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Prof. Nazura Usmani
  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION

    M.Phil , Ph.D

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION

    Professor

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA

    Fishery Science and Aquaculture: Aquatic Toxicology.

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS

    Dhansari house, Opp AI Noor Plaza, Civil lines Dodhpur Aligarh

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE

    8279473366

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL

    nazurausmani@gmail.com

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    time table

DEPARTMENT_STAFF.COMPLETE_CV
DEPARTMENT_STAFF.PROFILE
Professor Nazura Usmani had been associated with the teaching of Diploma in Pisciculture and under graduate and post graduate (Chemical Biology, Aquaculture and Fish Biology) courses in the Department of Zoology, prior to induction as a permanent Faculty in the Women’s College (2006). She currently teaches Animal Ecology, Developmental Biology, Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates, Wild life Management and Conservation, Evolutionary Biology and Bioinformatics. Her research [at Aquatic Toxicology (Research) Laboratory, Department of Zoology] is focused on (a) Identification of water bodies influenced by anthropogenic activities at different locations (b) Impact of xenobiotics primarily heavy metals on the health of various warm and cold water fishes (as bioindicator) using biochemical, histological and molecular biomarkers (c) Immunotoxicity. Her team has the credit of sequence submission metallothionein CDS sequence (MK911726) from Wild Walking Catfish Clarias batrachus obtained from a culture pond. at NCBI. She has published over 35 papers in refereed journals including those in Environmental pollution, Scientific Reports (Nature), Chemosphere, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, India, Section B Biological Sciences, Aquaculture Nutrition, Aquaculture Research , Journal of World Aquaculture Society., etc. with citations count 1539, H-index 24, and i10-index 28. She has supervised 4 Ph.D.'s, 2 undergraduate stem fellows and has present team of 3 scholars. She qualified UPSC, Assistant Director Fisheries (2006). She was awarded Stem Mentor Fellow Award Under US department of State (OHIO State University,INDO-US collaboration STEM (2017). Her team was awarded Prof. Mahdi Hasan Memorial Award for best experimental design. She has taken training in Genomics and Molecular biology. She has been a recipient of Junior Research Fellowship & Senior Research Fellowship funded by Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Senior Research Fellowship under University fellowship, and Senior Research Fellowship funded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.


  1. key Publication

    1.  UZ Banday, A Nazir, M Fatima, SB Swaleh, M Al-Asadi, N Usmani. 2023. Heavy metal–induced genotoxic, physiological, and biochemical responses in Schizothorax esocinus (Heckel 1838) inhabiting the Dal Lake, India, and phytoremediation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30 (24), 65688-65701

    2. Sadiya Binte Swaleh , Umarah Zahoor Banday , Moneeb-Al Asadi, Nazura Usmani. 2020.Biochemical profile and gene expression of Clarias gariepinus as a signature of heavy metal stress. Environmental Pollution. 264:114693. (accepted 27.4.2020 ;IF 5.714)
    3. Umarah Zahoor Banday, Sadiya Binte Swaleh and Nazura Usmani. 2020. Heavy metal toxicity has an immunomodulatory effect on metallothionein and glutathione peroxidase gene expression in Cyprinus carpio inhabiting a wetland lake and a culture pond.Chemosphere. (accepted 5.3.2020; IF 5.1)
    4.  Umarah Zahoor Banday, Sadiya Binte Swaleh and Nazura Usmani. 2019. Insights into the heavy metal-induced immunotoxic and genotoxic alterations as health indicators of Clarias gariepinus inhabiting a rivulet. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. Volume 183, 15 November 2019 (Impact Factor  4.52)
    5. Sadiya Binte Swaleh , Umarah Zahoor Banday and Nazura Usmani. 2019. Comparative study of biochemical, histological and molecular biomarkers of heavy metal contamination in Cyprinus carpio collected from warm-monomictic lake and government culture  pond.Chemosphere.Volume 236, December 2019, 124182 (IF 5.1)
    6. MehjbeenJaved , Irshad Ahmad , Nazura Usmani  and  Masood Ahmad 2016. Studies on biomarkers of oxidative stress and associated genotoxicity and histopathology in Channapunctatus from heavy metal polluted canal. Chemosphere 151: 210-219. (IF 5.1)
    7. Mehjabeen Javed, Md Irshad Ahmad, Nazura Usmani, Masood Ahmad. 2017. Multiple biomarker responses (serum biochemistry, oxidative stress, genotoxicity and histopathology). In Channa punctatus exposed to heavy metal loaded waste water. Scientific Reports. 2017; 7: 1675. (IF  4.52)
    8. Mehjbeen Javed, Irshad Ahmad, Nazura Usmani and Masood Ahmad. 2016. Bioaccumulation, oxidative stress and genotoxicity in fish (Channapunctatus) exposed to a thermal power plant effluent. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 127: 163–169. (IM 4.52)
    9. Mahino Fatima, Nazura Usmani, Fakiha Firdaus, Mohammad Faraz Zafeer, Shafeeque Ahmad, Kafil Akhtar, S M Dawar Husain, Mir Hilal Ahmad, EhrazAnis, M. Mobarak Hossain.(2015)In vivo induction of antioxidant response and oxidative stress associated with genotoxicity and histopathological alteration in two commercial fish species due to heavy metals exposure in northern India (Kali) river. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology: 17-30.
    10. Mahino Fatima,  Nazura Usmani,  M. Mobarak Hossain, Mohammad Faisal Siddiqui, Mohammad FarazZafeer, Fakiha Firdaus, Shafeeque Ahmad. 2014. Assessment of Genotoxic Induction and Deterioration of Fish Quality in Commercial Species Due to Heavy-Metal Exposure in an Urban Reservoir. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. . 67 (2): 203-213.
    11. Javed M and Usmani N (2015). Stress response of biomolecules (carbohydrate, protein and lipid profiles) in fish Channa punctatus inhabiting river polluted by Thermal Power Plant effluent. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences. 22, p. 237-242
    12. Javed M, Usmani N, Ahmad I, Ahmad M (2015). Studies on the oxidative stress and gill histopathology in Channa punctatus of the canal receiving heavy metal loaded effluent of Kasimpur Thermal Power Plant. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 187 (1) p. 1-11.
    13. Mehjbeen Javed, Irshad Ahmad, Ajaz Ahmad, Nazura Usmani and Masood Ahmad. 2016. Studies on the alterations in haematological indices, micronuclei induction and pathological marker enzyme activities in Channa punctatus (spotted snakehead) perciformes, channidae exposed to thermal power plant effluent.SpringerPlus 5:761.1-10.
    14. Usmani, N., Jafri A.K. and Khan, M.A. 2003. Nutrient digestibility studies in Heteropneustesfossilis(Bloch) ,Clarias batrachus(Linnaeus) and Clarias gariepinus( Burchell).Aquaculture Research. 34; 1-7. ISSN: 1365-2109
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