Present Position: UNU-Kirin fellow, National Food Research Institute (NFRI) (United Nation University) 2-1-12 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8642 JAPAN (on study leave) Period: March 2010-till date.

Research Interest:

Research interest lies in the field of Biochemistry  & Molecular Biology in general and Proteomics, signal transduction, Food technology are of special interest.  

Education:

 Ph.D. (2003) (Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo (Japan)

M.Sc.(1991) (Department of Biochemistry), University of Dhaka, Dhaka (Bangladesh)

Permanent Position: Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

University of Dhaka, Dhaka –1000, Bangladesh. Phone-88-02-9661920-69

extn. 7636/7635 (office) 88-02-9116853 (Res),Fax-88-02-8615583

Mail: shekhardu@hotmail.com or hossainshekhar@yahoo.com

Departmental website: http://bmbudhaka.net/

Past positions:

Visiting professor: Unit of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, 1200- Matsumoto-cho, Kasugai-shi, Aichi (487-8501), Japan. Period : April 1, 2009- March 31, 2010.

 Visiting faculty: Department of Molecular Medicine and Biotechnology, University of Development Alternative (UODA), Dhanamondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Period: January 2006-December 2006.

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Technical Skills:

ICP-MS, Two Dimentional Electrophoresis; MALDI-TOF Mass spec; nano-LC-MS/MS ; Protein and gene data base analysis; Mammalian cell culture and maintenance eg. HEK293T, PC12, PC12nnr, NIH3T etc; Expression & Immunoprecipitation; Immunostaining; Cloning and subcloning; PCR ; DNA sequencing ; SDS-PAGE & Western blotting; HPLC; GLC; TLC; Transfection(transient and stable); General microbiological techniques; Familiar with NCBI, EMBL, DDBJ, Unigene, Swiss-prot, Profound, BLAST, Baylor etc. and general Bioinformatics technique.

Language Skills: English & Bengali (Excellent, spoken, written, listening)

                             Japanese (Fair, spoken)

International Training:

 1995- 18^th Asian Molecular Biology Organization (AMBO), International Training  

           course on different techniques of molecular biology, Tokyo, Japan.

Academic Awards:

 1999- 2003: Awarded Monbusho (Japanese National scholarship) scholarship for doctoral research work.

2009- 2010: Awarded Daiko Foundation fellowship fund to work in Chubu University, Aichi, Japan as a visiting Professor.

2010-2011: Awarded United Nations University-Kirin fellowship to conduct research work in National Food Research Lab (NFRI), Tsukuba Science city, Japan.

Awarded short term and long term scientific projects by different organization.

International Collaboration:

Asian African Science platform programme from JSPS awarded a three year (April 2010-March 2013) international collaborative fund (About 150,000x3 USD) Among Chubu University (CU), Japan, University of Malysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia and Dhaka University (DU), Bangladesh. Working as a principal  coordinator  from Bangladesh chapter.

Projects Completed:

 “Institutionalization of healthy food system in Bangladesh: A pilot study with three words of Dhaka city Corporation as a model”- Funded (50,000 USD) by FAO of UN (Bangladesh), Co-investigator. (Duration of the project 2/10/07 to 2/3/09)

 “Assessment of oxidative DNA damage in child worker in battery recycling factory” Funded (around 7000 USD) by Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Bangladesh.  Principal investigator. (Duration 1/72007 to 30/6 2008.)

List of Publications:

    1. Masashi Kato, Shoko Onuma, Yoko Kato, Nguyen D. Thang 

       IchiroYajima,Mohammad Zahirul Hoque and  Hossain Uddin Shekhar: Toxic

       Elements in Well Water from Malaysia Journal of Toxicology and  Environmental   

       Health, Part A (USA). (accepted for publication in May 2010 issue).

    2 . Mohammad Zubaerul Ferdaus, Mahbub Hasan and Hossain Uddin Shekhar Analysis of serum

        lipid profiles, metal ions and thyroid hormones levels Abnormalities in “B” thalassaemic children of  

        Bangladesh. Pakistan journal of medical association (accepted for publication in May 2010 issue).

    3. M Zakir H Howlader, Sonia Tamanna1, Sayma Parveen, Hossain U Shekhar, M

  Alauddin, Firoza Begum: Superoxide Dismutase Activity and the Changes of Some

  Micronutrients in Preeclampsia BJMS 15(2) 107-113, 2009

4.  M.Sabir Hossain , Md.Mesbah Uddin, Akim Uddin Mohammad, Shafiul Alam,   

     Mohammad Zakir Hossain Sarker, M.Nasir Uddin, Md. Enamul Haque and  

     Hossain Uddin Shekhar : The effect of Spirulina on Blood glucose, free fatty

     acid and hepatic phosphofructo kinase-1 (PFK-1) in Long Evans rat”. ” Dhaka  

     Univ.J.Biol.Sci. 17(1): 45-49, 2008 (Jan)

5. Mamun Ahmed, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Mamun Kabir, “ Quantitative detection of hepatitis B virus DNA (HBV-DNA) by Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction(qPCR) in Bangladeshi patient population” Bangladesh journal of Medical ScienceV13, N02,pp.123-126 Sept. 2007.

