Fisheries Personnel Profile: Md. Baki Billah

Md. Baki Billah
Lecturer
Department of Zoology
Jahangirnagar University
Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh

Contact:
Telephone: +880-2-7791045-51 (PABX)
Mobile: +880-1915105323
Fax: +880-2-7791052
E-mail: billah_z@yahoo.com

 

Field of Research Interest:

• Ecotoxicology, Molecular endocrinology, Population genetics
• Fish genetics and breeding, fish culture (Shell fish and fin fish)
• Environmental toxicology
• Aquatic Pollution
• Fish physiology, population dynamics and fish nutrition
• Fish processing, management and handling
• Fisheries management and socio-economic condition of fishermen
• Fish toxicity, histology
• Endocrinology
• Environmental Modeling

 

Job responsibilities:

• Undergraduate and graduate teaching
• Conduct Tutorial and Final Examinations
• Undergraduate and graduate question setting and answer script evaluation
• Attend academic meeting.
• Prepare draft syllabuses for undergraduate and graduate courses
• Make examination results as a tabulator (both undergraduate and graduate)
• Conduct laboratory classes and take lab exams
• Supervise undergraduate and graduate project and thesis (B.Sc and M.Sc)

 

Work experience:

• Duration: 13.06.2009-Till dated
  Occupation: Teaching
  Responsibilities: Teaching, learning and supervising students
  Institute: Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Duration: 01.06.2008 -11.05.2009
  Occupation: Teaching
  Responsibilities: Teaching, serve as TA, preparation of notes
  Institute: College of Development Alternative (CODA), Dhanmondi, Dhaka.

 

Professional experiences:

Courses taught at the Department of Zoology, JU:

• Theoretical courses:
  • Zool.201 – Cell Biology (2^nd year B.Sc Honours classes).
  • Zool. 306 – Evolution, Zoogeography and palaeontology (3^rd year B.Sc classes).
  • Zool. 402 – Fish Biology, physiology and nutrition (4^th year B.Sc Classes).
  • Che. 106 – Zoology. (1^st year B.Sc Honours classes).

 

• Practical Courses:
  • Zool.210 – Zoology practical: Histological slide preparation (2^nd year B.Sc Lab. class).
  • Zool 402 – Fish identification, habir and habitat analysis undergraduate (4^th year B.Sc Lab. Class)

 

Research Works:

• M. Sc Thesis:
  • Title: Ecotoxicological effects of wastewater contaminants and NaF to alter some tissues in floodplain catfish and climbing perch: A comet assay approach.
  • Supervisor: Professor Md. Abdus Salam, PhD (Japan), Post-doc (Japan).

• Undergraduate Thesis:
  • Title: Effects of industrial effluents on benthos and soil chemistry in lotic water
  • Supervisor: Dr. Rafiqun Nabi, Ph.D, Post-doc (America)

• Recent Research Project:
  • Exploration on Possibility of Establishing Freshwater Giant Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) Brood Bank in Hypo-saline Regions of Bangladesh.
  • Food and Feeding habit of some economically important fish species of the Jahangirnagar University Lake, Bangladesh.

 

Project/Thesis Supervision:

• Undergraduate Project
  • Effects of sodium fluoride (NaF) on some tissues of Clarias batrachus, B.Sc Honours Report, 2009
  • Effects of sodium fluoride (NaF) on the reproductive performance of Heteropneustes fossilis, B.Sc Honours Report, 2009
  • Toxicity of malathion on Clarias batrachus, B.Sc Honours Report, 2010
  • Effects of industrial effluents on the benthos of lotic water, B.Sc Honours Report, 2011
  • Effects of Diazinon 60 EC on the tissues of Channa punctatus, B.Sc Honours Report, 2011

 

• Graduate Project/Thesis
  • Histological analysis of the alimentary canal of two species of carps (Labeo calbasu and Hypophthalmicthyes molotrix) in relation to food and feeding habits, M.Sc Thesis, 2009
  • Bio-chemica composition and effect of low temperature and gamma radiation on quality changes of fresh water endangered Kalibasu, Labeo kalibasu, M.Sc Thesis, 2009.
  • Effects of malathion on the histopathological changes of Channa punctatus , M.Sc Thesis, 2010.
  • A quantitative estimation of some trace elements in tannery effluents at Hazaribag industrial belt and Savar urban fringe, M.Sc Thesis (ongoing), 2009.

 

Academic Background:

• Year: 2004 (Held in2007)
  Degree: Master of Science
  Principal subjects: Biotechnology and Genetic engineering, Fish culture, Fish population dynamics, Fish pathology, Fisheries Management, Aquaculture, and Limnology
  Organization: Jahangirnagar University, a reputed public University.

• Year: 2003 (Held in 2006)
  Degree: Bachelor of Science
  Principal subjects: Environmental pollution, biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Cell Biology, Taxonomy, Physiology and Advanced Biology
  Organization: Jahangirnagar University, a reputed public University.

