Researcher Profile

My research focuses on nutrition and dietary intervention among children with special emphasis on malnourished children that are one of the common public health problems in developing countries. As well as relationship of gut microbiota and nutrition among children. I have also research interest on body composition study using stable isotope and interaction of childhood nutrition and infection.

• Australian Alumni Awardfor Innovation and Research, 2013
• ICP 2013 Travel Scholarship to attend the 27th Congress of International Pediatric Association, 24-29 August 2013, Melbourne, Australia
• Best presentation awardby Boston Bangalore Nutrition Research training programme in January 2011 on research presentation entitled “Efficacy of probiotics in severely acute malnourished child”
• Nutriset and BSPGHAN  Scholarships to attend the Commonwealth of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN) on July 21-23,2011: held in London UK
• Australian development Scholarship Awards (ADS) by AusAID in 2007 for Masters in International Public Health from the University of Sydney, Australia.

Selected publications include:

• Sathish Subramanian, Sayeeda Huq,Tanya Yatsunenko,Rashidul Haque,Mustafa Mahfuz, Mohammed A.Alam,Amber Benezra,Joseph DeStefano,Martin F. Meier,Brian D. Muegge,Michael J. Barratt,Laura G. VanArendonk, Qunyuan Zhang, Michael A. Province,William A. Petri Jr,Tahmeed Ahmed,Jeffrey I. Gordon. Persistent gut microbiota immaturity in malnourished Bangladeshi children. Nature. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13421 (2014).
• S Huq,, M I Hossain, MA Malek, ASG Faruque and M A Salam. Hypoglycaemia in under five children with diarrhoea. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics; 2007 Jun;53(3):197-201.
• Lubaba Shahrin,Mohammad Jobayer Chisti,Sayeeda Huq,Thamanna Nishath,Maria D. Christy,Anika Hannan,Tahmeed Ahmed. Clinical Manifestations of Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia in Under-Five Diarrheal Children in a Diarrhea Hospital.Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 2016, 0, 1–7.
• Shafiqul Alam Sarker,Shamima Sultana,Gloria Reuteler,Deborah Moine,Patrick Descombes, Florence Charton,Gilles Bourdin,Shawna McCallin,Catherine Ngom-Bru,Tara Neville,Mahmuda Akter,Sayeeda Huq,Firdausi Qadri,Kaisar Talukdar,Mohamed Kassam, Michèle Delley,Chloe Loiseau,Ying Deng,Sahar El Aidy,Bernard Berger,Harald Brüssow.Oral Phage Therapy of Acute Bacterial Diarrhea With Two Coliphage Preparations: A Randomized Trial in Children From Bangladesh. EBioMedicine (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.12.023.
• S Huq, Mark A.C. Pietroni, Hafizur Rahman, Mohammad Tariqul MA. Hereditary Spherocytosis. J Health Popul Nutr 2010 Feb; 28(1), 107-109.
• Mohammad Jobayer Chisti,Tahmeed Ahmed,A M Shamshir Ahmed, Shafiqul Alam Sarker,Abu Syed Golam Faruque,Md Munirul Islam,Sayeeda Huq,Lubaba Shahrin,Pradip Kumar Bardhan,Mohammed Abdus Salam.Hypernatremia in Children With Diarrhea: Presenting Features, Management, Outcome, and Risk Factors for Death.Clin Pediatrics2016 Jan 24.
• Das SK, Afroze F, Ahmed T, Faruque AS, Sarker SA, Huq S, Islam MM, Shahrin L, Matin FB, Chisti MJ. Extreme hypernatremic dehydration due to potential sodium intoxication: consequences and management for an infant with diarrhea at an urban intensive care unit in Bangladesh: a case report.J Med Case Rep2015 Jun 2;9:124. doi: 10.1186/s13256-015-0611-y.
• Chisti MJ, Salam MA, Ahmed T, Shahid AS, Shahunja KM, Faruque AS, Bardhan PK, Hossain MI, Islam MM, Das SK, Huq S, Shahrin L, Huq E, Chowdhury F, Ashraf H. Lack of BCG vaccination and other risk factors for bacteraemia in severely malnourished children with pneumonia.Epidemiol Infect. 2015 Mar;143(4):799-803. doi: 10.1017/S0950268814001368.
• Das SK, Chisti MJ, Huq S, Malek MA, Vanderlee L, Kaur G, Salam MA, Ahmed T, Faruque AS, Mamun AA. Clinical characteristics, etiology and antimicrobial susceptibility among overweight and obese individuals with diarrhea: observed at a large diarrheal disease hospital, Bangladesh.PLoS One. 2013 Aug 1;8(8):e70402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070402
• Sarker SA, McCallin S, Barretto C, Berger B, Pittet AC, Sultana S, Krause L, Huq S, Bibiloni R, Bruttin A, Reuteler G, Brüssow H. Oral T4-like phage cocktail application to healthy adult volunteers from Bangladesh.Virology. 2012 Dec 20;434(2):222-32. doi:pii: S0042-6822(12)00443-6. 10.1016/j.virol.2012.09.002