6. Mamun Ahmed, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Rehana Parveen, Shila Nazneen  Mamun Kabir, “ Quantitative analysis of hepatitis C virus by Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) : An assessment of the effect of viral tissue on the severity of liver disease in Bangladeshi patient population. Bangladesh journal of Medical ScienceV13, N02,pp.127-129 Sept. 2007.

7. Emran Kabir Chowdhury , Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Sharmin Jahan, Mirza Shamaruh, Sharmin Rumi Alim, “ Field and laboratory studies on arsenic mitigation” Bangladesh journal of Medical ScienceV13, N02,pp.107-111 Sept. 2007.
8. Shahdat Hossain, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Mohammad Nazmul Hasan Khan, Fowzia Akhter Selina, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Yearul Kabir, Ishtiaq Mahmud, “ Contents of docosahexaenoic acid in fresh water plankton of Bangladesh and its clinical importance”Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science (BJMS) Vol.13.No.01 pp. 54-59. March 2007.

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     9.  Kaniz Khatun-E-Zannat, Ferdousi Yasmin, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Mamun Ahmed, Sharmin 

          Rumi Alim, “ Status of malnutrition in the adolescent girls from urban affluent society”. Bangladesh

          Journal of Medical Science(BJMS) Vol.13.No.01 pp. 41-44. March 2007.

    10. Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Yearul Kabir, Md. Mosharaf Hossain, Md. Mesbah

Uddin, kaniz Khatun-E-Jannat, Md.Shahdat Hossain and  Hussain Md. Shahjalal,

           “Blood transfusion mediated viral infections in thalassemic children in  

            Bangladesh” J.Med. Sci., Asian network for scientific information(ANSI  

            net), 7(1):131-135 January, 2007.

    11. Md. Enamul Haque, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Akim Uddin Mohammad,

    Hafizur Rahman, AKM Mydul Islam and M.Sabir Hossain “Triterpenoids from

    the stem bark of Avicennia officinalis” Dhaka Univ.J.Pharm.Sci.5(1-2):53-57,   

    December,2006

12. Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Hussain Md. Shahjalal, Rumana Ahmed, Meshbah      

      Uddin and Kaniz Khatun-E-Jannath : “Prevelence of dyslipidemic phenotypes   

      including hyper apoB and evalution of cardiovascular disease risk in  

     normocholesterolemic  type 2 diabetic patients” Pakistan Journal of Biological    

           Sciences V. 9, No.8, pp.1536-1541, June, 2006

     13. Ishtiaq mahmud, Md. Shahdat Hossain, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Muhammad

            Shafiqur Rahman and Hussain Md. Shahjalal: “ Relevence of serum polyamine

            levels in the diagnosis of human prostrate and lung cancers”. Bangladesh J. Life

            Sci.17(2):7-14, December 2005.

    14.    Istiaq Mahmud, Md Abdul Haque, G.M.A. Hannan, Md.Shahdat Hossain, Yearul 

kabir, Hossain Uddin Shekhar and Liaquat Ali : “The differential effect of soybean and Hilsha Ilsa fish oil on the lipid profile and glycemic status of streptozotocin treated type 2 diabetes rats”. Dhaka Uni. J. Biol. Sc. 14(1): 33-42, January 2005.

    15.     Md.Enamul Huq, Atiar Rahman, Abdullahhel Amin, Hossain Uddin Shekhar:

      “Alkamide and Lignan from stem Bark of Piper chaba(Piperaceae)” Dhaka     

       Univ.J.Pharma.Sci.Vol.3 No.(1&2), pp 57-60, December, 2004.

 16.    Tohru Ichimura, Hiroyuki Kubota, Takeshi Goma, Noboru Mizushima,Yoshinori

       Ohsumi, Maki Iwago, Kazue kakiuchi, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Masoto Taoka,

       Takashi Shinkawa, Akito ito and T.Isobe :“Transcriptomic and proteomic analysis

       of a 14-3-3 gene deficient yeast” Biochemistry(USA) Vol. 43, No.20, pp.6149-6158  

       (May, 2004)

17.  Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Emran Kabir Chowdhury, Enamul Huq, Md. Shahdat

     Hossain, S. Barua “ Physiological studies of Shigella phages” Bd.J.Life Sc.   

         Vol.16, No.1, pp.71-78 (June, 2004).

