pensyarah universiti
jabatan sains biologi & bioteknologi
munir@ukm.edu.my
Sumber Lestari, Alam Sekitar dan Kehidupan Pintar,
Abdul Munir Abdul Murad is an Associate Professor of Applied Microbiology at the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He holds a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from University of Abeedeen, United Kingdom and a BSc in Microbiology and Biotechnology from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He joined UKM in 1995 as a tutor and promoted to lecturer in 2001 and Associate Professor in 2011. Currently he is focusing on the following research areas:
i. Molecular pathogenesis of oil palm fungal pathogen Ganoderma boninense;
ii. Development of fungi and carbohydrate-acting enzymes towards the hydrolysis of agricultural biomass;
iii. Enzymes and proteins from psychrophilic and alkaliphilic microorganisms;
iv. Production and applications of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria.
Abdul Munir is currently the President for the Malaysian Society of Applied Biology.
nur hanis solehah norizam, mona fatin syazwanee mohamed ghazali & abdul munir abdul murad. (2025). pemencilan dan pencirian rizobakteria penggalak pertumbuhan tanaman (pgpr) daripada rizosfera pokok bunga di malaysia. - undergraduate research journal for biological sciences and biotechnology. 115 - 124.
yongjun gao, norman mohd saleh, ahmad monir abdullah, syaima’ adznan. (2025). corporate climate risk disclosure and financing constraints: evidence from china. - finance research letters. 1 - 10.
emmyrafedziawati aida kamal rafedzi, mohd faizal abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad, izwan bharudin, shazilah kamaruddin. (2025). characterization of the drought-tolerant plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria genome, bacillus altitudinis ukm rb11. - universal journal of agricultural research. 45 - 54.
rozida mohd khalid; nurain shahera hasan. (2025). flavin dependent halogenase from the lichen dirinaria sp.. - 50th world chemistry congress (50wcc). .
dr. mohd fareed bin mohd sairi, prof. madya dr. abdul munir bin abd murad, prof. madya dr. wan syaidatul aqma binti wan mohd noor, dr. nazlina haiza binti mohd yasin, ain nur afifah azman,. (2025). laporan penyelidikan st-2024-034 . - . .
yongjun gao, norman mohd saleh, ahmad monir abdullah, syaima’ adznan. (2025). corporate climate risk disclosure and financing constraints: evidence from china. - finance research letters. 1 - 10.
norhamiza mohamad sukri, nor hasmaliana abdul manas, nardiah rizwana jaafar, roshanida a. rahman, abdul munir abdul murad, rosli md illias. (2024). effects of electrospun nanofiber fabrications on immobilization of recombinant escherichia coli for production of xylitol from glucose. - enzyme and microbial technology. 1-11.
nardiah rizwana jaafar, nashriq jailani, roshanida a. rahman, ebru toksoyoner, abdul munir abdul murad, rosli md illias. (2022). protein surface engineering and interaction studies of maltogenic amylase towards improved enzyme immobilisation. - international journal of biological macromolecules. 70-82.
mohamad hazwan fikri khairi, nor azlan nor muhammad, hamidun bunawan, abdul munir abdul murad, ahmad bazli ramzi. (2022). unveiling the core effector proteins of oil palm pathogen ganoderma boninense via pan-secretome analysis. - journal of fungi. 1-20.
kamaruddin, s.; ahmad redzuan, r.; minor, n.; seman, w.m.k.w.; md tab, m.; jaafar, n.r.; ahmad rodzli, n.; jonet, m.a.; bharudin, i.; yusof, n.a.; xia, d.q.h.; mahadi, n.m.; abdul murad, a.m.; abu bakar, f.d.. (2022). biochemical characterisation and structure determination of a novel cold-active proline iminopeptidase from the psychrophilic yeast, glaciozyma antarctica pi12. - catalysts. 1-14.
andrew b. h. goh, jonathan g, ling, shazilah kamaruddin, abdul m. a. murad, farah d. abu bakar. (2025). identification and expression of a hydrophobic carboxylic acid reductase from trichoderma virens. - fems microbiology letters. 1 - 13.
anis farhan fatimi ab wahab, izwan bharudin, sharmilah vetaryan, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad. (2024). pengenalpastian dan pencirian lokus jenis pengawanan (mat) yang mengawal proses pengawanan seksual kulat patogen kelapa sawit ganoderma boninense. - sains malaysiana. 3573 - 3591.
