Rachel Shahan

Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles

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Publications

  1. Vukašinovic N, Hsu CW, Marconi M, Li S, Zachary C, Shahan R, Szekley P, Aardening Z, Vanhoutte I, Ma Q, Pinto L, Krupar P, German N, Zhang J, Simon-Vezo C, Perez-Sancho J, Quijada PC, Zhou Q, Lee LR, Cai J, Bayer EM, Fendrych M, Truernit E, Zhou Y, Savaldi-Goldstein S, Wabnik K, Nolan TM, Russinova E. Polarity-guided uneven mitotic divisions control brassinosteroid activity in proliferating plant root cells.. Cell, 2025.
  2. Birnbaum KD, Brady SM, Gallagher KL, Jung J, Pourquié O, Scheres B, Shahan R, Sozzani R, Strader L. Philip Benfey (1953-2023).. Nature plants, 2024.
  3. Grones C, Eekhout T, Shi D, Neumann M, Berg LS, Ke Y, Shahan R, Cox KL, Gomez-Cano F, Nelissen H, Lohmann JU, Giacomello S, Martin OC, Cole B, Wang JW, Kaufmann K, Raissig MT, Palfalvi G, Greb T, Libault M, De Rybel B. Best practices for the execution, analysis, and data storage of plant single-cell/nucleus transcriptomics.. The Plant cell, 2024.
  4. Rogers CD, Amemiya C, Arur S, Babonis L, Barresi M, Bartlett M, Behringer R, Benham-Pyle B, Bergmann D, Blackman B, Brown CT, Browne B, Camacho J, Chabu CY, Chow I, Cleaver O, Cool J, Dennis MY, Dickinson AJ, Di Talia S, Frank M, Gillmor S, Haag ES, Hariharan I, Harland R, Husbands A, Jerome-Majewska L, Koenig K, Labonne C, Layden M, Lowe C, Mani M, Martik M, McKown K, Moens C, Mosimann C, Onyenedum J, Reed R, Rivera A, Rokhsar D, Royer L, Rutaganira F, Shahan R, Sinha N, Swalla B, Van Norman JM, Wagner DE, Wikramanayake A, Zebell S, Brady SM. Pluripotency of a founding field: rebranding developmental biology.. Development (Cambridge, England), 2024.
  5. Nolan TM, Shahan R. Resolving plant development in space and time with single-cell genomics.. Current opinion in plant biology, 2023.
  6. Nolan TM, Vukašinovic N, Hsu CW, Zhang J, Vanhoutte I, Shahan R, Taylor IW, Greenstreet L, Heitz M, Afanassiev A, Wang P, Szekely P, Brosnan A, Yin Y, Schiebinger G, Ohler U, Russinova E, Benfey PN. Brassinosteroid gene regulatory networks at cellular resolution in the Arabidopsis root.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2023.
  7. Hsu CW, Shahan R, Nolan TM, Benfey PN, Ohler U. Protocol for fast scRNA-seq raw data processing using scKB and non-arbitrary quality control with COPILOT.. STAR protocols, 2022.
  8. Shahan R, Hsu CW, Nolan TM, Cole BJ, Taylor IW, Greenstreet L, Zhang S, Afanassiev A, Vlot AHC, Schiebinger G, Benfey PN, Ohler U. A single-cell Arabidopsis root atlas reveals developmental trajectories in wild-type and cell identity mutants.. Developmental cell, 2022.
  9. Shahan R, Nolan TM, Benfey PN. Single-cell analysis of cell identity in the Arabidopsis root apical meristem: insights and opportunities.. Journal of experimental botany, 2021.
  10. Shahan R. Editor profile: Siobhan M. Brady.. The Plant cell, 2021.
  11. Shahan R. Tempting Fate: A Guanylate-Binding Protein Maintains Tomato Fruit Cell Differentiation.. The Plant cell, 2020.
  12. Shahan R. It's All in the Neighborhood: SHORTROOT-Mediated Intercellular Signals Coordinate Phloem Development in the Root.. The Plant cell, 2020.
  13. Shahan R. The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway: DELLA-Interacting GROWTH REGULATING FACTORS Mediate Plant Growth in Cold Stress.. The Plant cell, 2020.
  14. Shahan R, Benfey PN. A Co-opted Regulator of Lateral Root Development Controls Nodule Organogenesis in Lotus.. Developmental cell, 2020.
  15. Shahan R. Father Knows Best? Small RNA Pathway Controls Endosperm Response to Paternal Genomic Dosage.. The Plant cell, 2019.
  16. Shahan R, Li D, Liu Z. Identification of genes preferentially expressed in wild strawberry receptacle fruit and demonstration of their promoter activities.. Horticulture research, 2019.
  17. Shahan R. The Future is Now: Gene Expression Dynamics at Single Cell Resolution.. The Plant cell, 2019.
  18. Shahan R, Zawora C, Wight H, Sittmann J, Wang W, Mount SM, Liu Z. Consensus Coexpression Network Analysis Identifies Key Regulators of Flower and Fruit Development in Wild Strawberry.. Plant physiology, 2018.
  19. Darwish O, Shahan R, Liu Z, Slovin JP, Alkharouf NW. Re-annotation of the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) genome.. BMC genomics, 2015.
  20. Kang C, Darwish O, Geretz A, Shahan R, Alkharouf N, Liu Z. Genome-scale transcriptomic insights into early-stage fruit development in woodland strawberry Fragaria vesca.. The Plant cell, 2013.