Abu Bakar Siddique

Abu is the bioinformatician at SLUBI, an infrastructure that provides support and training in bioinformatics for researchers at SLU

Background

• Since June 2023: Bioinformatician of SLU Bioinformatics Infrastructure (SLUBI), Department of Plant Biology, NJ faculty, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
• 2022–2023: Forskningsingenjör of SLU Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Plant Biology, NJ, Ultuna, Uppsala, Sweden
• 2022–2023: First Researcher Engineer (Förste forskningsingenjör), Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
• 2020–2021: Post-doc research fellow (Forskare), Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
• 2018–2019: Mobility Post-doc research fellow (Forskare), Dept.t of Virology, Institute Of Plant Molecular Biology, Biology Centre CAS, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
• 2013–2017: PhD-student (Doktorand), Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität (Greifswald University), Greifswald, Germany
• 2012–2013: Research assistant (Forskningsassistent), Department of Plant Physiology, UPSC, Umeå University, Sweden

Metabarcoding
Metagenomics
Metatranscriptomics
Mycobiome
Environmental DNA (eDNA)

• Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing RNA-Seq Data (PhD course)
• Genome-wide predictions in breeding: genotype-phenotype associations and genomic selection (PhD course)
• Data handling and high-quality illustrations for publications (PhD course)
• Multi-omics analyses of the microbial community (PhD course)
• SLUBI SIDA training course—Reproducible bioinformatics, best practices, Nextflow and nf-core(Researcher course)

• PhD (Dr.rer.nat.), Molecular Ecology, 2017, Greifswald University, Germany. 
• Master of Science, Ecology, 2013, Umeå University, Sweden.
• MS, Plant Pathology, 2010, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh.
• Bachelor of Science (Hons), Agricultural Sciences, 2008, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh.

• Md Jonaid Hossain (intern, mentor, 2022)
• Khan R Salehin (intern, co-supervisor, 2021)
• Abu Bakar Siddique (master’s thesis, co-supervisor, 2021)
• Anis Mahmud Khokon (master’s thesis, co-supervisor, 2016)