Graduate Program

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The life processes are fundamentally linked to ecological processes in which wildlife is a part. Knowledge on interactions of animals within its ecosystem and understanding the ecological requirements of animals provide the fundamental basis for designing conservation strategies and actions. For management purpose, wildlife should be viewed from its organization at the level of individual species, population and community. All these aspects are addressed in this course and designed to provide students with conceptual understanding of the principles, methods and ecological processes that apply to wildlife conservation and management. Specifically, the course focuses the fundamental ecological processes, the limiting factors and barriers that affect wildlife, habitat assessment, structure and functions of communities. This course introduces the spatial distribution of animals, and ecological and historical foundations for understanding the distribution and abundance of species, and the changes in distribution and abundance over time. The course is very useful to the students willing to develop career as a wildlife biologist.

Course Credit: 4

Conservation of biodiversity, wildlife in particular, primarily requires a comprehensive understanding of the root causes of the problem, appreciating the conservation priority and conservation methods in practice, and biological and social factors that affects the success of conservation efforts. This course offers a comprehensive package of learning opportunities aiming at protecting and maintaining the genes, species, communities, habitats, ecosystems from extinction and erosion of biotic interactions with emphasis on principles, methods and tools of conservation that integrates biological, ecological and social factors. The course also introduces the students with emerging issues in conservation sector, including effects of climate change and application of genetics in conserving wildlife, and aspects of protected area management. This course is not only a fascinating one, but also essential to people willing to build career as a wildlife biologist.

Course Credit: 4

Animal behaviour has been always an interesting subject for zoologists and wildlife biologists. This course aims to elucidate understandings of the behavioural aspects of wildlife, and human-wildlife interactions. The course mainly deals with various important aspects of behavioural ecology such as inter and intra-specific interactions, breeding activities, feeding, grooming and social behaviour of all the groups of wildlife. Emphasis is given to human-wildlife conflicts and conflict mitigation.

Course Credit: 4

As a renewable natural resource, wildlife has got enormous use values to human and therefore, implicates for its sustainable management. Protected areas (PA) of Bangladesh harbour major important and threatened wildlife and have got the major focus of protection, supported by country’s legal instruments. This course mainly focuses on wildlife resources of Bangladesh, wildlife management strategies, methods and tools for wildlife management with a particular focus on protected areas and the legal regime that govern the wildlife protection and protected area management. The course also highlights the captive breeding and re-introduction of depleted wildlife. Wildlife diseases and its control measures are also discussed here.

Course Credit: 4

Bangladesh has a vast area that falls beyond the jurisdiction of protected areas. These are basically public and private lands and harbour a wide variety of wildlife including many threatened species. These areas are traditionally managed and maintained by the local people, hence there is little scope for legal jurisdiction over those areas. Threats to wildlife in these areas are a serious concern. Both public and private efforts are necessary to conserve these areas for effective conservation of wildlife. The course provides comprehensive learning opportunities on the status, distribution and threats to wildlife living in these areas; also addresses the strategies, approaches, legal frameworks and tools for their conservation and management in Bangladesh. The course also familiarizes the students with data collection methods, and tools for scientific study of wildlife. The course is designed to produce professionals in the country with adequate background knowledge of the subject area, capable of assessing the status of wildlife diversity and implementing wildlife conservation tools outside the protected areas.

Course Credit: 6

This course offers students to assess wildlife ecology, management policies and practices in Bangladesh. The aim of this course is to provide an environmental analysis toolkit to students; a toolkit that contains skills and abilities to measure and evaluate observations of wildlife made within the diverse and challenging ecosystems of Bangladesh that can be used in other global environmental contexts.

Course Credit: 6

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This course comprises two distinct disciplines of biological sciences. Taxonomic names and phylogenetic hypotheses are essential tools for modern biological research, both basic and applied. This course concentrates on the systematic position and general biology of the parasites of medical, veterinary, environmental and economic significance. In particular students have the opportunities to learn the classification schemes of major group of parasites and taxonomic procedures for identifying parasites. The course also high lights on reproduction, development, adaptation and transmission of parasites. The course is intended to provide a good foundation for students aiming at developing parasitology-based career.