norfarhan mohd-assaad, rohaiza ahmad redzuan, mohd faizal abu bakar, nor muhammad mahadi, abdul munir abdul murad, rosli md. illias, doris quay huai xia, izwan bharudin, farah diba abu bakar, shazilah kamaruddin. (2024). exploring the protease diversity of psychrophilic yeast, glaciozyma antarctica through genome mining analysis. - sains malaysiana. 3031 - 3034.
nik yusnoraini yusof, doris huai xia quay, shazilah kamaruddin, mohd anuar jonet, rosli md illias, nor muhammad mahadi, mohd firdaus-raih, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad. (2024). biochemical and in silico structural characterization of a cold-active arginase from the psychrophilic yeast, glaciozyma antarctica pi12. - extremophiles. 1 - 13.
noor liana mat yajit, noor haza fazlin hashim, rosli mohd illias & abdul munir abdul murad. (2024). expression and biochemical characterization of a novel thermostable alkaline beta-1,3-1,4-glucanase (lichenase) from an alkaliphilic bacillus lehensis g1. - protein expression and purification. 1-8.
andrew b. h. goh, jonathan g, ling, shazilah kamaruddin, abdul m. a. murad, farah d. abu bakar. (2025). identification and expression of a hydrophobic carboxylic acid reductase from trichoderma virens. - fems microbiology letters. 1 - 13.
yongjun gao, norman mohd saleh, ahmad monir abdullah, syaima’ adznan. (2025). corporate climate risk disclosure and financing constraints: evidence from china. - finance research letters. 1 - 10.
norfarhan mohd-assaad, rohaiza ahmad redzuan, mohd faizal abu bakar, nor muhammad mahadi, abdul munir abdul murad, rosli md. illias, doris quay huai xia, izwan bharudin, farah diba abu bakar, shazilah kamaruddin. (2024). exploring the protease diversity of psychrophilic yeast, glaciozyma antarctica through genome mining analysis. - sains malaysiana. 3031 - 3034.
aisyah fatiha zailan, muhammad asyraff abd samad, anis farhan fatimi ab wahab, shazilah kamaruddin, doris quay huai xia, ahmad bazli ramzi, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad, izwan bharudin. (2024). three isolate of actinomycetes as biological control against magnaporthe orzyae and fusarium solani. - malaysian applied biology. 75 - 85.
anis farhan fatimi ab wahab, izwan bharudin, sharmilah vetaryan, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad. (2024). pengenalpastian dan pencirian lokus jenis pengawanan (mat) yang mengawal proses pengawanan seksual kulat patogen kelapa sawit ganoderma boninense. - sains malaysiana. 3573 - 3591.
lailatul fithri, luddy febriyanto, one asmarani, rahmat eko sanjaya, ardiana ilham nurrohman, mirni lamid, abdul munir abd murad, ni nyoman tri puspaningsih. (2023). fermentation of rice straw raw material to bioethanol using consortium enzyme. - 1st international conference on neuroscience and learning technology aip conference proceedings. 05000.
tri puji priyatno, farah diba abu bakar, rohaiza ahmad redzuan, nor muhammad mahadi, abdul munir abdul murad. (2020). functional analysis of an appressorium-spesific gene from colletotrichum gloeosporioides. - the 1st international conference on genetic resources and biotechnology iop conference series: earth and environmental science. 1-12.
rohaiza ahmad redzuan, nor muhammad mahadi, abdul munir abdul murad, shazilah kamaruddin, farah diba abu bakar. (2019). targeted selection of amino acid residues to create variant libraries of glaciozyma antarctica proline iminopeptidase. - proceedings of the universiti kebangsaan malaysia, faculty of science and technology 2018 postgraduate colloquium aip conference proceedings. 1-4.
ahmad zairun madihah, abu seman idris, shazilah kamaruddin, izwan bharudin, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abd murad. (2019). identification and characterization of a mating signalling gene from an oil palm pathogen, ganoderma boninense. - the 2018 ukm fst postgraduate colloquium, aip conference proceeding. 1-6.
abdul fatah a. samad, nazaruddin muhammad ali, ismanizan ismail & abdul munir abdul murad. (2016). analysis of mirnas targeting transcription factors in persicaria minor induced by fusarium oxysporum. - the 2016 ukm fst postgraduate colloquium, aip conference proceedings. 1-5.
