Suraia Nusrin

Chairperson , Associate Professor
Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences and Engineering

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A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh

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Ext: 359 || Room No#
sunewu@ewubd.edu

Academic Background

PhD (Molecular Biology), Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.
M.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
HSC in Science group, Holy Cross College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, East West University, Bangladesh. 31st January 2023 to date.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, East West University, Bangladesh. 30th August’ 2016 to 30th January 2023.
Assistant Professor (Part time), Department of Biology and Chemistry, North South University, Bangladesh. September’2014-August’ 2016.
Research Assistant, Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. 2012-2013.
Research Officer, Laboratory Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). 2004-2009.
Research Officer, Laboratory Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). 2002-2003.

Research Interest

Molecular Biology
Recombinant DNA Technology
Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases
Antibiotic Resistant mechanisms of Enteric Bacteria

Research Grant received

Research grant under special allocations (Interdisciplinary group) from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Bangladesh in the financial year 2022-2023. The title of the project is “Analysis of the effects of food and water borne carcinogens on the cancer patients of Bangladesh”.
CRT, EWU, Determination of Azithromycin Resistant Mechanisms of Shigella, Salmonella and Vibrio cholerae strains isolated in Bangladesh. Principle Investigator. Value: 10,42,117 BDT. This project is in collaboration with ICDDR,B.

