Scientific Community Leadership and Activities

Last Updated: 23 Feb 2025

Specialist External Member
Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Sylhet Agricultural University

Community Leadership

• Chair, 19th ISCB Student Council Symposium (SCS2023) at Lyon, France

• Chair, 1st ISCB RSG Bangladesh CompBio Symposium 2023

• Program Committee Chair, 1st Asian Student Council Symposium 2022

• Founder, Advisor and Former President, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Regional Student Group – Bangladesh

• Former Vice President (International Relations), Network of Young Biotechnologists of Bangladesh

• Former Member of Editorial Panel (Publications) at Cancer Care and Research Trust

• Former Editor in Chief of SUSTNews24.com

Scientific Membership

• Student Member, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), Membership ID - 34434

• Member, American Society of Microbiology (ASM), Membership ID - 54481753

Judging committee Member

• 11th & 10th ISCB Student Wikipedia Competition

Invited speaker/Trainer in many events/symposiums/workshops/webinars/talks by-

• Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) (May '23)

• BSMRSTU Research and Higher Studies Society (May '23)

• Darwin Regional Conference (Feb '23)

• STEM Community IUB (Dec ’22)

• Chittagong University Research and Higher Study Society (Jun ’22)

• ISCB RSG Bangladesh (Aug ’20, Oct ’22, Feb '25) 

• BioTED (May & Jul '20) 

• Community of Biotechnology (Dec '19)

Organized many related in-person and online events including-

• 19th ISCB Student Council Symposium (SCS2023) at Lyon, France (Hybrid)

• 1st ISCB RSG Bangladesh CompBio Symposium 2023 (In Person)

• 1st Asian Student Council Symposium 2022 (Online)

• 5th National Young Biotechnologists Congress 2020 (In Person)

• Webinar Series: Presentation of research work related to Computational Biology in the native language (Bangla)

• Introduction to Machine Learning for Biologists (online)

• Introduction to Bash Shell Scripting (online)

• Goals and Prospects of ISCB RSG Bangladesh (online)

Public Awareness - Created and shared many info graphs, videos and written content on COVID-19, Dengue and other Scientific topics

Acknowledged by - Nextstrain (bug report in Nextclade version 0.10.1) & AntiFam Database (a large number of new families added)

Glimpse of Scientific Capacity Building Activities

Tutorial on Alphafold at 2nd ISCB RSG Bangladesh CompBio Symposium 2025 at Dhaka University

Chairing 19th ISCB Student Council Symposium 2023 at Lyon, Fance

Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology hands-on training at the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)

Chairing 1st ISCB RSG Bangladesh CompBio Symposium 2023 

A seminar on "Application of NGS & SARS-CoV-2 Bioinformatics" at BCSIR Chattogram Laboratories

A Seminar on "Genomics & Bioinformatics for Research and Higher Study" at the University of Chittagong

Session on "How to write a Research Proposal" by BSMRSTU Research and Higher Studies Society