pensyarah universiti
jabatan sains biologi & bioteknologi
munir@ukm.edu.my
Kluster Kepakaran/ Cluster of Expertise :
Sumber Lestari, Alam Sekitar dan Kehidupan Pintar,
Biografi/ Biography :
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.
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.
domniq pavitiren arokiam, mona fatin syazwanee mohamed ghazali, izwan bharudin, shazilah kamaruddin, nor azlan nor muhammad, chyan leong ng, sanjib bhakta, abdul munir abdul murad and doris huai xia quay. (2025). expression, purification and biochemical characterisation of rv3368, an fmn-dependent nitroreductase from mycobacterium tuberculosis h37rv. - simposium biologi kebangsaan ke-11. .
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.
zailan,a.f., samad,m.a.a., ab wahab,a.f.f., kamaruddin,s., xia,d.q.h., ramzi,a.b., bakar,f.d.a., murad,a.m.a. dan bharudin,i.. (2025). streptomyces aureoversilis strain ukm2pp 16s ribosomal rna gene, partial sequence. - . .
zailan,a.f., samad,m.a.a., ab wahab,a.f.f., kamaruddin,s., xia,d.q.h., ramzi,a.b., bakar,f.d.a., murad,a.m.a., bharudin,i.. (2025). burkholderia cepacia strain ukm1pp 16s ribosomal rna gene, partial sequence. - . .
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.
izwan bharudin, anis farhan fatimi ab wahab, muhammad asyraff abd samad, ng xin yie, madihah ahmad zairun, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad. (2022). review update on the life cycle, plant-microbe interaction, genomics, detection and control strategies of the oil palm pathogen ganoderma boninense. - biology. 1-18.
mei yuin joanne wee, nur izyan wan azelee, samson pachelles, abdul munir abd. murad, farah diba abu bakar, rosli md illias. (2022). bioconversion of pineapple pomace for xylooligosaccharide synthesis using surface display of xylanase on escherichia coli. - biomass conversion and biorefinery. 6003-6014.
nur athirah yusof, makdi masnoddin, jennifer charles, ying qing thien, farhan nazaie nasib, clemente michael vui ling wong, abdul munir abdul murad, nor muhammad mahadi, izwan bharudin. (2022). can heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) serve as biomarkers in antarctica for future ocean acidifcation, warming and salinity stress?. - polar biology. 371-394.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
khairunnisa hanisah mohd daud, mohd faizal abu bakar, izwan bharudin, shazilah kamaruddin, doris huai xia quay, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad. (2024). identification and functional analysis of git3 g protein-coupled receptors in ganoderma boninense per71. - malaysian applied biology. 125 - 137.
ain nur afifah azman, shazilah kamaruddin, doris huai xia quay, farah diba abu bakar, noor haza fazlin hashim, abdul munir abdul murad, izwan bharudin. (2024). profiling the growth conditions and persistent organic pollutants (pops) tolerance of phenoliferia glacialis usm-psy62. - malaysian applied biology. 103 - 113.
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.
dharshini elangovan, shazilah kamaruddin, noor haza fazlin hashim, farah diba abu bakar, abd. munir abd. murad, nor muhammad mahadi, sarah ann allmann & mukram mohamed mackeen. (2016). cloning and expression of n-glycosylation-related mannosidase from glaciozyma antarctica for the production of a mannosynthase. - the 2016 ukm fst postgraduate colloquium, aip conference proceedings. .
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.
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.
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 . - . .
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.
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.
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.
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 . - . .
abdul munir abdul murad. (2025). harnessing beneficial rhizobacteria for resilient crops: lessons from paddy research. - seminar hortiactive #20: inovasi biofertilizer dengan teknologi drone sprayer dalam mewujudkan pertanian cerdas dan presisi yang ramah lingkungan.. .
abdul munir abdul murad, dhufr mohammed, emmyrafedziawati aida kamal rafedzi, nurulhikma md isa, izwan bharudin, shazilah kamaruddin, doris huai xia quay, mona fatin syazwanee mohamed ghazali dan farah diba abu bakar. (2025). beneficial rhizobacteria as a sustainable tool for rice resilience under drought. - 11th national biology symposium. .
izwan bharudin, ain nur afifah azman, noor haza fazlin hashim, simonetta corsolini, mohd. faizal abu bakar, farah diba abu bakar, abdul munir abdul murad. (2025). life on ice: adaptation of antarctic yeast to temperature variation and environmental pollution. - the 16th symposium on polar science. .
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)