Farzana Ehetasum Hossain is a lecturer in the Department of Microbiology at NSTU who holds an MS in Microbiology from the University of Dhaka and has previous work experience as an executive at Labaid Group and as a graduate and undergraduate research student. Her research interests are in molecular biology and environmental bioremediation, and she has published a journal article and conference proceedings on topics related to identifying bacterial agents causing mortality in shrimp farms and evaluating probiotic properties of bacteria to inhibit pathogenic growth.