Aminul Islam

Molecular Biologist

Current research and/or projects

  • Maintains the Pacific Forestry Centre Forest Pathology Herbarium and databases of forest disease;
  • Conducts field research on forest diseases;
  • Verifies forest disease identification using advanced molecular tools;
  • Conducts molecular genetic studies on forest pathogens.

Education and awards

Ph.D. (Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology), 2004, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Hannover, Germany

M.Sc. (Biodiversity and Taxonomy of Plants), 1998. Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK

B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Plant Sciences), 1992 & 1994, Faculty of Life Sciences, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Research facility

506 West Burnside Road
Victoria, BC V8Z 1M5
Canada