebingen, Germany

M.Sc. in Biotechnology                                                                  2002

University of Karachi, Pakistan

B.Sc. in Chemistry, Microbiology and Biochemistry                      2000

University of Karachi, Pakistan

F.SC. in Pre-Medical                                                                     1998

Higher Secondary Education Board, Karachi, Pakistan

S.Sc. in Science                                                                             1996

Secondary Education Board, Karachi, Pakistan