Dr. Md. Mahiuddin Zahangir | Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

Dr. Md. Mahiuddin Zahangir received his Ph. D. from Sado Island Center for Ecological Sustainability, Niigata University, Japan in 2021. His research was on the neuroendocrine regulation of semilunar spawning mechanisms in pufferfish. Earlier, he received his Bachelor of Science in Fisheries (Hons.) degree in 2012 from the Faculty of Fisheries, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, and Master of Science (M.S.) in June 2014 from the Department of Fisheries Biology and Genetics. After successful completion of the graduation with the bright result, he joined as a Lecturer in the Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Fisheries, Chittagong Veterinary, and Animal Sciences University and served as Lecturer from March 2014 to March 2016. Currently, he holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology, CVASU.

Dr. Md. Mahiuddin Zahangir possesses a strong academic and research background in his professional arena that includes a number of internationally reputed scientific articles.

Research Interests

reproductive neuroendocrinology; fish physiology; aquaculture , climate change and fish physiology

Experience

Teaching

•	Associate Professor in Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences university from April 23, 2021 to Present
•	Assistant Professor in Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University from March 24, 2016 to Present
•	Lecturer in Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology from March 2, 2014 to July 23, 2020

Administrative

•	Head in Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences university from Aug. 22, 2021 to Present
•	Head in Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University from April 3, 2016 to Sept. 25, 2017
•	Assistant Provost in Bir Muktijoddha M A Hannan Hall, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University from Sept. 2, 2015 to March 30, 2016

Teaching : Current Courses

Undergraduate

Course Name	Course Code	Department
Fish Endocrinology	FEN-401	Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology
Fisheries Zoology	FZO-101	Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology
Fish Genetics and Biotechnology	FGB-302	Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology
Fish Physiology	FPH-202	Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology

Masters

Course Name	Course Code	Department
Advanced Fish Physiology	APH-501	Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology
Biology of Aquatic Animals	BAA-501	Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology
Molecular Biology	MBI-502	Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology
Reproductive Physiology of Fishes	RFP-502	Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology

Contact

Email: mmzahangir@cvasu.ac.bd

Cell Phone: +8801722788370

Location

Faculty of Fisheries Building, Department of Fish Biology and Biotechnology,
Main campus.

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Qualifications

Educational Qualifications

Ph.D.	2021	Niigata University, Japan
M.S.	2014	Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
B.Sc. (Fisheries)	2012	Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
H.S.C (Science)	2008	Shahid Syed Nazrul Islam College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
S.S.C (Science)	2006	Malijhikandha High School, Sherpur, Bangladesh
MS thesis: Effect of pH as a stressor on the stress responses in zebrafish (Danio rerio) Ph. D. thesis: Studies on the role and regulation of kisspeptin and gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone system in the reproduction of grass and tiger puffers: Implication of melatonin in semilunar spawning rhythm

Trainings Received

IBRO-APRC advanced school of Neuroscience, Monash University, Malaysia, 7-20 October 2019.
Training on Biosafety and Biosecurity in Laboratory Diagnosis and Research, Icddr’b and Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chittagong, 26-27 September 2016.
Workshop on Syllabus Development of Undergraduate and Master’s Level of Faculty of Fisheries, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chittagong, 10-11 April 2016.

Honours

Acedemic Awards

“Best researcher award (3^rd)” at Annual research workshop 2020, organized by Director (Research and Extension), Chattogram veterinary and animal sciences university, CVASU, Bangladesh.
2^nd best presenter award at the BRIMS~IBRO mini-symposium 2019, held by Brain Research Institute, Monash University, Malaysia.
Awarded with the prestigious Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) Scholarship in 2017 for Ph.D. research in Marine Biological Station, Sado Island Center for Ecological Sustainability, Niigata University, Japan.
Fellowship Award from “National Science and Technology”, Bangladesh in 2013 for the Master’s Research work on “Physiological stress response on Fish”.
Gold Medal Award in recognition of outstanding performance among the male students of all the faculties in obtaining graduation degree in July-December 2012.

