Yasmin completed her BSc at University of Surrey and MSc at University of Malaya then received a Chevening scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in Plant Virology at the John Innes Institute U.K. She joined UM as a lecturer in the Department of Genetics and Cellular Biology and was appointed a full Professor in 2005, an elected member of UM senate since 2017 and the senate representative to the board of UM from 2019 to 2021. She retired offcially from UM in May 2021 and currently continues to serve UM as an honarary Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies UM. She is also an adjunct professor at UMK and was an adjunct at UMWales and UCSI.  She was also  honarary fellow of the Tun Ghazali Shafie Institue for Strategic leadership at UCYP. She is  a fellow and currently on the council of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She sits on the board of trustees of Cancer Research Malaysia and chairs the research advisory council of KPJUniversity She contiinues to be part of  a dynamic research group and still publishes actively, focusing on utilising modern biotechnology strategies to tackle fundamental problems in agriculture as well on issues related to BioPolicies, Bioethics and Biosafety. Recently she was appointed to the National Bioethics council and co-developed the National Guidelines for Ethics in BioBiotechnology.