University of Agriculture Faisalabad

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TEACHERS ORIENTATION PROGRAMME The University of agriculture has a rich and diverse post-graduate research community in agriculture and allied disciplines. As a university we are committed to achieving excellence and relevance in our research and teaching. No dought, we have the one of the best physical infrastructure including State of the Art Instrumentations dedicated to provide sustainable development of technical manpower. The aim of this course is to enhance the training of professional agriculturalist, veterinarians and biologist of public sector Universities to foster a better comprehension of the scope of their field among scientific professionals
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE, FAISALABAD

RESEARCH ORIENTATION PROGRAM (4^TH COURSE) November 6^th to 18^th, 2006

SCHEDULE

There will be 12 participants in each group

DATE	TIME	GROUP I ACTIVITY	GROUP II ACTIVITY
Day-1 Monday 06.11.2006	08:30-09:30	INAUGURATION (Old Senate Hall)
	09:30-10:00	Tea Break
	10:00-11:30	Technical Lecture: Chromatography (Dr. Farooq Anwar)
	11:45-13:00	Solution preparation & Lab. Safety (Prof. Munir A. Sheikh) Deptt. of Chemistry
	13:00-14:00	Lunch/Prayer Break
	14:00-17:00	Solution preparation & Paper chromatography (Prof. Dr. Munir A. Sheikh and Fatma Hussain)	Solution preparation & Paper Chromatography (Prof. Dr. Munir A. Sheikh and Fatma Hussain)

Day-2 Tuesday 07.11.2006	08:30-09:30	Open Lecture: Communication Skills (Prof. Dr. M. Nawaz)
	09:30-10:45	Technical Lecture: Scientific Writings (Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ashraf)
	10:45-11:00	Tea Break
	11:00-13:00	HPLC Practical demonstration (Dr. Iqbal) Deptt. of Botany	GC practical demonstration (Dr. Farooq Anwar) Deptt. of Chemistry
	13:00-1400	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Continued	Continued

Day-3 Wednesday 08.11.2006	08:30-09:30	Open Lecture: Oral and poster presentation (Prof. Dr. M. Nawaz)
	09:30-10:45	Technical Lecture: Validation of analytical methods (Dr. Tahira Iqbal)
	10:45-11:00	Tea Break
	11:00-13:00	GC practical demonstration (Dr. Farooq Anwar) Deptt. of Chemistry	HPLC practical demonstration (Dr. Iqbal) Deptt. of Botany
	13:00-1400	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Continued	Continued

Research Orientation Program (4^th Course) November 6^th to 18^th, 2006

DATE	TIME	GROUP I ACTIVITY	GROUP II ACTIVITY
Day-4 Thursday 09.11.2006	08:30-09:30	Open Lecture: Bioinformatics (Dr. Aftab Bashir)
	09:30-10:45	Technical Lecture: Spectroscopy (Shaukat Ali)
	10:45-11:00	Tea Break
	11:00-13:00	UV-visible spectrophotometer (Prof. Dr. Zia-ur-Rahman&Dr.Faqir Muhammad) Deptt. Of Physiology and Pharmacology	Atomic Absorption Sectrophotometry (Prof. Dr. Zia-ur-Rahman&Dr.Faqir Muhammad) Deptt. Of Physiology and Pharmacology
	13:00-1400	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry (Prof. Dr. Zia-ur-Rahman&Dr.Faqir Muhammad) Deptt. Of Physiology and Pharmacology	UV-visible spectrophotometer (Prof. Dr. Zia-ur-Rahman&Dr.Faqir Muhammad) Deptt. Of Physiology and Pharmacology

Day-5 Friday 10.11.2006	08:30-09:30	Open Lecture: Research Process (Prof. Muhammad Arshad)
	09:30-10:45	Technical Lecture: DNA marker/fingerprinting techniques (Dr. Tanweer Malik)
	10:45-11:00	Tea Break
	11:00-13:00	DNA isolation and PCR	PAGE (Dr. Abdual Wahid and Muhammad Shahid) Deptt. of Botany
	13:00-1400	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Lab. Exercise (Faisal Saeed and Ahsan Iqbal)	Lab. Exercise

