Department of Science & Humanities (SH)

Name: Tamanna Ishrat Farhana

Designation: Assistant Professor

Email: farhanatamannaishrat@gmail.com

Contact Address: Department of Science and Humanities, Room#1120, 11th Floor, Tower 4, MIST, Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor (December 2021 – Present)

Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Senior Research Scientist (January 2018–October 2021)

Department of Micro Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

• Research Fellow (July 2012 - August 2013)

Department of Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Academic Qualification

• Doctor of Philosophy (October 2014-September 2017)

Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan.

• Master of Science in Chemistry (2014)

University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (2012)

University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Awards/Research Grants

• Special Research Grant by Ministry of Science and Technology Bangladesh, Fund No SRG-252365, Influence of Variability in Shape Factors of Rock Materials on Backfilling Simulation Techniques in Underground Mining, 2025-2026.
• KAKENHI Grants-in-Aid for Early Carrier Scientist, Fund No 21K18053, Evolution of Collective Motion of Microtubules on Nano-patterned Kinesins, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Japan, April 2021-March 2022.
• Kyoto University Educational Research Promotion Foundation, Heisei fiscal year 30, Travel grant for participating in an international conference, Japan, 2018.
• United Group Research Award for publication, Category: General Science and Engineering, United Group Bangladesh, August 2017.
• UGC Award for research, Category: Physical Science, University Grant Commission of Bangladesh, December 2015.
• Monbukagakusho (MEXT) scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan, October 2014-September 2017.
• National Science and Technology (NST) fellowship for M.Sc. research project, 2012-2013.
• Qudrat-i-Khuda foundation fellowship for the undergraduate result, 2012.

List of Publications

• T. I. Farhana, M. Y. A. Mollah, M. A. B. H. Susan, and M. M. Islam, Catalytic degradation of an organic dye through electroreduction of dioxygen in aqueous solution, Electrochimica Acta, 2014, 139, 244–249.
• D. Inoue, B. Mahmot, A. M. R. Kabir, T. I. Farhana, K. Tokuraku, K. Sada, A. Konagaya, and A. Kakugo, Depletion force induced collective motion of microtubules driven by kinesin, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 18054-18061.
• A. Saito, T. I. Farhana, A. M. R. Kabir, D. Inoue, A. Konagaya, K. Sada, and A. Kakugo, Understanding the emergence of collective motion of microtubules driven by kinesins: role of concentration of microtubules and depletion force, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 13191-13197.
• T. I. Farhana, M. Furukawa, T. Kaneko, and R. Yokokawa, The Cooperative Motility of Microtubules on Nano-Patterned Kinesin-1 Turf (conference paper), 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems & Eurosensors XXXIII (TRANSDUCERS & EUROSENSORS XXXIII), Berlin, Germany, 2019, 1056-1058, DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2019.8808330.
• T. I. Farhana, T. Nakagawa, S. Ohara, H. Shintaku, H. Kotera, and R. Yokokawa, Spatial Patterning of Kinesin-1 and Dynein Motor Proteins in an In Vitro Assay using Aqueous Two-phase Systems (ATPS), Langmuir, 2019, 35 (40), 13003-13010.
• F. Afroze, D. Inoue, T. I. Farhana, T. Hiraiwa, R. Akiyama, A. M. R. Kabir, K. Sada, and A. Kakugo, Monopolar flocking of microtubules in collective motion, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2021, 563, 73-78.
• H. Zhou, W. Jung, T. I. Farhana, K. Fujimoto, T. Kim, and R. Yokokawa, Durability of Aligned Microtubules Dependent on Persistence Length Determines Phase Transition and Pattern Formation in Collective Motion, ACS Nano, 2022, vol 16, pg 14765-14778.
• M. T. Mosharraf, M. J. Sharif, and T. I. Farhana. A Review on Transition Metal-dichlcogenides based Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation: A Future Energy Source, MIST Journal of Science and Humanities, 2023, Vol 2, pp 19-29.

