Noor ul Huda

Noor ul Huda, PhD

Instructor

My expertise is in aquatic nutrition and health that encompasses foodfish industry applications. My research background has largely been interdisciplinary aiming to improve fish health using nutrition interventions, alternative feed ingredients (pre-, pro- and synbiotics), anti-parasitic feed additives, antibiotic alternatives, fish challenge models; clinical, molecular, and muti-omics approaches (Metagenomics for gut microbiome and Metabolomics). My current research focuses on bacterial and parasitic pathogens in fresh and marine water fishes.

Before becoming instructor at SGU, I was Joint-Postdoctoral Associate and visiting faculty, supported by the Postdoctoral Scholarship Program of Saint George’s University, stationed at Mississippi State University. My postdoctoral training involved collaboration with Mississippi State University, United States Department of Agriculture, University of Mississippi and Saint George’s University. The projects were on different facets of aquatic health management and disease mitigation.

I have attended faculty development training by National Academy of Higher Education (NAHE), Pakistan and St. George’s University, Grenada; and taught courses related to aquatic animal nutrition and aquarium medicine. I was the Assistant Director Fisheries at the Saline Water Aquaculture Research Center (SWARC) in Pakistan. Currently, I am also serving as mentor in Future Leaders Mentorship Fellowship (FLMF) Program by American Society for Microbiology (ASM).

I hold a Master’s of Science in Zoology (M.Sc) degree is from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan (Fish Nutrition concentration). I also hold a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) degree is in Fisheries and Aquaculture from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan where my research involved the strain specificity of novel fungal probiotic Geotrichum candidum in omnivorous and herbivorous Cyprinids. For my PhD in Hyrobiology from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, I received Chinese Government Scholarship and UCAS fellowship, and furthered my research on applications and mechanism of action of G. candidum in Gibel Carp diet.