Areas Shabir Dar is Knowledgeable in:
Applied environmental microbiology
Techniques Shabir Dar Uses:
in situ bioremediation, different DNA/RNA based techniques,
Shabir Dar's Problem Solving Skills:
- in situ uranium bioremediation, sulfidogenic wastewater treatment
- Microbial fuel cells
- Applied environmental microbiology
- Biological sciences
- bioremediation of pollutants from different environments
- Microbial ecology of sulfidogenic wastewater treatment plants, heavy metal polluted ecosystems, acid mine drainage etc
- In situ Bioremediation, microbiology of anaerobic wastewater treatment plants
- Agronomy,
- Molecular Biology, High throughput PCR and Genotyping, Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR, quantitative-realtime PCR, Denaturing Gr
- Anaerobic culturing especially sulfate reducing bacteria, running chemostat cultures
Shabir Dar's Problem Solving Experience:
- I have developed a novel strategy of identifying minor but significant microbial populations in waste water treatment plants using nested-PCR, DGGE. The same strategy can be used in other ecosystems.