1. Zahidul Islam, Farzana Hossain, Md. Hazrat Ali and Masahito Yamazaki. Relationship between antimicrobial peptides-induced cell membrane damage and bactericidal activity. Biophysical Journal, 122, 1–11, 2023. doi: org/10.1016/j.bpj.2023.11.006
2. Farzana Hossain, Md. Masum Billah and Masahito Yamazaki. Single-cell analysis for antimicrobial and bactericidal activities of antimicrobial peptide magainin 2. Microbiology Spectrum, vol. 10, issue. 4, 2022. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00114-22
3. Moynul Hasan, Farzana Hossain, Hideo Dohra and Masahito Yamazaki. Role of Interfacial Hydrophobicity in Antimicrobial Peptide Magainin 2-induced Nanopore Formation. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 630, 50-56, 2022, doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2022.08.094
4. Masum Billah, Samiron Kumar Saha, Md. Mamun Or Rashid, Farzana Hossain, and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of Osmotic Pressure on Pore Formation in Lipid bilayers by the Antimicrobial Peptide Magainin 2. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 24, 6716–6731, 2022, doi: 10.1039/d1cp05764b
5. Farzana Hossain, Hideo Dohra and Masahito Yamazaki. Effect of membrane potential on entry of lactoferricin B-derived 6-residue antimicrobial peptide into Single Escherichia coli cells and lipid vesicles. Journal of Bacteriology, 203 (9), e00021-21, 2021. doi.org/10.1128/JB.00021-21
6. Ojodomo J. Achadu, Fuyuki Abe, Farzana Hossain, Fahmida Nasrin, Masahito Yamazaki, Tetsuro Suzuki, Enoch Y. Park. Sulfur-doped carbon dots@polydopamine-functionalized magnetic silver nanocubes for dual-modality detection of norovirus. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 193, 113540 2021. doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2021.113540
7. Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Farzana Hossain, and Masahito Yamazaki. Action of antimicrobial peptides and cell-penetrating peptides on membrane potential revealed by the single GUV method. Biophys Rev., 12, 339-348, 2020. doi.org/10.1007/s12551-020-00662-z
8. Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Farzana Hossain, Samiron Kumar Saha and Masahito Yamazaki. Role of Membrane potential on Entry of Cell- Penetrating Peptide Transportan 10 into Single Vesicles. Biophysical Journal, 118, 57-69, 2020. doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.012
9. Fahmida Nasrin, Ankan Dutta Chowdhury, Akjilesh Babu Ganganboina, Ojodomo J. Achadu, Farzana Hossain, Masahito Yamazaki, Enoch Y. Park. Fluorescent and electrochemical dual-mode detection of Chikungunya virus E1 protein using fluorophore-embedded and redox probe-encapsulated liposomes. Microchimica Acta, 187: 674, 2020. doi.org/10.1007/s00604-020-04656-2
10. Farzana Hossain, Md. Mizanur Rahman Moghal, Md. Zahidul Islam, Md. Moniruzzaman, and Masahito Yamazaki. Membrane potential is vital for rapid permeabilization of plasma membranes and lipid bilayers by the antimicrobial peptide lactoferricin B. J. Biol. Chem., 294 (27), 10449-10462, 2019. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007762
11. Tusnova Sharmin, Razia Sultana, Farzana Hossain, Shahriar Kabir Shakil, Foysal Hossen and Md. Mamun Or Rashid. Neuropharmacological and antibacterial effects of the ethyl acetate extract of Diospyros malabarica (Ebenaceae) seeds. Clinical Phytoscience, 4, 22, 2018. doi.org/10.1186/s40816-018-0083-x
12. Yoshimitsu Otomo, Farzana Hossain, Fazle Rabbi, Yuki Yakuwa, Chowdhury Rafiqul Ahsan. Pre-Enrichment of Estuarine and Fresh Water Environmental Samples with Sodium Chloride Yields in Better Recovery of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Advances in Microbiology, 3, 21-25, 2013. doi:10.4236/aim.2013.31003

IUPAB 2021 program award of BSJ for young researchers in 20th International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) Congress, Brazil (virtual) (2021).

ASM Student and Postdoctoral Travel Award in World Microbe Forum, a joint digital between ASM Microbe and FEMS (2021).

Travel Award in 64th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, San Diego, USA, (2020).

International Exchange Program Scholarship, Shizuoka University, Japan (2018).

Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Scholarship, Japan (2017).

Dean’s Award for B.Sc. (Honors’), Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Dhaka for excellent results in B. Sc. (2011).

Ph.D. in Bioscience (2020), Shizuoka University, Japan, (Degree Awarded)

M.S. in Microbiology (2010); Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, (First class)
B.Sc. in Microbiology (2008); Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka, (First class)

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Jan 2024 – Present)

Visiting Foreign Researcher, Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan (Oct 2023 – Jan 2024)

Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Primeasia University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Dec 2022 – Jan 2024)

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Nanomaterials Research Division, Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan (Oct 2020 – Sep 2022)

Research Assistant, Department of Integrated Bioscience, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan (Nov 2017 – Sep 2020)

Executive Officer (Microbiology), Incepta Vaccine Ltd. Bangladesh (Nov 2010 – Sep 2017)