jagesh_shah@hms.harvard.edu

Jagesh V. Shah, PhD (HST'99)

HST Faculty, MEMP Alumnus

Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Medicine and HST, Harvard Medical School
Director, Laboratory for Cellular Systems Biology and Molecular Imaging, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Contact Information

(617) 525-5912

Degrees

PhD in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, HST, MIT, 1999
SM in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 1995
BASc In Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

Selected Awards/Societies

NIH Neurobiology Training Grant
Biomedical Engineering Discovery Fund Fellowship
Medical Engineering and Medical Physics Fellowship, Harvard-MIT HST
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council 1967 (NSERC ‘67) Scholarship
American Society for Cell Biology
American Chemical Society
American Institute for Chemical Engineers
Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Research Interests

Dr. Shah's research interests encompass mitosis, cytoskeletal dynamics, and synthetic genetic and proteomic networks. His approach focuses on applying modern photonic methods and computational approaches to understanding cellular phenomena and disease states.

Reference Publications

Shah J. V., Botvinick E., Bonday Z. B., Furnari F., Berns M. W., Cleveland D. W. 2004. Dynamics of centromere and kinetochore proteins: implications for checkpoint activation and silencing. Current Biology. 14:942-952
Wang Z., Shah J. V., Chen Z., Sun C.-H., Berns M. W. 2004. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy investigation of a GFP mutant-enhanced cyan fluorescent protein and its tubulin fusion in living cells with two-photon excitation. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 9(2):395-403.
Shah J. V. and Cleveland D. W. 2000. Waiting for anaphase: Mad2 and the spindle assembly checkpoint, Cell 103: 997-1000.

Courses Taught

HST 505 - JA 2013 - Laboratory in Molecular and Cellular Sciences

Laboratory in Molecular and Cellular Sciences

People

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jagesh_shah@hms.harvard.edu

Courses Taught