MD MONIRUZZAMAN

Recent graduate with strong research and technical skills, demonstrating effective problem-solving abilities. Detail-oriented with a proven capacity to quickly grasp new concepts and methodologies. Committed to delivering high-quality results in fast-paced environments. Eager to apply analytical skills to contribute to team success.

• Bangladesh Government Talent pool Scholarship, For excellent academic result at Secondary School Certificate-2006 and Higher Secondary Certificate-2008
• Bangladesh Scholarship Council (BSC) Scholarship, 2009
• National Science and Technology (NST) Fellowship, 2013, From the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
• Visual Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Scholarship, 2023, From the University of Manitoba
• Roma Zenovea Hawirko Graduate Scholarship, 2023-2024, From the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba
• Indigenous CREATE program Scholarship, 2023-2024, From the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources, University of Manitoba
• Flight 302 Legacy Award, 2023
• University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF), 2024
• Canadian Bioinformatics Club (CBII) Training Award, 2025
• IMPACTT Conference Travel Award, 2025

Confocal microscopy, Cell and tissue culture, Digital PCR, qRT-PCR, Conventional PCR, Western blot, Plasmid Profiling, Bacterial conjugation, ELISA, Identification of bacteria using microscopic, biochemical, and serological techniques, Antibiogram, Maintaining and preserving the bacterial cultures, Light microscopy, LED fluorescent microscopy (FM), Handling of pathogenic and non-pathogenic cultures, General microbiological lab work, Nanopore library preparation (MinION Promethion), Identification of bacteria using microscopic, biochemical, and serological techniques, Antibiogram, Maintaining and preserving the bacterial cultures, Light microscopy, LED fluorescent microscopy (FM), Handling of pathogenic and non-pathogenic cultures, General microbiological lab work, Alignment tools including BLAST, BioEdit, ClustalW/X, Phylogenetic inference software including MEGA, EBI Bioinformatic Tools, Phylogeny analysis, Secondary RNA structure prediction tools such as Mfold Web Server, PCR Primer designing tools, Complete genome annotation tools, Phylodynamics and phylogeography analyses using BEAST, NGS Complete genome raw data cleaning, assembly, and annotation

• Extensive training course on 'Bacterial and Viral Whole Genome Sequence Analysis', icddr,b, 09/11/22, 09/15/22
• Basic training course on 'Systematic Reviews of Health Research', icddr,b, 04/05/21, 04/13/21
• Online training on 'Good Clinical Practice (GCP)', icddr,b, 11/29/20, 12/01/20
• SIDA funded training course on 'Result Based Management (RBM)', icddr,b, 07/01/20, 07/06/20
• Training course on 'Research Protocol Development', icddr,b, 06/10/20, 06/18/20
• Online training on 'Protecting Human Research Participants', Institute of Health (NIH) office of Extramural Research, 03/24/20
• 'Gender Awareness Workshop', Human Resources Department, icddr,b, 01/23/20
• Training course on 'Scientific Manuscript Writing for Publication', icddr,b, 09/24/19, 09/26/19
• Short course on 'Clinical and Epidemiological Research Study', icddr,b, 06/17/19, 06/19/19
• Training on 'Animal Cell and Tissue Culture for Advanced Research', Centre For Advanced Research in Sciences (CARS), University of Dhaka, 2017
• 'Introduction to Bioinformatics Method', University of Development Alternative (UODA) by Bio-Bio-1 Research Foundation, 2016
• 'ASM workshop on Scientific Writing and Publication', icddr,b, 2015
• 'Biosafety and Biosecurity Training', icddr,b, 2014