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Ecological parasitology is concerned with the factors for establishment of parasites in or on the host. This course highlights on parasite and its abundance in space, in time and in different hosts, and involves consideration of the factors regulating host-parasite interactions at both the individual and the population levels. Parasites of all kinds are known to modify the behaviour of their hosts in ways that appear to enhance the chances of completing its life cycle. This course provides some powerful conceptual tools allowing rigorous, quantitative predictions to be made when a parasite should manipulate its host.

Course Credit: 2

This comprises of two essential aspects of Parasitology. Variations within and among the parasite species and its abundances within a host are often expressed in various quantitative terms. Parasites are also natural selection agents influencing a variety of host attributes. These effects ultimately drive biological diversification, through influencing host reproductive isolation and speciation. Recent discussions of the importance of parasites in food webs as modulators of host behavior, drivers of community composition, competitive interactions and biological invasions; and as selective agents, provide multiple lines of evidence for the ecological and evolutionary relevance of parasitic biodiversity. Parasites show fluctuations in their abundances and occurrences within the host body and show dynamism in their population parameters, including birth, mortality, immigration and emigration etc. This course provides an opportunity for developing a foundation for professionalism in this area of parasitology.

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Veterinary health management is very important for production of dairy and food products of a country. It is an integral part of animal health and one health approaches. A wide variety of animals are parasitic to our livestock and pet animals. In addition to damages made to our live stocks, there are good numbers of animal diseases with zoonotic potential. This course focuses on the diagnosis, pathology and treatment of various common parasitic veterinary diseases. So the scope of Veterinary Parasitology is wide for students of animal science. Students of MS in Parasitology should have detail idea about parasites of veterinary importance.

Course Credit: 2

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations. Many parasitic diseases are fatal as well as take the epidemiological manifestations. The control of such parasitic epidemic diseases requires a wide array of information including transmission across the population, pattern of distribution, etc. to plan a control programme. This course will introduce with the epidemiological factors and their measurements. The course will be very useful for students willing to develop career in parasitology.

Course Credit: 2

A great variety of parasites infect human, both externally and internally, causing a health concern of considerable magnitude worldwide, some of which cause fatal diseases. Having poor sanitation and medical services the problems of parasitic diseases are more prevalent in Bangladesh. Some societal change influences the infectious diseases by increasing international traffic, ecological changes, microbial adaptation, changing contact patterns and societal breakdown. Bangladesh has experienced a variety of diseases caused by natural dissemination of an array of pathogenic organisms into the environment. Specifically, the course focuses on the communicable diseases, methods and techniques for controlling such diseases, knowledge about primary health care and learning different health indicators. The course will be useful for tose willing to build career in public health.

Course Credit: 2

The major focus of this course is to study the complex and dynamic physiological relationships between parasites and their hosts. It presents an overview of the biological and physiological bases of important parasite group and an understanding of the metabolic processes of the parasites. The course describes by which mechanisms a parasite survives in the host body or also in the habitat peculiar to it.

Course Credit: 2

In the course of their lives, parasites undergo significant metabolic and genetic alternations. For these reasons, parasitic organisms have become model systems for the study of biochemistry and molecular biology. The phenomena of metabolic shifts to accompany morphological changes, compartmentalization of enzyme system, rapid alterations in membrane chemistry, and genetic changes associated with adaptation to the host have recommended parasites to be the attention of scientists of many disciplines. The molecular biology of parasites which has been presented as it relates to the cell biology of parasitic organisms. The course is designed to introduce students with the basics of biochemistry and molecular facts having relevance to parasitological study. and will better allow the parasitologists to plan quality researches.

Course Credit: 2

A highly discriminatory immune system is fundamental to survival. How the immune system accomplishes this level of discrimination remains deeply enigmatic, but such questions are among the many that make immunology a fascinating discipline. Immunology as a distinctive subject developed in the 20th century as researchers started to understand how the adaptive immune system aids in defense against pathogens. The course will allow the students to learn how the immune system in the body is organised and how it works to provide protection against pathogens and foreign molecules.

