Dr. Md. Ahsan Bin Habib

Start and end dates of funding

Type

Source and amount of funding

Role in the preparation

Name of Principal Investigator

1.a) i) 01 July 1988 to 30 June 1991

 “Evaluation of ingredients of dietary protein sources for the formulation of artificial diets for climbing perch, Anabas testudineus”

USAID, USA-BAURES, Bangladesh Amount: US$ 4300.00

To prepare suitable diet using locally available ingredients

Principal Investigator (PI):

Md. Ahsan Bin Habib

Project No. 1988/18/BAU

The USAID gave fund to Bangladesh Agricultural University Research System (BAURES), BAU, Mymensingh. Then BAURES gave research fund from this money to the PI to carryout research.

a) ii) 01 July 2004 to 30 June 2007

“Production og biomicrocapsules using suger cane mill waste”

University Grant’s Commission, Agargaon, Bangladesh

Amount: US$ 3530.00

PI: Prof.

Dr. Md. Ahsan Bin Habib, Project No.

2004/631/UGC

1.a) iii) 01 July, 2010 to 30 June, 2014

“Culture of microalgae using different wastes (rotten) fruits, agro-industrial wastes”

Ministry of Science & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh Amount: US$ 16000.00

To produce important microalgae to use in feed, to replace fish meal & to use as live food to fish

PI: Prof.

Dr. Md. Ahsan Bin Habib

Project Nos.

2010/65/MoST

2011/92/MoST 2013/144/MoST

.a) iv) 01 July, 2014 to 30 June, 2017

“Culture and production of housefly larvae and spirulina using poultry waste, and their use as food for catfish post-larvae”

Grants for Advanced Research in Education (GARE), MoE, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka funded project Amount: US$ 49500

To produce fly larvae and spirulina using poultry waste, use as feed ingrediants to replace fish meal

PI:

Prof. Dr. Md. Ahsan Bin Habib

Project No. MoE/2012/21

1.a) v) 01 July, 2017 to 30 June 2019

“Growth and production of spirulina (S. platensis) in supernatant of digested rotten potato”

BAU Research System, BAU, Mymensingh, Bangladesh Amount: US$ 5500

To produce spirulina (rich in protein) in supernatant of digested rotten potato

PI:

Prof. Dr. Md. Ahsan Bin Habib

Project No. 2017/281/BAU

Start and end dates of funding

Type

Source and amount of funding

Role in the preparation

Name of Principal Investigator

1.b) i) 04 Jan. 1990 to 03 Jan. 1999

“Culture of Clarias batrachus (L.) fry by formulated feed”

International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden

Amount: US$ 28095.00

To formulate appropriate feed for four stages of catfish, C. batrachus (post-larvae, fry and juvenile

Chief Investigator:

Dr. Md. Ahsan Bin Habib

Project No. A/1589-1 & 2

1.b) ii) 01 Jan 1996 to 30 Dec, 1998

“Culture of selected microalgae in rubber and palm oil mill effluents and their use in the production of enriched rotifers”

Committee for the Tonolli Memorial Fund of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, USA

Amount: US$ 1500.00

To culture and produce microalgae using agroindustrial wastes

Investigator: Md. Ahsan Bin Habib

1.b) iii) 01 July 2002 to 30 June 2004

“Culture and chemical composition of three important microalgae using different agro-based organic media”

Committee for the Tonolli Memorial Fund of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology, USA

Amount: US$ 1500.00

To growth microalgae in supernatant of digested rotten vegetables and to record their chemical composition

Chief Investigator:

Dr. Md. Ahsan Bin Habib

(for PhD student’s work)

1.b) iv) 01 Jan. 2010 to 30 Dec. 2013

“Detection of arsenic in the food chains and animal samples and study the preventive measure using the best cost-effective agricultural products based spirulina against assenicosisin man and livestock”

USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), Washington DC, USA Amount: US$ 3.0 m

To detect arseniosis in amn and animal, and its remediation using artificial produced spirulina

Project Director:     

Prof. Dr. Md. Abdul Awal, BAU

Co-P. Directors:

Prof. Dr. Ramkishan Rao, National program leader, USDA,

Prof.  Dr. Md. Ahsan Bin Habib, BAU, and

Prof. Dr. M. Idris Miah, BAU

Project No. 2006/31/USDA

1. Participation (Seminar/Conference/Workshop)

 i)

Participated and presented a research article in the VIth International Rotifer Symposium, Banyoles, Spain, 03-09 June, 1991;

 ii)

Attended in an International Workshop on Ecological Bases for Water Resources Management in Hypertrophic and Polluted Tropical Freshwater Ecosystems, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 Nov., 1991;

iii)

Participated  and  presented  research  article  in  the  conference 3rd  Asian  Fisheries Forum, Singapore, 25 – 30 Sept., 1992;

iv)

Participated and presented research article in the 5th Asian Fish Nutrition Network workshop, Udornthani, Thailand, 26 Jan. – 08 Feb., 1993;

v)

Participated and presented research paper in an international Symposium of Socio-economics in Aquaculture, Keelung, Taiwan R.O.C., 13- 18 Dec., 1993;

vi)

Participated and presented research paper in the 6th Asian Fish Nutrition Network workshop, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 15 –20 May, 1995;

vii)

Participated and presented research paper in an International conference on Sustainable Use of Biological Resources, Budapest, Hungary, 26 – 29 Aug., 1996;

 viii)

Participated and presented a paper in the 6th scientific conference of electron microscopy society Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 26-27 Oct., 1996;

ix)

Participated and presented a research paper in the 8th national biotechnology seminar, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 25 – 27 Nov., 1996;

x)

Participated and presented a research paper in the conference of international agribusiness and management association (World Congress VII), Jakarta, Indonesia, 20-23 June, 1997;

xi)

Participated and presented a research paper in the first ASEAN microscopy conference, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 27-30 Nov., 1997;

xii)

Participated and presented a paper in the 7th scientific conference of electron microscopy society Malaysia, Ipoh, Malaysia, 27-28 Nov., 1998.

xiii)

Participated and presented a paper in the 4th Asia-Pacific conference on algal biotechnology, Hong Kong, 3-6 July, 2000;

xiv)

Participated and presented paper in the international conference on tropical aquatic research towards sustainable development, National Aquatic Resources Research & Development Agency, Colombo 15, Sri Lanka, 15-16 Feb., 2007;

xv)

Participated and presented paper entitled, “Chemical characteristics of some agroindustries, and possibility for its use for algal culture” in the 12th International Conference of the Pacific Basin consortium for environment & health sciences, Beijing, China, 27-29 October, 2008.