Zinia Islam
Zinia Islam Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering

PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Zinia Islam has been currently working as an Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She successfully completed her MS and PhD  from the department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN. Then she pursued her post doctoral fellowship at the same department. She received her  B.Sc. in Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering from Khulna University, Bangladesh. She elucidated the mechanism for the identification of renal transporters involved in Ca2+ and Mg2+ excretion.

RESEARCH INTEREST

Molecular and cellular biology, animal physiology, transporter biology, comparative genomics

All Publications

Nihad Adnan, Md. Ahsanul Haq, Salma Akter, S. M. Shafiul Alam Sajal, Md. Fokhrul Islam, Taslin Jahan Mou, Mohd. Raeed Jamiruddin, Fatema Tuz Jubyda, Md. Salequl Islam, Jamsheda Ferdous Tuli, Syeda Moriam Liza, Sharif Hossain, Zinia Islam, Sohel Ahmed, Shahad Saif Khandker, Rubel Hossain, Md. Firoz Ahmed, Mohib Ullah Khondoker, Nafisa Azmuda and Md. Anowar Khasru Parvez, Antibody Response after Homologous and Heterologous Prime–Boost COVID-19 Vaccination in a Bangladeshi Residential University Cohort, Vaccines 2024, 12, 482. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12050482 (Impact factor 7.8)

Akira Kato, Supriya Pipil, Chihiro Ota, Makoto Kusakabe, Taro Watanabe, Ayumi Nagashima, An-Ping Chen, Zinia Islam, Naoko Hayashi, Marty Kwok-Shing Wong, Masayuki Komada, Michael F. Romero & YoshioTakei, Convergent gene losses and pseudogenizations in multiple lineages of stomachless fishes, Communications Biology (2024)7:408 https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06103-x ( Impact factor 5.2)

 

Shanaz Fatema Bristy, Md Reaz Uddin, Bushra Ayat Meghla, Taslima Akter Tisha, Md. Aftab Uddin, Md.Tarequl Islam, Masayasu Mie, Eiry Kobatake, Mohib Ullah Khondoker, Md. Ahsanul Haq, Zinia Islam, Sharif Hossain, Nafisa Azmuda, Mohd. Raeed Jamiruddin, Mainul Haque, Nihad Adnan, Misdiagnosis of Bacterial Pathogens by the Diagnostic Centers: A Prospective Route for Antibiotic Resistance., Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science Vol. 14(06), pp 163-173, June, 2024.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7324/JAPS.2024.175488 (Scopus Indexed)

Soma Saha, Tapan Kumar Saha, Subarna Karmaker, Zinia Islam, Serhiy Demeshko, Holm Frauendorf and Franc Meyer; Solar Light-Assisted Oxidative Degradation of Ciprofloxacin in Aqueous Solution by Iron(III) Chelated Cross-Linked Chitosan Immobilized on a Glass Plate. Catalysts, 202212(5), 475; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12050475

 

Razib Datta Shubhra, Shakil Ahmed Polash, Md. Monir Hossain, Amir Hamza, Md. Mehedi Hasan Tushar, Tanushree Saha, Md. Ashraful Hasan, Md. Maniruzzaman Sikder, Nuhu Alam, Zinia Islam, Md. Sharif Hossain, Satya Ranjan Sarker, Investigation of the Antimicrobial Activity and in Vivo Cytotoxicity of Diospyros malabarica (Desr.) Kostel. Fruit Extracts. Natural Science, 2021, Vol. 13, (No. 8), pp: 331-351. https://doi.org/10.4236/ns.2021.138026.

