Muhammad Shafiq
My overarching research expertise revolves around bacterial resistomes and mobilomes, studying the interactions between different microbial communities, and the development of antibiotic resistance in various environments. I have extensive experience in identifying the occurrence and fate of antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance determinants, and potential human pathogens in diverse environments. I have previously worked on projects related to infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance and its mechanisms. During my Ph.D., I worked on a "One Health" project investigating antibiotic resistomes in humans, animals, and the environment. During my Post-Doctoral studies, I got a good hand in writing project proposals and received one-year research grant RFIS I from the National Natural Science Foundation China (NSFC) for a project titled "Genomic and metagenomic characterization of antibiotic resistomes from clinical isolates and hospital and urban sewages, and their impact on the environment." In this project, we used both genomic and metagenomic approaches and combined them to track clinical pathogens and determine their transmission and resistance mechanisms in hospitals and in city wastewater from Shantou city of Eastern Guangdong.
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