Nationality: Pakistani

• Since December 2013: Post-doctoral researcher at ZIK HIKE, University of Greifswald, Germany

• 10/2005-02/2010: PhD, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Department of General Genetics, University of Tübingen

Thesis: Tissue Specific proteome, transcriptome and hormone profiling of maize (Zea mays L) root development

 

• 01/2001-01/2002: M. Phil: Molecular biology, National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

• 12/1995-11/1999: BSc: Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Expertise: Tissue specific gene expression analyses based on Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM), Single-Cell studies via FACS, C1 and BioMark systems, Proteome profiling, Molecular hybridization and cloning.

• Saleem M., Lamkemeyer T., Schuetzenmeister A., Madlung J., Sakai H., Piepho H. P., Nordheim A., Hochholdinger F. (2010) Specification of cortical parenchyma and stele of maize primary root by asymmetric levels of auxin, cytokinin and cytokinin-regulated proteins. Plant Physiology 152: 4-18

• Saleem M., Lamkemeyer T., Schuetzenmeister A., Fladerer C., Piepho H. P.,Nordheim A., Hochholdinger F. (2009) Tissue specific control of the maize (Zea mays L.) embryo, cortical parenchyma, and stele proteomes by RUM1 which regulates seminal and lateral root initiation. Journal of Proteome Research 8: 2285-2297

• Dembinsky D.*, Woll K.*, Saleem M.*, Liu Y.*, Fu Y., Borsuk L.A., Lamkemeyer T., Fladerer C., Madlung J., Barbazuk B., Nordheim N., Nettleton D., Schnable P.S., Hochholdinger F. (2007) Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of pericycle cells of the maize (Zea mays L.) primary root. Plant Physiology 145: 575-588. (*) These authors contributed equally to this work

• Hochholdinger F., Sauer M., Dembinsky D., Hoecker N., Muthreich N., Saleem M., Liu Y. (2006) Proteomic dissection of plant development Proteomics 6: 4076-4083

• Xu C., Tai H., Saleem M., Ludwig Y., Majer, C., Berendzen K.W., Meeley R.B., Taramino G., Hochholdinger F. (2013) Conserved and unique molecular interactions of the paralogous maize (Zea mays L.) LATERAL ORGAN BOUNDARIES DOMAIN proteins RTCS and RTCL. In preparation