 

Tapan Kumar Saha, Raton Kumar Bishwas, Subarna Karmaker, and Zinia Islam, Adsorption Characteristics of Allura Red AC onto Sawdust and Hexadecylpyridinium Bromide-Treated Sawdust in Aqueous Solution. ACS Omega, 2020, 5, 13358-13374. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c01493

 

Bakul Akter, Ariful Islam Khan · Subarna Karmaker · Pollob Ghosh · Soma Saha · Shakil Ahmed Polash , Zinia Islam · Satya Ranjan Sarker · Md. Sharif Hossain · Hiroyuki Yasui · Tapan Kumar Saha, Chelation of zinc(II) with poly(γ‑glutamic acid) in aqueous solution: kinetics, binding constant, and its antimicrobial activity, Polymer Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-020-03165-9 Received: 28 November 2019 / Revised: 2 March 2020 / Accepted: 10 March 2020

 

Saiful Islam, Md. Ahsanul Kabir, Md. Faizul Hossain Miraz, Effat Jahan Tamanna, Satya Ranjan Sarker, Zinia Islam, S. M. Jahangir Hossain, Sharif Hossain*, Gautam Kumar Deb* , Investigation of Ovarian Follicular Waves and Major Hormonal Profile in Red Chittagong Cattle, Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 2020, 11, 7- 2.

 

Hossain MM, Polash SA, Takikawa M, Shubhra RD, Saha T, Islam Z, Hossain S, Hasan MA, Takeoka S, Sarker SR, Investigation of the Antibacterial Activity and in vivo Cytotoxicity of Biogenic Silver Nanoparticles as Potent Therapeutics, Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2019 Oct 9; 7:239.

 

Razib Datta Shubhra, Shakil Ahmed Polash, Tanushree Saha, Ashraful Hasan, Sharif Hossain, Zinia Islam*, Satya Ranjan Sarker* (* Corresponding Author), Investigation of the Phytoconstituents and Antioxidant Activity of Diospyros malabarica Fruit Extracts, Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 2019, 10, 431-454.

 

Ratna Mondal, Shakil Ahmed Polash, Tanushree Saha, Zinia Islam, Md. Maniruzzaman Sikder, Nuhu Alam, Md. Sharif Hossain*, Satya Ranjan Sarker*, Investigation of the Phytoconstituents and Bioactivity of Various Parts of Wild Type and Cultivated Phyllanthus emblica L., Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 8, 211-227, 2017.

 

Islam Z, Kato A, Romero MF, Hirose S., Identification and apical membrane localization of an electrogenic Na+/Ca2+ exchanger NCX2a likely to be involved in renal Ca2+ excretion by seawater fish, Am. J. Physiol Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol., 301: R1427–1439, 2011.

 

Islam Z,  Hayashi N, Yamamoto Y, Doi Y, Romero MF, Hirose S, Kato A., Identification and proximal tubular localization of the Mg2+ transporter, Slc41a1, in a seawater fish, Am. J. Physiol Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol., 305(4): R385-396, 2013

 

Islam Z, Hayashi N, Inoue H, Umezawa T, Kimura Y, Doi H, Romero MF, Hirose S, Kato A.,    Identification and lateral membrane localization of cyclin M3, likely to be involved in renal Mg2+ handling in seawater fish, Am. J. Physiol Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol., 2014 Sep 1;307(5):R525-37. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00032.2014.

 

Kato A, Muro T, Kimura Y, Li S, Islam Z, Ogoshi M, Doi H, Hirose S., `Differential expression of Na+-Cl- cotransporter and Na+-K+-Cl- cotransporter 2 in the distal nephrons of euryhaline and seawater pufferfishes`, J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol., 300(2): R284-297, 2011

 

Umezawa T, Kato A, Ogoshi M, Ookata K, Munakata K, Yamamoto Y, Islam Z, Doi H, Romero MF, Hirose S., O2-Filled Swimbladder Employs Monocarboxylate Transporters for the Generation of O2 by Lactate-Induced Root Effect Hemoglobin, PLoS One, e34579 7(4): Epub 2012.

 

Islam Z, Kato A, Hirose S., Expression analysis of Mg2+ transporters in the kidney of marine and euryhaline puffer fishes, proceeding of FASEB J., 25:1041.5

 


Contact

Zinia Islam

Associate Professor
Department of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Email: ziniaislam@juniv.edu