Research Highlights

Assessing landcover and water use effects on water quality in a rapidly developing semi-urban coastal area of Bangladesh

This study by the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences introduces a water source-based landcover-water quality approach to discern diffuse and point pollution events. Domestic water demand...

Uncovering the impact of mega-scale shipbreaking yards on soil and crop quality in Bangladesh: A spatiotemporal dynamics and associated health risks of metal/loid contamination.

The mega-scale open beaching shipbreaking operations in Bangladesh, conducted over the last four decades, have resulted in the uncontrolled discharge of hazardous waste, including metal/loids, into...

Synthesis of New Derivatives of Benzylidinemalononitrile and Ethyl 2 Cyano-3-phenylacrylate: In Silico Anticancer Evaluation

A computational study was performed by a research group from the Department of Chemistry on these compounds against three cancer-related proteins and one parasite target to determine their potential...

Ophiorrhiza mungos mediated silver nanoparticles as an effective and reusable adsorbent for the removal of methylene blue from water

A research group from the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering studied Ophiorrhiza mungos mediated AgNPs (Om-AgNPs) have been shown to be an effective bio-adsorbent for methylene...

Importance of mangrove plantations for climate change mitigation in Bangladesh

Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences conducted a study on the importance of mangrove plantations for climate change mitigation in Bangladesh. Mangroves have been identified as blue carbon...

How biotic, abiotic, and functional variables drive belowground soil carbon stocks along stress gradient in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest?

A group of scientists from the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong conducted a study on How biotic, abiotic, and functional variables drive belowground soil...

Adapting Commercial Glucometer Test Strip for Environmental analytes (Phosphate and Arsenic) sensing and for Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 Spike RBD IgG Antibody and SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Saliva and Serum

Faisal Hossain from the Department of Chemistry and Professor Dr. Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain from the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Science have been exploring electrochemical sensing of...

Early diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy from fundus image exploiting deep features

One of the major causes of blindness in human beings is the diabetic retinopathy (DR). To prevent blindness, early detection of DR is therefore necessary. A hybrid model has been proposed by a...

The Immunogenicity of DENV1-4 ED3s Strongly Differ despite Their Almost Identical Three-Dimensional Structures and High Sequence Similarities

The dengue mystery could be originated from the heterogeneity of four dengue virus (DENV) serotypes. A group of researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology recently studied...
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