Day-6 Saturday 11.11.2006	08:30-09:30	Open Lecture: Research Methodology (Dr. Rahmat Ullah)
	09:30-10:45	Technical Lecture: Molecular Biology Techniques: an overview (Dr. Amer Jamil)
	10:45-11:00	Tea Break
	11:00-13:00	PAGE (Dr. Abdul Wahid, and Muhammad Shahid) Deptt. of Botany	DNA isolation and PCR
	13:00-1400	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Lab. Exercise	Lab. Exercise (Faisal Saeed and Ahsan Iqbal)

Day-7

Sunday 12.11.06

Rest day

Research Orientation Program (4^th Course) November 6^th to 18^th, 2006

DATE	TIME	GROUP I ACTIVITY	GROUP II ACTIVITY
Day-8 Monday 13.11.2006	08:30-09:30	Open Lecture: Research Project Execution: Financial Overview (Mr. Umer Saeed)
	09:30-10:45	Technical Lecture: ELISA (Dr. Khalil-ur-Rahman)
	10:45-11:00	Tea Break
	11:00-13:00	Lab. Exercise (Dr. Khalil ur Rehman and Dr. M. Aslam) Deptt. of Plant Pathology	Microscopy (Dr. Zargahm Khan) Deptt. of Vet. Pathology
	13:00-1400	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Continued	Continued

Day-9 Tuesday 14.11.2006	08:30-09:30	Open Lecture: Use of Radioisotopes in Biology (Dr. Babar Imran) Use of Radioisotopes in Agriculture (Dr. Naseem Khalid Warrich)
	09:30-10:45	Technical Lecture: Fermentation Biotechnology and microbial enzymes (Dr. M. Asghar)
	10:45-11:00	Tea Break
	11:00-13:00	Microscopy (Dr. M. Zargahm Khan) Deptt. of Vet. Pathology	Lab. Exercise (Dr. Khalil ur Rehman and Dr. M. Aslam) Deptt. of Plant Pathology
	13:00-1400	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Lab. Exercise	Lab. Exercise

Day-10 Wednesday 15.11.2006	08:30-09:30	Open Lecture: Use of internet and software packages (Dr. M. Sajjad Khan)
	09:30-10:45	Technical Lecture: Environmental Toxicology (Dr. Qaiser)
	10:45-11:00	Tea Break
	11:00-13:00	Use of internet and software packages demonstration (Tasleem Mustafa, Mr. Salman Afsar, Mr.M.Zaheer and Mr.Asad Ullah Hyder) Deptt. of Computer Sciences	Use of internet and software packages demonstration (Tasleem Mustafa, Mr. Salman Afsar, Mr. M. Zaheer and Mr. Asad Ullah Hyder) Deptt. of Computer Sciences
	13:00-1400	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Continued	Continued

Research Orientation Program (4^th Course) November 6^th to 18^th, 2006

DATE	TIME	GROUP I ACTIVITY	GROUP II ACTIVITY
Day-11 Thursday 16.11.2006	8:30-10:30	Tour to NIBGE i) COMET Assay (Dr. Qaiser Mahmood) ii) Electron Microscopy (Dr. Sohail Hameed)	Tour to PINUM i) Radioisotopes in Biology (Dr. Javid Irfan and Dr. Babar Imran)
	10:30-11:30	Tea Break
	11:30-13:00	Continued	Continued
	13:00-14:00	Lunch/Prayer
	14:00-17:00	Continued	Continued

Day-12

Friday

17.11.2006

8:30-10:30

Tour to PINUM

Technical Lecture: (i)Radioisotopes in Biology

(Dr. Javid Irfan and Dr. Babar Imran)

Tour to NIBGE

Technical Lecture: (i) COMET Assay

(Dr. Qaiser Mahmood)

(ii) Electron Microscopy

(Dr. Sohail Hameed)

10:30-11:30

Tea Break

11:30:13:00

Continued

Day-13

Saturday

18.11.2006

08:30-11:30

Evaluations and General Discussion about the course

(Prof. Dr. Rekshanda Nawaz)

Daily afternoon session will have a 15 minutes tea break at 15:00 hours.