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Personal/Contact Address
Academic Qualifications
Job Experience
Academic Award
Membership
List of Publications
Conference proceedings

Personal/Contact Address
Lecturer
Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
University of Dhaka
Dhaka-1000
Bangladesh
Phone: 880-2-9661920-73 Ext. 6540
Fax: 880-2-8615583
E-mail: shishir74@hotmail.com
shishir_ahsan@yahoo.co.in

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Academic Qualifications
Ph. D. Department of Tumor Virology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan. March 2005. Grade: Excellent.
Thesis title: Establishment of EBV-BAC system and generating LMP1 knockout recombinant to determine its function in virus life cycle.

M. Sc. (Thesis group) Department of Microbiology, Dhaka University. 1995 (held in 1998). Class: First class.
Thesis title: Studies on the Hemagglutinins mediating intestinal adherence of Vibrio cholerae 0139 Bengal.

B. Sc. (Hons.) Department of Microbiology, Dhaka University. 1994 (held in 1996). Class: First class.

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Job Experience
Lecturer: Department of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, from 10 August 2005 to date.

Teaching Assistant: Lab. of Tumor Virology, Inst. for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, from April 2001 to March 2005.

Research Assistant: Lab. of Tumor Virology, Inst. for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, from June 2002 to March 2003 and October 2003 to March 2004.

Research Assistant: Encyclopedia Bangladesh Project (Biological field), organized by Asiatic Society, Bangladesh, from February to April 1999.

Microbiologist: Greenland Pharmaceutical Company, Tongi, Gazipur, from May to August 1999.

Hygiene Officer: Biman Flight Catering Centre (BFCC), Zia International Airport, Dhaka September 1999-January 2000.

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Academic Award and Scholarships
Japan Government (Monbukagakusho) scholarship.
Post graduate Bangladesh Government scholarship.
Manoob Sahajhuo Sangstha (MASAS) award.

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Membership
Member of International EBV Association.
Life member of Graduate Microbiology Association (GMA), Bangladesh.
Member of Bangladesh Society of Microbiology (BSM).
Member of Dhaka University Microbiology Alumni Association (DUMMA).

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List of Publications

1. Production of high-titer EBV recombinants derived from Akata cells using a bacterial artificial chromosome system. T. Kanda, Yajima. M., Ahsan N., Tanaka M., Takada K. 2004. J. Virology. 78: 7004-15.

2. Viral transforming protein LMP1 plays a critical role in virus production. Nazmul Ahsan., Kanda T. Nagashima K., Takada. K. 2005. J. Virology. 79: 4415-4424.

3. Association between decision making autonomy and knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention among ever-married women in Bangladesh. Aklimunnessa Khondoker, M.M.H. Khan, Nazmul Ahsan, M. Fazley Elahi Chowdhury and M. Kabir. 2006. J. Med. Sci. In press.

4. Characterization of human +ve blood group-specific hemagglutination mediating intestinal adherence of Vibrio cholerae 0139 Bengal. Nazmul Ahsan, S. M. Mostafa Kamal, Nur-A-Hasan, S. A. M. Khairul Bashar, Shin-ichi Miyoshi, Munirul Alam. 2005. Canadian J. Microbiology. Submitted.

Report in Nature:

Nature Review in Microbiology. Volume 3: 366 May 2005 has published a complementary report of my work as Research Highlights.

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Conference proceedings
1. Latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) plays an important role in virus production. Nazmul Ahsan, Kanda T and Takada K. 21st Symposium-Epstein-Barr Virus and Cancer. Hokkaido, Japan. July, 2004.

2. Viral transforming protein LMP-1 plays a critical role in virus production. Nazmul Ahsan, Kanda T. and Takada K. 11th International Symposium on Epstein-Barr virus and Associated Diseases. Regenburg, Germany. September 2004.

3. Production of high titer EBV recombinants using a Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes system in Akata cell. Teru Kanda, Yajima M., Ahsan N. and Takada K. 11th International Symposium on Epstein-Barr virus and Associated Diseases. Regenburg, Germany. September 2004.

4. EBV lytic cycle associated LMP1 expression is critical for virus production. Nazmul Ahsan, Kanda T. and Takada K. COE Symposium on Advance Life Science and the base of Bioscience and Nanotechnology. Hokkaido, Japan. November 2004.

5. Transenic insertion into the genome of Akata strain EBV by in vitro ligation. Teru Kanda, Yajima M., Ahsan N., Tanaka M. and Takada K. Annual conference of Japanese society of Virology. Nagoa, Japan. December 2004.
6. Hemagglutinins mediating intestinal adherence of Vibrio cholerae 0139 Bengal. Nazmul Ahsan and Alam M. 16th Annual Conference Bangladesh Society of Microbiology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. December 1998.

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