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Avi Shah (he/they)

Hometown

East Brunswick, NJ

Undergraduate College

The College of New Jersey

Research Interests

Multi-omics analysis, gene signature biomarkers

Publications

• Chitale P, Lemenze AD, Fogarty EC, Shah A, Grady C, Odom-Mabey AR, Johnson WE, Yang JH, Eren AM, Brosch R, Kumar P, Alland D. A comprehensive update to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv reference genome. Nat Commun. 2022 Nov 18;13(1):7068. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34853-x. Erratum in: Nat Commun. 2022 Dec 7;13(1):7538. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35402-2. PMID: 36400796; PMCID: PMC9673877.
• Shah A, Aneesha K, Sudhir N. SlimShadey: A manipulation tool for multiple sequence alignments. Bioinformation. 2023 May 31;19(5):659-662. doi: 10.6026/97320630019659. PMID: 37886161; PMCID: PMC10599665.
• Zuo W, Wang L, Chen L, Krnjević K, Fu R, Feng X, He W, Kang S, Shah A, Bekker A, Ye JH. Ethanol potentiates both GABAergic and glutamatergic signaling in the lateral habenula. Neuropharmacology. 2017 Feb;113(Pt A):178-187. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.09.026. Epub 2016 Sep 25. PMID: 27678415.
• Shah A, Zuo W, Kang S, Li J, Fu R, Zhang H, Bekker A, Ye JH. The lateral habenula and alcohol: Role of glutamate and M-type potassium channels. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2017 Nov;162:94-102. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2017.06.005. Epub 2017 Jun 15. PMID: 28624587.

Awards/Grants

• 2018 TCNJ Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship
• 2019 Goldwater Scholar
• 2020 Phi Kappa Phi Walter and Adelheid Hohenstein Graduate Fellow

Hobbies

chilling, finger painting, climbing like spiderman, competetive paper airplane folding, music

Email: as2654@njms.rutgers.edu