Md. Rezaul Islam

EDUCATION

College / University

University of Dhaka

Highest Degree

Master of Science

Major Subjects

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, basic neuroscience, immunology, bioinformatics

Islam

Country

Bangladesh

Lab Experience

Primer designing, molecular cloning, conventional PCR, realtime PCR, molecular docking

Projects / Research

  • miR166 and miR167, key regulatory mediators of salt stress in plants, down-regulate their corresponding target genes in Corchorus olitorius (Master’s Thesis)
  • Accelerated Evolution of Brain specific microRNA locus in Homo sapiens. Poster presentation in ICHG 2011 Conference, Montreal, Canada
  • A computational assay to design an epitope-based peptide vaccine against chikungunya virus. Future Virology, October 2012, Vol. 7, No. 10, pp 1029-1042
  • Structural, functional and molecular docking study to characterize GMI1 from Arabidopsis thaliana. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, March 2013, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp 13-22
  • In silico prediction and conservancy analysis of promiscuous epitopes in human adenovirus HAdV-65. Online Journal of Bioinformatics; Volume 13(3):432-431, 2012

Scholarships / Awards

2013 – 2015: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
2008 – 2011: Sumitomo Corporation, Japan Scholarship
2005 / 2007: Bangladesh Government Scholarship

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS AND GOALS

I have keen interest to understand how our brain and memory function and what the underlying mechanisms of the neurological disorders are. Moreover, I am interested in drug designing against complex neurological disorders.