 18.  Farzana Binte Rahman, Emran Kabir Chowdhury, Md.Shahdat Hossain, Abdul 

      Hannan, Sharmin Rumi Alim, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Liaqot Ali, Md. Atiqur 

      Rahman and Ishtiaq Mahmud “ Effect of Pangas fish oil on atherogenic factors in

      diabetic rats” Bd.J.Life Sc.Vol.16, No.1, pp.61-69 (June, 2004).

 19. Md.Shahdat Hossain, Istiaq Mahmud, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Yearul Kabir, 

      Michio Hashimoto“The fallacy of cholesterol free vegetable oil and the effects of  

      fatty acid composition of vegetable versus fish oils on health and diseases”

      Bangladesh.J.Nutrition Vol.16, No.2, pp.129-147, (December, 2003)

20. Ishtiaq Mahmud, Hosain Md.shahjalal, Abdul Hannan, Md.Shahdat Hossain,

      Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Liaqut Ali and Nilufar Nahar,“ Growth inhibitory  

      activity of Uriginea Indica plant extract is associated With decreased polyamine

           levels in the partially hepatomized rat”Bd.J.Life Sc. Vol.15, No.2, pp.7-15,(Dec.2003)

    21. Emran Kabir Chowdhury, M Abdullahhel Amin, Enamul Haque, Zakir  H.Howlader, Hossain  

          Uddin  Shekhar, Sharmin rumi Alim, Haruo Misono “Characterization of NAD+ dependent L

          serine Dehydrogenase from  Pseudomonas putida  E-23” Bangladesh J.Biochem Vol. 8, No.2,

          pp.13-21, (December 2002).

     22. Shamima Akhter, Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Saiful Islam, Sharif Akhteuzzaman  

     “Evolution of the diagnostic effectiveness for routine liver function tests” 

      Bangladesh J. Biochem. Vol.7, No.2, pp. 27-36, (June 2001).

    23. Sahabuddin Hawlader, Md. Enamul Haque, Syeda Dilshad Afroz, and Hossain

    Uddin Shekhar Md. Abdul Mazid “Triterpenoids from the stem of Operculina 

    Terpethum L. (convolvulaceae)” Dhaka Univ.J.Biol.Sc.Vol.8, No.2, pp.157-163,  (July1999).

    24. H.U.Shekhar, Z.H.Haowlader, E.K.Chowdhury and Afsar Uddin Ahmed :

    “Physico chemical characteristics and bacterial contamination of a soybean oil

sample” Bd. J.Life.Sci. Vol.10, No.1&2, pp.151-153, (December 1998).

    25. S.M.Shoeb, E.K.Chowdhury, H.U.Shekhar, E.Shimizu and T.Yorifuzi :

    “Carbamoylputrescine amidase in Rhodococcus: A novel approach of agmatine 

      biosynthesis” Bangladesh J.Microb.Vol.15, No.1, pp. 51-58., (July 1998).

    26. Emaran Kabir Chowdhury, Z.H. Hawlader, S.R.Alim, H.U.Shekhar, M.Anwar

     Hossain, H.Misono : “ Occurrence of a novel NAD⁺ dependent L-serine

      dehydrogenase in Pseudomonas putida E23 isolated from soil”

      Dhaka Univ.J.Biol.Sc.Vol.7, No.2, pp.155-162, (July 1998).

 27.  M.Nazmul Huda, Sk.Mizanoor Rahman , Z.H.Hawlader and H.U.Shekhr  :

“ Optimization of a feeding solution for Hirudo menilensis”

      Bd.J.Zool. Vol.25, No.1, pp.89-90,(July 1997).

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    28. H.U.Shekhar, Md.Monsur Ali and M.Anwar Hossain : “ Extracellular

      amylase from locally isolated mosquito pathogen Bacillus sphaericus”

      Bd.J.Microbiol. Vol.14, No.1&2, pp. 17-23 (June 1997).

    29. H.U.Shekhar, A.Sarker and M.Anwar Hossain  “ Studies on extracellular

      protease from Bacillus thuringiensis” Bangladesh J.Biochem.Vol. 2, No.2,

          pp. 61-65 (December 1996).

    30. Hossain.U.Shekhar, M.Nazmul Alam, Zakir H. Hawlader, M.Nazmul Huda,

M.Amir Hossain “ Effects of storage on the physichochemical characteristics of soybean oil” Bangladesh J.Biochem.Vol.2, No.1, pp.41-48 (June 1996)

    31. M.Anwar Hossain, S.Mallick, H.U.Shekhar  and S.Akhteruzzaman : “Antibacterial activities of a

          locally isolated Bacillus polymyxa AH-1” Dhaka Univ.J.Biol.Sci.Vol.5, No.1, pp.87-89

         (January 1996).

   32. M.Anwar Hossain, S.Mallick, H.U.Shekhar and S.Akhteruzzaman :

   “Isolation and Identification of a Bacillus polymyxa strain”

          Dhaka.Univ.J.Biol.Sc.Vol. 4, No.2,  pp.193-196, (July 1995).

