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Faculty Agriculture Entomology Faculty Members Dr. Kamrul Hassan

Dr. Kamrul Hassan

Associate Professor

BSc (Ag), MS (Entomology- BAU, Bangladesh) MS (Plant Science-Wageningen University, The Netherlands), PhD (Ecological Interaction-HIE, Western Sydney University, Australia), Postdoc (CSIRO, Australia)

Research interests: Plant-soil feedbacks, Insect-Plant interaction, Climate change, Chemical Ecology, Pollination Biology

khassan.entom@sau.ac.bd


+8801736218597
Dept. of Entomology

Biography

I commenced to grasp science when I was at the age of 12. I had a home garden where, I produced various types of vegetables with the help of my mother. Although I did not have an ample of knowledge on vegetable production at that stage, but I asked my uncle who was an agriculturist, to know the insight, how to produce good quality vegetables. Meanwhile, my parents were settled to move on science path when they found, I am deeply engrossed on the scientific issues. I was so contented when I saw my vegetable field was full of ripen Tomatoes, Eggplant, as well as Green Chilli. After my Higher Secondary School Certificate, I decided to go for Agricultural Sciences. With this moto, I started my journey to become a crop scientist. In course of time being, I have acquired my Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Science from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh and thenceforth I pursued my MSc in Entomology from the same institution. During my MSc research in Bangladesh, I looked for how rationale use of insecticide can help us to get high quality crop and subsequently, ensured high quality diets. For this research, I had a grant from Ministry of Sciences, Bangladesh. The findings of my research were published in an international journal. From that time forward, I started my career as a crop protection scientist of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, where I had almost one year worked experience in sustainable crop production. In that position, I worked on Insect, pest and disease managements of different crops especially on beans, cauliflower, broccoli, cucumber, mango, papaya, and other minor fruits of Bangladesh. I was directly Involved in transfer of improved farm technologies developed by Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute to farmers through seminar, exhibition, field visit and distribution of seeds, seedlings and saplings. As I have passion to become a faculty of a public university, later I lifted to Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh. By now, I am employing as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology under the faculty of Agriculture at Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh since 2015 (Lecture before that 2013 to 2014). In that position my task is conducting lecture in undergraduate level and also involving in current research project with other staff member of our entomology laboratory. Having achieved Netherlands government scholarship, I attended a top-class MSc programme at Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands. I had an opportunity to study Plant Sciences. My two years MSc programme structured with one-year extensive course work related to different aspects of plant sciences and one-year extensive research work. I have had acquainted with different subject matter of plant sciences; crop protection, insect-plant interaction, insect ecology, biological control of insects, crop ecology, crop physiology, plant breeding, plant-soil feedbacks, biological interaction in soil and particularly how to produce high quality crop to meet the appeal of local people. In the research year, I devoted to laboratory and field experiments with pollinators to explore how pollinator communities helping us regrading high quality crop. In this research, I have familiar with how to design with complex field and green house experiments for probing the behaviour of pollinators (attraction, flower visit and visitation time) and analysis of floral resources (pollen and nectar) to determine the pollination efficiency specially honey bees which is one of the key factor for sustainable crop production. The project I worked at Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University and Research Centre entitled “Effect of different herbivore induction in plants of different developmental stages, and consequences for pollinators” later published in journal of ecology (https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13370). Recently I have completed my doctoral degree from Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Australia. My research mainly focus on Plant-Soil feedback research in prolonged drought legacies in controlled and field condition and exploring key mechanisms behind the PSF shift using induced insect herbivory and stable isotope technique.