Dr. Md. Nashir Uddin

Experience

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  Tsukuba International Academy

  Sept 2014 - Mar 2016

  English Teacher

  I taught general communicative English, Business Presentation & TOEC preparation to the Japanese Business owner and students

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  Japan International Research Center For Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS)

  Dec 2015 - Jul 2016

  Research Assistant

  I worked on a project on High-density genetic map construction and QTL analysis for yield component traits in rice recombinant inbreed lines (RILs, YTH183/IR64) using SNP & SSR markers.My tasks involved from sample preparation, DNA extraction, genotyping using SSR markers, arranged the SNP genotyped data, and finally QTL analysis

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  GFF Holdings (BD) Ltd.

  Dec 2016 - Dec 2021

  1. A business initiative that supports farmers to grow safe and healthy agricultural products for the local and international consumers. Lead the team of a Japan- Bangladesh Agribusiness initiative for Inbreed & Hybrid seed breeding, trial, selection and marketing

  • Business Owner

    Dec 2016 - Dec 2021

  • C.E.O

    Dec 2016 - Dec 2021
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  North South University

  Jan 2017 - Dec 2021

  Assistant Professor

  Taught a total of four years (eleven semesters and 87 credit hours) of two courses such as Introductory Biostatistics (BBT203/230 for undergraduate and BBT685 in Master’s level) and General Biology (BIO103) in both classroom and online.

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  International Journal of Sustainable Crop Production (IJSCP)

  Nov 2019 - Nov 2020

  Editorial Board member

  I am working as an editorial board member to publish high-quality peer-reviewed original articles in the International Journal of Sustainable crop Production.

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  The University of Tokyo

  Apr 2022 - now

  JSPS Postdoctoral research fellow

  Working to unravel the molecular mechanisms of nutritropism in rice lateral roots. Nutritropism helps plant to reorient their root growth towards higher nutrition. Characterization of CRISPR/Cas9 genome edited mutant lines of a hormone transporter gene was my first project, and methods such as nutrient treatments to in vitro and soil grown rice plant roots, root curvature analysis of stacked images (time lapse scanned images), staining and microscopic analysis of starch deposition in root tips, and genotyping by sequencing (GBS) were used. In my second project, I have been working to find the effect of light on root nutritropism and how phytochrome photoreceptors are involved in this process. Findings are now in the publication process. Through these studies I have gained a good set of skills on functional genomics, molecular and cell biology.Published abstract: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dohikouen/68/0/68_63_3/_article/-char/ja/ Show less