Dr Nagina Rafiq

Assistant Professor (Ph.D.,)

Dr Nagina Rafiq

Assistant Professor (Ph.D.,)

Research Area: Food Biotechnology/Food Microbiology/Enzymology
Degree Major University Start Date End Date
Ph.D., Food Science and Technology University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad March 2011 December 2017
Designation Organization Duration
Assistant Professor University of Poonch August 2021 - September 2022
Assistant Professor University of Poonch January 2019 - January 2020
Title Description Sponsoring Agency Amount Year
Isolation and quantification of food associated beneficial microbes for evaluation of their potentia SRGP-2456 0.5 Million
Designation Department Organization From Date To Date
Member American Society of Microbiology
Member Microbiology Society Europe
Member American Society of Nutrition
Description Year DOI
Turfa Mamoona, Nagina Rafique,* Muhammad Zubair Khan, Khawaja Shafique Ahmad, Saiqa Bashir, Tawaf Ali Shah, Ahmad Mohammad Salamatullah, Amare Bitew Mekonnen,* and Mohammed Bourhia Phytonutritional and Sensorial Assessment of a Novel Functional Beverage Formulated from an Underutilized Fruit of Carissa spinarum L Research paper 2023 doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c03386
Nagina Rafique1 | Turfa Mamoona1 | Nazish Ashraf1 | Sheraz Hussain1 | Faisal Ahmed1 | Tawaf Ali Shah2 | Ahmad Mohammad Salamatullah3 | Amare Bitew Mekonnen4 | Mohammed Bourhia5 Exploring the nutritional and sensory potential of karonda fruit: Physicochemical properties, jam production, and quality evaluation research article 2023 DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.3619
Imtiaz Hussain, Zaheer Ahmad, Nagina Rafique, Saiqa Bashir, Faima Atta Khan, Fahad Al-Asmari, Bilal Fazil, Sadaf Oranab, Muhammad Abdul Rahim & Chinaza Godswill Awuchi Quality attributes of dehydrated pear (Pyrus communis L.) as affected by conventional and novel blanching techniques Research article 2023 https://doi.org/10.1080/10942912.2023.2254018
Nagina Rafique, Turfa Mamoona, Saiqa Bashir, Imtiaz Hussain, Imran Hayat, Lactobacillus: Application in food industries. Lactobacillus - A Multifunctional Genus. Publisher: IntechOpen Ltd. United Kingdom. Book Chapter. 2022 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.106856
8. Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Sadaf Khalid, Raees Ahmed, Muhammad Zubair Khan, Nagina Rafique, Raina Ijaz, Saira Ishaq, Muhammad Jamil, Aqeel Ahmad, Amjad Shahzad Gondal, Muhammad Imran, Junaid Rahim and Umar Ayaz Aslam Sheikh. Underutilized Grasses Production: New Evolving Perspectives. Grasses and Grassland - New Perspectives Publisher: IntechOpen Ltd. United Kingdom. Book Chapter. 2022 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.105375
Hayat I., Ahmad A., Rafique N. Rafiq S., Qayyum S., Bashir S., Ijaz R., Quality attributes of cookies enriched with functional protein isolate from red kidney beans. Czech J. Food Sci., 2022, 40(5):367-374. X category. 2022 DOI: 10.17221/243/2021-CJFS
Bashir, S., Awan, M.S., Farrukh, M. A., Naidu, R., Khan, S. A., Rafique, N., Ali, S., Hayat, I., Hussain, I., Khan., M. Z. Zinc oxide In-vivo (Albino Mice) and in-vitro assimilation and toxicity of nanoparticles in food materials. International Journal of Nano Medicine. 2022:17 4073–4085. Impact Factor = 7.0? W category. 2022 https://doi.org/10.2147/IJN.S372343
Rafique, N.; Ijaz, R.; Khan, M.Z.; Rafiq, S.; Hayat, I.; Hussain, I.; Ahmad, K.S.; Tabassum, R.; Xie, Z. Effect of Fermentation Response on Biosynthesis of Endopolygalacturonase from a Potent Strain of Bacillus by Utilizing Polymeric Substrates of Agricultural Origin. Catalysts 12, 875. https://doi.org/10.3390/ catal12080875. (Impact Factor = 4.752). W category. 2022 https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12080875
Nagina Rafique, Saiqa Bashir, Imran Hayat, William Orts and Dominic W.S. Wong, Muhammad Zubair Khan Metabolic Engineering and expression of endopolygalacturonase gene in Bacillus subtilis. Plos One, (Impact Factor = 3.752) W category. 2021 doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0256562
Zamird Bashir, Imtiaz Hussain, Nadra Khan, SaiqaBashir, Nosheen Bashir,, Nagina Rafique, Shafiq ur Rehman Comparative and qualitative study of fruit leather from wild and cultivated apricot grown under agra- climatic condition of Rawalakot Azad Kashmir Pakistan. Pure Appl. Biol.,9(4):2279-2284. Y category. 2020 doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2020.90242
Nagina Rafique, Romana Tabassum, Siddique Awan, William Orts and Dominic W.S. Wong, Cloning and expression of Pectobacterium carotovorum endopolygalacturonase gene in Pichia pastoris for production of oligolacturonates. Bioresources, 11(2): 5204-5214. (Impact Factor 1.67) X category. 2016 DOI: 10.15376/biores.11.2.5204-5214
Nagina Rafique, Muhammad Siddique Awan, Habib Ahmed Rathore, Dilnawaz Ahmed Gardezi, Maqsood Ahmad, Mohsin Tariq and Muhammad Ibrahim Rajoka, 2010. Kinetics of endoglucanase and cellobiohydrolase production by parent and mutant derivative of Bacillus subtilis GQ 301542 on optimized medium. African Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 9(44): 7531-7538. (Impact Factor 0.89). 2010 DOI: 10.5897/AJB10.588