Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

Academic / Faculties / Research

Research

Achievement in Reasearch of Dept. of Biotechnology Genetic Engineering

 

Lab Facilities

  • Laboratory of Biochemistry
  • Laboratory of Bioinformatics
  • Laboratory of Microbiology
  • Laboratory of Microbiology and Cytogenetics
  • Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Tissue Culture

 

Ongoing Research

  • Isolation antibiotic resistance gene (ARGs) and their effect on denitrification, anammox and net nitrification rate of pesticide contaminant paddy soils.
  • Abundance ammonia-oxidizing archaea or bacteria and denitrification, anammox and net nitrification rate of pesticide contaminant paddy soil.
  • Abundance of antibiotic resistance gene (ARGs) and net nitrification rate in Poultry and Cow manure soil.
  • Immunoinformatics approach for epitope-based peptide vaccine design and active site prediction against plyprotein of virus.
  • Antibacterial effect of natural antiseptics & antibiotics compare to commercially available synthetic antiseptic in local market of Bangladesh.
  • Biochemical change in rice seedling to cope with chromium stress.
  • Artificial liposome based identification of novel membrane active antimicrobials isolated from medicinal plants in Bangladesh.
  • Explore the chromium detoxification mechanism in rice.
  • Exploration, Stabilization and Formulation of Bacterial Agents for Biological Control of Phytopathogens of Plant Diseases
  • Microbial Approaches to Control the Blast Diseases of Principle Crops (Wheat and Rice) of Bangladesh Caused by Magnaporthe oryzae.
  • Assessment of Arsenic Content in the Agriculture Fields, Crops (especially rice) & Irrigated Water and Remediation through Microbial Approach in Selected Area of Jessore District.
  • Screening, isolation and molecular characterization of microbial diseases of Silkworm Bombyx mori and the effective rearing strategies in Bangladesh.

 

Research Project

1.Exploration, Stabilization and Formulation of Bacterial Agents for Biological Control of Phytopathogens of Plant Diseases

Professor Dr. Md. Rezuanul Islam

Funding Source: Ministry of Science and Technology

 

2.Microbial Approaches to Control the Blast Diseases of Principle Crops (Wheat and Rice) of Bangladesh Caused by Magnaporthe oryzae.

Professor Dr. Md. Rezuanul Islam

Funding Source: Ministry of Science and Technology

 3. Assessment of Arsenic Content in the Agriculture Fields, Crops (especially rice) & Irrigated Water and Remediation through Microbial Approach in Selected Area of Jessore District.

Professor Dr. Md. Rezuanul Islam

Funding Source: Ministry of Science and Technology

 

4.Screening, isolation and molecular characterization of microbial diseases of Silkworm Bombyx mori and the effective rearing strategies in Bangladesh.

Professor Dr. Md. Rezuanul Islam

Funding Source: Ministry of Science and Technology

 5.Antibacterial effect of natural antiseptics & antibiotics compare to commercially available synthetic antiseptic in local market of Bangladesh.

Professor Dr. Md. Abul Kalam Azad

Funding Source: UGC

 

6. Biochemical change in rice seedling to cope with chromium stress.

A K M Nazmul Huda

Funding Source: UGC

 

7. Artificial liposome based identification of novel membrane active antimicrobials isolated from medicinal plants in Bangladesh.

A K M Nazmul Huda

Funding Source: Ministry of Science and Technology

 

8.Explore the chromium detoxification mechanism in rice.

A K M Nazmul Huda

Funding Source: UGC

 

Recent Publication 

Activation Energy of the Low-pH-Induced Lamellar to Bicontinuous Cubic Phase Transition in Dioleoylphosphatidylserine/Monoolein , 2016 ,American Chemical Society , M..Jahangir Alam   (Impact factor: 14.357).

Anolyte in-situ functionalized carbon nanotubes electrons transport network as novel strategy for enhanced performance microbial fuel cells, 2018, Applied Energy. Mohammad Abu Hena Mostafa Jamal, (Impact factor: 7.9).

