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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

FACILITIES

The ISB has research and teaching facilities housed in 13 buildings, spread throughout the
campus, a mini farm, mushroom house and one site outside of the campus ie Ulu Gombak
Field Station. There are also specialised laboratories dedicated to special functions such as
microtechniques (plant and animal studies), molecular biology (DNA sequencers and other
related paraphernalia), scanning electron microscopy, water analysis, animal house,
aquarium, greenhouses and computing facilities. The Institute has excellent research grade
microscopes equipped for image analysis. There are also drawing equipments and a laser
dissecting microscope. The Institute has also accumulated large collections of plant and
animal specimens for teaching and research. These are housed in the Herbarium at Rimba
Ilmu (UM owned) and the Zoological Museum, respectively.

RESEARCH AREAS

Researchers in ISB carry out research in many different areas. Examples include the following:
Insect Diversity, Systematics and Pest Management, Microbial Safety and Quality in Foods,
Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Quorum Quenching, Natural products and Alternative
Medicine, Antioxidant, Actinomycetes Diversity and Systematics, Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, Bioinformatics and Ecological Statistics, Investigating Genetics Determinants in
Diseases, Genetics, Genomics and Breeding Research for Aquatic Organism, Bioprocess &
Enzyme Technology (BET), Microbial Ecology, Medicinal Mushrooms: Molecular Oncology,
Vegetation and Slope Stabilisation, Solid and Hazardous Waste, Management, Photosynthesis
in Deep Shade Plants, Mangrove and Coastal Fisheries Ecology, Behavioural Ecology and
Biodiversity, Protein Folding and Conformational Stability, Cancer Therapeutics, biodiversity
and plant conservation, plant and environmental ecology, plant and animal breeding,
immunology, virology, bacteriology, microbiology (industrial, food, medical, environmental),
animal biotechnology, biosystematics, applied entomology, pest control, fresh and marine
water management, applied toxicology.

ACADEMIC STAFF

HEAD
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zazali Alias, BSc(Adelaide), MSc(London), MBiotech(UM), PhD(Victoria)

DEPUTY HEAD
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Norhaniza Aminudin, BSc(UM), PhD(UM)

PROFESSORS
Dr. Chan Kok Gan, BSc(UM), LLM(Staffordshire), MSc(UM), PhD(UM)
Dr. Chandran Somasundram, BSc (UM), MSc(UM), PhD(UM)
Dr. Geok Yuan Annie Tan, BSc(UM), PhD(Newcastle)
Dr. Jennifer Ann Harikrishna, BSc(Surrey), PhD(Cranfield)
Dr. Ling Tau Chuan, BSc(UPM), MSc(UPM), PhD(Birmingham)
Dr. Mohamad Suffian Mohamad Annuar, BSc(UM), PhD(UM)
Dr. Nazia Abdul Majid, BSc(UM), PhD(Newcastle)
Dr. Ng Ching Ching, BSc(UM), MSc(Osaka), PhD(Osaka)

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