Biodiversity and evolution of protists, particularly ciliates
Microbial interactions and symbioses
Marine microbial ecology
Origin and evolution of eukaryotic cells
Molecular phylogenetics and species delimitation
Comparative genomics and transcriptomics
Genome evolution
Evolutionary cell biology
Mitochondrial biology and cellular resource allocation
Fieldwork (sample collection)
Single-cell isolation and culture
Microscopy (DIC, Fluorescent microscopy, Confocal microscopy)
Image analyses
Basic techniques in microbiology and molecular biology
Molecular cloning
CRISPR gene editing
Flow cytometry
Whole-genome amplification
scRNA-seq
Proteomics
NGS data analyses
Phylogeny
Postdoctoral Research Associate (March 2023 - Present)
Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, USA
Postdoctoral Scholar (June 2022 - February 2023)
Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, USA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (July 2020 - May 2022)
Department of Biological Science, Smith College, Massachusetts, USA.
Research Professor (June 2017 - May 2020)
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, South Korea.
Teaching Instructor (March 2017–June 2017)
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, South Korea.
Research Assistant (September 2011–February 2017)
Biodiversity Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Ulsan, South Korea.
2011 - 2017 (Degree awarded on 17th February, 2017)
Combined MS and Ph.D, CGPA: 4.27 out of 4.50
University of Ulsan, South Korea
2010 - 2011 (Degree awarded on 3rd November 2011)
CGPA: 3.71 out of 4.00
University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
2006 - 2010 (Degree awarded on 9th August, 2010)
CGPA: 3.65 out of 4.00
University of Chittagong, Bangladesh