Selected Publications

Suraia Nusrin, Asaduzzaman Asad, Shoma Hayat, Bitali Islam, Ruma Begum, Fahmid Habib Nabila, Zhahirul Islam. Multiple Mechanisms Confer Resistance to Azithromycin in Shigella in Bangladesh: A Comprehensive Whole Genome-Based Approach. Microbiology Spectrum. 2022, 10.1128/spectrum.00741-22.
Asaduzzaman Asad, Shoma Hayat, Fahmida Habib Nabila, Ruma Begum, Suraia Nusrin, and Zhahirul Islam. Draft genome sequences of multidrug resistant Shigella strains isolated from diarrheal patients in Bangladesh. Microbiology Resources Announcements. 2021.Volume 10 Issue 42 e00854-21.
Syed Raju Ali1, A. S. M. Mahadiuzzaman, Rozely Hossain, Suraia Nusrin and Sabina Yasmin. Morphological and physiological characterization of nitrogen fixing rhizobia isolated from country bean (Lablaba perpureus) of Narail, Bangladesh. Journal of Bioscience and Biotechnology Discovery. August 2019, Volume 4(4), pages 60-68.
Marzia Sultana, Suraia Nusrin, Nur A. Hasan, Abdus Sadique, Kabir U. Ahmed, Atiqul Islam, Anwar Hossain, Ira Longini, Azhar Nizam, Anwar Huq, Abul K. Siddique, David A. Sack, Richard B. Sack, Rita R. Colwell, Munirul Alam. Biofilms comprise a component of the annual cycle of Vibrio cholerae in the Bay of Bengal Estuary. mBIO^®, 2018, 9 (2), 1-13.
Richard Man Kit Yu, Gayathri Chaturvedi, Kwan Hok Tong, Suraia Nusrin, John P Giesy, Rudolf S Wu and Richard Y C Kong. Evidence for Epigenetic Regulation of Steroidogenic Gene Expression by Hypoxia. Environmental Science and Technology, 2015, 49(2), 1138-1147.
Suraia Nusrin, Kwan Hok Tong, Gayathri Chaturvedi, Rudolf S Wu, John P Giesy and Richard Y C Kong. Regulation of CYP11B1 and CYP11B2 steroidogenic genes by hypoxia-inducible miR-10b in H295R cells. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014, 85, 344–351.
N. A. Bhuiyan, Suraia Nusrin, M. Ansaruzzaman, A. Islam, M. Sultana, , M. Alam, M.A. Islam, A. Cravioto, A. K. Mukhopadhyay, G. B. Nair, J. C.L.Mwasna and H. P. Endtz. Genetic characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated in Zambia during 1996–2004 possessing the unique VSP-II region of El Tor variant. Epidemiology and Infection, 2011, 31, 1-9.
Munirul Alam, Suraia Nusrin, Atiqul Islam, Nurul A. Bhuiyan, Niaz Rahim, Gabriela Delgado, Rosario Morales, Jose Luis Mendez, Armando Navarro, Ana I. Gil, Haruo Watanabe, Masatomo Morita, G. Balakrish Nair, and Alejandro Cravioto. Cholera between 1991 and 1997 in Mexico Was Associated with Infection by Classical, El Tor, and El Tor Variants of Vibrio cholerae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2010, 48, 3666–3674.
Nurul Amin Bhuiyan, Suraia Nusrin, Munirul Alam, Haruo Watanabe, Masatomo Morita, Alejandro Cravioto, T. Ramamurthy, and G. Balakrish Nair. Changing Genotypes of Cholera Toxin (CT) of Vibrio cholerae O139 in Bangladesh and Description of Three New CT Genotypes. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology, 2009, 57, 136-141.
Suraia Nusrin, Ana I. Gil, N. A. Bhuiyan, Ashrafus Safa, Masahiro Asakura, C. F. Lanata, E.R. Hall, H. Miranda, B. Huapaya, C. Vargas G, M.A. Luna, D.A.Sack, Shinji Yamasaki and G. Balakrish Nair. The Peruvian El Tor strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 have a distinct region in the Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II that differentiates them from the seventh pandemic strains of other continents. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2009, 58, 342-354.
Ashrafus Safa, Nurul A. Bhuiyan, Denise Murphy, John Bates, Suraia Nusrin, Richard Y. C. Kong, Manas Chongsanguan, Wanpen Chaicumpa and G. Balakrish Nair. Multilocus genetic analysis reveals that the Australian strains of Vibrio choleraeO1 are similar to the pre-seventh pandemic strains of the El Tor biotype. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2009, 58, 105-111.
Masatomo Morita, Makoto Ohnishi, Eiji Arakawa, N.A. Bhuiyan, Suraia Nusrin, Munirul Alam, A.K. Siddique, Firdausi Qadri, Hidemasa Izumiya, G. Balakrish Nair and Haruo Watanabe. Development and validation of a mismatch amplification mutation PCR assay to monitor the dissemination of an emerging variant of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor. Microbiology and Immunology, 2008, 52, 314-317.
Ana I. Gil, Hernan Miranda, Claudio F. Lanata, Ana Prada, Eric R. Hall, Carmen M. Barreno, Suraia Nusrin, Nurul A. Bhuiyan, David A. Sack, Gopinath Balakrish Nair. O3:K6 Serotype of Vibrio parahaemolyticus identical to the global pandemic clone associated with diarrhea in Peru. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2007, 11, 324-328.
Ashrafus Safa, N. A. Bhuyian, Suraia Nusrin, M. Ansaruzzaman, Munirul Alam, T. Hamabata, Yoshifumi Takeda, David A. Sack, and G. Balakrish Nair. Genetic Characteristics of Matlab variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 that are hybrids between Classical and El Tor biotypes. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2006, 55,1563-1569.
G. Balakrish Nair, Ashrafus Safa, N.A. Bhuiyan, Suraia Nusrin, Denise Murphy, Carolyn Nicol, Mary Valcanis, Steven Iddings, Ili Kubuabola, and Hassan Vally. Isolation of Vibrio cholerae O1 similar to pre-seventh pandemic El Tor strains during an outbreak of gastrointestinal disease in an island resort in Fiji. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2006, 55, 1559-1562.
Munirul Alam, Nur-A-Hasan, A. Sadique, N. A. Bhuiyan, Kabir U. Ahmed, Suraia Nusrin, G. Balakrish Nair, K. Siddique, R. Bradly Sack, David A. Sack, Anwar Huq, and Rita R. Colwell. 2006. Seasonal Cholera Caused by Vibrio cholerae Serogroups O1 and O139 in the Coastal Aquatic Environment of Bangladesh. Applied and Environmental Microbiology,June 2006, p. 4096-4104.
Suraia Nusrin, G. Yeahia Khan, N. A. Bhuiyan, M. Ansaruzzaman, M. A. Hossain, Ashrafus Safa, Rasel Khan, Shah M. Faruque, David A. Sack, T. Hamabata, Yoshifumi Takeda, and G. Balakrish Nair. Diverse CTX Phages among Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 strains isolated between 1994 and 2002 in an area where Cholera is endemic in Bangladesh. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2004; 42:5854-5856.