Course Credit: 2

Parasites cause a wide array of pathological changes in host body, many of which are manifested as disease symptoms and helps pathologist to understand the background and significance of diseases and provides basis for its treatment. This course deals with the study of pathological mechanisms common to all tissue-cell pathology with emphasis on cellular changes, inflammation, healing, laboratory techniques and many more. The course is intended to provide students with a solid foundation in pathological study with a view to developing future career in this area, capable of monitoring health status, and designing and conducting researches in this area of biological sciences.

Course Credit: 6

The purpose of this course is to enhance students’ practical skills in carrying out a range of activities aligned with the theoretical courses of the MS in Zoology (Parasitology) programme. The course will be based on practical demonstration classes in the laboratory, hands-on training, experimental trails, and filed work. This will allow the student to equip with knowledge and skills required in one’s research and professional career.

Course Credit: 6

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Recent advancement in molecular biology is overwhelming and unveils many mysteries in gene functions, its regulation and its application in human needs. Students will get an exposure to those innovations and be able to further enhance their knowledge on structural and functional organization of the biomolecules, viz. DNA, RNA and proteins. The course will also provide opportunity to learn in more detail about inheritance mechanism at the molecular level, gene expressions and its regulation. The course will also highlight on gene mutation, mobile genes, meiotic drive genes, stem cells, extra-chromosomal inheritance and application of genes in therapeutic uses.

Course Credit: 4

As with other branches of biology, classical genetics is also advancing with new innovations leading to revealing many genetic issues and its application for human welfare. This course will provide advanced knowledge on some modern innovations in genetics, such as microbial genetics, immune system, cancer, diseases and development. The course also offers a package of learning opportunities on the microbial genetic systems, mapping techniques, mechanism of development, aging and various genetic diseases including cancer. The course is designed to produce professionals in modern genetics with adequate background knowledge on the subject area.

Course Credit: 4

One of the recent innovations and developments in molecular biology relates to “omic” technologies surrounding the genomics, proteomics and use of bioinformatics. In fact, Omic technologies are regularly applied in medical research and throughout the drug-development process. High throughput technologies are being used to study gene regulation, protein function and quantification of metabolites and metabolic networks within an organism. Rather investigating single genes, single proteins or single metabolites, omic methods simultaneously investigate large numbers of genes, proteins or metabolites in one single experiment. This course will focus on these technologies to provide an exposure to the key applications, techniques and recent advances in this field and is useful for career build up in this area of molecular biology.

Course Credit: 4

The tremendous development in molecular biology, genetic engineering in particular, has resulted in the wider applications of molecular techniques in industrial sectors. This course focuses on the basic techniques required for the study of genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology. It includes different cloning vectors of different genes into a vector designing, construction of DNA libraries and identification of cloned genes using hybridization techniques with emphasis on application of recombinant DNA technology in the field of medicine, agriculture, industry and forensic sciences. The course also provides comprehensive details on the ethical, legal issues and social concerns. The course is designed to develop professionals in this area off biotechnology.

Course Credit: 4

Abundance of many animal species on the earth are declining and facing the risk of extinction and thus causing loss in all components of biodiversity. Reduction in faunal and floral diversity and population results in the erosion of genetic diversity. On other way, loss of genetic diversity enhances further reduction of population size. Genetic architecture of the species population is a major factor to be considered while devising strategies to save a species from extinction. This course is designed to equip student with appropriate knowledge and skills of molecular biology and population genetics required for studying, managing and conserving species or populations under extinction risks.

Course Credit: 6

This course is designed to enhance student’s ability and practical skills in extraction and analytical procedures and techniques related to DNA study, karyotyping, phylogenetic analysis, interpreting genetic data, etc. It will provide hands-on experience in many modern techniques used in genetics and molecular biology. The experiments have been chosen to give students a solid foundation on the areas concerned. A strong emphasis is also placed in the acquisition of basic skills (such as writing, communication, computing, problem-solving and experimental design) in the laboratory.

