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Positions

Research Associate

Advanced Technology Cores
Recombinant Protein Production, Characterization, and Crystallography Core
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Education

MS from University of Houston

12/2018 - HOUSTON, Texas, United States

Professional Development

A taxonomic and functional analysis of bacterial diversity in agricultural soil testing for organophosphate biodegradation

Conference (Presenter, 2018)

Sponsor: Texas Branch American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

Chlorpyrifos biodegradation capacity of bacterial consortia in agricultural soil

Conference (Presenter, 2018)

Sponsor: Texas Branch American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

Selected Publications

• Nelufa Islam & Rupa Iyer. " Functional Analysis of Chlorpyrifos Biodegradation in Agricultural Soils Augmented with a Three-Strain Bacterial Consortium " Water, Air, & Soil Pollution. 2021 Oct 8; 232 (10)
• CRISPR/Cas9 screen uncovers functional translation of cryptic lncRNA-encoded open reading frames in human cancer. " 2023 Mar 1;
  Pubmed PMID: 36856111.
• From concept to delivery: a yeast-expressed recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine technology suitable for global access " Expert Review of Vaccines. 2023 May 30; 22 (1) : 495-500.
  Pubmed PMID: 37252854.
• A Recombinant Protein XBB.1.5 RBD/Alum/CpG Vaccine Elicits High Neutralizing Antibody Titers against Omicron Subvariants of SARS-CoV-2 " Vaccines. 2023 Oct 1; 11 (10) : 1557.
• CRISPR–Cas9-based functional interrogation of unconventional translatome reveals human cancer dependency on cryptic non-canonical open reading frames " Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2023 Nov 6;
  Pubmed PMID: 37932451.
• The zebrafish as a potential model for vaccine and adjuvant development " Expert Review of Vaccines. 2024 May 9; 23 (1) : 535–545.
• Immunopeptidomic MHC-I profiling and immunogenicity testing identifies Tcj2 as a new Chagas disease mRNA vaccine candidate " PLOS Pathogens. 2024 Dec 18; 20(12): e1012764