Function of the SIRT3 mitochondrial deacetylase in cellular physiology, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease, 2016, Aging Cell, Subbroto Kumar Saha, (Impact Factor: 7.627).

Identification of functional SNPs in genes and their effects on plant phenotypes, 2016, Journal of Plant Biotechnology, 43(1): 1-11, Md. Amdadul Huq, (Impact Factor: 6.305).

Programmable Molecular Scissors: Applications of a New Tool for Genome Editing in Biotech, 2018, Molecular Theraphy Nucleic Acid, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, Subbroto Kumar Saha, Md. Shahedur Rahman, (Impact factor : 5.66).

Tetracycline and sulfamethazine alter dissimilatory nitrate reduction processes and increase N2O release in rice fields, 2018, Environmental Pollution, 240 (2018) 368-377, M. Mizanur Rahman, (Impact factor: 5.09).

Effects of long-term pig manure application on antibiotics, abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), anammox and denitrification rates in paddy soils, 2018, Environmental Pollution, 240 (2018) 368-377, M. Mizanur Rahman, (Impact factor: 5.09).

Rayada speciality: the forgotten resource of elite features of rice, 2013, The Rice Journal, A N M Rubaiyath Bin Rahman (impact factor: 3.039).

Structural basis of coreceptor recognition by HIV-1 envelope spike, 2018, Nature, Volume 565, pages318–323 (2019), Md Munan Shaik, (Impact factor : 41.577).

The Single-Giant Unilamellar Vesicle Method Reveals LyseninInduced Pore Formation in Lipid Membranes Containing Sphingomyelin, 2012, American Chemical Society, DR.M.Jahangir Alam (Impact factor: 14.357).

Stretch-Activated Pore of the Antimicrobial Peptide, Magainin 2, 2015, American Chemical Society, M.Jahangir Alam (impact factor: 14.357).

 

Helicobacter pylori periplasmic receptor CeuE (HP1561) modulates its nickel affinity via organic metallophores , 2014, Molecular Microbiology 91(4), 724–735,  Munan Shaik  ( Impact factor: 4.894).

Synthetic expression alternation analysis of master reprogramming factor OCT4 and its three pseudogenes in human cancer and their prognostic outcomes, 2018, Scientific Report, Subbroto Kumar Saha, (Impact Factor: 4.609 ).

Chemical composition and antifungal properties of the essential oil and various extracts of Mikania scandens (L) willd, 2013, Arabian Journal of Chemistry, Rezuanul Islam , Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, (Impact factor :4.553 ).

Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a paddy soil as affected by temperature, pH, organic carbon and substrates, 2017, Biology and Fertility of Soils, Mizanur Rahman, (Impact factor: 3.80).

Immunoinformatics approach for epitope-based peptide vaccine design and active site prediction against plyprotein of emerging Oropouche virus, 2018, Journal of Immunology Research, Mizanur Rahman, Utpal Kumar Adhikari, (Impact factor: 3.53).

A Structural Snapshot of Type II Pilus Formation in Streptococcus pneumonie , 2015, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290 Number 37, Md. Munan Shaik ( Impact factor:3.268).

Antibacterial activity of Nymphaea nouchali (Burm. f) flower, 2013, Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, , Md Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, Md Rezuanul Islam, Nilufa Akhter Banu , Khasrul Alam, Biplab Kumar Dash, Monokesh Kumer Sen, Kamal Hossain, Shahedur Rahman, (Impact factor : 3.155).

Proanthocyanidins Inhibit Seed Germination by Maintaining a High Level of Abscisic Acid in Aarabidopsis thaliana, 2012, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, , A N M Rubaiyath Bin Rahman (impact factor: 3.092).

 

Preferational Geographic Distribution Pattern of Abiotic Stress Tolerant Rice, 2018, The Rice Journal, A N M Rubiayath Bin Rahman, (impact factor: 3.039).

