Faculty Profile

Tanvir Hossain

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone:
  • Email: tanvir-bmb@sust.edu, tanvirain@gmail.com

Biography

The struggle for survival and the urge to gain more have been at the core of human interests since the inception of history. But, with all the needs fulfilled, human brain will never escape the questions -- who we are and why we are here. As a child born in the coast of the Bay of Bengal, Mr. Tanvir Hossain had always asked these questions to himself and deceivingly believed that he would find out answers very soon. Staring at the clear winter sky, he used to think of being an astronomer, who would search the stars to find out his origin as he had read that everything was one before the big bang and the stars seemed to be the real places to find the answers.
As life takes its mysterious way being pushed by numerous variables, Mr. Hossain ultimately anchored on Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of SUST. He eventually fell in love with the chemistry of life and discovered that the most fascinating mystery was within him, in the musical orchestra of cells in his body. He was a student of the first batch of the department and with all his transilient nature, finally graduated from this department with 1st position in his batch. After that, he completed his masters from the same department with a thesis that had been designed by himself. And then, he was appointed as research assistant by his supervisor Dr. Shamim Ahmed to do more science with the available research facilities in the department. In November 2018, he was appointed as a faculty member on the post of lecturer at this very department, which he witnessed growing up from sprout.
Apart from science, Hossain is real passionate about cricket and music. In Mozart’s symphony he feels the exquisite analogy between science and music that is indescribable in words. His walking partner is Coldplay music and night partner is a tasco® telescope with which he tries to spy on the celestial bodies.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4848-166X

Education

  • Enrolled in PhD Study at Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Australia. [From April 2021]
  • M.S. (Biochemistry &Molecular Biology): Session 2014-2015 (exam held in January 2018) Institute: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh. Thesis title: “Isolation, purification and characterization of collagen from available broiler chicken skin of Bangladesh”.
  • B.Sc. (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology): Session 2010-2011(exam held in January2016) Institute: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh.

Research Interests

  • Proteomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Epigenetics
  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Immunoinformatics Study on Viral Proteins
  • 2. Biomedical applications of collagen extracted from fish waste materials.
  • 3. Extraction of collagen from chicken skin and fish scales of Bangladesh.
  • 4. Generation of high current and high voltage by Microbial Fuel Cell using sewerage sludge.

External Affiliations

  • Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Australia.

Journal Publications

  • 1. Hasan, M., Nishat, Z. S., Hasan, M. S., Hossain, T., & Ghosh, A. (2024). Identification of m6A RNA methylation genes in Oryza sativa and expression profiling in response to different developmental and environmental stimuli. Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 38, 101677 [Scopus Indexed; IF 2.7]
  • 2. Nishat, Z. S., Hasan, M. S., Islam, M. S., Hossain, T. & Ghosh, A. (2022). Identification of epitranscriptomic methylation marker genes in Arabidopsis and their expression profiling in response to developmental, anatomical, and environmental modulations. Current Plant Biology, 100247 [Scopus Indexed; IF: 5.4]
  • 3. Nishat, Z. S., Hossain, T. et al. (2022) Hydrogel Nanoarchitectonics: An Evolving Paradigm for Ultrasensitive Biosensing. Small,2107571 [Scopus Indexed; IF = 13.28]
  • 4. Hasan, M., Ashik, A. I., Chowdhury, M. B., Tasnim, A. T., Nishat, Z. S., Hossain, T., & Ahmed, S. (2021). Computational prediction of potential siRNA and human miRNA sequences to silence orf1ab associated genes for future therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2. Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 100569. [Scopus Indexed; IF:2.11]
  • 5. Ashik, A. I., Hasan, M., Tasnim, A. T., Chowdhury, M. B., Hossain, T., & Ahmed, S. (2020). An immunoinformatics study on the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 revealing potential epitopes as vaccine candidates. Heliyon, 6(9), e04865.[Scopus Indexed; IF: 4.0]
  • 6. Ahmed, S., Sony, S. A., Chowdhury, M. B., Ullah, M. M., Paul, S., & Hossain, T. (2020). Retention of antibiotic activity against resistant bacteria harbouring aminoglycoside-N-acetyltransferase enzyme by adjuvants: a combination of in-silico and in-vitro study. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-12. [Scopus Indexed; IF:4.6]
  • 7. Hossain, T., Mahmudunnabi, G., Masud, M. K., Islam, M. N., Ooi, L., Konstantinov, K. et al. (2017). Electrochemical biosensing strategies for DNA methylation analysis. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 94, 63-73. [Scopus Indexed;IF: 10.257]
  • 8. Sarker, S., Chowdhury, M.B., Riyadh, S.M.S., Hossain, T. et al. A mediator-less double chambered microbial fuel cell using sewerage sludge with output of relatively higher voltage and higher efficiency, Bioresearch Communications, 2017, 03, 422-429.

Book/ Book Chapter

  • 1. Hossain, T., Ahmed, S., Syfuddin, H. M., & Sina, A. A. I. (2019). 2D Nanomaterials for Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of DNA Methylation. In Biomedical Applications of Graphene and 2D Nanomaterials (pp. 235-247). Elsevier.

Teaching

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Metabolism
  • Molecular Biology
  • Programming for Bioinformatics
  • Immunology
  • Chemistry of Natural Products

Awards & Recognition

  • National Science & Technology Fellowship 2017 for carrying out MS Thesis research.
  • Distinction award for outstanding results in MS.
  • Runners-up in Scientific Poster Category at 5th Biochemistry Olympiad held in University of Dhaka in 2014.
  • Champion in Olympiad on Alternative & Renewable Energy arranged by KAIZEN SUST in 2014.