Abul Khayer

April, 2024 - Present Doctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (AG Gutjahr), Potsdam, Germany.

January, 2022 – March, 2024 Full-time Bioinformatician at Computomics, Tübingen, Germany.

March, 2021 – December, 2021 Internship and MS thesis at IPK-Gatersleben (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research), Gatersleben, Germany.

October, 2019 – December, 2021 Master of Science, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, DE.

Master thesis at the lab of JJ Szymanski (IPK-Gatersleben) on Characterization of co-evolution and co-expression patterns in tomato heat-stress response -systems approach for gene function discovery (2021).

April, 2014 – October, 2018 Bachelor of Science (Honour's), Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh.

Scholarships and Fundings

2021 MS thesis fund from Georg-August Universität Göttingen.

2021 Short-term research grant from DAAD (STIBET Program at Georg-August Universität Göttingen).

2021 Fellowship from IPK-Gatersleben (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research).

2020 Fully funded MSc scholarship from King Abdulaziz University, KSA (declined as I started already my MSc at Germany) 

2020 Grant from Universität Kassel under Work-Study Program (WS 2019/20 with Prof. Gunter Backes) funded by Tropenzentrum, Witzenhausen.

Scientific Talks

13 April 2023: The Sainsbury Lab (TSL, Norwich), Sophien Kamoun’s group on Molecular Cross-Talk of Wheat-Blast.

 7-9 Jan 2024 in Gazipur Agricultural University (Gazipur, Bangladesh), Bangladesh on Machine learning in molecular genetics.

Teachings

Explanation of AI model with SHAP values with Prof. Dirk Walther (University of Potsdam, So2025)

Physiology and molecular biology of plant-AMF symbiosis with Prof. Salma Balazadeh (University of Göttingen So2026)

Publications:

Khayer, A., Ye, P., Eti, F.S. et al. (2026). Field pathogenomics and evolutionary conservation unveil CRISPR-targetable susceptibility genes for wheat blast resistance. Scientific Reports 16, 5677. 

Dennis Psaroudakis, Abul Khayer, Leke V. Aiyesa et al. Identification of core, conditional and crosstalk components of tomato heat stress response using integrative transcriptomics and orthology, 30 April 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4337825/v1]. 

Chowdhury, R. H., Eti, F. S., Ahmed, R., Gupta, S. D., Jhan, P. K., Islam, T., & Khayer, A. (2023). Drought-responsive genes in tomato: meta-analysis of gene expression using machine learning. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 19374.

Jahan, M. N., Barua, S., Ali, H., Ali, M. N., Chowdhury, M. S. H., Hasan, M. M., Ferdous, T., Khayer, A., and Hossen, K. (2020). Effects of phosphorus fertilization on hybrid varieties of mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) in a salinity prone area of the sub-tropics. Acta Agrobotanica. 73(3):7338. DOI: 10.5586/aa.7338

Sumi, A. A., Khayer, A., Jhan, P. K., and Rubel, M. H. (2022). Medicinal Plants as Biocontrol Agents: An In Vitro Study on Black Rot Pathogen of Cabbage (Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris). Acta Agrobotanica, 75. https://doi.org/10.5586/aa.759