Abed Chaudhury

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Abed Chaudhury is a Bangladeshi geneticist and science writer living in Australia.

Dr Abed Chaudhury
Dr Abed Chaudhury

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[edit] Work in science

Dr. Abed Chaudhury is a well-known geneticist and writer in both Bangla 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.

Abed Chaudhury got his Ph.D. from University of Oregon, USA and did post-doctoral research at NIH and MIT, of USA, and was a visiting scientist at Ecole Normal Superieure in France.

He is leading a group of scientists in Australia in his research.

Mr. Chaudhury was a student of Notredame College of Dhaka.

Chaudhury is currently living in Australia

[edit] Writing

His first book Shoibal O Ontorikko (Bengali: শৈবাল ও অন্তরীক্ষ ) was an anthology of poems published by Dibya Prokash in 1999.

[edit] Books

  • Manusher Gene, Gener Manush
  • Anuvaber Neelnaksha (Blueprint of Feelings)
  • Shoibal O Ontorikko (Poems, published in 1999 by Dibya Prokash)
  • Durbashishir O Porbotmala
  • Paradigm Shift (Essays, published in 2007 by Shomoy prokashon)

[edit] Columns

He has written many articles in several science journals for scientists and in normal papers for general people in Bangla and English.

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