Professional Exprience of Dr. Ripa Akter Sharmin
Professional Experiences:
1. Teaching experience:
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December 2020 to Present
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Associate Professor; Department of Botany, Jagannath University, Dhaka-1100, Bangladesh.
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June 2014 - December 2020
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Assistant Professor; Department of Botany, Jagannath University, Dhaka-1100, Bangladesh.
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February 2011 – June 2014
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Lecturer; Department of Botany, Jagannath University,
Dhaka-1100, Bangladesh.
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Undergraduate Course Taught:
BOT 3105: Embryology of Angiosperms
BOT 4204: Biotechnology-II
Postgraduate Course Taught:
BOT 5104: Molecular Genetics
2. Research Affiliation:
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September 2016-August 2020
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Ph.D. Research Fellow
Crop Breeding and Molecular Genetics, College of Agriculture, National Center for Soybean Improvement/National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.
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April 2006 to October 2008
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M.S. Research Fellow
Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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February 2012 - present
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Research Supervision
Guided MS Thesis students on Plant Biotechnology.
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January 2022 - present
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Project/Research work
Exogenous application of melatonin under waterlogging stress in soybean at seedling stage, a project financed by Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project was approved in the years 2021-2022.
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Practical Training
1. Hands-on Training Workshop on the Application of Genetic Engineering in Crop Improvement, Trainer: Dr. V.S Reddy, ICGEB (New Delhi, India) - FAO – BARC Project: Assistance in the Formulation of Enabling Regulatory Measures for Research and Sustainable Application of Biotechnology, 19 July – 28 July, 2009.
2. Practical course on Development of Fungus-resistant Lentil and Chickpea with Special Emphasis on Biosafety Regulations held at the Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Organized by- Professor Dr. Hans Jörg Jacobsen (Leibniz University Hannover Germany), Dr. Heiko Kiesecker (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) and Prof, M. Imdadul Hoque (University of Dhaka), 13 - 15 May, 2007.
Research Skills and expertise:
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Plant Tissue culture
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Establishment of in vitro regeneration protocol for Rice, Chickpea, soybean and medicinal plants.
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Plant molecular Biology
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Genomic DNA and RNA isolation, PCR, Molecular cloning, Vector construction, and Expression Analysis.
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Genome Editing
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Improvement of soybean using CRISPR/CAS9.
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Genetic Transformation
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Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation of Rice, soybean and other legumes.
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Transcriptomics
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Differential Gene expression, GO, and KEGG pathway analysis etc. from RNA-Seq data.
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Plant Stress Physiology
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Morphological, Anatomical, Physiological and Biochemical analysis of plants under various abiotic stresses.
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Association mapping
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Population structure, linkage disequilibrium, Genome Wide Association Study (Mixed Linear Model -MLM and Multi-Locus Random SNP-Effect Mixed Linear Model- mrMLM), haplotype block analyses.
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Bioinformatics tools
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NCBI, EMBL, DDBJ, GENEVESTIGATOR, PIR, SWISS-PROT, PDB, BLAST, ENA, PHYRE, STRING, ORF Finder, UCSC Genome Browser, agriGO, network analyst etc.
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Programming Language
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R, SAS
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Software Analysis
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Bioedit, Bioxm, Biorender, Cytoscape, Editplus, Graph Pad, Haploview software, IBM SPSS, OriginPro, Mapman, MEGA, SnapGene Viewer, TASSEL etc.
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Memberships:
1) Member of Bangladesh Association for Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology (BAPTC & B).
2) Member of Bangladesh Botanical Society.
3) Member of Dhaka University Botany Alumni Association (DUBAA).
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