March 1 -2023- till date: Professor, Department of Plant Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

September 1 -2010- February 29-2023: Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

Jan 20- 2022- June 30- 2026: Adjunct Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, College Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Aug 1- November 30-2019: Visiting Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, College Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

October 2- 2006-August 31-2010: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University Morioka, Iwate Japan

Aug 1- Aug 31-2009: Visiting Research Professor, Biology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Aug 1- Aug 31-2008: Vis

Plant molecular physiology, Plant molecular biology, Cell biology, Plant stress Biology, AI-driven Agriculture

FELLOWSHIPS

JSPS fellowship for postdoctoral research (Nov. 2001- Aug. 2003) from Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Japan

Grant in-aid for science research (Oct. 1997- Oct. 2001) from ministry of education, culture and science, Japan

Current research topics in the lab

Understanding the role of auxin in regulating temperature stress-mediated growth and development

Elucidating the regulatory/ molecular mechanism of auxinic herbicide-induced change in cytoskeletal structure and its impact on selective herbicidal action on monocots and dicots

Understanding the role of actin dynamicity in determining the plant's response to auxin and stress

Elucidating the molecular pathway of IBA response in plant development

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of arsenite, cadmium and cesium toxicity in plants to engineer hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation

(Selected Articles -since 2017)

1. Wu J, Li P, Zhu D, Ma H, Li M, Lai Y, Peng Y, Li H, Li S, Wei J, Bian X, Rahman A, Wu S (2024) Heat stress impairs floral meristem termination and fruit development by affecting the BR-SlCRCa cascade in tomato  Plant Biotechnology Journal 7: 1966-1980 doi: 10.1111/pbi.14317

2. Tamanna N, Mojumder A, Azim T, Iqbal MI, Alam MNU, Rahman, A, Seraj ZI (2024) Comparative metabolite profiling of salt sensitive Oryza sativa and the halophytic wild rice Oryza coarctata under salt stress. Plant-Environment Interactions. 5: 249-266. doi: 10.1002/pei3.10155

3. Wu J, Li P, Li M, Zhu D, Ma H, Xu H, Li S, Wei J , Bian X, Wang M, Lai Y, Peng Y, Li H, Rahman A, Wu S (2023) Heat stress impairs floral meristem termination and fruit development by affecting the BR-SlCRCa cascade in tomato  Plant Commmunications 5: 100790 doi: 10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100790 
***This article was selected as cover article for the issue.

4. Wu J, Sun W, Sun C, Xu C, Li S, Li P, Xu H, Zhu D, Li M , Yang L , Wei J , Hanzawa A , Tapati SJ, Uenoyama R , Miyazaki M , Rahman A*,Wu S* (2023) Cold stress induces malformed tomato fruits by breaking the feedback loops of stem cell regulation in floral meristem
New Phytologist 237: 2268-2283 doi: 10.1111/nph.18699
(Co-corresponding author) 

5. Rahman J, Sultana F, Fatima K, Hasan MM, Gani N, Hossain MS, Chowdhury, A K, Rahman, A (2022) Genetic diversity of field mustard (Brassica rapa L.) and their saturated and unsaturated fatty acids association. SABRAO J. Breed. Genet. 54: 249-266.

6.Numata T, Sugita K, Rahman AA, Rahman A* (2022) Actin isovariant ACT7 controls root meristem development in Arabidopsis through modulating auxin and ethylene responses 
Journal of Experimental Botany 73: 6255-6271 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac280

7.Sumaya P, Rahman A* (2021) Actin isovariant ACT7 modulates root thermomorphogenesis by altering intracellular auxin homeostasis. 
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22: 7749 ;doi: 10.3390/ijms22147749

8. Ashraf MA, Akihiro T, Ito K, Kumagai S, Sugita R, Tanoi K, and Rahman A* (2021) ATP Binding Cassette Proteins ABCG37 and ABCG33 function as potassium-independent cesium uptake carriers in Arabidopsis roots. 
Molecular Plant 14: 664-678; doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2021.02.002 
***This article got wide media coverage and was selected as spotlight article for the issue.

9. Rahman T, Shao M, Pahari S, Venglat P, Soolanayakanahally R, Qiu X, and Rahman A, Tanino K (2021) Dissecting the roles of cuticular wax in plant resistance to shoot dehydration and low-temperature stress in Arabidopsis. 
International Journal of Molecular Science 22: 1554; doi: 10.3390/ijms22041554

10. Aslam M, Sugita K, Qin Y, and Rahman A* (2020) Aux/IAA14 Regulates microRNA-Mediated Cold Stress Response in Arabidopsis Roots. 
International Journal of Molecular Science 21: 8441; doi: 10.3390/ijms21228441

11. Rahman A, Kawamura Y, Maeshima M, Rahman A, Uemura M (2020) Plasma membrane aquaporins PIPs act in concert to regulate cold acclimation and freezing tolerance responses in Arabidopsis thaliana. 
Plant Cell Physiology 61:787-802; doi: 10.1093/pcp/pcaa005

12. Ashraf MA, Umetsu K, Ponomarenko O, Saito M, Aslam M, Antipova O, Dolgova N, Kiani CD, Susan Nezhati S, Tanoi K, Minegishi K, Nagatsu K, Kamiya T, Fujiwara T, Luschnig C, Tanino K, Pickering I, George GN, Rahman A* (2019) PIN Formed 2 modulates the transport of arsenite in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant Communications 1:100009; doi: 10.1016/j.xplc.2019.100009

13. Ashraf MA, Rahman A* (2019) Cold stress response in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by GNOM ARF-GEF.  
Plant Journal 97:500-516; doi: 10.1111/tpj.14137
*Corresponding author
***This article was selected as collection article for Plants Day Collection https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-313X.plants_day_collection.

14.   Li P, Yu Q, Xu G, Xu C, Qi S, Wang H, Zhong F, Baskin TI, Rahman A, Wu S (2018) Construction of a functional casparian strip in non-endodermal lineages is orchestrated by two parallel signaling systems in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Current Biology 28: 2777-2786; doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.028

15.   Li P, Yang M, Chang  J, Wu J, Zhong F, Rahman A, Qin H, Wu S (2018) Spatial expression and functional analysis of Casparian strip regulatory genes in endodermis reveals the conserved mechanism in tomato.  
Frontiers in Plant Science 9:832; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00832

16. Takahashi M, Umetsu K, Higaki T, Oono, Y, Blanclaflor EB, Rahman A* (2017) SMALL ACIDIC PROTEIN 1 (SMAP1) and SCFTIR1-regulated ubiquitin proteasome pathway act in concert to induce 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid-mediated alteration of actin in Arabidopsis roots.   
Plant Journal  89: 940-956; doi: 10.1111/tpj.13433