• Year: 1998
  Degree: Higher Secondary Certificate
  Principal subjects: English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics
  Organization: Government Titumir College, Dhaka

• Year: 1996
  Degree: Secondary School Certificate
  Principal subjects: English, Biology, Sciences, Agriculture
  Organization: Champaful A.P.C high school

 

Training received:

• Year: 2006
  Title: An extensive Training on Northwest Fisheries Resource Development and Management Project (NFRDMP-III), Parbatipur, Bangladesh

 

Publications:

• Billah, M. B. Haque, M. M. and Salam, M. A. 2011. Effects of sodium fluoride (NaF) on feed intake and growth of juvenile catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis . Bangladesh J. Life Sci. 23(1): 21-24.
• Billah, M. B. and Salam, M. A. 2010. Histopathological effects of sodium fluoride  (NaF) on juvenile catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis. Bangladesh J. Zool 38(2):195-203
• Mostafa, M.G. and Billah, M. B. 2010. Studies on the effects of formalin on some haematological aspects in Channa punctatus. Bangladesh J. Life Sci. 22(2): 99-103
• Billah, M. B. and Salam, M. A. 2010. Effects of sodium fluoride (NaF) on fecundity    in Anabas testudineus. Bangladesh J. Life Sci. 22(1): 65-69
• Billah, M. B. Arif, M. and Salam, M. A. 2010. Detection of DNA breakdown by comet   assay in two teleost fish exposed to wastewater and sodium fluoride (NaF).Bangladesh J. Zool. 38 (1): 143-145.
• Billah, M. B. and Salam, M. A. 2009. Effects of wastewater and sodiumfluoride (NaF) to alter some tissues in teleost fishes. J. Asiat. Soc. Bangladesh, Sci., 36(2): 139-145

Submitted manuscripts:

• SHAFIA SHAWO SHARMIN, MD. BAKI BILLAH^* AND MD. ABDUS SALAM, 2011. Toxicity of sodium fluoride (NaF) to juvenile catfish, clarias batrachus, Dhaka Univ. J. Bio. Sci. (Accepted).
• Md. Baki Billah^* and Mahfuza Islam¹,2011. Mathion induced biochemical changes in fresh water catfish, Calarias batrachus, . Bangladesh J. Zool  (under review).
• Rokeya Akter*, Md. Zahangir Alam¹, Md. Baki Billah and Md. Abdus Salam, 2011. Bio-chemical composition and effect of gamma radiation on physical and chemical changes of freshwater endangered Kalibaush, Labeo calbasu (Hamilton- Buchanon, 1820) preservedat low temperature, Bangladesh J. Life Sci. (under review).
• S. M. Zahidul Islam, Md. Baki Billah and Md. Abdus Salam, 2011. Benthic fauna diversity in relation to soil parameters of Bangshi River, Savar, Dhaka. Bangladesh J. Life Sci.(Submitted)

Personal skills and competences

• Mother tongue: Bengali
• Other languages: English and Hindi

 

Social skills and competences:

• Participating following programs (Organized by Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh)
  • Cleanliness program known as “Aloran”
  • Blood donation
  • HIV awareness and population awareness program

 

Organizational skills and competences:

• Served as publish and printing secretary of Nature Study and Conservation Club (NSCC)
• Serving as an advisor of BADHON- a volunteer organization, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Technical skills and competences:

• He is able to learn essential techniques of electrophoresis, spectrophotometer, liquid chromatography and DNA analysis of pesticide treated fish by comet assay and became very much interested in molecular analysis of pesticides, environmental ecology, fish toxicology study, endocrinology, fish breeding, cell biology and aquaculture.

 

Computer skills and competences:

• Expertise in excel, power point, animation, SPSS software, adobe Photoshop, adobe illustrator.

 

Grants, Honors’ and awards:

• University Grants Commission Research Grants: Government of Bangladesh, 2009-2010
• Ministry of Science and Technology Research Grants (NSICT):  Government of Bangladesh, 2008
• Primary school scholarship: Government of Bangladesh, 1990
• Secondary school scholarship: Government of Bangladesh, 1993

 

Other academic activities done:

• Students’ organizer, Dept. of Zoology, JU
• Residential Assistant House Tutor, A.B Hall, JU
• Sports advisor, Zoology Dept and A.B Hall, JU
• Member, undergraduate admission committee

 

Personal information:

• Nationality: Bangladeshi
• Date of birth: 12 November, 1980
• Gender: Male

 

Correspondences could be made with-

• Dr. Md. Abdus Salam
  Professor
  Department of Zoology
  Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
  Contact No. +880-1914725794
  Email: masalam63@yahoo.com

• Dr. Abdul Jabbar Howlader
  Dean and Professor
  Faculty of Biological Sciences
  Jahangirnagar University
  Contact No. +880-1718031541
  Email: jabber_ju@yahoo.com

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