Flood and drought tolerance in rice: opposite but may coexist, 2016, Food and Energy Security, 5(2): 76-88, A N M Rubiayath Bin Rahman, (impact factor: 3.032).

Auxin signaling is closely associated with Zn-efficiency in rice (Oryza sativa), 2016, Journal of Plant Interactions, A. K. M. Nazmul Huda, (Impact Factor: 2.89)

Overlapping CD8+ and CD4+ T-cell epitopes identification for the progression of epitope-based peptide vaccine from nucleocapsid and glycoprotein of emerging Rift Valley fever virus using immunoinformatics approach, 2017, Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 56 (2017) 75–91, Mizanur Rahman, Utpal Kumar Adhikari, (Impact factor: 2.88).

Spontaneous insertion of lipopolysaccharide into lipid membranes from aqueous solution, 2011, Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 164 (2011) 166–174, DR. M. Jahangir Alam (impact factor: 2.776)

Norovirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: A computational study of metal-binding preferences, 2017, Md. Munan Shaik (Impact factor: 2.499).

Silicon ameliorates chromium toxicity through phytochelatin-mediated vacuolar sequestration in the roots of Oryza sativa (L.), International Journal of Phytoremediation, Md. Anwarul Haque, A. K. M. Nazmul Huda, (Impact Factor: 2.40 )

Intestinal removal, of free fatty acids from hosts by Lactobacilli for the treatment of obesity, 2015, FEBS openbio, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, (Impact factor: 2.101).

Remediation of Chromium Toxicity through exogenous Salicylic Acid in rice (Oryza sativa ), 2016, Water Air & Soil Pollution, Dr. Md. Anwarul Haque, A. K. M. Nazmul Huda, (Impact Factor: 1.92).

In vitro callus induction and plantlet regeneration of Achyranthes aspera L., a high value medicinal plant, 2014, Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, Monokesh Kumer Sen, (Impact factor:1.677 )

 

Caenispirillum humi Nov., a bacterium isolated from the soil of Korean pine garden, 2018, Archives of Microbiology, Vol. 200 Issue 2 (343-348), Md. Amdadul Huq, (Impact Factor: 1.607 ).

Comparative analysis of amino acid composition in the active site of nirk gene encoding copper-containing nitrite reductase (CuNiR) in Bacterial spp, 2017, Computational Biology and Chemistry, 67:102–113, Mizanur Rahman, Utpal Kumar Adhikari, (Impact factor: 1.33).

Ultra-High Efficient Colony PCR for High Throughput Screening of Bacterial Genes, 2017, Indian Journal of Microbiology, Volume 57, Number 3, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, (Impact factor :1.3 ).

Molecular detection by analysis of the 16S rRNA gene of fecal coliform bacteria from the two Korean Apodemus species (Apodemus agrarius and peninsulae), 2017, Genetics and Molecular Research, M. Mafizur Rahman, (Impact Factor: 0.98)

Micropropagration and antimicrobial activity of operculina turpethum (syn. Ipomoea turpethum), an endangerd medicinal plant,  2010, Plant omics, POJ 3(2):40-46(2010, DR. M..Jahangir Alam, Md. Mizanur Rahaman (Impact factor: 0.774).

Exploration of potential Baker’s Yeast from Sugarcane Juice: Optimization and Evaluation, 2013, Pakistan Journal of Biological Science, 16 (13): 617-623, A. N. M Mamun-Or-Rashid, Biplab Kumar Dash, (Impact Factor: 0.73).

Antibacterial Properties and Chemical Composition of Essential Oil from Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Leaves Growing in Bangladesh. 2017, Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, Md. Shahedur Rahman (Impact factor: 0.681).

In vitro regeneration of a common medicinal plant, Ocimum sanctum L. for mass propagation, 2016, African Journal of Biotechnology, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, Nilufa Akhter Banu, A. N. M. Rubaiyath-Bin Rahman, Md. Rezuanul Islam, Imdadul Hoque Sharif, Md. Mostofa Shakil and Md. Nazmuzzaman, (Impact factor : 0.573 ).