• R Programming
• SPSS
• Microsoft Excel

• Volunteering in Harvest Manitoba
• Founder of the Voluntary organization 'Shopnochari', Providing food to the flood-affected people and providing clothing to the Poor people
• Worked as the 'library assistant', University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Organizing various sports and social events
• Community gardening, Jacob Penner Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Chancellor Matheson garden, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Patel, R., Alvarado, J. Z., Rudin, N., Zhang, K., Adeniji, A., Moniruzzaman, M., Uyaguari-Diaz, M., Genes on the Move: Exploring the Resistome of Viable Isolates from a First Nation Community in Manitoba, Submitted, Applied Environmental Microbiology
• Hussain, M.T., Moniruzzaman, M., Hossain, M., Hossain, M.S., Ali, S., Islam, M.T., Paul, P., Galib, F. C., Islam, M.S., Siddiqee, M.H., Mondal, D., Mahmud, Z.H., Environmental Reservoirs of Thermotolerant ESBL E. coli: A Study of Antibiotic Resistance and Pathogenicity in Rohingya Camps, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Submitted, Scientific Reports
• Islam, M.R., Alam, M.A.U., Moniruzzaman, M., Galib, F.C., Hossain, M.S., Hussain, M.T., Paul, P., Islam, M.T., Uddin, S.Z., Islam, M.S., Hossain, M.F., Rahman, M.M., Chowdhury, A.L.A., Ananya, T.H., Rahman, M.A., Worth, M., Mahmud, Z.H., Exploring fecal sludge treatment technologies in humanitarian settings at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: a comprehensive assessment of treatment efficiency through characterization of fecal sludge, 2024, Front. Environ. Sci., 12, 1397389, 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1397389
• Moniruzzaman, M., Hussain, M.T., Hossain, M., Hossain, M.S., Ali, S., Islam, M.T., Paul, P., Galib, F. C., Islam, M.S., Siddiqee, M.H., Mondal, D., Mahmud, Z.H., Multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from patients and surrounding hospital environments in Bangladesh: A molecular approach for the determination of pathogenicity and resistance, 2023, Heliyon, 9, 9, E22109
• Mahmud, Z.H., Uddin, S.Z., Moniruzzaman, M., Ali, S., Hossain, M., Islam, M.T., Costa, D.T.D., Ong, L.A., Islam, M.S., Mondal, D., Parveen, S., 2021, Healthcare facilities as potential reservoirs of antimicrobial-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: An emerging concern to public health in Bangladesh, Pharmaceuticals, 15, 9, 1116, 10.3389/fpubh.2021.783019
• Hossain, M.S., Ali, S., Hossain, M., Uddin, S.Z., Moniruzzaman, M., Shohael, A.M., Islam, M.S., Islam, M.S., Ananya, T.H., Rahman, M.A., Worth, M., Mondal, D., Mahmud, Z.H., ESBL producing Escherichia coli in faecal sludge treatment plants: an invisible threat to public health in Rohingya camps, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Front. Public Health, 9, 783019, 10.3389/fpubh.2021.783019
• Ali, S., Hossain, M., Azad, A.B., Siddique, A.B., Moniruzzaman, M., Ahmed, M.A., Amin, M.B., Islam, M.S., Rahman, M.M., Mondal, D., Mahmud, Z.H., 2021, Diversity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in marine fishes of Bangladesh, Journal of Applied Microbiology
• Siddique, A.B., Moniruzzaman, M., Ali, S., Dewan, M., Islam, M.R., Islam, M., Amin, M.B., Mondal, D., Parvez, A.K., Mahmud, Z.H., 2021, Characterization of Pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus Isolated From Fish Aquaculture of the Southwest Coastal Area of Bangladesh, Frontiers in Microbiology, 12, 266
• Mahmud, Z.H., Kabir, M.H., Ali, S., Moniruzzaman, M., Imran, K.M., Nafiz, T.N., Islam, M., Hussain, A., Hakim, S.A.I., Worth, M., Ahmed, D., 2020, Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in drinking water samples from a forcibly displaced, densely populated community setting in Bangladesh, Frontiers in public health, 8, 228
• Hossan, S., Hossain, S., Islam, M.R., Kabir, M.H., Ali, S., Islam, M.S., Imran, K.M., Moniruzzaman, M., Mou, T.J., Parvez, A.K., Mahmud, Z.H., 2020, Bioremediation of Hexavalent Chromium by Chromium-Resistant Bacteria Reduces Phytotoxicity, International journal of environmental research and public health, 17, 17, 6013
• Islam, M.A., Kabir, N.D., Moniruzzaman, M., Begum, K., Ahmed, D., Faruque, A.S.G., Garey, K.W., Alam, M.J., 2019, Clostridioides difficile ribotypes isolated from the domestic environment and from patients in Bangladesh, Anaerobe, 56, 88-90
• Moniruzzaman, M., Ashraf, M.A., Morshed, M.M., 2014, Nanotechnology: a possible healer in the drug delivery system, Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4, 28, 1
• Galib, F. C., Ahamed, H., Hussain, M. T., Moniruzzaman, M., Hossain, M., Determinants of malnutrition among children aged under five using multinomial logistic regression model: evidence from Bangladesh, Submitted

• Dr. Zahid Hayat Mahmud, Scientist and Head, Laboratory of Environmental Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, zhmahmud@icddrb.org
• Mohammad Jubair, Associate Scientist, Genome Center, Infectious Disease Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Mohammad.jubair@icddrb.org

• Having IMPACTT 5: Advancing Microbiome Research Symposium, 2025, Canmore, Alberta, Canada, Poster presentation on MICROBIOME AND RESISTOME WITHIN A FIRST NATION COMMUNITY AND ITS SURROUNDING AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM IN MANITOBA, CANADA
• Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance (EDAR7), 2024, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Abstract and poster presentation on 'Microbiome And Resistome Within a First Nation Community And Its Surrounding Aquatic Ecosystem In Manitoba, Canada
• International Perspective on Water Resources and Environment, 2023, Molecular Characterization of extended spectrum -lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli isolated from hospital environments and WGS of pathogenic XDR isolates
• ASTMH Annual Meeting, 2022, Seattle, Washington, USA, Abstract and poster presentation on 'Molecular Characterization of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli isolated from hospital environments and patient samples in Bangladesh
• 15th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition (ASCODD), 2020, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Best Poster
• 54th US-Japan Joint Panel Conference on cholera and other bacterial enteric infections, 2020, Osaka, Japan, 12/10/20, 12/13/20, Abstract and poster presentation on 'Prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from drinking water of Rohingya Camps, Bangladesh
• International Conference of Bangladesh Society of Microbiologists (BSM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Oral presentation on 'Salmonella spp. in betel leaf: Identification method and occurrence in samples collected from retail markets in Dhaka city
• International Conference on Genomics, Nanotech and Bioengineering (ICGNB), 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Poster presentation on 'Analysis of growth pattern of Salmonella spp. on betel leaf by artificial spiking experiments
• 2nd GNOBB ICBHA Conference, 2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• M.S., Salmonella spp. in betel leaf: Identification method and occurrence in samples collected from retail markets in Dhaka city
• B.S., Assessment on production of cellulase enzyme from Trichoderma spp. by submerged fermentation

• Infectious Diseases
• Metagenomics
• Bioinformatics and computational biology
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Next Generation Sequencing