Course Credit: 6

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Knowledge on aquatic environment and its biodiversity is a pre-requisite for planning aquaculture development and fisheries management. Wetlands encompass a variety of forms and perform a wide array of functions, contribute enormously to economic productivity and support diverse ranges of biodiversity. The aquatic environment is thus viewed from the purview of the environment-productivity complexity for the sustainable management of its resources. The course is designed to enhance student’s understanding on the wetland functions from ecological and productivity perspective for designing resource conservation or production programs. Specifically, the course focuses on the ecological and hydrological characters and dynamics, biodiversity of all ranges, and discusses its relation with fish production. The course also highlights the degradation to wetland services; conservation planning; and conducting environmental impact assessment. The course will allow the students to understand the volumes of community engagement in aquatic resource management.

Course Credit: 2

An understanding of wild populations is fundamental to establish successful management and conservation regime for a fish stock. Rational management of a fishery necessitates some knowledge of the dynamics of the fish population being managed. The course is designed to provide a comprehensive knowledge on population dynamics in order to understand how exploitation of a fish stock can be managed sustainably. In particular, the course focuses on the growth estimation, analysis of exploiting population of fish, estimation of mortality and recruitment to fisheries, with particular emphasis on the estimation of maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and also will introduce the students to a number analytical models for the estimation of MSY. The course will be very useful for the students willing to develop professional career in fisheries management.

Course Credit: 2

Rapid declination in fisheries resources spurred a huge concern for its effective management in Bangladesh. To ensure the long-term sustainability, it is essential to understand the array of available fisheries resources, the issues and the driving forces responsible for Bangladesh’s diminishing fisheries resources. The biological, ecological, social and legal premises of the sustainable management also play a crucial role in devising a legal framework that ensures both the abundance of the resources and human well-being. This course provides an exposure to all these basic principles, and different methods of fisheries management. It also offers a detail understanding of the existing legal instruments that are used to manage fisheries resources in Bangladesh. Students will be introduced to the processes of developing fisheries management plan under different management scenarios. The course is intended to produce professionals in fisheries management with necessary background knowledge and skills.

Course Credit: 2

The contribution of culture fisheries to country’s fish production is increasing overwhelmingly and its future prospects are also tremendous with the advancement in aquaculture technologies. The purpose of this course is to introduce and build skills of the students in the areas of aquaculture, both freshwater and marine. Specifically, the course will focus on the culture of different fish and shrimp species, different culture practices, modern techniques for intensification of fish productions and management of culture systems. The course will discuss also the induced breeding techniques and nursery techniques in detail and breeding stock improvement with highlights on hatchery design, construction and its operation. The intent of this course is to produce fisheries professionals capable of dealing with the all aquaculture practices and its management.

Course Credit: 2

Genetical improvement of culture species and use of genetic engineering techniques for developing high yielding and disease resistant variety have led to the increased/boosting production of fish from minimum land. Application of genetic techniques has got special attention in modern aquaculture and is considered an integral part of aquaculture study. This course is designed to familiarize the students with these modern genetical techniques in aquaculture. In particular, the course focuses on the genetic basis for fish selection, and methods and techniques for fish hybridization, ploidy production, gynonegesis, and transgenic fish production.

Course Credit: 2

Fish disease is a serious problem in modern aquaculture and in most cases, it is an important determinant of profitability in fish and shrimp farming. Recent advances in fish disease control are overwhelming and considered an integral part in fish farm management. The course offers a comprehensive package of learning opportunities with major focuses on stress and immune responses in fish, patho-physiological changes in fish diseases, methods and procedures for diagnosis and treatment of various fish diseases, including microbial, parasitic, environmental, nutritional and genetic diseases of fish. In addition, the course also highlights on prophylaxis, fish immunization, fish quarantine and detection of pathogens in fish. The course is designed to enhance students’ learning aiming at producing professionals in fish disease management in the country with adequate background knowledge in the subject area.