Research Grants

Principal Investigator- Unveiling the morphometrics, feeding ecology and breeding season of Plotosus canius from the Bay of Bengal, funded by UGC-CVASU for the financial year 2021-2022.
Worked as Sub-project Management Team Member (SPMT) in World Bank and UGC funded HEQEP project named “Capacity building of the newly established Faculty of Fisheries and strengthening internship program of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University for producing competent graduates” from January 2016 to September 2018.
Worked as Co-principal Investigator in sub project entitled “Improvement of the Culture practice of the Soft-shell mud crab in Bangladesh” funded by Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) funded project named “Culture of Cuchia (Mud eel) and Crab in the Selected Areas of Bangladesh and Research Project” from July 2015 to September 2018.
Successfully completed UGC funded research project named “A histological approach for the characterization of the gonadal maturation cycle of Poa fish” as Principal investigator from July 2015 to December 2015.

Membership

Zoological Society of Japan
The Japanese Society of Fisheries Science

Publications

Google Scholar Link:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QVuNwHIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Publications in peer-reviewed journals:

Shahjahan M, Zahangir MM, Islam SM, Ashaf-Ud-Doulah M, Ando H. (2021). Higher acclimation temperature affects growth of rohu (Labeo rohita) through suppression of GH and IGFs genes expression actuating stress response. Journal of Thermal Biology. (Accepted).
Ashaf-Ud-Doulah M, Islam SM, Zahangir MM, Islam MS, Brown C, Shahjahan M (2021). Increased water temperature interrupts embryonic and larval development of Indian major carp rohu Labeo rohita. Aquaculture International. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-021-00649-x.
Islam MA, Akhter F, Islam MM, Zahangir MM (2021). Comprehensive study on the reproductive biology of black pomfret (Parastromateus niger) in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 41:101556.
Islam MM, Zenia F, Mamun MMM, Akhter F, Zahangir MM (2021). Amelioration of growth, blood physiology and water quality by exogenous dietary supplementation of pepsin in stripped catfish, Pangasiadon hypophthalmus. Aquaculture, 530:735840.
Zahangir MM, Matsubara H, Ogiso S, Suzuki N, Ueda H, Ando H (2021). Expression dynamics of the genes for the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis in tiger puffer (Takifugu rubripes) at different reproductive stages. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 301:113660.
Akhter F, Islam MM, Iida M, Zahangir MM (2020). Reproductive seasonality and the gonadal maturation of silver pomfret Pampus argenteus in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 100(7): 1155-1161.
Islam SM, Zahangir MM, Doulah MA, Khatun MM, Shahjahan M (2020). Extreme warm acclimation temperature alters oxygen consumption, micronucleus formation in erythrocytes and gill morphology of rohu (Labeo rohita) fingerlings. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 46: 2323−2330.
Das M, Zahangir MM, Akhter F, Mamun MMU, Islam MM (2020). Land-mark based morphometric and meristic variations in two congeneric hilsa populations, Tenualosa ilisha and Tenualosa toli from Bangladesh water bodies. Asian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 6(2): 265−282.
Islam SM, Zahangir MM, Jannat Z, Hasan MN, Suchana SA, Rohani MF, Shahjahan M (2020). Hypoxia reduced upper thermal limits causing cellular and nuclear abnormalities of erythrocytes in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus. Journal of Thermal Biology, 90:102604.
Khatun MH, Barman PP, Yi J, Lupa ST, Zahangir MM, Liu Q (2020). A preliminary snapshot of the tropic model and ecosystem attributes of Kaptai reservoir system, Bangladesh. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-020-9284-5.
Rahman MR, Asaduzzaman M, Zahangir MM, Islam SR, Nahid SAA, Jahan DA, Mahmud Y, Khan MNA (2020). Evaluation of limbs autotomy as a promising strategy to improve production performances of mud crab (Scylla olivacea) in the soft-shell farming system. Aquaculture Research, 51(6): 2555−2572.
Khatun MH, Barman PP, Lupa ST, Zahangir MM, Asha SN, Liu Q (2020). Comparative analysis of mass-balanced models for a tropical reservoir to assess the impact of a management practice. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 18(1): 1901−1924.
Akhter F, Islam MA, Islam MM, Zahangir MM (2020). Seasonal variations in some biological parameters (Length-weight relationship, condition factor, hepatosomatic and gonadosomatic index) of silver and black pomfret (Pampus argenteus and Parastromateus niger) from the Bay of Bengal. Journal of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, 5(1): 43−53.
Rahman M, Zahangir MM, Kitahashi T, Shahjahan M, Ando H. (2019). Effects of high and low temperature on expression of GnIH, GnIH receptor, GH and PRL genes in the male grass puffer during breeding season. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 282: 113200.
Farhana T, Haque F, Amin FB, Zahangir MM, Islam MS (2019). Developmental pliability in zebrafish: an experimental inquiry of acute salinity stress on the early life of zebrafish. Aquaculture Reports, 14:100189.
Hasan MM, Zahangir MM, Akhter F and Islam MM (2018). Effects of different dietary levels of vitamin E supplementation on the growth and ovarian development of Climbing Perch, Anabas testudineus (Bloch 1792). Bangladesh Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 6(1&2): 10−15.
Rahamn MR, Khan MNA, Nahid SAA, Asaduzzaman M, Zahangir MM (2018). A tale on soft-shell crab farming in Bangladesh: new horizon in exploring blue economy; HEQEP Journal, 47−55.
Amin FB, Farhana T, Mostakim GM, Zahangir MM, Mishu MM, Islam MS (2016). Behavioral and physiological stress responses of java barb (Barbonymus gonionotus) to environmental salinity challenge. Journal of Aquaculture Engineering and Fisheries Research, 2(4): 176−184.
Ahmed SI, Zahangir MM, Haque F, Ahmmed MK and Shahjahan M (2016). Alteration of blood glucose and hemoglobin levels in zebrafish exposed to sumithion). Progressive Agriculture, 27(2): 216−221.
Zahangir MM, Haque F, Mostakim GM and Islam MS (2015). Secondary stress responses of zebrafish to different pH: Evaluation in a seasonal manner; Aquaculture Reports, 2:91−96.
Mostakim GM, Zahangir MM, Mishu MM, Rahman MK, and Islam MS (2015). Alteration of the blood parameters and histoarchitecture of liver and kidney of silver barb after chronic exposure to quinalphos. Journal of Toxicology, 415984,1−8.
Zahangir MM, Haque F, Mostakim GM, Khatun H and Islam MS (2015). Effect of water pH on the early developmental responses in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Progressive Agriculture, 26: 85−89.

