Contact Information:

Division of Plant Sciences,
201 C.S. Bond Life Science Center, 1201 Rollins St.
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
Telephone: + 1 573-884-4799 (w)
Fax : + 1 573-884-9676
E-mail: hossainmd@missouri.edu; mshossain71@gmail.com

Education:

• Ph.D. (Plant Genetics and Breeding), Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (March, 2003)
• M.Sc. (Botany), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (1993)
• B.Sc. (Biology), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (1991)

Professional experiences:

• Research Scientist/Research Associate (April 2012 – present); Division of Plant Sciences, C. S. Bond Life Science Center, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Post-doctoral Researcher (September 2007 – February 2012); Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), London, Ontario, Canada
• Postdoctoral Fellow (April 2003 – July 2007); National Institute of Agro-biological Sciences (NIAS) employed by Japan Science and Technology (JST), Tsukuba, Japan

Current Research Focus:

• Root hair single cell system biology.
• miRNAs and their regulation in soybean nodulation.
• Epigenetic studies of cytosine DNA methylation at single cell level.
• Developing soybean, Medicago and common bean transcriptomics and gene expression atlas through high throughput RNA-seq.

Publications:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Md_Shakhawat_Hossain3/publications