Sasha Shafikhani, Ph.D.
Research/Academic Interests
Title: Professor & Director of Microbiome Research
Undergraduate Education: University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, B.A., Molecular Cell Biology, 1991
Graduate Education: University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, Ph.D., Mircobiology, 2001
Fellowship: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Infections Diseases, 2008
Selected Recent Peer-reviewed Publications:
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Ruchi Roy, Foyez Mahmud, Janet Zayas, Timothy M. Kuzel, Jochen Reiser, & Sasha H. Shafikhani. Reduced Bioactive Microbial Products (PAMPs) Contribute to Dysregulated Immune Responses And Impaired Healing in Infected Wounds in Diabetic Mice. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 2024, Feb;144(2):387-397.e11. PMID: 37619833. PMCID: PMC10840742; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2023.08.004.
- Mohamed F. Mohamed, Kajal Gupta, Josef W. Goldufsky, Ruchi Roy, Lauren T. Callaghan, Dawn M. Wetzel, Timothy M. Kuzel, Jochen Reiser & Sasha H. Shafikhani. CrkII/Abl phosphorylation cascade is critical for NLRC4 inflammasome activity and is blocked by Pseudomonas ExoT. Nature Communications. 2022 Mar 11. 13(1):1295. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28967-5. PMID: 35277504. PMCID: PMC8917168.
Ruchi Roy, Janet Zayas, Sunil K. Singh, Kaylee Delgado, Stephen J. Wood, Mohamed F. Mohamed, Dulce M. Frausto, Yasmeen A. Albalawi, Thea P. Price, Ricardo Estupinian , Eileena F. Giurini, Timothy M. Kuzel, Andrew Zloza, Jochen Reiser, & Sasha H Shafikhani. Overriding impaired FPR chemotaxis signaling in diabetic neutrophil stimulates infection control in murine diabetic wound. eLife. 2022, Feb 3. 11:e72071. doi: 10.7554/eLife.72071. PMID: 35112667. PMCID: PMC8846594.
Ruchi Roy, Janet Zayas, Mohamed F. Mohamed, Mohammad Bayat, Timothy M. Kuzel, Jochen Reiser & Sasha H. Shafikhani. IL-10 Dysregulation underlies Global Chemokine Insufficiency, Delayed Macrophage Response, and Impaired Healing in Diabetic Wound. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 2022 Mar. 142(3 Pt A):692-704.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2021.08.428. Epub 2021 Sep 10. PMID: 34517005. PMCID: PMC8860852.
Kajal H. Gupta, Josef W. Goldufsky, Stephen J. Wood, Nicholas J. Tardi, Gayathri S. Moorthy, Douglas Z. Gilbert, Janet P. Zayas, Eunsil Hahm, Mehmet M. Altintas, Jochen Reiser, & Sasha H. Shafikhani. Apoptosis and compensatory proliferation signaling are coupled by CrkI-containing microvesicles. Developmental Cell. 2017, Jun 19. 41(6):674-684.e5. PMID: 28633020, PMCID: PMC5533184. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.05.014.