Dr. Muktadir Shahid Hossain | North South University

Full-Time Faculty
Professor

Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Tokyo, Japan

Phone: +880-2-55668200 Ext: 1919
Email: muktadir.hossain01@northsouth.edu
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Curriculum Vitae

Muktadir Shahid Hossain is a Professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology of NSU. He joined the department in January 2017.

Muktadir S. Hossain completed his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 2004 where he showed that quiescent (G₀) phase cells of multicellular eukaryotes like mammals and insects require DNA topoisomeras II enzymes for the re-entry into the cell cycle, whereas the unicellular eukaryotes like yeast do not. The title of his Ph.D. dissertation is "Requirement for DNA topoisomerase II during the G0-to-S phase transition in mammalian and insect cells". At the University of Tokyo as a Ph.D. student, he participated in the isolation of temperature-sensitive mutants of the pathogenic bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus. At the University of Tokyo as a Ph.D. student, he also showed that the DNA double-strand break-inducing drugs that are used to treat cancer can induce myogenic differentiation in cultured cells of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. At the University of Tokyo as a Research Assistant, he established the larvae of the silk moth, Bombyx mori as an animal model to study purified toxins from pathogenic bacteria like S. aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa by injection. He joined the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, USA as a post-doctoral fellow where he identified certain transcription factors that regulate the initiation of embryonic muscle differentiation in D. melanogaster. Then, he joined the Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, China as a Senior Research Fellow to show that the evolutionarily conserved transcription factor, FoxO is required for the activation of ecdysone signaling during starvation for better survival of larvae of both B. mori and D. melanogaster. In Andong National University, South Korea, he showed as a Visiting Fellow along with other researchers that the ICA69 gene is a cytosolic phospholipase A₂ that participates in the immunity of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua, an important pest insect. As a Research Professor at Chonbuk National University, South Korea, he introduced the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique in the pest insect-killing fungus, Beauveria bassiana which is useful not only to identify the molecular mechanism of pathogenicity of B. bassiana towards insect pests by gene knock-out but also to improve the pathogenicity of the fungus by overexpressing virulence genes. Since B. bassiana is harmless to humans but can kill pest insects efficiently, it can be used in the context of Bangladesh where the use of chemical pesticides is widespread to control insect pests to increase crop production in an environmentally friendly way. He is also trying to identify novel anticancer drugs from biological extracts by using silkworm larvae as a cancer model via knocking out tumor-suppressor genes using the CRISPR-Cas9 technology.

List of Publications as an NSU employee:

1. Ahad I, Hossain MM, Uddin MA, Bari ML, Hossain MS. (2020) Therapeutic effect of antibiotics against Escherichia coli O157:H7 in silk moth larvae animal model. Curr Microbiol 77(9):2172-2180. doi: 10.1007/s00284-020-02023-1. PMID: 32417963.

2. Tuba T, Chowdhury FR, Hossain T, Farzana M, Ahad I, Hossain MM, Hossain MI, Saleh NUA, Nawaar N, Uddin MA, Bari ML, Hossain MS. (2022) Klebsiella pneumoniae pathogenicity in silk moth larvae infection model. FEMS Microbiol Lett 368(21-24):fnab159. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnab159. PMID: 34931660.

3. Hossain MI, Saleh NUA, Numan A, Hossain MM, Uddin MA, Hossain MS. (2023) Bombyx mori as a model for Niallia circulans pathogenicity. Drug Discov Ther 17(1):18-25. doi: 10.5582/ddt.2022.01112. PMID: 36843035.

List of Conference Presentations as an NSU employee:

1. Invited oral speaker in the "4th International Caparica Conference in Antibiotic Resistance 2021" (13th to 17th June, 2021, Virtual Event). Title of the talk: Therapeutic effect of antibiotics against Escherichia coli O157:H7 in silk moth larvae animal model.

2. Invited oral speaker in the "International Conference & Expo on Applied Microbiology 2022" (17th to 18th June, 2022, Virtual Event). Title of the talk: Isolation of a mosquito-larvicidal strain of Providencia vermicola.

Previous Publications:

