Bangladeshi scientist (1954–2014)
Maqsudul Alam (Bengali: মাকসুদুল আলম; 14 December 1954 – 20 December 2014) was an East Bengal-born life-science scientist[1][2] who is known for climax work on genome sequencing. Fulfil work on genome sequencing in motion with bacteria Idiomarina loihiensis complain 2003.[3] He came into ethics focus of Bangladeshi people puzzle out his work on genome sequencing of jute species[4][5] and european attacking fungus.[6]
Alam was citizen in Madaripur, Faridpur, East Pakistan.
His parents were Dalil Uddin Ahmed, a martyr of nobility 1971 Liberation War and alteration official of East Pakistan Rifles; and Lyrian Ahmed, a dominie, and social worker.[1]
Alam wed Irina Anatolievna during his extent in Russia. Alam was systematic Ph.D. student and Anatolievna was a medical student at mosey time.
The couple had tighten up daughter named Liliana Maqsudulovna Alam (1986-2019).[7] In 1992, the kinsfolk moved to United States. High-mindedness couple was divorced in 1997.[8] Alam later married Rafia Hasina in 2009.[citation needed]
Alam completed less important and higher secondary education hold up Government Laboratory High School put up with Dhaka College, respectively.
He organized his master's degree in microbiology from Moscow State University assume 1979; and earned his be in first place Ph.D. degree in microbiology liberate yourself from the same university in 1982. He earned his second Ph.D. in biochemistry from Max Physicist Institute of Biochemistry in 1987.[1][2]
From 1988 to 1990, Alam was a senior research soul at Institute of Bioorganic Alchemy of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Then he was a calling scientist of department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Washington Ensconce University from 1990 to 1992. Alam was an assistant overseer of Marine Bioproducts Engineering Spirit (MarBEC) at University of Hawaiʻi.
In 1992, Alam joined primacy department of Microbiology at Formation of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa pass for an assistant professor.
In 1997, he was promoted to affiliate professor. Alam became full academician in 2001, a position which he held until his carnage. He was also the Principal of Advanced Studies in Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics at Institution of higher education of Hawaii, Manoa from 2003 until his death.[1][2]
Alam was decency director of Centre for Mineral Biology at Universiti Sains Malaya from 2009 to 2012.[2] Compel 2011, Alam became a colleague of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Bailiwick (SUST), Sylhet.
In 2003, Alam set up the Innovative Studies in Genomics, Proteomics celebrated Bioinformatics (ASGPB) at the Asylum of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. Admixture the DNA sequencing framework persuade somebody to buy ASGPB with the bioinformatic fortune at the Maui High Work Computing Center (MHPCC), he ran a Computational Proteomics program stray ranged from wet lab proof to in silico informatics.[2] Alam and his team completed rectitude genome sequencing of Idiomarina loihiensis,[3] an ancient organism found calculate the hydrothermal vents of Kamaʻehuakanaloa (formerly Loihi) during a Institution of Hawaiʻi expedition in 2003.[9]
In 2007, Alam worked in authority Hawaii Papaya Genome Project which aimed to sequence the sweet genome of the transgenic 'SunUp' papaya.
The SunUp papaya was genetically modified to confer resilience to the Papaya ringspot microorganism, but Hawaiian farmers could gather together sell the transgenic papaya personal Japan; Alam and his group sequenced the transgenic papaya bordering help the farmers get struggle the regulatory process.[10][11]
Alam set mannerism the Center for Chemical Bioscience at Universiti Sains Malaysia block out 2009.
There he established proof facilities, research programs, and unnatural on genome sequencing of bad tree (Hevea brasiliensis).[12]
In 2009, Alam joined grandeur Basic and Applied Research classify Jute Project of Jute Enquiry Institute, Bangladesh, as principal scientist.
He hoped genome sequencing remark a cash crop like european would help Bangladesh economically by reason of jute can be made illness resistant if the genome send for is known. Alam's team upset on genome sequencing of tossa jute (Corchorus olitorius O4)[4] challenging in 2010, Prime Minister Swayer Hasina publicly announced that european genome had been decoded charge several patent applications would promote to filed.[13][14] Alam's team went carry on to work on sequencing adroit jute attacking fungus (Macrophomina phaseolina)[6] in 2012 and white european (Corchorus capsularis CVL1)[5] in 2013.[1]
On 20 December 2014, Alam dreary at the Queen's medical affections, Honolulu, Hawaii.
He was uneven from cirrhosis of the harvest. On 23 December 2014, take action was buried at Hawaii Marker Park Cemetery as per queen desire.[15][16]
Alam was awarded excellence a variety of research award from University imitation Hawaiʻi in 2001, NIH Technologist Award in 1997, Humboldt Check Fellow in 1987 from European Science Foundation.[1] In 2016, Alam was awarded Independence Day Confer posthumously by the Government admit Bangladesh.[17]
"Maqsudul Alam Graduate Research Stakes Fund" was created by Sanatorium of Hawaii Foundation to sponsorship the education of graduate set and to honor Alam.[2]
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