Publications in the proceedings of the conference:

Ando H, Zahangir MM, Toyota K: Semilunar expression genes in the forebrain of grass puffer: opposite patterns of neuropeptide precursor and receptor genes during a lunar month. Zoological Society of Japan, 2-4 September/2020 (Online), Japan.
Zahangir MM, Palkowska W, Maruyama Y, Hattori A, Ando H; Dim light at night stimulates melatonin production and may influence the expression of the GnRH, GnIH, and kisspeptin genes in the grass puffer. Zoological Society of Japan, 6-7 September/2020 (Online), Japan.
Sato K, Uemura Y, Zahangir MM, Ando H; Semilunar synchronized transcriptome dynamics in the grass puffer Takifugu alboplumbeus. Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology.
Islam MA, Akhter F, Akter F, Zahangir MM, Islam MM; Determination of breeding season of black pomfret (Parastromateus niger) from the Bay of Bengal. 16^th International scientific conference, 19-20 October/ 2019, Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh.
Zahangir MM, Palkowska W, Ando H, Ogiso S, Suzuki N, Ueda H, Matsubara S; Expression profile of the genes in the HPG axis from young and adult tiger puffer during spawning season. Zoological society of Japan, 12-14 September/2019, Osaka City University, Japan.
Zahangir MM, Ando H, Ogiso S, Suzuki N and Ueda H; Expression of genes for NMDA receptor NR2 subunit and gonadotropin-releasing hormones in the brain of tiger puffer in the Nanao bay during spawning season. Japan Society of Fisheries Science, autumn meeting, 26-30 March/2019, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan.
Akhter F, Islam MM, Mamun MMM, Zahangir MM; Gonadal maturation cycle of silver pomfret (Pampus argenteus) from the Bay of Bengal; 8th BFRF biennial conference, 23-24 February/2019, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Dhaka.
Ferdous Z, Zahangir MM, Akhter F and Islam MM; Exogenous dietary supplementation of pepsin: effects on growth, feed utilization and health status in fish (Pangus, Pangasius hypophthalmus); 8th BFRF biennial conference, 23-24 February/2019, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Dhaka.
Rahamn MR, Islam SR, Zahangir MM, Asaduzzaman M, Nahid SAA, Khan MNA; Advancement in soft shell mud crab farming in Bangladesh: a footprint towards exploring blue economy; 8th BFRF biennial conference, 23-24 February/2019, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Dhaka.
Shahjahan M, Zahangir MM, Yamada Y, Kurokawa D, Ando H; Daily and circadian expressions of melatonin receptor gene in the grass puffer larvae, The 42th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Comparative Endocrinology, 17-19 November/2017, Nara Women’s University, Nara, Japan.
Nahid SAA, Henriksson PJG, Zahangir MM, Khan MNA; Life Cycle Assessment of prawn feed resources in Bangladesh, 3^rd Asian Food Safety & Security Association Conference on “Food Safety and Security”, 15-17^th September/ 2016, KIIT University, India.
Zahangir MM, Haque F., and Islam M.S, Effects of pH Stress on the Stress Responses in Zebrafish (Danio rerio), 2nd International Conference on Fisheries, Aquaculture And Environment In The Indian Ocean, pp 49, 24-26 February 2015, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
Zahangir MM, Haque F., and Islam M.S.; Effects of acute water pH stress on the stress indicators in zebrafish (Danio rerio)”, 5th International Conference on Environmental Aspects of Bangladesh, pp112-113, 5-6 September, 2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Zahangir MM, Haque F., and Islam M.S, Effects of pH stress on the embryonic development of Zebrafish (Danio rerio), 6^th Biennial Fisheries Conference & Research Fair; 26-27 April, 2014; Bangladesh Fisheries research Forum, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Funding

