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Abed chaudhury discussing state of education in bangladesh with dr zafar iqbal at sust campus
Abed Chaudhury (born February 1956) is a Bangladeshi geneticist and science writer living in Australia was born in Moulvibazar.
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- Abed chaudhury discussing state of education in bangladesh with dr zafar iqbal at sust campus
- Abed chaudhury discusses art and brain with azfar hussain
- Education
- Work in science
- Writing
- Books
- Columns
- References
Abed chaudhury discusses art and brain with azfar hussain
Education
Chaudhury was a student of Moulvibazar Government High School. Chaudhury was a student of Notre Dame College of Dhaka.
Completing his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Dhaka University, Chaudhury got his PhD from University of Oregon and did post-doctoral research at National Institutes of Health and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, and was a visiting scientist at École Normale Supérieure in France.
Work in science
Chaudhury is a well-known geneticist and writer in both Bengali and English who together with colleagues in Australia isolated the FIS (fertilization independent seed) genes; fis mutants can produce partial seed without fertilization. These are the first characterised genes involved in apomixis, a method of making seed without the father.
He is leading a group of scientists in Australia in his research.
Chaudhury is currently living in Australia.
Writing
His first book Shoibal O Ontorikko (Bengali: শৈবাল ও অন্তরীক্ষ ) was an anthology of poems published by Dibya Prokash in 1999.
Books
Columns
He has written many articles in several science journals for scientists and in normal papers for general people in Bengali and English.