Faculty Profile

Dr S M Abu Sayem

Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801717082520
  • Email: asayem08@yahoo.com

Education

  • Ph. D. in Applied and Molecular Biology ( Università degli studi di napoli federico II, Italy)
  • M.S. in Microbiology (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
  • B.Sc. in Microbiology (University of Dhaka, bangladesh)

Research Interests

  • Prevention and control of biofilm
  • Increased production of biotechnologically important products for application in industries
  • Molecular characterization of multi-drug resistance among clinical isolates
  • Stress responses and genotypic diversity of probiotic lactic acid bacteria
  • Biogas production from waste materials using biofilm technology
  • Biodiesel production from microalgae using Municipal and Agro-industrial Solid Wastes
  • Bioethanol production from bacteria and fungi using cheap substrate

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Development of simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) technique for production of bioethanol from potato peel and rice straw
  • 2. Development of novel, antibiofilm and antivirulence approaches to combat against biofilm producing multi-drug resistant pathogenic microorganisms
  • 3. Enhanced production of biogas through enzymatic hydrolysis of dung and augmented household feedstock in two-stage bioreactor
  • 4. Evaluation of bioactive compounds for antivirulence potential to combat pathogenic bacteria
  • 5. Screening for novel environmental friendly anti-biofilm compounds from aquatic organisms
  • 6. Development of a sustainable biofilm mediated system for enhancement of biogas production using two-stage bioreactor with augmented dung feedstock
  • 7. Development of biofilm technology for the production of biogas from palm oil mill effluent
  • 8. Antitumor natural products and synthetic analogues
  • 9. Monitoring the stress response and survival of different lactic acid bacteria strains under abiotic stresses

External Affiliations

  • Post Doctoral research (Biotechnology), Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Malaysia

Journal Publications

  • 1. Optimization of production and partial characterization of cellulase and protease enzymes from Aeromonas hydrophila ASM-S32
  • 2. Antibiofilm Activity of Crude Cell Free Extract from Bacillus subtilis S01 against E. coli
  • 3. An Integrating Approach of Bacteriophage and Iron Antagonizing Molecule for the Eradication of Biofilm of E. coli Isolated from Clinical Samples in Sylhet City, Bangladesh
  • 4. Development of an effective biosorbent by fungal immobilization technique for removal of dyes
  • 5. Prevalence rate and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Salmonella spp. isolated from broiler chicken collected from different market areas of Sylhet region, Bangladesh
  • 6. Evaluation of Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern and Plasmid Isolation of Klebsiella Pneumoniae Isolates from Clinical Specimens in Sylhet City, Bangladesh
  • 7. Prevalence, antibiotic susceptibility profiles and ESBL production in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella oxytoca among hospitalized patients
  • 8. Phytoremediation and mathematical model for domestic wastewater by Chlorella vulgaris
  • 9. Effects of Azadirachta indica, Allium cepa and Ocimum tenuiflorum extracts on biofilm inhibition and degradation
  • 10. Prevalence and antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli from acute diarrheal pediatric patients in Bangladesh
  • 11. Production and partial characterization of extracellular amylase enzyme from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens P-001
  • 12. Optimization and partial characterization of culture conditions for the production of alkaline protease from Bacillus licheniformis P003
  • 13. Genotypic diversity of stress response in Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus paraplantarum and Lactobacillus pentosus
  • 14. Anti-biofilm activity of an exopolysaccharide from a sponge-associated strain of Bacillus licheniformis
  • 15. Bioactive Terpenes from Spongia officinalis
  • 16. Production and partial characterization of feather-degrading keratinolytic serine protease from Bacillus licheniformis MZK-3
  • 17. Effect of temperature, pH and metal ions on the activity and stability of alkaline protease from novel Bacillus licheniformis MZK03

Conference

  • 1. Enhancement of biogas production through co-digestion of cowdung and pretreated rice-straw using hydrolytic microbes
  • 2. Isolation and partial characterization of microalgae for biodiesel production

Teaching

  • GEB 127 (Basic Microbiology)
  • GEB 225 (Microbial genetics)
  • GEB 239 (Environmental Biotechnology)
  • GEB 319 (Techniques in Molecular Biology)
  • GEB 331 (Cell Signaling)
  • GEB 337 (Recombinant DNA Technology)
  • GEB 349 (Bioenergetics)
  • GEB 421 (Microbial Biotechnology)
  • GEB 433 (Protein and Enzyme Technology)
  • GEB 519 (Industrial Biotechnology)
  • GEB 545 (Molecular Biology of Diseases)