Our group consists of undergrad and graduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows from divers backgrounds. Students are from Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry departments.
We take highly quantitative experimental approaches and analysis techniques to study antibiotics and bacterial physiology. The graph in this picture shows instantaneous growth rate of bacteria as a function of time after attack by antimicrobial peptides.
We have recently discovered that dying bacteria absorb antimicrobial peptides. This allows other cells to survive and recover the bacterial population. Such "tolerance" mechanism might occur with conventional antibiotics used is medicine too!
Our group consists of undergrad and graduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows from divers backgrounds. Students are from Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry departments.
The Taheri Lab studies heterogeneity in bacterial populations and stochasticity in the action of antibiotics and antimicrobial peptides.
Our main tools are live cell microscopy with single-cell resolution and deep analysis of quantitive data.
Current openings: We have open positions for one Physics Master's student and two biology undergraduate students. To apply, directly contact Professor Taheri with your resume.
The research in Taheri Lab has been supported by NIH, CSUPERB and CSUN startup funds.
News
06/20/19: Ohannes, Federico and Sanaz present their projects in the ASM Microbe 2019 in San Francisco.
06/06/19: Sattar gives an invited talk in the Canadian Association of Physics congress held at SFU.
05/17/19: Paul, Federico and Ohannes officially graduate! Congrats to all of you boys!
04/12/19: Sattar gives talk at UCLA center for biological physics.
04/08/19: Sattar gives colloquium at USC physics department.
04/04/19: Federico presents and wins the best short talk presentation prize at CSUNposium.
04/04/19: Sattar gives colloquium at SacState physics department.
03/05/19: Paul presents a poster at 2019 APS March Meeting in Boston.
03/03/19: Sanaz presents a poster at 62nd BPS Meeting in Baltimore.