Dr. Muhammad Zubair Shabbir is a microbiologist at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He is involved in academics and research activities in collaboration with several national and international institutes worldwide. He is committed to further continuing in the area of his background expertise, which includes but is not limited to surveillance and epidemiology of infectious disease and molecular characterization of pathogens of veterinary and public health importance, particularly paramyxoviruses and orthomyxoviruses originating from domestic or wild animals and humans.