It’s time that we review our past activities and promise ourselves not to repeat our lapses. When the website was launched five years back there was a lot of enthusiasm among members. It culminated a couple of years back in the holding of a grand function in which GNOBB members took part in large numbers both from home and abroad. Now that passion is gradually wearing out. Is

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is pleased to announce the 2012 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program (Borlaug Fellowship Program) for Bangladesh. The Borlaug Fellowship Program promotes food security and economic growth by increasing scientific knowledge, advancing the transfer of new agricultural technology, and encouragin

Dr. H. Gobind Khorana, the Nobel Laureate died of natural causes in Concord, Massachusetts last month on November 9 at the age of 89. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. For the first time he and his team succeeded in synthesizing a synthetic gene consisting of 77 nitrogenous bases. It was double stranded heli

After having completed a training fellowship for six months from June to November ‘2011 Ms. Sabrina Elias, Research Associate, Plant Biotechnology laboratory, DU, has returned from Australian National University. During her stay there, she worked on elucidation of structure of Rubisco in different wild rice specie under the guidance of Prof. Jill Gready at computational Proteo

GNOBB always feel happy to know that its member has published papers containing their research results or contributed a book chapter in a recent book or delivered a lecture in a plenary session as a invited speaker or joined a new or promoted to a higher post. Recently a well-known GNOBB member, Dr. Kamal Chowdhury Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, Claflin University

An International Conference on Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Engineered plants was held from April 15 -17, 2012 at the BRAC Centre Inn, Dhaka. The conference was organized by Bangladesh Academy of Science (BAS) and South Asia Biosafety Program (SABP) in cooperation with Bangladesh Department of Environment and the Pakistan Strategy Support Program. Scientists, researc

In an article entitled, “Insights into salt tolerance from the genome of Thellungiella salsuginea”, published online in July 9, 2012, issue of PNAS 1-6, the lead author Hua-Jun Wu with thirty five other associates from seven research groups have unraveled the genomic sequence and analysis of Thellungiella salsuginea (a wild salt-tolerant plant belonging to

In an article entitled, “The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants,” published online on the 11th July issue of Nature, Angélique D’Hont and 63 associates belonging to 17 transcontinental institutes have described the most elaborate genomic picture of bananas ever made and have shown it

For an M.Sc. student in a developing country to publish a book in a difficult area of genetics is something considered unachievable but Aubhishek Zaman, a graduate student in the Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Dhaka University has achieved that remarkable feat. GNOBB feel very proud to offer their heartiest congratulations to Mr. Aubhishek Zaman for author

Tibetan Yak In an article entitled, “The yak genome and adaptation to life at high altitude”, published online in July 1, 2012, issue of Nature Genetics 1-6, the lead author Qiang Qiu with forty eight other associates from sixteen research groups sequenced the genome of a domestic yak (Bos grunniens) applying high-throughput sequencing technology. The ge