Selected International Conferences

• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Taikopaul Kaneko, Yuji Tojo, and Ryuji Yokokawa. Evaluation of microtubules binary collisions using nano-patterned kinesins.  65^th Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, February 2021, online.
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Taikopaul Kaneko, Ryuji Yokokawa. Study of collisions of microtubules on nano-patterned kinesin surface. The 40th Meeting of Society of Chemistry and Micro / Nano Systems (CHEMINAS 40th), November 2019, Act City Hamamatsu, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Taikopaul Kaneko, Ryuji Yokokawa. The cooperative motility of microtubules on nano-patterned kinesin-1 turf. 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems & Eurosensors XXXIII (TRANSDUCERS & EUROSENSORS XXXIII), June 2019, Berlin, Germany (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Taikopaul Kaneko, Ryuji Yokokawa. Emergence of collective motion of microtubules assisted by spatial arrangements of kinesin-1. The 39th Meeting of Society of Chemistry and Micro / Nano Systems (CHEMINAS 39th), May 2019, Kanazawa, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Taikopaul Kaneko, Ryuji Yokokawa. Investigation of collisions of microtubules driven by nano-patterned kinesins. 63^rd Annual Meeting of Biophysical Society, Baltimore, Maryland, US (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Taikopaul Kaneko, Ryuji Yokokawa. Regulating the collective motility of microtubules by controlling the spatial arrangement of kinesins. The 35th Sensor Symposium on Sensor, Micromachines and Applied Systems, October 2018, Sapporo, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Taikopaul Kaneko, Ryuji Yokokawa. Selective nano-patterning of kinesin motor-proteins and its effect on collective motion of microtubules. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, September 2018, Okayama, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Ai Saito, Daisuke Inoue, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Collective motion of microtubules driven by kinesin. The 11th International Gel Symposium, March 2017, Chiba, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Daisuke Inoue, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Effect of length and rigidity of microtubules on their collective motion. The 17th RIES-Hokudai International Symposium, December 2016, Châteraisé Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Daisuke Inoue, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Effect of external mechanical stress on active self-organization of microtubules. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, November 2016, Tsukuba, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Daisuke Inoue, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Collective motion of microtubules with different lengths and rigidity. The 6th Soft Mater Symposium, October 2016, Hokkaido University, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Daisuke Inoue, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Effect of external mechanical stress on active self-organization of microtubules. The 67th Divisional Meeting on Colloidal and Surface Chemistry, August 2016, Ashikawa, Japan (POSTER).

• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Daisuke Inoue, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Collective motion of microtubules in presence and absence of external indentation stress. The 4th Frontier Chemistry Center International Symposium, February 2016, Hokkaido University, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Daisuke Inoue, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Emergence of an ultra large pattern by collectively moving microtubules. The 50th SPSJ (society of Polymer Science, Japan) Hokkaido Branch Winter Meeting, January 2016, Hokkaido University, Japan (POSTER)

• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Daisuke Inoue, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Emergence of ultra-large vortex pattern by collectively moving microtubules on application of external indentation stimuli. The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, September 2015, Kanazawa University, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Daisuke Inoue, Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir, Kazuki Sada, and Akira Kakugo. Effect of external mechanical stress on active self-organization of microtubules. The 64th SPSJ (society of Polymer Science, Japan) Annual Meeting, May 2015, Sapporo, Japan (POSTER).
• Tamanna Ishrat Farhana, Md. Yousuf Ali Mollah, Md Abu Bin Hasan Susan, and Md.   Mominul Islam, Electrochemical reduction of molecular oxygen: Degradation of methylene blue by in situ generated reactive oxygen species in aqueous solution. The 19th Conference of the Islamic World Academy of Science, May 2013, Dhaka, Bangladesh (POSTER).

Research Interest and Ongoing Projects

My research interests are rooted in understanding and engineering energy conversion processes in both mechanical and biological systems, with the long-term goal of enabling high-efficiency micro- and nanoscale devices. Currently, my work is motivated by two complementary research thrusts.

Our current work focuses on the design and development of high-performance electrocatalysts for energy conversion applications, heavy metal ion detection, and wastewater treatment, with an emphasis on sustainability and efficiency.

The second thrust of my research is toinvestigate the mechanical behavior of biomolecular motor proteins-particularly kinesin that convert the chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis into directed mechanical motion to enable intracellular transport. Our ongoing in vitro studies on kinesin dynamics aim to provide fundamental insights that will ultimately support the development of biohybrid and biomolecular devices.