   33. A.H.M.Soib Chowdhury, H.U.Shekhar , M.M.A.M Quddus and I.Mahmood

     “Biochemical analysis of Tenualosa Ilisha (Hamilton)”  J.Asiat.Soc.Bd.Sci. Vol.21, No.1, pp.,   

      83-88 (June 1995)

   34. S.Yasmin,K.A.Rahim, H.U.Shekhar and A.T.A Ahmed :

     “Identification, organal distribution, seasonal variation and prevalence pattern of

      helminths in Clarias batrachus (Linn)”

       Dhaka Univ.J.Biol.Sc.Vol.3, No.2, pp.107-112 (July 1994)

    35.M.A.Malek, M.Nasir Uddin, H.U.Shekhar and B.Gomes:

    “ Average food consumption of students in five students residential halls of Dhaka  

      University” Dhaka Univ.J.Biol.Sc.Vol.3, No.2, pp. 113-117 (July 1994)\

     36. H.U.Shekhar, Md.Emdadul Haque, S.A.Hossain and Zaki Yusuf:

“ Environmental pollution due to effluents from sugar and sugar based industries  

  in Bangladesh” Dhaka Univ.J.Biol.Sc.Vol. 2, No.2, pp.209-213 ( July1993).

    37. Mustafizur Rahman, Hossain Uddin Shekhar and Haseena Khan : “ Host  

      controlled restriction and modification of phage SK101 and its mutants by   

      different Shigella species” Dhaka Univ.J.Biol.Sc.Vol.1, No.1, 

             pp.65-75, (July 1992).

 Recent Conference/workshop proceeding:

 1. “Characterization and Biomedical application of wound dressing material based on Gelatin” M A Khan, J M M Islam, M A Rahim, H U Shekhar, N Rahman , Z I Mollah; The Third International Conference on Structure, Processing and Properties of Materials , SPPM2010, 24-26 February 2010, Dhaka , Bangladesh.

 2. Institutionalization of healthy street food system in Bangladesh: A pilot study with three words of Dhaka City Corporation as a model By Hossain Uddin Shekhar

Published in the proceedings of the consultative workshop, 5 and 6 December 2007

on Informed Policy Making for Food Security : Research in Support of The National Food Policy. Organised by GOB, FAO, USAID & European commission.

URL: www.nfpcsp.org (article no. 4.3.1)

Some Posters:

Bangladesh (2010)

 Bangladesh Society for Bioinformatics, one-day Seminar on "Bioinformatics: Opportunities for Bangladesh" 16th January, 2010 Dhaka University, Dhaka Bangladesh

 Malaysia (2009)

 Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Md. Arif Ahmed and Mohammad Zahirul Haque: “Oxidative DNA damage in battery recycling child workers” 2^nd International Conference on  rural medicine (ICROM), 2009 Poster No. IV.5, University of Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia

 Korea (2009)

Mubarak A. Khan,Mr. Jahid M. M. Islam,Mr. M. Arifur Rahman, and. H. U. Shekhar: “Preparation and In Vivo Study of an Anti-infective Highly Volatile Wound Dressing Material” P_1237, The 3^rd international conference on multi-functional materials and structures(MFMS) September 10-14,2010 Jeonju, Korea, http://mfms2010.org/.

    
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Japan (2009)

Noriyuki Uemura, Noriya Yamashita, Nguyen Dinh Thang, Rumiko Hayashi, Shoko Onuma, Hossain Uddin Shekhar and Mashashi Kato, “ Tumorigenic co-effects of arsenic and other metals found in well water from Bangladesh” 1P 0731 www.aeplan.co.jp/mbsj2009/program/poster1.pdf

 USA (2002)

Hossain Uddin Shekhar, Chiharu Itagaki, Toshiaki Isobe,Tohru Ichimura.“ Proteomic approach using novel affinity purification tag to identify protein complexes”  Poster presented in Indianapolis, USA, Nov 4, 2002 URL:http://www.aesociety.org/AES2002abstr.html

 Members of editorial board

 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Sciences (www. bjms.info)

African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (www.academicjournals.org/AJPP)

Members of Professional bodies

 Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) (Life member)

United Nations Association of Bangladesh (UNAB) (Life Member)

Bangladesh Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BSBMB)

Graduate Biochemist Association (GBA)

Japanese University Association of Bangladesh (JUAAB, EC member)

Dhaka University Teachers Association (DUTA)

Referee:

Professor Istiaq Mahmud, Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, email: ishtiaq51@yahoo.com

 Professor M.Anwar Hossain, Dean, Faculty of biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Tel: 880-2-8613243 Fax: 880-2-8615583 email: hossain50@gmail.com; deanbio@udhaka.net