Department of Botany

Dr. Riffat Siddique

Dr. Riffat Siddique
Dr. Riffat Siddique

Assistant Professor
Department of Botany
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Experience

 Date

Title

Institute

29th March, 2008 till 12th September, 2017.

Lecturer of Botany (BPS-18)

Lahore college for Women University.

12th September, 2017 till date.

Assistant Professor of Botany (BPS-19 Adhoc.)

Lahore college for Women University.
  • Fifteen years of teaching experience
  • Five years of Research experience

    Honor and Awards

  • HEC Indigenous Scholarship holder in PHD from 2012 till 2016. HEC approved Supervisor.

Memberships

  • Member of Botanical Society of LCWU
  • Member of Horticultural Society of LCWU
  • Editorial member of Journal Plantarum, Department of Botany,
  • Member of Discipline committee, Department of Botany, LCWU.
  • Member of Departmental Quran Khawani funds committee
  • Member of cleanliness committee, Department of Botany, LCWU.

Graduate Students /Postdocs/ Undergraduate Students/Honour Students

10 BS Students supervised
6 MS students were Co-Supervised 3 MS students were Co-Supervised


Service Activity

  • Teaching
  • Research and thesis supervision
  • Publications and presentations
  • Annual stock checking
  • Admission duty
  • Discipline duty
  • Co- organizer of floral art competition
  • Co- organizer of departmental workshops (local as well as International)
  • Convocation Duty

Brief Statement of Research Interest

  • Molecular genetics
  • Plant Virology
  • Bioinformatics

Publications

  • Response of Ty resistant tomato cultivars to Begomoviruses and their Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry RiffatSiddique, Imran Amin, Attique-Ur- Rehman, ShahidMansoor and Farah Khan; 2016. Pakistan Journal of Science. (Vol. 68 No. 4 December, 2016).
  • Shabnum Shaheen, Rozina Fateh, Sidra Younis, Nidaa Harun, Mehwish Jaffer, Khadim Hussain, Muhammad Ashfaq, Riffat Siddique, Hannan Mukhtar, Farah (2020). Light and scanning electron microscopic characterization of thirty endemic Fabaceae species of district Lahore, Pakistan..Microscopy Research and Technique.83(12): 1507-1529. 
  • Shabnum Shaheen, sPalwasha Khan, Sehrish Sadia, Mehwish Jaffer, Sana Khalid, Riffat Siddique, Hannan Mukhtar, Tehreema Iftikhar, Samina Sarwar, Sobia Ilyas and Farah Khan (2020). Light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy of bacterial colonies isolated from ras malai samples from different markets of Lahore, Microscopy Research and Technique. 83(11):1417-1426 
  • Current understanding of an Emerging Coronavirus using in silico approach: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome- Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Sana Khalid, RiffatSiddique, ShabnumShaheen, Muhammad           NaveedShahid, ZeeshanShamim, Khalil Ahmad Khan, Çiğdem ULUBAŞ SERÇE; Brazilian Journal of Biology. 
  • Phytochemical profiling of tamarind (Tamarindus indica) seeds, leaves and pulp. RIFFAT SIDDIQUE, SOHA NADEEM, IBRAHIM ALIYU DABAI and ATIQ UR REHMAN; Journal plantarum.

Selected Professional Presentations

  • Won First Position in Poster Presentation at international conference “SMART PLANTATION” an ultimate solution to climate change ICSP 2020 on 2, 3 and 4 March 2020 at Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University.

  • Title of presented poster “Evaluation of phytochemical constituents and antioxidant potential among commonly used spices of family Apiaceae”Iqra babar, Riffat siddique, Hannan Mukhtar, Sana khalid, Shabnum shaheen.

  • Won Second Position in Poster Presentation at international conference “SMART PLANTATION” an ultimate solution to climate change ICSP 2020 on 2, 3 and 4 March 2020 at Department of Botany, Lahore college for Women University.

  • Title of presented poster “Relative biochemical analysis of fresh fruit extract of the commercially available varities of Malus domestica L, Borkh” Hannan Mukhtar, Misbah Ali, Riffat Siddique, Sana Khalid, Nimra Shahzadi and  Farah Khan.

  • Won First Position in poster presentation on “managing laboratory classes in Biosciences post novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic”Ibrahim, Riffat Siddique, Mohammed, Sana khalid, Hannan mukhtar.

ORAL Presentations

Oral presentations at 38th All Pakistan Science Conference Energy Crisis and Their Solutions in Pakistan at College of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of The Punjab, Quaid-i- Azam Campus, Lahore under the auspices of Pakistan Association for the Advancement of Science (PAAS). On 10th and 11th December 2018.
 
i-          Comparision of Antioxidant Activities of Different Commercial Varieties of TEA by Using DPPH Method. Riffat Siddique, Noor ul Ain, Hannan Mukhtar and Farah Khan. Abstract published in proceedings.
 
ii         Phytochemical Analysis of some varieties of BRASSICA Oleracea L. Hannan Mukhtar, Saba Gulzar, Riffat Siddique and Farah Khan. Abstract Published in proceedings.