Dr. Md. Fakruddin
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology,
North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
md.fakruddin@northsouth.edu

Member since 2021

Short Biography

Dr. Md. Fakruddin joined North South University in June 2021 with a wealth of knowledge and research experience in molecular microbiology, industrial biotechnology, bioinformatics and stem cell biology. Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology under the School of Health & Life Sciences.

Dr. Fakruddin completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. in Microbiology from the University of Dhaka and received Dean’s award from the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka. He joined Industrial Microbiology Laboratory, Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST), Bangladesh Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) as Scientific Officer in 2009. Dr. Fakruddin received his Ph.D. degree from Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University in Molecular Physiology in 2017. He then moved to the International Research Center for Medical Sciences (IRCMS), Kumamoto University for postdoctoral study on mitochondria-inflammation-microbiome interaction in normal and stressed hematopoiesis and was awarded prestigious JSPS (Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences) post-doctoral fellowship in 2018. Dr. Fakruddin has coauthored numerous, high impact journal publications & conference articles and received several awards and grants from various funding agencies both from home and abroad.

Selected Publications

  1. Yoshikazu Hayashi, Maiko Sezaki, Gaku Nakato, Subinoy Biswas, Tatsuya Morishima, Md. Fakruddin, Jieun Moon, Soyeon Ahn, Pilhan Kim, Yuji Miyamoto, Hideo Baba, Shiniji Fukuda, Hitoshi Takizawa. Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells Integrate Bacteroides-derived Innate Immune Signals to Promote Gut Tissue Repair. bioRxiv 2021.10.05.463122.
  2. Nafisa Azmuda, Md. Fakruddin, Sirajul Islam Khan, Nils Kare Birkeland. Bacterial community profiling of tropical freshwaters in Bangladesh. Frontiers in Public Health. 7:115., 2019.
  3. Fakruddin, Fan-Yan Wei, Takeo Suzuki, Kana Asano, Takashi Kaieda, Akiko Omori, Ryoma Izumi, Atsushi Fujimura, Taku Kaitsuka, Keishi Miyata, Kimi Araki, Yuichi Oike, Luca Scorrano, Tsutomu Suzuki, Kazuhito Tomizawa. Defective Mitochondrial tRNA Taurine Modification Activates Global Proteostress and Leads to Mitochondrial Disease. Cell Reports. 22: 482-496, 2018.
  4. Fakruddin, Fan-Yan Wei, Shohei Emura, Shigeru Matsuda, Takehiro Yasukawa, Dongchon Kang, Kazuhito Tomizawa. Cdk5rap1-mediated 2-methylthio-N6-isopentenyladenosine modification is absent from nuclear-derived RNA species. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(20): 11954-11961, 2017.

Md. Fakruddin, Md. Nur Hossain, Monzur Morshed Ahmed. Evaluation of microplate immunocapture method for detection of Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella Typhi and Shigella flexneri from food. BMC Microbiology 17: 189, 2017.