 

Development of a prototype anti-glycation assay kit for assessment of bone and cartilage collagen modification, 2016, Glycative Stress Research; 3 (2): 74-80, A. N. M. Mamun Or Rashid.

 

RANKL regulates RAW264.7 cell osteoclastogenesis in a manner independent of M-CSF, dependent on FBS, media content and cell density. 2017, Glycative Stress Research; 4 (1): 040-052, A. N. M. Mamun Or Rashid .

Glycated-proteins modulate RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis in RAW264.7 cells, 2017, Glycative Stress Research, 4 (3): 232-239, N. M. Mamun-Or-Rashid.

 

Glycated-HSA inhibits osteoclastogenesis in RAW264.7 cells depending on the glycating agents via downregulating RANKL-signaling, Glycative Stress Research , 4 (3): 217-231, A. N. M. Mamun-Or-Rashid.

 

Microbiological quality of locally manufactured bread in rural area of Bangladesh, 2017, Biotechnological Research, Vol 3(3): 55-58, A. K. M. Nazmul Huda, Md. Mehedi Hasan.

 

Acoustic Species Identification of Korean Myotis Bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), 2016, Journal of Forest and Environmental Science, 32, No. 1, pp. 68-73, M. Mafizur Rahman. 

Assessment of the Antimicrobial Activities of Wood Apple (Aegle marmelos L.) Seed Extracts Against Selected Fungal and Bacterial Strains, 2017, Bentham Science, Md. Rezuanul Islam, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, Md. Khasrul Alam, Zubida Bilkis.

Caenispirillum humi Nov., a bacterium isolated from the soil of Korean pine garden, 2018, Archives of Microbiology, Vol. 200 Issue 2 (343-348), Md. Amdadul Huq, (Impact Factor: 1.607 ).

 

Comparative analysis of amino acid composition in the active site of nirk gene encoding copper-containing nitrite reductase (CuNiR) in Bacterial spp, 2017, Computational Biology and Chemistry, 67:102–113, Mizanur Rahman, Utpal Kumar Adhikari, (Impact factor: 1.33).

Ultra-High Efficient Colony PCR for High Throughput Screening of Bacterial Genes, 2017, Indian Journal of Microbiology, Volume 57, Number 3, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, (Impact factor :1.3 ).

Molecular detection by analysis of the 16S rRNA gene of fecal coliform bacteria from the two Korean Apodemus species (Apodemus agrarius and peninsulae), 2017, Genetics and Molecular Research, M. Mafizur Rahman, (Impact Factor: 0.98)

Micropropagration and antimicrobial activity of operculina turpethum (syn. Ipomoea turpethum), an endangerd medicinal plant,  2010, Plant omics, POJ 3(2):40-46(2010, DR. M..Jahangir Alam, Md. Mizanur Rahaman (Impact factor: 0.774).

Exploration of potential Baker’s Yeast from Sugarcane Juice: Optimization and Evaluation, 2013, Pakistan Journal of Biological Science, 16 (13): 617-623, A. N. M Mamun-Or-Rashid, Biplab Kumar Dash, (Impact Factor: 0.73).

Antibacterial Properties and Chemical Composition of Essential Oil from Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. Leaves Growing in Bangladesh. 2017, Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, Md. Shahedur Rahman (Impact factor: 0.681).

In vitro regeneration of a common medicinal plant, Ocimum sanctum L. for mass propagation, 2016, African Journal of Biotechnology, Mohammad Abu Hena Mostofa Jamal, Nilufa Akhter Banu, A. N. M. Rubaiyath-Bin Rahman, Md. Rezuanul Islam, Imdadul Hoque Sharif, Md. Mostofa Shakil and Md. Nazmuzzaman, (Impact factor : 0.573 ).