Suraia Nusrin, Asaduzzaman Asad, Md Abu Jaher Nayeem, Bitali Islam, Ruma Begum, Shah Nayeem Faruque, Shoma Hayat, Zhahirul Islam. Genomic diversity and resistome profiling of multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica isolated in Bangladesh. Oral presentation in the Genomics and Infectious Diseases session of International Congress on Infectious Diseases 2022 (ISID 2022). Nov 17-20, 2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Afroza Aman, Arzina Hossain, Suraia Nusrin, Mohammad Shakhawat Hussain. Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance Enterobacteriaceae in the Slums in Dhaka City. 2nd International Conference on Genomics, Nanotech, and Bioengineering 2022 (ICGNB-2022). June 26-28, 2022. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Suraia Nusrin, Asaduzzaman Asad, Shoma Hayat, Bitali Islam, Ruma Begum, Fahmida Habib Nabila, Zhahirul Islam. Multiple Resistance Mechanisms Conferring Reduced Susceptibility to Azithromycin in Shigella in Bangladesh: A Whole Genome Based Comprehensive Approach. Remote Rapid-Fire Presentation (3-minutes talk). ASM Microbe 2022. June 9-13, 2022, Washington, DC, USA.
Md. Shohanur Rahman, Arzina Hossain, Roksana Haque, Suraia Nusrin, Md. Shakhawat Hussain. Disinfection of Bacillus Cereus in Different Food Matrix Using Gamma Irradiation. Poster presentation at the1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on the Social and Life Sciences, ICSL 2020 on Gender, Health, Information, and the Environment, 27-29 February 2020, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Suraia Nusrin, Kwan Hok Tong, Gayathri Chaturvedi, Rudolf S Wu, John P Giesy and Richard Y C Kong. Regulation of CYP11B1 and CYP11B2 steroidogenic genes by hypoxia-inducible miR-10b in H295R cells. 7^th International Conference on Marine Pollution and Ecotoxicology, 17-21 June, 2013, Hong Kong.
Suraia Nusrin, Rudolf S Wu, John P Giesy and Richard Y C Kong. Effect of Hypoxia–inducible Factors (HIFs) on microRNA expression and steroidogenesis in the H295R human adrenocortical cell line. Centre for Marine Environmental Research & Innovative Technology (MERIT) Annual Symposium, 5th January – 6th January 2012.
G. Chaturvedi , Suraia Nusrin, R.S.S.Wu, J.Giesy, and Richard.Y.C. Kong. Effects of Hypoxia–inducible Factors on steroidogenesis: Identification of Molecular Biomarkers of Endocrine Disruption. 15^th International Symposium on Toxicity Assessment, 3-8 July 2011, Hong Kong.
Suraia Nusrin, G. Chaturvedi and Richard Y. C. Kong, R. S. S. Wu and J. Giesy. Effect of Hypoxia–inducible Factors (HIFs) on steroidogenic genes of the stress axis in H295R cells. 5^th PhD student Workshop, 18-19 April 2011, Suzhou, China.
G. Chaturvedi , Suraia Nusrin, R.S.S.Wu, J.Giesy, and Richard.Y.C. Kong. Effect of Hypoxia–inducible Factors (HIFs) on microRNA expression and steroidogenesis in the H295R human adrenocortical cell line. Centre for Marine Environmental Research & Innovative Technology (MERIT) Annual Symposium, 6th January – 7th January 2011.
Munirul Alam, A.K. Siddique, G. Balakrish Nair, R.B. Sack, David A. Sack, Nur A. Hasan, Atiqul Islam, A. Sadique, M. Sultana, K.U. Ahmed, W.B. Chowdhury, N.A. Bhuiyan, S.U. Ahmed, A. Iqbal, Suraia Nusrin, Niaz Rahim,C.J. Grim, Hubert P. Endtz, Alejandro Cravioto, Anwar Huq, and Rita R. Colwell. Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O1 and O139 Causing Endemic Cholera in the Coastal Aquatic Environment of Bangladesh: A Molecular Epidemiological, Ecological and Phylogenetic Study. 12th Annual Scientific Conference (ASCON), 9-12 February 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
N.A. Bhuiyan, Suraia Nusrin, Munirul Alam, A.K. Siddique, Haruo Watanabe, and G. Balakrish Nair. Appearance of Three New Genotypes of Cholera Toxin B- subunit in Vibrio cholerae O139 Isolated in Bangladesh. 12th Annual Scientific Conference (ASCON), 9-12 February 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Munirul Alam, G.Balakrish Nair, A.K. Siddique, R. Bradley Sack, David A. Sack, Nur- A-Hassan, Marzia Sultana, Abdus Sadique, N.A Bhuiyan, Kabir U. Ahmed, Suraia Nusrin, Atiqul Islam, Wasimu B. Cowdhury, Christopher J. Grim, Anwarul Huq, and Rita R. Colwell. Vibrio Cholerae serogroups O1 El Tor and O139 Bengal native to the aquatic environment of the coastal villages of the Bay of Bengal are the source of endemic cholera: A follow-up. 42^nd US-Japan Cooperative Medical Program on Cholera and other Enteric Diseases. 5-7, Dec 2007, Austin, Texas, USA.
