Featured First-Author Publications
Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Wang J., Bury L., Falcinelli E., Bradbury-Jost C., Al-Gafari M., Koziar A., Takallou S., Willmore W.G., Dehne F., Gresele P., Othman M., Golshani A. (2026). AI-generated peptide therapeutics and diagnostics for platelet-type von Willebrand disease.
Blood Advances.
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Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Wang J., Corbette J., Hammed Z., Othman M., Golshani A. (2026). Designing the future of hematology. Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis. Under revision.
Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Bradbury-Jost C., Withey T.A., Gessese T., Azad T., Samanfar B., Dehne F., Golshani A. (2023). Peptides of a feather: how AI is taking peptide therapeutics under its wing.
Genes.
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AI-Driven Peptide Design
Al-Gafari M., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Moteshareie H., Wang J., Anoop V., Golshani A., Azam T. (2026). Host-pathogen protein interaction analysis identifies novel virulence determinants in Candida. Cell Reports. In preparation.
Wang J., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Hajikarimlou M., Al-Gafari M., Takallou S., Dehne F., Samanfar B., Babu M., Azad T., Golshani A. (2025). Artificial intelligence reveals nature: functional parallels between a designed and a natural peptide.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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Burnside D.J., Schoenrock A., Moteshareie H., Hooshyar M., Basra P., Hajikarimlou M., Dick K., Barnes B., Kazmirchuk T., Jessulat M., Pitre S., Samanfar B., Babu M., Green J.R., Wong A., Dehne F., Biggar K.K., Golshani A. (2019). In silico engineering of synthetic binding proteins from random amino acid sequences.
iScience.
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Kazmirchuk T., Dick K., Burnside D.J., Barnes B., Moteshareie H., Hajikarimlou M., Omidi K., Ahmed D., Low A., Lettl C., Hooshyar M., Schoenrock A., Pitre S., Babu M., Cassol E., Samanfar B., Wong A., Dehne F., Green J.R., Golshani A. (2017). Designing anti-Zika virus peptides derived from predicted human-Zika virus protein-protein interactions.
Computational Biology and Chemistry.
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Cell & Molecular Biology
Takallou S., Lancaster R., Kinshina S., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Golshani A., Fletcher E. (2026). Terephthalate, a PET plastic monomer, reprograms phosphate metabolism in yeast. PNAS. Under review.
Al-Gafari M., Moteshareie H., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Wang J., Takallou S., Khosravifar P., Hooshyar M., Samanfar B., Golshani A. (2025). Regulation of gene expression in response to heavy metal toxicity. FASEB Journal. Under revision.
Al-Gafari M., Jagadeesan S.K., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Takallou S., Wang J., Hajikarimlou M., Ramessur N.B., Darwish W., Bradbury-Jost C., Moteshareie H., Said K.B., Samanfar B., Golshani A. (2024). Investigating the activities of CAF20 and ECM32 in the regulation of PGM2 mRNA translation.
Biology.
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Zhang C., Hurst L.R., Gokbayrak Z.D., Calderin J.D., Hrabak M.R., Balutowski A., Rivera-Kohr D.A., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Brett C.L., Fratti R.A. (2024). Sphingolipids regulate Ypt7 function during the tethering stage of vacuole fusion.
Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Burnside D.J., Wang J., Jagadeesan S.K., Al-Gafari M., Silva E., Potter T., Bradbury-Jost C., Ramessur N.B., Ellis B., Takallou S., Hajikarimlou M., Moteshareie H., Said K.B., Samanfar B., Fletcher E., Golshani A. (2024). Cymoxanil disrupts RNA synthesis through inhibiting dihydrofolate reductase.
Scientific Reports.
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Logan C.J., Staton C., Oliver J.T., Bouffard J., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Magi M., Brett C.L. (2024). Thermotolerance in S. cerevisiae as a model to study extracellular vesicle biology.
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.
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Takallou S., Hajikarimlou M., Al-Gafari M., Wang J., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Said K.B., Samanfar B., Golshani A. (2024). The involvement of BSC5 in protein synthesis in baker’s yeast.
Biology.
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Takallou S., Hajikarimlou M., Al-Gafari M., Wang J., Jagadeesan S.K., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Moteshareie H., Indrayanti A.M., Holcik M., Samanfar B., Smith M., Golshani A. (2024). Hydrogen peroxide sensitivity connects the activity of COX5A and NPR3 to YAP1 expression.
FASEB Journal.
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Takallou S., Hajikarimlou M., Al-Gafari M., Wang J., Jagadeesan S.K., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Arnoczki C., Moteshareie H., Mohamed K., Azad T., Holcik M., Samanfar B., Smith M., Golshani A. (2024). Oxidative stress-induced YAP1 expression is regulated by NCE102, CDA2, and BCS1.
The FEBS Journal.
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Jagadeesan S.K., Al-Gafari M., Wang J., Takallou S., Allard D., Hajikarimlou M., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., Moteshareie H., Tayabali A., Nokhbeh M.R., Smith M., Samanfar B., Golshani A. (2022). DBP7 and YRF1-6 regulate PGM2 mRNA translation.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
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Golden C.K., Kazmirchuk T.D.D., McNally E.K., El-Eissawi M., Gokbayrak Z.D., Richard J.D., Brett C.L. (2022). A two-tiered system for surface receptor and transporter down-regulation.
PLoS Genetics.
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Hajikarimlou M., Moteshareie H., Omidi K., Hooshyar M., Shaikho S., Kazmirchuk T., Burnside D., Takallou S., Zare N., Jagadeesan S.K., Puchacz N., Babu M., Smith M., Holcik M., Samanfar B., Golshani A. (2020). Sensitivity of yeast to lithium chloride connects YTA6 and YPR096C to translation of structured mRNAs.
PLoS ONE.
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Moteshareie H., Hajikarimlou M., Indrayanti A.M., Burnside D.J., Dias A.P., Lettl C., Ahmed D., Omidi K., Kazmirchuk T., Puchacz N., Zare N., Takallou S., Naing T., Hernandez R.B., Willmore W.G., Babu M., McKay B., Samanfar B., Holcik M., Golshani A. (2018). ITT1 and RPS1A influence arsenite sensitivity via URE2 expression.
PLoS ONE.
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Mattie S., Kazmirchuk T., Mui J., Vali H., Brett C.L. (2019). Visualization of SNARE-mediated hemifusion by electron microscopy.
Methods in Molecular Biology.
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Omidi K., Jessulat M., Hooshyar M., Burnside D.J., Schoenrock A., Kazmirchuk T., Hajikarimlou M., Daniel M., Moteshareie H., Bhojoo U., Sanders M., Ramotar D., Dehne F., Samanfar B., Babu M., Golshani A. (2018). HUR1 influences non-homologous end-joining repair.
Gene.
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Samanfar B., Shostak K., Moteshareie H., Hajikarimlou M., Shaikho S., Omidi K., Hooshyar M., Burnside D., Marques I.G., Kazmirchuk T., Naing T., Ludovico P., York-Lyon A., Szereszewski K., Leung C., Jin J.Y., Megarbane R., Smith M.L., Babu M., Holcik M., Golshani A. (2017). Dom34 and Rpl36A influence acetic acid sensitivity in yeast.
PeerJ.
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