Rashaduz Zaman, PhD, MSc, BPharm

Area of Study / Keywords

Grassland ecology Forest entomology Phytochemistry

Research

Current Research Interests

My primary interest is understanding the ecological interactions among plants, insects, microbes and environment around them. Specifically I am more interested in chemical and behavioral interactions of above and below ground organisms and their surroundings.  

Currently I am working on carbon sequestration in grassland ecosystems in Cahill lab

Published

1. Zaman, R., Shah, A., Ishangulyyeva, G., & Erbilgin, N. (2024). Exploring behavioural and physiological adaptations in mountain pine beetle in response to elevated ozone concentrations. Chemosphere, 362, 142751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142751.
   
2. Zaman, R., Ullah, A., A., Shah, A. Shah, Ishangulyyeva, G., & Erbilgin, N. (2024). Unraveling the multifaceted effects of climatic factors on mountain pine beetle and its interaction with fungal symbionts. Global Change Biology, 30(3), 1-18, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17207
   
3. Zaman, R., Antonioli, F., Shah, A., Ullah, A., May, C., Klutsch, J.G., & Erbilgin, N. (2023). A Pine in Distress: How Infection by different pathogenic fungi affect lodgepole pine chemical defenses. Microbial Ecology, 86, 2666–2673. DOI: 10.1007/s00248-023-02272-0
   
4. Zaman, R., May, C., Ullah, A., & Erbilgin, N., (2023). Bark beetles utilize ophiostomatoid fungi to circumvent host tree defenses. Metabolites, 13(2), 239.
   
5. Kandasamy, D., Zaman, R., Nakamura, Y., Zhao, T., Hartmann, H., Andersson, M.N., Hammerbacher, A. & Gershenzon, J. (2023). Conifer-killing bark beetles locate fungal symbionts by detecting volatile fungal metabolites of host tree resin monoterpenes. PLoS biology, 21(2), e3001887.
6. Zaman, R., May, C., Ullah, A., Erbilgin, N., (2023). Bark beetles utilize ophiostomatoid fungi to circumvent host tree defenses. Metabolites.
7. Agbulu, V.†, Zaman, R. †, Ishangulyyeva, G., Cahill, JF., Erbilgin, N. (2022). Host Defense Metabolites Alter the Interactions between a Bark Beetle and its Symbiotic Fungi. Microbial Ecology, 84, 834-843. († Equal authorship)

Teaching

Winter 2022: I have served as Graduate teaching assistant for RENR 447/747 (Forest health).

Winter 2023: I have served as principle instructor teaching forest entomology for RENR 447/747 (Forest health).

Winter 2024: I have served as Graduate teaching assistant for RENR 447/747 (Forest health).