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Personal/Contact Address
Education
Job Experience
Research Experience
Distinctions, Research Grants
List of Important Publications
Personal/Contact Address
Zeba Islam Seraj
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka,
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.
Phone: 880-2-8614708, 9661921-59 extn 6106, Fax: 880-2-8615583/9127051
E-mail: zeraj@e-fsbd.net
Education
1. Post Doctoral in Biochemistry (1986-1987). Exploration of the diversity of protein coding sequences in RNA from bovine retina in the laboratory of Prof. B.E.H. Madden, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Liverpool, U.K.
2. Ph. D. in Biochemistry (1982-1986). Worked on Isolation and characterization of thecore proteins of rat liver heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) particles. Under supervision of Dr. J.T. Knowler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Glasgow, U.K.
3. Master of Science in Biochemistry (1982). From the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Thesis supervision: Prof. Kamal Uddin Ahmed. Secured First Class Third position.
4. Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry (1980).From the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Secured First Class First position
Job Experience
1. Visiting scientist : Position for two months offered by IRRI to work on transformation and marker-aided selection in rice foe salinity tolerance. Jan to March 1998.
2. Professor :In the Department of Biochemistry, University of Dhaka, since December 1997 to date. Have been teaching molecular biology to under graduate students and molecular biology and plant biotechnology to master’s students. Have supervised M.Sc thesis of more than 20 students/research associates in plant biotechnology and plant molecular biology.
3. Associate Professor : in the same department from December 1991 till December 1997, working as above.
4. Assistant Professor : in the same department since 1988 working as described above.
5. Principal Investigator: Have supervised work on plant biotechnology funded by foreign and local grants since 1991.
6. Participant: USDA sponsored Two-week Cochran Fellowship program in USA on current status of crop transformation, IPR and Biosafety issues, August 15th to September 3, 2001.
7. Participant: IRRI-sponsored ARBN workshop on ‘Proteomic analysis of abiotic stress responsiveness of rice’ held in the Agricultural Biotechnology Institure of Iran (ABRII)
From 28th April -9th May, 2001.
8. Organiser: International Practical Workshop on ‘Novel DNA markers for crop improvement’, sponsored by ICGEB and jointly organized by the Department of Botany and Biochemistry, University of Dhaka 4-13th November, 2001.
Research Experience
Experience in tissue culture of rice and jute and their transformation. Have handled callus culture, anther culture and wide hybridization in rice, suspension culture in rice and jute. Have handled microorganisms and radioactive materials. Experience with most protein purification techniques including gel filtration, ion exchange, preparative gel electrophoresis, 2-dimensional gels immunochemical characterization. Also experience in isolation and in vitro translation of RNA, hybridization, Westerns, Northern, Southern. Also experience in non-radioactive labeling and hybridization and use of PCR. Recent experiences at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) include cloning, subcloning and transformation in
E.coli and Agrobacterium.
Distinctions, Research Grants
Awarded 1992 Bangladesh Association for Advancement of Science (BAAS) citation for best research presentation (under 35 years of age) at the 17th Annual Bangladesh Science Conference.
Awarded cash prize for best oral presentation in the Tenth Asian Symposium on Medicinal Plants, Spices and other natural products, 18-23rd November, 2000, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Research grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, USA from 1990 to date on Rice Biotechnolgy for conferring salinity tolerance. Work has included checking regeneration and transformation response of BRRI-released rice varieties and Agrobacterium mediated transformation of some varieties. Two Ph.D. students registered at Dhaka University under this program are now working at IRRI to do higher research on genes conferring salinity tolerance.
Research grants from Ministry of S & T, International Jute Organization, UK DFID and substantial research grant from US department of Agriculture (upto 2004) on Marker aided selection for salinity tolerance in rice.
List of Important Publications
1. Seraj ZI and Salam MA (2000). Growing rice in saline soils: biotechnological
approaches for Bangladesh. Asia-Pacific Tech Monitor 17 (6): 55-59.
2. Sarker RH, Islam MN, Islam A and Seraj ZI (2000).
Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of peanut (Arachis hypogea L.).
