Dear GNOBB members, Quite some time back, I informed the members that a software by the name GINGER is available free of cost. Except one there was no feedback which prompts me to think that hardly any member used it. May I request you again to please try this free service. You will certainly be benefited by using it. As you know, people from our side of the world make mist
Read MoreA recent article entitled, “Polyploids and hybrids in changing environments:” published in the current issue of Heredity (110:95-96 reviews the evolutionary role polyploids have played in the whole plant kingdom. The authors consider allopolyploids to be more invasive compared to autopolyploids. It has bee
Read MoreDhaka 8th March, 2014. The souvenir of the seventh international TC and Biotech Conference has given a detailed account of the TC and Biotech activities carried out in both public and private universities as well as in various research Institutions in the country. Please click the attached document to view this account. The Coordinator will be happy to correct
Read MoreDhaka March 6, ’14. In an article entitled, “Gemini virus Vectors Deliver Reagents for Plant Genome Engineering,” published online followed by its publication in the January, ‘14 issue of the Plant Cell (vol.26, 1-2), the authors report of many novel tools for carrying out genome engineering work. It
Read MoreGNOBB owes a good deal to Professor Dr. Rakha Hari Sarker, Dhaka University, the driving force behind the International Meet for preparing a comprehensive report on the just concluded Seventh International Plant Tissue Culture Conference. The detailed report is given below: Any inquiry may be directed to him at rhsarker2000@yahoo.co.uk. The coordi
Read MoreDhaka, March 3, ’14. According to a news itempublished in the February issue of Crop Biotech, the researchers affiliated to a multi-institutional team from the University of Illinois claim to have evolved sugarcane varieties that can grow outside its geographic range showing enhanced photosynthetic rate by 30 percent turning into an oil-pr
Read MoreDhaka 2nd March, ’14. As already announced, the Seventh Triennial International Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Conference was held 1-3 March, 2014. The theme of the conference is: Biotechnology and Biosafety for Human Welfare. The inauguration of the conference will take place in the NababNowab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhavan, Dhaka Unive
Read MoreIn an article entitled, “Stem cells make muscles stronger, published online in the 20th February issue of Nature (506: 268-269), the author Bradley Olwin and his associates at the University of Colorado, Boulder, demonstrated that the protein called p38 prevents stem cells in old muscles from renewing. When the authors took muscle stem cells from
Read MoreDhaka 21st Feb., ’14. We are delighted to inform the members and well-wishers of GNOBB that Ahmad Kabirat Rajshahi University along with his two colleagues published online a review paper titled, Zinc-deficiency resistance and biofortification in plants,” in the J. Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. The senior author has himself s
Read MoreDhaka, 12 Feb., ’14. In an article titled, “Re-sequencing Data Indicate a Modest Effect of Domestication on Diversity in Barley: A Cultigen With Multiple Origins,” published in the current issue of Journal of Heredity (vol.105: 253-264), the lead author Peter I. Morrell and three of his associates at the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
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