User:DR. Md. Anowar Hossain

'Biography: Dr. Md. Anowar Hossain was born in a muslim family at Brojobala, Kootir para village in Shahzadpur Upazilla under Sirajganj district in Bangladesh in the year 1974. He has finished his B. Sc( Hon) and Master degree in Biochemistry from Rajshahi University.He has done excellent results in all his academic and public examination all through first classes. He was awarded gold medal for the excellent results in his B.Sc. (Hon) examination from Rajshahi University. He started his career as a lecturer in the department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology Chittagong(USTC) in year 2000. He moved from USTC to Rajshahi University at the department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology in the early 2005. He was promoted as an assistant Professor in 2006. He was awarded TIGP Scholarship for PhD studies in 2006 and studied one year in Academia Sinica,Taiwan. Later he got Japanese Government Monbusho scholarship for his PhD studies in 2007. He obtained his PhD in the late 2010 from Okayama University, Japan. He did postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in the year 2011. He also got various awards for his research activities. His research field is biochemistry and molecular biology as well as biotechnology. He published research articles in many national and international peer reviewed journals. In the early 2012, he was promoted as an Associate Professor in the department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology, RU.


 * Now he has been working as postdoctoral research fellow in University of Malaysia Sarawak(UNIMAS) since November 2013. His research focuses on the "Genome size estimation and molecular functional analysis of chitinase gene from Sagu (Metroxylon sagu) palm".