DR. YOUSIF SHAMOO

Shamoo Laboratory

Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis.

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Shamoo Lab News

10-17-2023

New publication!! Congratulations to Saoirse on her new publication using microfluidics to study the evolutionary trajectories of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in microaerobic environments. Link.

9-8-2023

New publication!! Congratulations to Dr. Xinhao Song on his new publication, which introduces a non-optical detection method utilizing methyl halide gases for the quantification of filamentous bacteria in microdroplets! Link.

4-4-2023

Congratulations to graduate student Adeline Supandy for successfully defending her PhD thesis!

3-20-2023

Congratulations to graduate student Xinhao Song for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

03-17-2022

New publication!! Congratulations to Dr. Ramya Ganiga Prabhakar for her paper in establishing parameters for enrichment of rare bacterial subpopulations in microdroplets! Link.

1-20-2022

New publication!! Congratulations to Dr. Heer Mehta for her paper in investigating Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica antibiotic resistance in macrophages! Link.

1-14-2023

New publication!! Congratulations to graduate student Yue Zhou for her paper in characterizing Enolpyruvate transferase MurAAA149ELink.

November 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Heer Mehta to her new position at Cemvita!

8-8-2022

IBB Best Poster Award Congratulations to Lauren LeDay for winning Best Poster at the IBB summer research event! Link.

5-11-2022

New publication!! Congratulations to graduate student Adeline Supandy for her paper identifying the mechanisms of resistance in Enterococcus faecium to daptomycin and fosfomycin Link.

5-9-2022

New publication in collaboration with Craig Miller and Chris Marx from UIdaho! Mutational Switch-Backs Can Accelerate Evolution of Francisella to a Combination of Ciprofloxacin and Doxycycline. Link

4-21-2022

New publication!! Congratulations to Post-doc Seokju Seo and the entire microfluidics team for the new Star Protocols paper.

3-29-2022

Congratulations to graduate student Yue Zhou for successfully defending her PhD thesis!

12-28-2021

New paper out! Congratulations to everyone involved in establishing the microfluidics platform for conducting experimental evolution in our lab. Check out the first of many papers on this topic here.

11-16-2021

Congratulations to Ramya for a successful thesis defense!

5-26-2021

New publication in collaboration with Chris Marx at University of Idaho! EfgA is a conserved formaldehyde sensor that leads to bacterial growth arrest in response to elevated formaldehyde

May 2021

Dr. Yousif Shamoo in his own words https://magazine.rice.edu/2021/05/the-experimentalist/

February 2021

Post-doc position open in Shamoo Lab https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/25590

01-19-2021

New publication: Daptomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium can be delayed by disruption of the LiaFSR stress response pathway. DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01317-20

10-12-2020
Check out Dr. Shamoo's podcast on "Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw" about Innovating the Future: The Next Frontiers In Clean Energy, Vaccines and Agriculture!!

3-5-2020
Check out our latest PLoS Pathogens review article on pathogenic Nocardia - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008280

8-12-19
Shamoo Lab on EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/ru-rus081219.php?fbclid=IwAR0isffII7jMz5hmdmGCezWXQzdkUkJwjz_a577bRp8Vl1zciCg_6ESK4Z4
7-17-19
New publication: Environment Shapes the Accessible Daptomycin Resistance Mechanisms in Enterococcus faecium. DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00790-19
7-15-19
Congratulations to graduate student Amy Prater for successfully defending her PhD thesis!

June 2019
Congratulations to postdoc Zaigao Tan for getting a faculty position at Shanghai Jiao Tong University