Md. Hassan uz-Zaman
- h.uzzaman@utexas.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular Biosciences
University of Texas at Austin
Hassan is interested in how new genes arise de novo in bacteria. Specifically, he's investigating how previously non-coding elements transition into being "proto-genes", and what role viruses may have in explaining bacterial gene origin.
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Academic History
- Ph.D., Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, 2024
M.S., Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), 2016
B.S., Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), 2015
Professional History
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, (January 2025 - present)
Senior Research Officer, International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), (February 2019 – July 2019)
Research Officer, International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), (March 2017 – January 2019) - Research Assistant, Dept. of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, (August 2016 – February 2017)
Publications
Uz-Zaman M. H., S. D'Alton, J.E. Barrick, and H. Ochman (2024). Promoter recruitment drives the emergence of proto-genes in a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli. PLoS Biol. 22(5):e3002418.
McInnes, R. S., Uz-Zaman, M. H., Alam, I. T., Ho, S. F. S., Moran, R. A., Clemens, J. D., ... & van Schaik, W. (2021). Metagenome-wide analysis of rural and urban surface waters and sediments in Bangladesh identifies human waste as a driver of antibiotic resistance. Msystems, 6(4), e00137-21. 2
Islam, M. S., Zaman, M. H., Islam, M. S., Ahmed, N., & Clemens, J. D. (2020). Environmental reservoirs of Vibrio cholerae. Vaccine, 38, A52-A62.
Rahman, M. M., Penny, G., Mondal, M. S., Zaman, M. H., Kryston, A., Salehin, M., ... & Müller, M. F. (2019). Salinization in large river deltas: Drivers, impacts and socio-hydrological feedbacks. Water security, 6, 100024.
Uz-Zaman, M., Rahman, A., & Yasmin, M. (2018). Epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infection in Bangladesh: prevalence among general population, risk groups and genotype distribution. Genes, 9(11), 541.
Rahman, M. M., Ahmad, S., Mahmud, A. S., Hassan-uz-Zaman, M., Nahian, M. A., Ahmed, A., ... & Streatfield, P. K. (2019). Health consequences of climate change in Bangladesh: An overview of the evidence, knowledge gaps and challenges. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(5), e601.