Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) has released four Bt -brinjal varieties for limited scale cultivation in Bangladesh.  These are Bt-brinjal 1, -2, -3, and -4. Initially the saplings of these four varieties were given to the 20 farmers from different parts of the country for cultivation. The adoptive trial for these bt- brinjal varieties has been expanded this y

Professor Haseena Khan, Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Mol. Biology has retuned to Dhaka after a successful visit to ICBiotech, Osaka University, Japan to establish a research collaboration under the sub-project titled “Creating a next generation of postgraduate researchers skilled in molecular and analytical approaches while harnessing endophytes for broad spectrum

Heartiest congratulations to Samsad Razzaque, Research Associate of the PEER-USAID program at the Plant Biotechnology laboratory of Prof. Zeba I. Seraj, at Dhaka University. Samsad has been accepted with 5 years of guaranteed support to the Plant Biology Graduate Program at the University of Austin, Texas, with Professor Thomas Juenger as his Major Adviser. His Ph.D. schol

April 17, 15. Professor Dr. Zeba I Seraj at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka is attending as an invited speaker in a two-day long (17-18th April, 2015) National conference on Natural Science and Technology organized by the Asian University for Women (AUW), Chittagong, Bangladesh. Professor Zeba will deliver a 40-min talk on “The Applica

Dhaka 13th April, 2015. GNOBB wishes all of its members, readers and well-wishers a very happy and prosperous Bangla New Year 1422. May this coming year bring happiness and heavenly life to all of us. May all of us get the strength to overcome obstacles that may stand in our way to progress and prosperity. [composed by Mr Samsad Razzaque, Research Associate, Plant Biotechnology

Dhaka 31st March, 2015. GNOBB takes this opportunity to express its best wishes and heartiest congratulations to the following  four newly appointed staff members, namely, Dr. Tahmina Islam, Kishwar Jahan Sethi, Nadra Tabassum and Tahsin Khan in the Department of Botany, DU. We expect that all of them will work very hard and conscientiously and gladly take up the teac

The Annual Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology Conference 2014 was held on Saturday, the 28 March, 2015 at the Department of Botany, University of Dhaka. The one day conference was organized by the Bangladesh Association for Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology (BAPTC&B) and University of Dhaka. The Association  came into being in 1990. Initially, there was doubt a

Dhaka 24th March, 2015. The Bangladesh Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has organized a day-long national conference at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban, University of Dhaka on March 21, 2015. The theme of the conference was: “Biochemistry, Industry and Sustainable Economy”. The aim of the conference was to promote and establish effective engagem

22nd March, ’15One of the dynamic GNOBB members, Dr. Talat Nasim has published an article on ‘Translational Medicine” in the 7th March issue of daily যুগান্তর। It’s upon the request of the author that the interesting article is uploaded on the GNOBB website. The readers interested to know about this subject will find it worthwhile

20th March, 2015. GNOBB always feel delighted when any members of this web-based organization publish their paper in a prestigious journal. It’s in this context that it reports the publication of the following paper in Acta Physiologie Plantarum by Professor Zeba I Seraj and six of her associates at the Plant Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and M