Center of Excellence in Higher Education
The First Private University in Bangladesh

Dr. Farzana Hossain

Full Time Faculty
Assistant Professor 


Post Doctoral study in Bioscience (Antimicrobial Peptides), Shizuoka University, Japan
Ph.D. in Bioscience, Shizuoka University, Japan

M.S. in Microbiology; University of Dhaka
B.Sc. in Microbiology; University of Dhaka

Phone: +880-2-55668200 Ext: 6848
Email: hossain.farzana@northsouth.edu
Office: SAC#811

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Farzana Hossain is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, since January 2024. Prior to this, she held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Primeasia University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, from December 2022 until January 2024.

Dr. Farzana has contributed to the academic community as a Visiting Foreign Researcher at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, during the period from October 2023 to January 2024, where she conducted research on Cholera Toxin utilizing mammalian cell lines.

She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for 2 years in the Nanomaterials Research Division at Shizuoka University, Japan. Her research work was directed towards elucidating the mechanisms by which antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) interact with single vesicles and single living bacterial cells through the application of “single-cell analysis,” while also considering their dependence on membrane potential.

Dr. Farzana obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Bioscience at Shizuoka University, Japan (Biophysics lab), where she elucidated the significance of membrane potential in the bactericidal efficacy of AMPs and CPP-type AMPs. She earned her B.Sc. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Dhaka, where she was honored with the Dean's Award for her outstanding academic performance by the Faculty of Biological Sciences.

Throughout her research career, she has disseminated her research findings through the publication of numerous research and review articles in esteemed peer-reviewed journals.

As NSU Faculty

  1. Zahidul Islam†, Farzana Hossain† and Masahito Yamazaki. Single-cell analysis of antimicrobial compound–induced cell death of bacterial cells. J Antimicrob Chemother, 80: 1471–1481, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkaf116

Previous Publications

  1. Zahidul Islam, Farzana Hossain, Md. Hazrat Ali and Masahito Yamazaki. Relationship between antimicrobial peptides-induced cell membrane damage and bactericidal activity. Biophysical Journal, 122, 1–11, 2023. doi: org/10.1016/j.bpj.2023.11.006
  2. Farzana Hossain, Md. Masum Billah and Masahito Yamazaki. Single-cell analysis for antimicrobial and bactericidal activities of antimicrobial peptide magainin 2. Microbiology Spectrum, vol. 10, issue. 4, 2022. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00114-22
  3. Moynul Hasan, Farzana Hossain, Hideo Dohra and Masahito Yamazaki. Role of Interfacial Hydrophobicity in Antimicrobial Peptide Magainin 2-induced Nanopore Formation. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 630, 50-56, 2022, doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.08.094
  4. Masum Billah, Samiron Kumar Saha, Md. Mamun Or Rashid, Farzana Hossain, and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of Osmotic Pressure on Pore Formation in Lipid bilayers by the Antimicrobial Peptide Magainin 2. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 24, 6716–6731, 2022, doi: 10.1039/d1cp05764b
  5. Farzana Hossain, Hideo Dohra and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of membrane potential on entry of lactoferricin B-derived 6-residue antimicrobial peptide into Single Escherichia coli cells and lipid vesicles. Journal of Bacteriology, 203 (9), e00021-21, 2021. doi.org/10.1128/JB.00021-21
  6. Ojodomo J. Achadu, Fuyuki Abe, Farzana Hossain, Fahmida Nasrin, Masahito Yamazaki, Tetsuro Suzuki, Enoch Y. Park. Sulfur-doped carbon dots@polydopamine-functionalized magnetic silver nanocubes for dual-modality detection of norovirus. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 193, 113540 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2021.113540
  7. Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Farzana Hossain, and Masahito Yamazaki. Action of antimicrobial peptides and cell-penetrating peptides on membrane potential revealed by the single GUV method. Biophys Rev., 12, 339-348, 2020. doi.org/10.1007/s12551-020-00662-z
  8. Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Farzana Hossain, Samiron Kumar Saha and Masahito Yamazaki. Role of Membrane potential on Entry of Cell- Penetrating Peptide Transportan 10 into Single Vesicles. Biophysical Journal, 118, 57-69, 2020. doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.012
  9. Fahmida Nasrin, Ankan Dutta Chowdhury, Akjilesh Babu Ganganboina, Ojodomo J. Achadu, Farzana Hossain, Masahito Yamazaki, Enoch Y. Park. Fluorescent and electrochemical dual-mode detection of Chikungunya virus E1 protein using fluorophore-embedded and redox probe-encapsulated liposomes. Microchimica Acta, 187: 674, 2020. doi.org/10.1007/s00604-020-04656-2
  10. Farzana Hossain, Md. Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman, and Masahito Yamazaki. Membrane potential is vital for rapid permeabilization of plasma membranes and lipid bilayers by the antimicrobial peptide lactoferricin B. J. Biol. Chem., 294 (27), 10449-10462, 2019. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007762
  11. Tusnova Sharmin, Razia Sultana, Farzana Hossain, Shahriar Kabir Shakil, Foysal Hossen and Md. Mamun Or Rashid. Neuropharmacological and antibacterial effects of the ethyl acetate extract of Diospyros malabarica (Ebenaceae) seeds. Clinical Phytoscience, 4, 22, 2018. doi.org/10.1186/s40816-018-0083-x
  12. Yoshimitsu Otomo, Farzana Hossain, Fazle Rabbi, Yuki Yakuwa, Chowdhury Rafiqul Ahsan. Pre-Enrichment of Estuarine and Fresh Water Environmental Samples with Sodium Chloride Yields in Better Recovery of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Advances in Microbiology, 3, 21-25, 2013. doi:10.4236/aim.2013.31003

