Atif Khan, MSc

I am currently working on application of bacteriophages to control biofouling in cooling water pipelines of power plants. Briefly, I am aiming to target bacterial biofilm which are involved in quorum sensing based chemotaxis of barnacles and mussel larvae which settles on biofilm and develop into adult and cause biofouling. I am also aiming to minimize the current use of chlorine and make the application of bacteriophages more feasible which will also minimize the generation of hazardous byproducts. I am also isolating and collecting bacteriophages of different bacterial hosts isolated from the environment or available in the laboratory.

Interest: I am highly interested in learning the bioinformatics tools and new laboratory techniques useful in phage research. I will be very happy to share my experience.