Researcher profile

Dr. Shahina Akter

Dr. Shahina Akter is a Principal Scientific Officer, at Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka, Bangladesh. She obtained her Ph.D degree from the Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka under the supervision of Professor Chowdhury Rafiqul Ahsan, Ph.D. Her Ph.D. title was “ Development of an Edible Vaccine against Pneumococcal disease using Transgenic plant”. She had the opportunity to work under the supervision of Dr. Gowda Ramanjini, Professor of Plant Biotechnology at UAS Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She has attended many training programs nationally and internationally. She got a training program on “Bioinformatics Training Course” at Senate Building, University of London, UK. She attended a training program on Molecular Biotechnology, jointly organized by the University of Texas at Austin the City University of New York, USA, and the Department of Botany, University of Dhaka. She has achieved RTFDCS fellowship, given by CCSTDS, Chennai, India, and the Bangabandhu Fellowship on Science and Technology. Dr. Shahina has more than 19 years of research experience on Biotechnology, Genomics, and Bioinformatics (Human Whole Genome, Metagenomics, Covid-19 whole genome sequencing), Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Cytogenetics. She has supervised 10 Masters thesis research and she has published 55 scientific articles in many national and international journals of repute. Mobile: +8801724096941; Email: shupty2010@gmail.com