Plant Tiss. Cult. 10: 137-142.
3. Hossain MB, Khan MH, Choudhury EH, Zohra FT, Seraj ZI, Khan H and Sarker RH
(1999).
Transformation of Jute (Corchorus capsularis L. vars. CVL-1 and D-154) with the plasmids pCAMBIA 1201, pBI121 and pBINCHI.11 and high efficiencuy marker gene insertion in explants. In Proc. of the workshop on Application of Biotechnology in the Improvement of Jute, Kenaf and Allied Fibers-PhaseII, Haikou, China, 15-17 December. Intl. Jute Organ. publication, pp28-38
4. Haseena Khan, Zeba I. Seraj, Rakha Hari Sarker, Lais Khandekar, Selina Begum,
Nazir Hossain, K. Mohammad Ali, M. Bakhtiar Hossain, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Samiul
Haque and Shamim Hossain (2000)
Potential Improvement of Jute by Biotechnological Approaches. In Proc. of the
workshop on Application of Biotechnology in the Improvement of Jute, Kenaf and
Allied Fibers-PhaseII, Beijing, China, Aug. 10-12, 2000,pp 7-18.
5. Islam MR, Khan MH, Zohra FT, Hossain MR & Seraj ZI (1999).
Stable transformation of jute (Corchorus capsularis L. CVL-1) calli and high efficiency marker gene insertion in explants.
Plant Tiss. Cult. 9: 53-61.
6. Faruque M.O, Farzana T. Seraj ZI, Sarker R H and Khatun A A (1998).
Variation in green plant regeneratin response from anthers of indica rice and their
hybrids with japonica cv. Taipei 309. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 54:
191-195.
7. Seraj Z I, Islam Z, Faruque M O, Devi T and Ahmed S. (1997).
Identification of the regeneration potential of embryo derived calluses from various
Indica rice varieties.
Plant Cell, Tissue,Organ Culture 48: 9-13.
9. Rasul NM, Ali KM, Islam R and Seraj Z I, (1997).
Transformation of an Indica Rice Cultivar Binnatoa with Agrobacterium
tumefaciens.
Plant Tissue Cult. 7:71-80. (ISSN 1018-8029)
10. Seraj Z I , Faruque M O, Hossain K G,Sarker R H, Devi T. Islam Z and Islam A S
(1996). Attempted Wide Hybridization between Oryza sativa L and Porteresia
coarctata T.
International Rice Research Notes 21 (mos. 2-3), 35.
11. Seraj Z I , Mahmood S, FarzanaM and Amara U.(1996).
Detection of single copy homologous genomic DNA by the non radioactive enhanced
Chemiluminescence method.
Bangladesh J. of Biochem 2:1-7 (ISSN 1024-3445)
12. Keya C., Seraj Z I, and Mahmood S (1999)
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) between Porteresia coarctata
and traditional Salt Tolerant rice varieties (Oryza sativa).
Suppl. Issue Dhaka University J. of Biological Sciences 8:17-24.
13. Talukder A H, Hossain GMF, Akhter M, Islam Z, Seraj Z I, and Hossain M A
(1995). Salinity Tolerance Indexof six Oryza sativa L. Indica land races of
Bangladesh. Dhaka University J. of Biol. Sciences 4 : 81-83 (ISSN 1021-2480)
14. Sarker R H, Samad M A, Seraj Z I, , Hoque M I and Islam A S (1993).
Post pollination development of pollen tube following intergeneric cross, P. coarctata x O.sativa var BR-9 with fluorescent microscopy.
Euphytica 69 : 129-134
15. Seraj Z I, , Sarker A B and Islam A S (1992).
Plant regeneration in a jute species (C. capsularis) andits possible relationship with glyoxalase.
Plant Cell Reports 12 : 29-33.
16. Islam A S, Haque M M, Hoque M I and Seraj Z I, (1992)
Tissue Culture and micropropagation of jute (Corchorus spp.).
In Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry Vol. 19 High tech and
Micropropation III. Ed. YPS Bagaj. Springer Veriag,Berlin, Heidelberg PP
505-526.
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