Current Funding

1. "Unveiling the morphometrics, feeding ecology and breeding season of Plotosus canius from the Bay of Bengal" - As principal Investigator. Amount- 2,00,000 TK- funded by UGC-CVASU, FY-2021-2022.

Project Completed

1. "Capacity building of the newly established Faculty of Fisheries and strengthening internship program of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University for producing competent graduates” As Sub-project Management Team Member (SPMT). Amount- 2,00,000,00 Tk. Funder by World Bank. FY- 2016-18.

2. "Improvement of the Culture practice of the Soft-shell mud crab in Bangladesh" As co-Principal Investigator. Amount- 23,00,00 Tk. Funded by Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI), Bangladesh.

3. A histological approach for the characterization of the gonadal maturation cycle of Poa fish” as Principal investigator. Amount- 1,00,000 Tk. Funded by UGC-CVASU, FY- 2014-15.

Supervision

Current

UG (BSc)

SL No.	Student Name	Roll No.	Reg No.	Session	Degree	Supervisor
1.	Muhammed Erfanul Hoque	17/41	01797	2016-2017	UG (BSc)	PI Thesis Title : Thesis Title : Length-weight relationship (LWR) of western yellow seabream (Acanthopagrus morrisoni) from the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh
	Thesis Title : Thesis Title : Length-weight relationship (LWR) of western yellow seabream (Acanthopagrus morrisoni) from the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh
2.	Proma Dey	17/06	01763	2016-17	UG (BSc)	PI Thesis Title : Thesis Title : Study on some biological index (Kn, RLG, GSI, HIS, VSI, ISI) of Belanger Croacker, Johnius belangerii
	Thesis Title : Thesis Title : Study on some biological index (Kn, RLG, GSI, HIS, VSI, ISI) of Belanger Croacker, Johnius belangerii
3.	Nur Nahar Sohe	17/54	01809	2016-17	UG (BSc)	PI Thesis Title : Thesis Title : Length-weight relationship of two Jew fish (Red jew fish, Johnius belangerii and white jew fish, Johnius borneensis) from the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh
	Thesis Title : Thesis Title : Length-weight relationship of two Jew fish (Red jew fish, Johnius belangerii and white jew fish, Johnius borneensis) from the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh
4.	S.M. Atiqul Alam	16/58	01533	2015-2016	UG (BSc)	PI Thesis Title : Thesis Title : Histoarchitecture of kidney, liver, gill and gonads of white jew fish, Johnius borneensis
	Thesis Title : Thesis Title : Histoarchitecture of kidney, liver, gill and gonads of white jew fish, Johnius borneensis

Collaboration

Niigata University, Japan

Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

Research Portfolio