Educational Background

2013-2018 Ph.D. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

2010-2012 M.Sc. University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

2008-2010 B.Sc. Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan.

Work Experience

2024- to date Associate Researcher Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

2022-2023 Postdoctoral Researcher South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou,China.

2019-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Research Interests

Resolution of phylogeny and systematic relationships among species of major plant groups.

Morphological evolution among species at inter- or infra- generic level

Plant conservation practices and spatio-temporal diversification of species in their area of endemism.

Scientific research projects undertaken:

2020  Land plants phylogenomics based on mitochondrial genomes-evaluation of impact of RNA editing. Fairy Lake Botanical Garden Research Fund: FLRF-2020-06). (Host)

Honors and awards

2019: Selected as an Excellent International Student in year 2017(PhD 2019) at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

2013 CAS-TWAS President Fellowship for PhD the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences at Beijing, China.

2012 Prime Minister’s Laptop award during M. Sc.

Presentations and attended conferences:

2023 The 7th National Cycad Academic Conference and the 2nd National Cycad Conservation Conference, Nanning Botanical Garden, Guangxi, China (Presented).

2023  China Botanical Garden Academic Annual Conference 2023 at Beijing Genomic Institute, Shenzhen, China (Presented)

2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of Shenzhen Fairylake Botanical Garden & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China. (Presented).

2017 XIX International Botanical Congress, Shenzhen, China (Attended).

2012 International Conference on Botany by Botanical Society, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad (Attended).

Field expeditions and herbaria contributions

2023 Collected cycad and double coconut specimen at Nong Nooch Botanical Garden, Thailand, for Cycad phylogenetic project and Double Coconut genome project, respectively.

2011-2012 Collection of Sedge grass (Cyperaceae) across the Upper Punjab Province and KPK, Pakistan

Publications

1. Habib S, Gong Y, Dong S, Lindstrom A, Stevenson DW, Wu H, Zhang S. 2023. Phylotranscriptomics shed light on intrageneric relationships and historical biogeography of Ceratozamia (Cycadales). Plants, 12, 478.

2. Habib S, Gong Y, Dong S, Lindstrom A, Stevenson DW, Liu Y, Wu H, Zhang S. 2022. Phylotranscriptomics reveal the spatio-temporal distribution and morphological evolution of Macrozamia, an Australian endemic genus of Cycadales. Annals of Botany, 130, 671–685.

3. Liu Y*, Wang S, Li L, Yang T, Dong S, Wei T, Wu S, Liu Y, Gong Y, …. Habib S, …..., Zhang S. 2022. The Cycas genome and the early evolution of seed plants. Nature Plants, 8, 389–401.

4. Habib S, Dong S, Liu Y, Liao W, Zhang S. 2021. The complete mitochondrial genome of Cycas debaoensis revealed unexpected static evolution in gymnosperm species. PloS ONE, 16, e0255091.

5. Peng DX, Dang VC, Habib S, Barrett RL, Trias-Blasi A, Wen J, Chen ZD, Lu LM. 2021. Historical biogeography of Tetrastigma (Vitaceae): Insights into floristic exchange patterns between Asia and Australia. Cladistics, 37, 803-815.

6. Ashghar M, Habib S, Zaman W, Hussain S, Ali H, Saqib S. 2020. Synthesis and characterization of microbial mediated cadmium oxide nanopartciles. Microscopy Research and Technique. https://doi.org/10.1002/jemt.23553.

7. Saqib S, Zaman W, Ayaz A, Habib S, Bahadur S, Hussain S, Shabbir M, Fazal Ullah. Postharvest disease inhibition in fruit by synthesis and characterization of chitosan iron oxide nanoparticles.

8. Habib S, Dang VC, Ickert-Bond SM, Wen J, Chen ZD, Lu LM. 2018. Evolutionary trends in Tetrastigma (Vitaceae): Morphological diversity and taxonomic implications. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 56 (4), 360-373.

9. Wen J, Lu LM, Tsai-Wen H, Dang VC, Habib S, Boggan JK, Okada H, Chen I, Chen ZD. 2018. Pseudocayratia: a new genus of Vitaceae from China and Japan with two new species and three new combinations. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 56 (4), 374-393

10. Habib S, Dang VC, Ickert-Bond SM, Zhang JL, Lu LM, Wen J, Chen ZD. 2017. Robust phylogeny of Tetrastigma (Vitaceae) based on ten plastid DNA regions: Implications for infrageneric classification and seed character evolution. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, 590 doi: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00590

11. Dang VC, Lu LM, Nguyen VH, Habib S, Barrett RL, Chen ZD. 2016. A new record of the genus Yua (Vitaceae) from Vietnam. Phytotaxa, 255, 274-280.

12. Ahmad KS, Habib S. 2014. Indigenous Knowledge of Some Medicinal Plants of Himalaya Region, Dawarian Village, Neelum Valley, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. Universal Journal of Plant Science, 2: 40- 47. doi: 10.13189/ujps.2014.020203

13. Gill AH, Ahmad KS, Habib S, Hameed M, Ahmad MSA, Nawaz T, Ahmad F, Batool R. 2012. Impact of highly saline wetland ecosystem on floral diversity of the Cholistan Desert. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 44: 107-112.

14. Ahmad KS, Hameed M, Ahmad MSA, Ashraf M, Ahmad F, Shinwari ZK, Habib S, Hussain M. 2012. Economic evaluation of some plant resources from Neelum Valley Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJ&K). Pakistan Journal of Botany, 45(S1): 111-117