Dr. MD. ABU ASHRAF KHAN Professor Department of Plant Pathology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur 1706, Bangladesh. Telephone No. 880 9205310-14 Extn. 2100, Cell.: 8801711-193457 mail: ashraf@bsmrau.edu.bd
Professor Dr. Md. Abu Ashraf Khan was born in the district of Tangail, Bangladesh. He obtained B. Sc. Ag (Hons.) and M. Sc. (Ag) in Plant Pathology from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh in 1989 and 1992, respectively and securing first class with distinction in both the examination. He got PhD in Plant Pathology from Kyushu University, Japan in 2000. He conducted higher research under JASSO fellowship in Japan in 2005. He received training on laboratory management under DANIDA fellowship in Denmark in 2005. His teaching and research interest on Seed Pathology and Plant Bacteriology. Detection, identification, characterization, epidemiology and control of seed-borne bacteria and fungi are the major area of his research. He published 87 scientific papers in national and international journals.
Dr. Ashraf is a Life member of Bangladesh Phytopathological Society, Bangladesh Genetics & Plant Breeding Society, Bangladesh Association for Advancement of Science and Krishibid Institution of Bangladesh.