 

Conference Proceedings: International

  1. Farzana Hossain, Hideo Dohra and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of Membrane Potential on Entry of Lactoferricin B-derived Antimicrobial Peptide into Single Bacterial Cells and Lipid Vesicles. The 6th International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), December 2-3, 2021, Japan (Virtual).
  2. Farzana Hossain, Hideo Dohra and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of Membrane Potential on Entry of Lactoferricin B-derived Antimicrobial Peptide into Single Bacterial Cells and Lipid Vesicles. 20th International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) Congress, 4-8 Oct 2021, Brazil (Virtual).
  3. Farzana Hossain, Hideo Dohra and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of Membrane Potential on Entry of Lactoferricin B-derived Antimicrobial Peptide into Single Bacterial Cells and Lipid Vesicles. World Microbe Forum, June 20-24, 2021 (virtual), a joint digital between ASM Microbe 2021 and FEMS 2021.
  4. Farzana Hossain, M Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman, and Masahito Yamazaki. Membrane potential is vital for rapid permeabilization of plasma membranes and lipid bilayers by the antimicrobial peptide lactoferricin B. The 64th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, FEB' 15-19, 2020, San Diego, California, USA.
  5. Farzana Hossain, M Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman, and Masahito Yamazaki. Membrane potential is vital for rapid permeabilization of plasma membranes and lipid bilayers by the antimicrobial peptide lactoferricin B. The 6th International Symposium toward the Future of Advanced Researches in Shizuoka University, Japan (ISFAR-SU2020).
  6. Farzana Hossain, M Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman, and Masahito Yamazaki. Membrane potential is vital for rapid permeabilization of plasma membranes and lipid bilayers by the antimicrobial peptide lactoferricin B. The 4th International Symposium on Biomedical Engineering, by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), November 14-15, 2019, Act city Hamamatsu Congress Center, Hamamatsu, Japan.
  7. Farzana Hossain, Yoshimitsu Otomo, Ahsan, Chowdhury Rafiqul Ahs Effect of Sodium Chloride on the Virulent Gene and Protein Production in Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The 5th International Conference on Microbiology of Food, Health and Environment: Problems and Prospects in Developing countries, December 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  8. Farzana Hossain and Masahito Yamazaki. Minimum Interaction Time for Bactericidal Activity of Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs). The 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, 25-27 Nov. 2021, Sendai, Japan (Virtual).
  9. Farzana Hossain, Zahidul Islam, Hideo Dohra and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of membrane potential on entry of lactoferricin B-derived antimicrobial peptide into single bacterial cells and lipid vesicles. The Annual Meeting of Cooperative Research at Research Center of Biomedical Engineering, 5 March 2021, Japan (Virtual).
  10. Farzana Hossain, and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of Membrane potential on Entry of Antimicrobial Peptide (AMP) LfcinB (4-9) into Single coli Cells, Spheroplasts, and GUVs. The 58th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, 16-18 Sep. 2020, Gunma, Japan (Virtual).
  11. Farzana Hossain, M Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman, and Masahito Yamazaki. Membrane potential is vital for rapid permeabilization of plasma membranes and lipid bilayers by the antimicrobial peptide lactoferricin B. The Annual Meeting of Coop. Res. at Res. Cen. of Biomedical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 13 March 2020, Yokohama, Japan.
  12. Farzana Hossain, M Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman, and Masahito Yamazaki. Membrane potential is vital for rapid permeabilization of plasma membranes and lipid bilayers by the antimicrobial peptide lactoferricin B. The 57th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, 24-26 Sep. 2019, Miyazaki, Japan.
  13. Farzana Hossain, M Moniruzzaman, Md. Mizanur Rahman Moghal, and Masahito Yamazaki. Interaction of Lactoferricin B (Lfcin B) with living single Escherichia coli cells and single vesicles of extract lipids. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, 15-17 Sep. 2018, Okayama, Japan.

