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AMU
honours its award winning faculty:
The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) felicitated one of the
illustrious faculty members, Professor Abul Kalam Qasmi, Department
of Urdu for awarding India’s top most literary recognition “Sahitya
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Malegaon:
Prof. Wasim Ahmad of the Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim
University was recently felicitated by the Zoological Society of
India for his commendable research activities and outstanding
contribution in the field of Zoology at the 20th All India Congress
of Zoology, held at Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai
recently.
The Zoology Congress was jointly
organized by the Zoological Society of India, the Helminthological
Society of India and the Indian Fisheries Association.
Prof. Ahmad is an internationally
acknowledged expert on the taxonomy of soil inhabiting nematodes of
the Orders Dorylaimida, Mononchida and Tylenchida. He has not only
described several hundred new taxa of nematodes from around the
world but has also given new definition and classification of higher
taxonomic groups based on his morphological, ultra structural and
molecular studies.
His recent studies on phylogenetic
relationship of mononchs using 18s rDNA sequence has given a new
insight into the classification of this group. He has also
contributed significantly to the functional diversity and food web
diagnostics of soil inhabiting nematodes in natural forests.
The major part of his work has been
published in top nematology journals of the world, such as
Nematologica/Nematology from The Netherlands; Revue de Nematologie/Fundamentals
and Applied Nematology from France; International Journal of
Nematology from UK; Journal of Nematode Morphology and Systematics
from Spain Nematologea Mediterranea from Italy and Journal of
Natural History, UK His monumental book entitled “Dorylaimida;
Free-living, predaceous and plant parasitic nematodes” published by
RJ Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands is a unique world-wide reference
for study of dorylaim nematodes.
A similar treatise by him on
Mononchida has just been published by EJ Brill, The Netherlands. He
has visited a large number of countries of the world as an expert
for the study of dorylaim and mononchid nematodes and is recipient
of prestigious visiting fellowships from Royal Society (London). DFG
(Germany), TWAS (Italy), JSPS (Japan), Erasmus Mundus (European
Union), CAS (China), KOSEF (Korea), RMBR (Singapore), and many
others.
He is on the editorial board of
several prestigious journals published from India and abroad and is
reviewer of papers published in most of the Nematology Journals of
the world. Prof. Ahmad is a Fellow of the National Academy of
Agricultural Sciences and the Linnaean Society of London.
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