Dr. Md Shariful Islam
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Physics,
North South University, Dhaka
shariful.islam10@northsouth.edu
Member since 2020

Short Biography

Dr. Islam completed his Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Physics from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Later on, he moved to Netherlands to complete his second Master’s in Bio-Physics. In 2012, Dr. Islam got prestigious Marie Curie fellowship and finished his PhD on “Comprehensive proteome and phosphoproteome analysis of human LRRK2 R1441C Drosophila model of Parkinson’s disease” in Max Plank Institute for lung and heart, Bad Nauheim, Germany.

In September 2015, Dr. Islam joined in Moore’s laboratory, Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan to conduct his post-doctoral studies and awarded American Parkinson’s Disease Association (APDA) post-doctoral fellowship in 2017. In 2019, Dr. Islam came back to Bangladesh and joined as an assistant professor at North South University, Dhaka Bangladesh. Besides teaching at the University, he is continuing his research to explore different diseases and their progression dynamics by using mass spectrometry based proteomics, mathematical modeling and machine learning approach. During the pandemic period, he worked with Bangladesh Government to estimate the COVID-19 diffusion in the country and published a couple of articles that shed light on the pandemic situation in Bangladesh.

Selected Publications

  1. Nolte, Hendrik, Soraya Hölper, Michael P. Housley, Shariful Islam, Tanja Piller, Anne Konzer, Didier YR Stainier, Thomas Braun, and Marcus Krüger. “Dynamics of zebrafish fin regeneration using a pulsed SILAC approach.” Proteomics 15, no. 4 (2015): 739-751.
  2. Islam, Shariful, Hendrik Nolte, Wright Jacob, Anna B. Ziegler, Stefanie Pütz, Yael Grosjean, Darren J. Moore et al. “Human R1441C LRRK2 regulates the synaptic vesicle proteome and phosphoproteome in a Drosophila model of Parkinson’s disease. ” Human Molecular Genetics (2016): ddw352.
  3. Islam, Md Shariful, and Darren J. Moore. “Mechanisms of LRRK2-dependent neurodegeneration: role of enzymatic activity and protein aggregation.” Biochemical Society Transactions 45.1 (2017): 163-172.
  4. Nguyen, An Phu Tran, Guillaume Daniel, Pamela Valdés, Md Shariful Islam, Bernard L. Schneider, and Darren J. Moore. “G2019S LRRK2 enhances the neuronal transmission of tau in the mouse brain.” Human Molecular Genetics (2017).

Williams E, Islam S et. al “ Parkin mediates the ubiquitination of VPS35 and modulates retromer-dependent endosomal sorting” Human Molecular Genetics (2018)