Saddam Hossain

Research Project: Targeting Interleukin 2-inducible T cell kinase (Itk) for autoimmune-mediated diffuse alveolar hemorrhage; Caspase-1 mediated neuroinflammation and serotonin signaling dysfunction in the nucleus accumbens.

Graduate Assistant - SUNY Upstate Medical University - Syracuse, New York

(2023-01 - 2026-08)

Research Project: Targeting Interleukin 2-inducible T cell kinase (Itk) for autoimmune-mediated diffuse alveolar hemorrhage; Caspase-1 mediated neuroinflammation and serotonin signaling dysfunction in the nucleus accumbens.

• Genotyping
• Generation of Knockout mice
• Cell Culture (HEK Cells, Mouse primary T cells)
• Protein Expression and Purification
• Western Blot
• Flow Cytometry

Senior Scientific Officer - Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR)

(2025-01)

Research Project: Genomic insight into extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii isolated from tertiary care hospitals of Chattogram, Bangladesh.

Scientific Officer - Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR)

(2018-01 - 2025-12)

Research Project: Method validation for the determination of porcine and bovine-specific DNA and nitrofuran metabolites in poultry/fish feed samples by ELISA and HPLC Techniques, Isolation and molecular characterization of multidrug-resistant organisms from environmental and clinical samples of Chattogram City, Screening of novel antimicrobial compounds from plant extracts, endophytic fungi, and soil actinomycetes of Bangladesh.

Project Leader: Investigating natural antibacterial agents from high-yielding Bangladeshi garlic varieties against multidrug-resistant pathogens (2019-2021).

• Microbiological analysis of food and water samples
• Training and supervision of undergraduate students for microbiology and molecular techniques

Lecturer of Microbiology - Khwaja Yunus Ali University - Bangladesh

(2017-01 - 2018-12)

Department of Microbiology

• Microbial Chemistry
• Molecular and Microbial Genetics
• Quality control of Food, Fish and Beverages

Senior Research Assistant - International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)

(2016-01 - 2017-12)

• Identification and molecular characterization of enteric pathogens by PCR and RT-PCR
• Bioassay of antibiotics by disk diffusion assay
• Serology test
• Monitoring of water quality in two diarrheal prevalence regions in Bangladesh
• ATCC culture management
• Data collection, analysis, presentation and writing of manuscripts

Master's in Microbiology - Microbiology - SUNY Upstate Medical University (2023-01 - 2026-08)

M.Sc - Microbiology - Jahangirnagar University (2014-01 - 2015-12)

B.Sc - Microbiology - Jahangirnagar University (2010-01 - 2014-12)