BA, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellowship; UCSF
Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Exotoxins, Wound Infection, Surgical Site Infection (SSI); Wound Healing; Host/Pathogen Interactions; Innate Immunity; Programmed Cell Death; Apoptosis, Cancer Therapy; Microvesicles
Learn more about the research of Sasha H. Shafikhani, PhD, here
As a cellular microbiologist, Shafikhani’s research approach is to apply the knowledge gained from studying pathogens toward advancing understanding of host cellular processes. The primary focus of his lab is to determine the virulence mechanisms that mediate Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenesis in the context of wound infection, to determine the eukaryotic host responses that are intended to control Pseudomonas aeruginosa wound infections; and to employ bacterial toxins as molecular tools to dissect important mammalian cellular processes such as cytokinesis, apoptotic program cell death and apoptotic compensatory proliferation signalling. Shafikhani’s research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, Bears Care, Piccolo/Gavers and Rush internal funds.