Research Grants:

Principle investigator, Conference Travel and Research Grants (CTRG), North South University, Bangladesh, 2024-2025.

 

Awards and Honors:

1. Awarded by the foreign researcher invitation program as a Visiting Foreign Researcher at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan (2023).

3. IUPAB 2021 program award of BSJ for young researchers in the 20th International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) Congress, Brazil (virtual) (2021).

3. ASM Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award in World Microbe Forum, a joint digital event between ASM Microbe and FEMS (2021).

4. Travel Award in 64th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Diego, USA (2020).

5. International Exchange Program Scholarship, Shizuoka University, Japan (2018).

6. Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Scholarship, Japan (2017).

7. Dean’s Award for B.Sc. (Honors’), Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka, for excellent results in B. Sc. (2011).

 

Trainings/Workshops:

1. “Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN)”: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Vaccine Quality, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2017.

2. Quality Control of Measles Rubella Vaccine in Beijing Minhai Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Beijing, China, 2015.

3. 50 days of training in Production and Quality Control of Oral Inactivated Cholera Vaccine and Vi Capsular Polysaccharide and Vi-DT Conjugate Vaccine in the Vaccine Development Laboratories at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul, South Korea, 2014.

Ph.D. in Bioscience (2020), Shizuoka University, Japan, (Degree Awarded)

M.S. in Microbiology (2010); Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, (First class)
B.Sc. in Microbiology (2008); Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, (First class)

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jan 2024 – Present)

Visiting Foreign Researcher, Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan (Oct 2023 – Jan 2024)

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Primeasia University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Dec 2022 – Jan 2024)

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Nanomaterials Research Division, Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan (Oct 2020 – Sep 2022)

Research Assistant, Department of Integrated Bioscience, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan (Nov 2017 – Sep 2020)

Executive Officer (Microbiology), Incepta Vaccine Ltd. Bangladesh (Nov 2010 – Sep 2017)      

  • Biology I (BIO103)
  • Biology I Lab (BIO103L)
  • Basic Microbiology (MIC101/BIO202)
  • Basic Microbiology Lab (BIO202L)
  • Microbial Ecology (MIC201)
  • Infectious Diseases and Diagnostic Microbiology (MIC315)
  • Infectious Diseases and Diagnostic Microbiology Lab (MIC315L)
  • Molecular Biology (MIC316)
  • Agricultural Microbiology & Plant Pathology (MIC318)
  • Research Methodology and Project (MIC498)
  • Member: Biophysical Society of Japan
  • Member: Biophysical Society of USA
  • Member: American Society of Microbiology
  • Member: Graduate Microbiologist Society (GMS), Dhaka
  • Member: Bangladesh Society of Microbiologists (BSM)

Membrane biology/dynamics, Lipid membrane (artificial membrane and bacterial membrane), Antimicrobial Peptides, Cell penetrating Peptides, Antibiotic Resistance, mammalian cell line.