Dr. Md. Munir Hossain
Professor, Department of Animal Breeding & Genetics,
Bangladesh Agricultural University
mmhossain@bau.edu.bd
Member since 2021

Short Biography

Professor Dr. Md. Munir Hossain has been serving as a faculty in the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, BAU since 2004 with the major responsibility of teaching and research in the field of Animal Genetics and Reproductive Biotechnologies. He has obtained his PhD from University of Bonn, Germany in the field of Animal Genomics and Reproductive Biotechnologies.

Discovery and understanding the regulation of non-coding genes/RNAs particularly microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs in reproduction and diseases was the key focus area of his research. He was the first to come up with the discovery of microRNAs in cattle through cloning, construction of small RNAs library and sequencing in 2008. He has elucidated some microRNAs mediating key regulatory mechanisms in mammalian oocyte maturation, fertilization, early embryonic development, abnormal placentogenesis in cloned cows as well as in reproductive disorder (PCOS). Subsequently, he has conducted postdoctoral research in Sanford Research Center, University of South Dakota, USA (2013-2015). During Post-doctoral research, he has studied non-coding RNAs mediated regulation of human diabetes (including T1D) and identified several miRNAs and long non-coding RNAs as important for human pancreatic beta cell function and biomarker for early detection of beta cell death from auto autoimmunity. He has attended several international conferences as invited speaker and actively engaged with several scientific communities/societies as executive member and international journals as editorial member. Dr. MM Hossain has received several research grants and supervises graduate and postgraduate students’ research in the field of genetics and reproductive biotechnologies. As an expert with substantial experience on genomic analysis and advanced reproductive biotechnologies including in vitro embryo production, cloning and genetic manipulation in cattle in vitro, currently, he is trying to apply the experience on genetic engineering and modern biotechnologies through appropriate research to improve the productivity of animal genetic resources of Bangladesh.

Selected Publications

  1. Gebremedhn, S.; Ali, A.; Hossain, M., et al. (2021) Int. J. Mol. Sci. 22, 938.
  2. Regan Roat, Md Munir Hossain, et al. (2018). Xenotransplantation. 2018; e12474.
  3. Hossain, M., Roat, et al. (2018) Protocol Exchange. Doi:10.1038/protex.2018.045
  4. Roat R, Hossain MM, et al. (2016). Am J Transplant. 2016 Oct 3. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14073.
  5. Md Munir Hossain, Dawit Tesfaye, et al. (2014). BMC Genomics, 15:43.