Qualifications:

• B.Sc. 1979. Govt. Degree College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
• M.Sc.(Biol.). 1982.Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
• M.S. (Biol.).1986.Memorial Univ. of NFLD, Newfoundland, Canada
• Ph.D. 200 4.Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Post Doc. 2007. Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), Dundee, Scotland, UK

Research Publications:

• Akhtar K. P., T. M. Shah, B. M. Atta, M. Dickinson, J. Hodgetts, R. A. Khan, M. A. Haq and S. Hameed. 2009. Symptomatology, etiology and transmission of chickpea phyllody disease in Pakistan. J. Plant Pathol. 91 (3): 649-653
• Iqbal, Z., S. Hameed, M. A. Anjum, A.A. Dasti, A. Saleem. 2010. Cytology of infection of Fusarium mangiferae Birtzin in different  malformed reproductive parts of mango. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. (Published on line: 11 April, 2010)
• Yasmeen, T., S. Hameed, M.Tariq and J. Iqbal. 2010. Vigna Radiata root Associatedmycorrhizae and its helping bacteria for improving crop productivity. Plant journal of Botany (accepted for publication MS 10-029).
• Akhtar K. P., T. M. Shah, B. M. Atta, M. Dickinson, F. F. Jamil, M. A. Haq, S. Hameed and M. J. Iqbal. 2008. Natural occurrence of phytoplasma associated chickpea phyllody disease in Pakistan – a new record. Plant Pathology 57, 771
• Hafeez, FY., S. Hameed, M.S. Mirza, F. Mubeen, S. Yasmin, A. Aslam, M. Gull and K.A. Malik. 2008. Diverse role of diazotrophs in the rhizosphere. In: Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture, Proceedings of the 15^th international nitrogen fixation congress and the 12^th international conference of the African association of biological nitrogen fixation. F D Dakora et al. (eds.) p. 151. Springer
• Akhtar K. P., G. Sarwar, M. Dickinson, M. Ahmad, M. A. Haq, S. Hameed, M. J. Iqbal. 2009. Sesame phyllody disease: Symptomatology, etiology and transmission in Pakistan. Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry. 33: 477-486
• Malik K. A., F. Y. Hafeez, M. S. Mirza, S. Hameed, G. Rasul and R. Bilal (2005). Rhizospheric plant – microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture. In: Biological Nitrogen Fixation, Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment. Y. P. Wang et al, (eds.) pp. 257-260, Springer, The Netherlands
• Hameed S. and J. Iqbal. 2006. Transmission electron microscopy and immunogold labeling. In: International Symposium on Applications of Plant Sciences in Emerging Scenario, March 20 – 22, 2006, at Dept. of Botany, GC University, Faisalabad, pp. 54-56
• Iqbal N., M.Y. Ashraf, F. Javed, M. Ashraf and S. Hameed. 2006. Cotton leaf curl virus: Ionic status of leaves and symptoms development. J. Integ. Plant Biol. 48: 558-562
• Mubeen F., A. Aslam, M.A. Sheikh, T. Iqbal, S. Hameed, K.A. Malik and F.Y. Hafeez. 2006. Response of wheat yield under combined use of fungicides and bio-fertilizer. Int. J. Agric. Biol. 08-5: 580-582
• Tariq M, S. Hameed, K.A. Malik and F.Y. Hafeez. 2007. Plant root associated bacteria for zinc mobilization in rice. Pak. J. Bot. 39 (1): 245-253