Pavak Kirit Shah
Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles
pavak@mcdb.ucla.edu
Publications
- Sharmin R, Elkhalil A, Pena S, Gaddipati P, Clark G, Shah PK, Pellegrino MW, Shaham S, Ghose P. Mitochondria transported by Kinesin-3 prevent localized calcium spiking to inhibit caspase-dependent specialized cell death.. Current biology : CB, 2025.
- Stubbert CA, Soe C, Shah PK. Long-term ex ovo culture of Caenorhabditis elegans embryos.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025.
- Noblett N, Roenspies T, Kirezi CB, Stubbert C, Flibotte S, Shah PK, Colavita A. IPPK-1 and IP6 contribute to ventral nerve cord assembly in C. elegans.. Developmental biology, 2025.
- Waliman M, Johnson RL, Natesan G, Peinado NA, Tan S, Santella A, Hong RL, Shah PK. Automated cell lineage reconstruction using label-free 4D microscopy.. Genetics, 2024.
- de Jesus M, Settle AH, Vorselen D, Gaetjens TK, Galiano M, Romin Y, Lee E, Wong YY, Fu TM, Santosa E, Winer BY, Tamzalit F, Wang MS, Santella A, Bao Z, Sun JC, Shah P, Theriot JA, Abel SM, Huse M. Single-cell topographical profiling of the immune synapse reveals a biomechanical signature of cytotoxicity.. Science immunology, 2024.
- Waliman M, Johnson RL, Natesan G, Tan S, Santella A, Hong RL, Shah PK. Automated Cell Lineage Reconstruction using Label-Free 4D Microscopy.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024.
- Natesan G, Hamilton T, Deeds EJ, Shah PK. Novel metrics reveal new structure and unappreciated heterogeneity in Caenorhabditis elegans development.. PLoS computational biology, 2023.
- Natesan G, Hamilton T, Deeds EJ, Shah PK. Novel metrics reveal new structure and unappreciated heterogeneity in C. elegans development.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
- de Jesus M, Settle AH, Vorselen D, Gaetjens TK, Galiano M, Wong YY, Fu TM, Santosa E, Winer BY, Tamzalit F, Wang MS, Bao Z, Sun JC, Shah P, Theriot JA, Abel SM, Huse M. Topographical analysis of immune cell interactions reveals a biomechanical signature for immune cytolysis.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.
- Shah P, Bao Z, Zaidel-Bar R. Visualizing and quantifying molecular and cellular processes in Caenorhabditis elegans using light microscopy.. Genetics, 2022.
- Vorselen D, Wang Y, de Jesus MM, Shah PK, Footer MJ, Huse M, Cai W, Theriot JA. Microparticle traction force microscopy reveals subcellular force exertion patterns in immune cell-target interactions.. Nature communications, 2020.
- Ghose P, Rashid A, Insley P, Trivedi M, Shah P, Singhal A, Lu Y, Bao Z, Shaham S. EFF-1 fusogen promotes phagosome sealing during cell process clearance in Caenorhabditis elegans.. Nature cell biology, 2018.
- Shah PK, Santella A, Jacobo A, Siletti K, Hudspeth AJ, Bao Z. An In Toto Approach to Dissecting Cellular Interactions in Complex Tissues.. Developmental cell, 2017.
- Shah PK, Tanner MR, Kovacevic I, Rankin A, Marshall TE, Noblett N, Tran NN, Roenspies T, Hung J, Chen Z, Slatculescu C, Perkins TJ, Bao Z, Colavita A. PCP and SAX-3/Robo Pathways Cooperate to Regulate Convergent Extension-Based Nerve Cord Assembly in C. elegans.. Developmental cell, 2017.
- Du Z, Santella A, He F, Shah PK, Kamikawa Y, Bao Z. The Regulatory Landscape of Lineage Differentiation in a Metazoan Embryo.. Developmental cell, 2015.
- Santella A, Catena R, Kovacevic I, Shah P, Yu Z, Marquina-Solis J, Kumar A, Wu Y, Schaff J, Colón-Ramos D, Shroff H, Mohler WA, Bao Z. WormGUIDES: an interactive single cell developmental atlas and tool for collaborative multidimensional data exploration.. BMC bioinformatics, 2015.