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Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Md. Sharifull Islam and his research team, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Stamford University Bangladesh, and Executive Director, Stamford University Research Center (SURC), on the successful publication of their recent manuscript in Frontiers in Microbiology (Impact Factor: 4.5, Q1).

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Md. Sharifull Islam and his research team, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Stamford University Bangladesh, and Executive Director, Stamford University Research Center (SURC), on the successful publication of their recent manuscript in Frontiers in Microbiology (Impact Factor: 4.5, Q1).

This outstanding achievement, accomplished through collaboration between Stamford University Bangladesh and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, reflects a strong commitment to high-quality research and impactful international partnership.

It highlights remarkable dedication, scholarly excellence, and a meaningful contribution to the fields of microbiology and phage biology. His work continues to inspire students, researchers, and the wider academic community.

🔗 Read the full article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2026.1812871

Wishing him and his team continued success and many more impactful publications in the future.

NEW RESEARCH: Chimpanzees plan ahead for bad weather

🐵Do chimpanzees really check the weather before going to bed?

New study led by Cyril C. Grueter (Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford ) reveals how chimpanzees in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park change their nest building behaviour depending on climatic conditions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982226004409

A new study traces how a protein essential for hearing evolved from an ancient ion channel into today’s exquisitely sensitive sound sensor.

Tiny hair-cell bundles in the inner ear, like those in this colorized scanning electron microscope image, are essential for hearing and balance. In the cochlea, a protein called TMC1 sits atop each cilium of a bundle.

When sound waves move these microscopic hairs, TMC1 acts as a channel, opening and allowing charged particles to flow into the cell and trigger an electrical signal to the brain.

A team led by Harvard Medical School neurobiologists identified a tiny extracellular loop on the TMC1 protein as a crucial part of the channel’s gating mechanism, helping to control when it opens. They also found that the loop – which is known to be the site of many of the mutations to TMC1 that can cause deafness in humans – has been repeatedly refined by evolution over millions of years.

The findings offer new clues to how hearing works at the molecular level and could help guide future therapies for hearing loss.