Course Credit: 2

Modern fish culture practices largely depend on the external supply of fish feed. However, a quality and efficient feed with balanced dietary components may ensure an optimum fish growth. Different fish species have different dietary requirements and necessitates the species specific formulation of fish feed. Fish culture, breeding, feeding and disease management require the detail knowledge on physiological processes in fish body and in fact, physiology determines the survival, growth and reproduction performances of a fish species. The present course is designed to introduce the students with all these aspects. Specifically, the course focuses on the nutritional requirements of fish, feed formulation, method and techniques for feeding for cultured fish. The course also focuses on the physiology of digestion, reproduction, respiration, osmoregulation in fish.

Course Credit: 2

A variety of techniques are employed for harvesting fish from different depth ranges and different types of water body. One of the purposes of the course is to make familiar with these harvesting techniques and the gears used. Fish harvest and post-harvest technologies constitute an inter-disciplinary science and techniques applied to fisheries commodities after the harvest of fish for the purpose of preservation, conservation, quality control/enhancement, processing, packaging, storage, distribution, marketing, while maintaining to meet the food quality and nutritional quality. Food safety and security is largely determined in terms of microbial contamination. The course will highlight also on the quality control of fish products at its different stages of production.

Course Credit: 2

Fish ecology is the general study of factors influencing the distribution and abundance of fishes and how they interact with their environment.  We will begin this course with an overview of patterns of fish diversity and how fishes interact with their environment. This course will give the student an understanding on interrelationships between the physical, chemical and biological aspects of aquatic ecosystems, including land-water interactions. The students will learn how water parameters influence the productivity of a water body. This course will also highlight the existing connection between freshwater organisms, aquatic ecosystems and the human community. The students will be able to explain how inland water ecosystems work, and in which way they are affected by human perturbations, such as overexploitation, eutrophication and climate change. The course will address the sustainable use of water resources therefore requires solid knowledge of aquatic ecosystems, to understand how and why ecosystems are affected by changes in biological, chemical or physical conditions.

Course Credit: 2

Fisheries economics are crucial to understand the context of this sector and make wise decisions that led to maximising social-economic benefits for country’s fisherfolks. It is intertwined with how different entities in a system decides to exploit the fisheries resources, their mode of production, use of market channels along with the demand for the target fish or fisheries products in the market. This course is designed to introduce students with these facets of fisheries economics. It also offers an exposure to different non-state market-led approaches that can be harnessed to attain eco-label certification. Students will be introduced with different national and international case studies that demonstrate the theory of fisheries economics in practice.

Course Credit: 6

The course is designed to provide and equip students with adequate practical knowledge and skills in a wide range of field of the fisheries sciences and are aligned with most theoretical the fisheries courses of the MS program. The intent of the practical course is that the students will be able to apply methods and techniques of fisheries in the field and in the laboratory. A wide range of practical activities are prioritized, like species identification, study of planktons and benthos, effective quality monitoring, methods and techniques for, induced breeding, population estimation, age determination, fish feed formulation, study of reproduction biology, feeding habits, nutritional requirements, diseases causing agents and control.

Course Credit: 6

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Insects are the most diverse group of animals on the planet with long history of evolution. Knowing the diversity of animals offers a fascinating challenge. The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with different orders and families of insects and enable them to study and identify the insects. The course specifically focuses on the methods and techniques of taxonomic study of insects, collection and preservation and identification of insects, rule governing the naming the species. The course will also highlight on the phylogenetic relationship of various groups of insects.

Course Credit: 2

Insects are the most abundant and diverse invertebrates, show a great variety of modifications in their structural and functional systems. This course introduces the student with the diverse morphological and anatomical features of the insects. In particular the course focuses on detailed external structure of insects, viz. the integument and its derivatives and the internal structures and systems of the insects in relation to their functions. The course will also describe the modifications in different systems, and discusses how these systems allowed the insects group to adapt in different environment and different life stages.