abdul munir abdul murad, jonathan guyang ling. (2024). plant microbe interactions in the phyllosphere. - . 39 - 52.
abdul munir abdul murad, emmyrafedziawati aida kamal rafedzi, jonathan guyang ling. (2024). plant microbe interactions in the rhizosphere. - . 24 - 38.
azlan khan ayop khan, noor adila abdul karim & abdul munir abdul murad. (2017). pencuraian tandan kosong kelapa sawit kepada gula ringkas menggunakan selulase dan hemiselulase daripada aspergillus niger mut1. - . 6-9.
anis syafiqah razman, noor adila abdul karim, nurulhikma md isa & abdul munir abdul murad. (2017). kesan bakteria pengikat nitrogen terhadap pertumbuhan anak pokok padi. - . 409-412.
iman athirah abd. razak, nurulhikma md isa, noor adila abdul karim & abdul munir abdul murad. (2017). kesan bakteria pelarut fosfat terhadap pertumbuhan anak pokok padi. - . 421-424.
dr. mohd fareed bin mohd sairi, prof. madya dr. abdul munir bin abd murad, prof. madya dr. wan syaidatul aqma binti wan mohd noor, dr. nazlina haiza binti mohd yasin, ain nur afifah azman,. (2025). laporan penyelidikan st-2024-034 . - . .
nur hanis solehah norizam, mona fatin syazwanee mohamed ghazali & abdul munir abdul murad. (2025). pemencilan dan pencirian rizobakteria penggalak pertumbuhan tanaman (pgpr) daripada rizosfera pokok bunga di malaysia. - undergraduate research journal for biological sciences and biotechnology. 115 - 124.
anis farhan fatimi ab wahab, izwan bharudin, sharmilah vetaryan, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad. (2024). pengenalpastian dan pencirian lokus jenis pengawanan (mat) yang mengawal proses pengawanan seksual kulat patogen kelapa sawit ganoderma boninense. - sains malaysiana. 3573 - 3591.
sarani zakaria, andanastuti muchtar, aisyah abdul rahman, wan hanna melini wan mohtar, babul airianah othman, norazlin hassim, abdul munir abd. murad,. (2021). peraturan-peraturan universiti kebangsaan malaysia (pengajian siswazah) 2021. - . 57.
shazilah kamaruddin, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad. (2021). pengoptimuman campuran enzim selulase rekombinan untuk penguraian tandan kosong kelapa sawit. - sains malaysiana. 3547-3556.
rozida mohd khalid; nurain shahera hasan. (2025). flavin dependent halogenase from the lichen dirinaria sp.. - 50th world chemistry congress (50wcc). .
dr. mohd fareed bin mohd sairi, prof. madya dr. abdul munir bin abd murad, prof. madya dr. wan syaidatul aqma binti wan mohd noor, dr. nazlina haiza binti mohd yasin, ain nur afifah azman,. (2025). laporan penyelidikan st-2024-034 . - . .
nurul yuziana mohd yusof, nur hazlin hazrin chong, syaidatul aqma wan mohd noor, abdul munir abd murad & shazilah kamaruddin . (2024). advancing green technology through natural catalysts: exploring ulu slim perak hot-springs. - malaysia international geothermal conference. .
abd. samad, m.a., murad, a.m.a. bharudin, i.. (2023). identification of antifungal compounds from soil microbes capable of inhibiting the growth of ganoderma boninense. - simposium biologi gunaan 2023. 43.
bharudin, i., abd. samad, m.a., ng, x.y., assaad, n.m., ab-wahab, a.f.f., madihah, a.z., abu bakar, f.d. , murad, a.m.a.. (2023). ganoderma boninense virulence towards oil palm-an insight into the host-pathogen-biocontrol interaction. - simposium biologi gunaan 2023. 40.
BIOLOGY :PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Molecular Microbiology
Pengalaman / Experience : 22 tahun/years(s)
BIOTECHNOLOGY :PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Microbial Biotechnology
Pengalaman / Experience : 22 tahun/years(s)
BIOTECHNOLOGY :PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Applied Microbiology
Pengalaman / Experience : 22 tahun/years(s)
BIOLOGY :PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Molecular Mycology
Pengalaman / Experience : -22 tahun/years(s)