Suraia Nusrin, Ana I. Gil, N. A. Bhuiyan, Ashrafus Safa, Masahiro Asakura, C. F. Lanata, E. Hall, H. Miranda, B. Huapaya, C. Vargas G, M.A. Luna , D.A. Sack, Shinji Yamasaki and G. Balakrish Nair. The Peruvian El Tor strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 have a distinct region in the Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II. 42^nd US-Japan Cooperative Medical Program on Cholera and other Enteric Diseases. 5-7, Dec 2007, Austin, Texas, USA.
G. Balakrish Nair, N.A. Bhuiyan, Suraia Nusrin, Munirul Alam, A. Safa, Firdausi Qadri, S. M. Faruque, A. K. Siddique, Yoshifumi Takeda and David A. Sack. Molecular basis of the emergence of a new more severe form of cholera. Vibrio 2007, the second conference on the Biology of Vibrios, 28^th Nov –1^st Dec 2007, Institut Pasteur, Paris.
Munirul Alam, Nur- A-Hassan N.A Bhuiyan A.K. Siddique, R. Bradley Sack, David A. Sack, Marzia Sultana, Abdus Sadique, Kabir U. Ahmed, Suraia Nusrin, Atiqul Islam, Wasimu B. Cowdhury, Anwarul Huq, Rita R. Colwell and G.Balakrish Nair. Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 Isolated from Coastal Ecosystim of Bangladesh. 11^th Annual Scientific Conference (ASCON), 4-6 March 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Munirul Alam, A.K. Siddique, R. Bradley Sack, David A. Sack, Nur- A-Hassan, N.A. Bhuiyan, Marzia Sultana, Abdus Sadique, Kabir U. Ahmed, Suraia Nusrin, Atiqul Islam, Wasimu B. Cowdhury, G.Balakrish Nair,Anwarul Huq and Rita R. Colwell. Ecology and Molecular Traits of Vibrio cholerae Serogroup O1 and O139 Causing. Cholera in Coastal Villages of Bay of Bengal. 11^thAnnual Scientific Conference (ASCON), 4-6 March 2007, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Munirul Alam, G.Balakrish Nair, A.K. Siddique, R. Bradley Sack, David A. Sack, Nur- A-Hassan, Marzia Sultana, Abdus Sadique, N.A Bhuiyan, Kabir U. Ahmed, Suraia Nusrin, Atiqul Islam, Wasimu B. Cowdhury, Anwarul Huq, and Rita R. Colwell. Vibrio Cholerae serogroups O139 Bengal Competes with Serogroup O1 for Endemicity in the Coastal aquatic environment of Bangladesh. 41^st US-Japan Cooperative Medical Program on Cholera and other Enteric Diseases. 5-7, Nov 2006, Gifu, Japan.
Munirul Alam, Nur-A-Hasan, A. Sadique, N. A. Bhuiyan, Kabir U. Ahmed, Suraia Nusrin,G. Balakrish Nair, K. Siddique, R. Bradly Sack, David A. Sack, Anwar Huq, and Rita R. Colwell. Seasonal Cholera Caused by Vibrio cholerae Serogroups O1 and O139 in the Coastal Aquatic Environment of Bangladesh. 11^th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Diseases and Nutrition, March 8-10, 2006, The Rama Gardens Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand.
Ashsrafus Safa, N. A. Bhuiyan, Suraia Nusrin, Munirul Alam, T. Hamabata, Y. Takeda, David A. Sack and G. Balakrish Nair. Matlab variants of Vibrio cholerae possesses gene clusters specific to pandemic strains.8^th Commonwealth Congress on Diarrhoea and Malnutrition, 6-8 February 2006, ICDDR,B, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
G. Balakrish Nair, N. A. Bhuiyan, Suraia Nusrin, A. Safa, M. Ansaruzzaman, S. M. Faruque, T. Hamabata, Yoshifumi Takeda and David A. Sack. The Matlab Variants of Vibrio cholerae O1: Do they deserve a new biotype status? Fortieth Anniversary of United States- Japan Cooperative Medical science Program, December 7-10, 2004, Kyoto, Japan.

Different cell cultures for example H295R human adrenocortical cell line, 293FT cell line, HT1080 human fibrosarcoma CCL-12 cell line, and HeLa CCL-2 cell line.
Molecular biological techniques such as construction of plasmids overexpressing the desired genes using the GATEWAY™ Cloning Technology (Invitrogen, USA), gene knockdown by RNA interference, gene sequencing, sequencing data analysis (Artemis, Chromas, BioEdit, ClustalX, GeneDoc, MEGA etc), site-directed mutagenesis, quantitative real time PCR, electroporation of miRNA (Neon, Invitrogen), Luciferase reporter assay, SDSPAGE and Western blotting and most importantly transduction of H295R cells with lentivirus.
Involved with several important projects at ICDDR,B specifically isolation of Vibrio Cholerae from clinical samples with CDC and the epidemiology and ecology of V. Cholerae in the Southern part of Bangladesh with NIH.

Awards & Achievements

Selected as a Mentor in the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Future Leaders Mentoring Fellowship (FLMF) 2022 by the ASM and the Sub-committee on Minority Education.

2022 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Travel Award to attend ASM Microbes 2022 in Washington, DC, USA.

Prof. Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leaders, 2019.

Hong Kong UGC (University Grant Commission) Scholarship for PhD program.

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