Course Credit: 2

Insects are the most successful life form and they make up more than half of all living things on Earth. These are the first metazoan which resemble to the higher vertebrates. Insects show a range of fascinating morphological embryonic developmental and extra-embryonic events. The purpose of this course is to introduce the students with these morphogenetic events and the action of some genes in the formation of embryo. This course will also highlight the neuro-anatomy and hormonal regulation of insect development. Moreover, this course will offer to study Genes, Genome organization of insects as well as use of Molecular Biological Techniques in different Entomological Problems.

Course Credit: 2

Animal behaviour is always a matter of curiosity and insects are ideal subjects for basic behavioural studies. Insect behaviour has enormous economic implications. The successful management of both beneficial and harmful species depends on a thorough understanding of all aspects of their behavioural biology. Insect-plant relationship is also an important component in this regard. We may be able to avoid crop damage caused by an influx of pests thorough an understanding of their migratory behaviour. We may be able to suppress a pest population by disrupting a pattern of communication important to its reproduction. All these aspects are addressed in this course.

Course Credit: 2

Insect ecology involves a wide range of aspects for study; in particular, it is concerned with the influences and interactions of insect populations and insect communities on ecosystem processes that affect landscape structure, function, and change. The level of focus is the ecosystem, the levels of explanation include populations and communities, and the level of interpretation is the landscape. Insects are affected by the climate and results of studies can tell us much about what is going on in the world around us. This course is designed to cover major aspects of insect ecology, highlighting on trophic relations, impacts of climate change on insect population, regulation of population, ecological genetics, interaction between species, photoperiodism, dispersal, migration, etc.

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Insect pests cause great harm to our economy by destroying our crops, crop products, other commodities and our health. Pest control and management involves a wide range methods and techniques. This course introduces with different types of pest, pest control methods and bioassay techniques. The course also discusses the application of control techniques in environment friendly way.

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Expansion of agricultural activities, transportation and industrial development resulted in the environmental contamination of toxic substances with great threat to human, wildlife and our assets and created a great concern for its management and safe handling. This course is designed to enhance students’ knowledge on inorganic and organic synthetic and natural insecticides including botanicals, their effects and its safe handling. The course will also discuss about the residual period and effects, effectiveness, doses, mode of action and insecticides resistance to insects.

Course Credit: 2

Medical and veterinary entomology involves the study of insects and other arthropods, especially arachnids that cause and transmit diseases in human and livestocks. It is a broad science that includes studies on biology, ecology, morphology, taxonomy and many aspects related to disease and disease transmission. Veterinary entomology is included in this category, because many animal diseases become a human health threat. It is difficult to implement control measures of insects, without some knowledge of medical entomology. In addition, with increasing globalization, new and emerging vector borne diseases are becoming worldwide health priorities. The course focuses on these all aspects and intends to produce students capable of handling such parasites and vectors.

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Many insects produce commodities for human use or supply raw materials for industrial uses and thus have got immense economic importance. This course introduces with a range of economically important insects, its culture and management. Specifically, the course will focus on apiculture, lac culture, and sericulture highlighting their culture techniques, maintenance and management aspects. The course also discusses about butterfly farming and explore the possibility of the use of knowledge on butterfly in biodiversity conservation. Bioresources play a key role in present and future socio-economic evolutions. The rapid degradation of bioresources is a serious concern worldwide. Global and national efforts are in place to conserve bioresources for attaining sustainable development and presently it is envisaged a priority area of biology study. The course is designed to develop comprehensive skill necessary to work confidently in areas such as pragmatic applications, management and conservation of bioresources, environmental management plan and monitoring and to create professional capacity among students by encouraging them through scientific and realistic approach to environmental biological issues.

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Insect epizootiology is the study of disease patterns within insect populations. It deals with the character, ecology, and causes of diseases in insects, especially epizootic diseases. Insect are diseased by viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoan and nematode pathogens. To protect beneficial and economically important insects, it is necessary to know the nature of diseases, their transmission and prevention measures. This course is designed to introduce the students with diseases of economically important insects and its control measures.

Course Credit: 6

The course will cover the science of entomology by focusing on the basic principles of morphology (external and internal), development, behavior, ecology, and control of insects. Field trips provide opportunities to collect insects and study their adaptations to a wide variety of natural environments. 

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