Dr. Saiful M. Chowdhury
Associate Professor
Dr. Saiful M. Chowdhury joined the University of Texas at Arlington in August of 2012. He received his B. Sc (honors) and M. Sc degree (first class in both exams) in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Technology (currently, Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering) from the University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
After graduation, he served as a lecturer of Chemistry and also a lecturer of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science at two public universities in Bangladesh. He completed another MS in bio-organic chemistry from Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Fl. in 2001. During his MS studies in FIU, he worked with Dr. Stanislaw F. Wnuk and synthesized an isotope-labeled nucleoside analog which was used to reveal the mechanism of inhibition of Ribonucleotide Di Phosphate Reductases (RDPR).
In 2006, he earned his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Washington State University, Pullman WA, under the supervision of Dr. James E. Bruce, who is currently a professor of the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. During his Ph.D. studies, he developed several mass spectrometry-based bio-analytical methods for studying protein-protein interactions and protein post-translational modifications (PTMs).
After finishing his Ph.D., he joined as a postdoctoral fellow in the proteomics and mass spectrometry group of Dr. Richard D. Smith in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA. In his postdoctoral training in Dr. Richard D. Smith’s group at PNNL, he developed several cutting-edge proteomics tools for the global and targeted discovery of protein interactions utilizing tandem affinity tags, chemical cross-linking approaches, and mass spectrometry. He worked with the systems biology team at PNNL and applied these methodologies to investigate protein interactions related to Salmonella pathogenesis and also host-pathogen interactions.
From Dec. 2009 – July 2012, he was employed as a research fellow in the laboratory of respiratory biology at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) at NIH and conducted research under the mentorship of Michael B. Fessler MD, head of the host-defense group. He was also co-mentored by Dr. Kenneth B. Tomer, head of the mass spectrometry group. At NIEHS, NIH, he studied lipid raft proteome and toll-like receptors (TLRs) signaling using mass spectrometry-based quantitative and chemical proteomics tools.
- B.SC (HONS) AND M.SC: UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA BANGLADESH
- MS IN CHEMISTRY, 2001: FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, MIAMI, FL.
- Advisor: Stanislaw F. Wnuk
- PH.D. IN CHEMISTRY, 2006: WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY, PULLMAN, WA.
- Advisor: James E. Bruce (University of Washington, Genome Sciences)
- POSTDOC (2006-2009): PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY (PNNL)
- Advisor: Richard D. Smith
- RESEARCH FELLOW (2009-2012): NIEHS, NIH
- Advisor: Michael Fessler, MD