Hossain MS, Uddin MA, Gomosta AR, Hossain MA (2000) Effect of ethylene on some submergence-tolerant and susceptible rice (Oryza sativa) varieties of Bangladesh. Bangladesh J Biochem 6:1-17.
Hossain MS, Akimitsu N, Takaki T, Hirai H, Sekimizu K (2002) ICRF-193, a catalytic inhibitor of DNA topoisomerase II, inhibits re-entry into the cell division cycle from quiescent state in mammalian cells. Genes Cells 7(3):285-294.
Kaito C, Kurokawa K, Hossain MS, Akimitsu N, Sekimizu K (2002) Isolation and characterization of temperature-sensitive mutants of the Staphylococcus aureus dnaC FEMS Microbiol Lett 210(1):157-164.
Akimitsu N, Adachi N, Hirai H, Hossain MS, Hamamoto H, Kobayashi M, Aratani Y, Koyama H, Sekimizu K (2003) Enforced cytokinesis without complete nuclear division in embryonic cells depleting the activity of DNA topoisomerase IIα. Genes Cells 8(4):393-402.
Hossain MS, Akimitsu N, Kurokawa K, Sekimizu K (2003) Myogenic differentiation of Drosophila Schneider cells by DNA double-strand break-inducing drugs. Differentiation 71(4-5):271-280.
Hossain MS, Kurokawa K, Akimitsu N, Sekimizu K (2004) DNA topoisomerase II is required for the G0-to-S phase transition in Drosophila Schneider cells, but not in yeast. Genes Cells 9(10):905-917.
Hossain MS, Kurokawa K, Sekimizu K (2005) Induction of fusion-competent myoblast-specific gene expression during myogenic differentiation of Drosophila Schneider cells by DNA double-strand breaks or replication inhibition. Biochim Biophys Acta 1743(1-2):176-186.
Hossain MS, Hamamoto H, Matsumoto Y, Razanajatovo IM, Larranaga J, Kaito C, Kasuga H, Sekimizu K (2006) Use of silkworm larvae to study pathogenic bacterial toxins. J Biochem 143(3):439-444.
Hossain MS, Liu Y, Zhou S, Li K, Tian L, Li S (2013) 20-Hydroxyecdysone-induced transcriptional activity of FoxO upregulates brummer and acid lipase-1 and promotes lipolysis in Bombyx fat body. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 43(9):829-838.
Li K, Guo E, Hossain MS, Li Q, Cao Y, Tian L, Deng X, Li S. (2015) Bombyx E75 isoforms display stage- and tissue-specific responses to 20-hydroxyecdysone. Sci Rep 5:12114.
Lee SJ, Kim S, Kim JC, Lee MR, Hossain MS, Shin TS, Kim TH, Kim JS (2017) Entomopathogenic Beauveria bassiana granules to control soil-dwelling stage of western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis (Thysanoptera:Thripidae). Biocontrol 62:639-648.
Lee SJ, Yang YT, Kim S, Lee MR, Kim JC, Park SE, Hossain MS, Shin TY, Nai YS, Kim JS. (2019) Transcriptional response of bean bug (Riptortus pedestris) upon infection with entomopathogenic fungus, Beauveria bassiana JEF-007. Pest Manag Sci 75(2):333-345.

Pre-doctoral and doctoral course scholarships (Monbusho) from the Ministry of Education, Sports, and Culture of the Government of Japan.
Fogarty Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) as a Visiting Fellow from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA.

Degree	Year	Institute	Subject	Grade/Class/ Division
Ph.D.	2004	University of Tokyo, Japan	Pharmaceutical Biology	Grade A
M.Sc.	2000	University of Dhaka, Bangladesh	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	First Class First
B.Sc.	1998	University of Dhaka, Bangladesh	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	First Class First
Higher Secondary Certificate	1993	Notre Dame College, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Science	First Division with STAR
Secondary School Certificate	1991	Motijheel Govt. Boys’ High School, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Science	First Division with STAR

2016 (June-December): Research Professor in the lab of Prof. Jae-Su Kim of the Department of Agricultural Biology, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.

2016 (January-April): Visiting Fellow in the lab of Prof. Yonggyun Kim of the Department of Bioresource Sciences, Andong National University, Andong, South Korea.

2011-2015: Senior Research Fellow in the lab of Prof. Sheng Li of Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

2005-2008: Fogarty Cancer Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Bruce M. Paterson, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

2004-2005: Research Assistant in the lab of Prof. Kazuhisa Sekimizu, Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.

2001-2004: Doctoral course student in the lab of Prof. Kazuhisa Sekimizu, Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.

2000-2001: Pre-doctoral course student in the lab of Prof. Kazuhisa Sekimizu, Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.

2000: Research Assistant in the lab of Prof. M. Anwar Hossain, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

BIO201 (Introduction to Biochemistry & Biotechnology)

CHE202 (Bio-organic Chemistry)

BBT312 (Molecular Biology)

BBT695 (Pharmaceutical Biotechnology)

Dr. Hossain in interested in using silkworm larvae as an animal model to study pathogenicity of bacteria isolated in Bangladesh. He is interested to isolate novel antibiotics that will be useful against multidrug-resistant bacteria using silkworm-bacteria infection model. Dr. Hossain is interested in isolating entomopathogenic (insect-killing) organisms like fungi, nematode, bacteria as environmentally-friendly biocontrol agents to control pest insects like mosquitoes, fall armyworm etc. Dr. Hossain is interested in using the CRISPR-Cas9 technology for gene-targeting in silkworm larvae to induce cancerous growth to identify biological extracts that exhibit anticancer effects. Dr. Hossain also studies the role of hormonal signaling in response to starvation in insects and mammals.