From July 14-18, scenic city Montreal, Canada hosted the 2018 Annual Conference of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) in conjunction with the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB). With 1629 attendees from 52 countries, the conference showcased 4 major symposiums and 30 concurrent symposiums- each hosting 5-6 speakers on topics ranging from education to cutting ed
Read MoreGNOBB would like to congratulate the team led by Dr. Zeba I Seraj at Plant Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka for their recent publication in Annals of Microbiology which is based on bacteria endemic to saline coastal belt and their capacity to mitigate the salt effect on rice growth and yield. They have identified some st
Read MoreGNOBB is proud to announce that Professor Zeba I. Seraj of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dhaka University, and current president of GNOBB has been elected as a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. This is one of the highest achievements for a scientist in Bangladesh. Prof. Seraj has played an instrumental role in developing abiotic stress tolerant ri
Read MoreA workshop on 'Application of Genome editing (CRISPR/Cas9) technique for Crop Improvement', 23-27 July, 2018 will be held at Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop is jointly organised by Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Dhaka, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and University of Kiel. The primary fo
Read MoreGNOBB wishes all its well wishers and readers a heartiest greetings for Eid-ul-fitr. May this special day brings peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone. Eid Mubarak!
Read MoreDhaka 12th June, 2018, GNOBB coordinator returns home from the United Hospital, Dhaka after prostrate opration. Please make specciaf 'dua' for his speedy and complete recovery
Read MoreIt's time to say goodbye to. 2017. It proved to be a remarkable year of progress for GNOBB. It has launched its newly designed website, has successfully completed the first outreach program among high school students and in the last segment of 2017 GNOBB has successfully arranged the 3rd GNOBB Conference, ICBHA 2017 (International Conference of Biotechnology in Healt
Read MoreMost of the farmer popular indica rice varieties are recalcitrant to tissue culture dependent transformation method. In this study, a simple in planta transformation method for indica rice genotype was developed with higher transformation efficiencies than earlier reports. Overnight-soaked mature seeds were infected with Agrobacterium containing salt tolerance-enhancing Pea DNA Heli
Read MoreDhaka October 27, ‘17. Hats off to four Bangladeshi scientists, Dr Shahriar Hossain and Mostafa Kamal Masud from the UOW, and Dr Muhammad JA Shiddiky and Md Nazmul Islam from Griffith University. at the University of Wollongong (UOW) and Griffith University in Australia. They have jointly developed a new class of nanomaterials that can detect cancer earlier in an ineexpe
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Read MoreGNOBB is pleased to open the application call for Abdur Rahman Memorial Fellowship. Bangladeshi students who are GNOBB members, and pursuing MS/ MSc degree with research projects for partial fulfillment of their Read More
The deposition of first SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing results of a Bangladeshi patient by Dr. Senjuti Shaha, Dr. Samir Kumar Shaha along with their team from Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) opened a new do Read More
GNOBB wishes all its well wishers and readers a heartiest greetings for Eid-ul-fitr. May this special day brings peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone. Eid Mubarak! Read More