Research Topics & Projects

Genetics, Genomics, Microbial Physiology, Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions, Regulation of Gene Expression, RNA Biology, Signal Transduction

 

Education

B.S. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2008

M.S. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009

M.S. Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014

Ph.D. Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019

 

In addition to his expertise in non-canonical Hfq mechanisms, Shafi is the lab expert in tweaking protocols to make anything work, world history, and pranking unsuspecting lab members.