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1. Bridging membrane biophysics to microbiology: innovating towards new peptide and peptide-based antimicrobials
   L. Stella, S. A. Akimov, S. Taheri-Araghi and M. Castanho
   Front. Med. Technol. 3:699154 (2021)
    

2. Modeling cell-selectivity of antimicrobial peptides: how is the selectivity influenced by intracellular peptide uptake and cell density
   B. R. Schefter, S. Nourbakhsh, S. Taheri-Araghi, B.-Y. Ha
   Front. Med. Technol. 3:626481 (2021)
    

3. Toward building a physical model for membrane selectivity of antimicrobial peptides: making a quantitative sense of the selectivity
   S. Nourbakhsh, S. Taheri-Araghi, and B.-Y. Ha
   Soft Matter 15, 7509-7526 (2019)
    

4. One is Nothing without the Other: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Cell Growth and Cell Cycle Progression
   P. A. Levin and S. Taheri-Araghi 
   Journal of Molecular Biology 431 (11), 2061-2067 (2019)
    

5. Tuning optimum transfection of gemini surfactant-phospholipid-DNA nanoparticles by validated theoretical modeling. 
   S. Taheri-Araghi, D.-W. Chen, M. Kohandel, S. Sivaloganathan, and M. Foldvari 
   Nanoscale 11, 1037-1046 (2019)
    

6. Heterogeneous absorption of antimicrobial peptide LL37 in Escherichia coli cells enhances population survivability. 
   M. Snoussi, J. Talledo, N.-A. Del Rosario, S. Mohammadi, B.-Y. Ha, A. Kosmrlj, and S. Taheri-Araghi 
   eLife 7, e38174 (2018) [CSUN Coverage] [Princeton Coverage]
    

7. Self-consistent examination of Donachie's constant initiation size at the single-cell level. 
   S. Taheri-Araghi 
   Frontiers in Microbiology 6, 1349 (2015)
    

8. Cell-size control and homeostasis in bacteria. 
   S. Taheri-Araghi*, S. Bradde*, J. T. Sauls, N. S. Hill, P. A. Levin, J. Paulsson, M. Vergassola, and S. Jun, (* equal contribution) 
   Current Biology 25 (3), 385-391 (2015) [News Coverage]
    

9. Cell-size maintenance: universal strategy revealed. 
   S. Jun and S. Taheri-Araghi 
   Trends in Microbiology 23, 4-6 (2015)
    

10. Single-cell physiology. 
    S. Taheri-Araghi, S. D. Brown, J. T. Sauls, D. B. McIntosh, and S. Jun 
    Annual Review of Biophysics 44, 123-142 (2015)
     

11. Single-cell cultivation in microfluidic devices. 
    S. Taheri-Araghi and S. Jun 
    The Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology (Springer), (2015)
     

12. How cell concentrations are implicated in activity and selectivity of antimicrobial peptides. 
    A. Bagheri, S. Taheri-Araghi, and B.-Y. Ha 
    Langmuir 31 (29), 8052-8062 (2015)
     

13. Electrostatic bending of lipid membranes: how are lipid and electrostatic properties interrelated? 
    S. Taheri-Araghi and B.-Y. Ha 
    Langmuir 26 (18), 14737-14746 (2010) 
     

14. Cationic antimicrobial peptides: a physical basis for their selective membrane-disrupting activity. 
    S. Taheri-Araghi and B.-Y. Ha 
    Soft Matter 6, 1933-1940 (2010) 
    * Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Volume 19, Issue 9, May 2010
     

15. Physical basis for membrane-charge selectivity of cationic antimicrobial peptides. 
    S. Taheri-Araghi and B.-Y. Ha 
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 168101 (2007) 
    *Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Volume 13, Issue 9, May 2007 
    *Recommended with a commentary by Prof. M. Kardar in the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics, April 2008 
     

16. Charge renormalization and inversion of a highly charged lipid bilayer: Effects of dielectric discontinuities and charge correlations. 
    S. Taheri-Araghi and B.-Y. Ha 
    Phys. Rev. E 72, 021508 (2005) 
    *Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Volume 10, Issue 5, Sep 2005 
     

theses

1. Membrane-disrupting activity of antimicrobial peptides and the electrostatic bending of membranes 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi 
PhD Thesis, University of Waterloo (2010) 

 

2. Interactions of cationic peptides and ions with negatively charged lipid bilayers 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi 
MSc Thesis, University of Waterloo (2006) 

 

talks and conference presentation

OP: Oral presentation, PP: Poster presentation, IT: Invited talk, *: Presenting author 

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1. OP: Cell-size control in bacteria: a coordination between growth and cell-cycle 
S. Taheri-Araghi 
ASM conference on single-cell and agent based modeling, Washington, DC (3/2016)

 

2. PP: Cell-size control in bacteria: a coordination between growth and cell-cycle 
S. Taheri-Araghi and Suckjoon Jun 
Biophysical meeting, Los Angeles, CA (2/2016)

 

3. IT: Cell-size control and homeostasis in bacteria 
S. Taheri-Araghi and S. Jun 
Pacifichem 2015, Honolulu, HI (12/2015)

 

4. IT: Cell-size control in bacteria 
S. Taheri-Araghi 
CSUN Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Northridge, CA (11/2015)

 

5. IT: Cell-size control and homeostasis in bacteria 
S. Taheri-Araghi 
CSUN Physics Department, Northridge, CA (2/2015)

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6. OP: Cell-size control and homeostasis in bacteria 
S. Taheri-Araghi*, S. Bradde, J. T. Sauls, N. S. Hill, P. A. Levin, J. Paulsson, M. Vergassola and S. Jun 
West Coast Bacterial Physiologists Meeting, Asilomar, CA (12/2014)

 

7. IT: Cell-size control and homeostasis in bacteria 
S. Taheri-Araghi 
UCSD Biology retreat, Lake Arrowhead, CA (9/2014)

 

8. OP: Cell-size control in E. coli 
S. Taheri-Araghi*, A. Amir and S. Jun 
Department of Biology, Washington University in St., Louis, St. Louis, MO (9/2012)

 

9. OP: Cell-size control in E. coli 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi*, Ariel Amir and Suckjoon Jun 
FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (8/2012)

 

10. IT: Physical modeling of antimicrobial peptides 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
Center Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann arbor, MI (2011)

 

11. OP: Cationic antimicrobial peptides: a physical basis for their selective membrane-disrupting activity 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha* 
The Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, Toronto, ON, Canada (2010)

 

12. IT: Physical modeling of antimicrobial peptides 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada (2009) 

 

13. PP: Can antimicrobial peptides rescue multicellular organisms? 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
Chemical Biophysics Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada (2009)

 

14. IT: Can peptide charge rescue multicellular organisms? 
Bae-Yeun Ha* and Sattar Taheri-Araghi 
Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Korea (2008) 
- This talk, based on our work on antimicrobial peptides, was part of a few invited lectures given by Professor Ha in the APCTP focus program on molecular dynamic simulations on nano/micro systems. 

 

15. OP: Membrane-charge selectivity of cationic antimicrobial peptides 
Bae-Yeun Ha* and Sattar Taheri-Araghi 
The Canadian Association of Physicists Congress, Quebec City, QC, Canada (2008) 

 

16. PP: Membrane selectivity of cationic antimicrobial peptides 
Roham R. Farzami*, Sattar Taheri-Araghi and Bae-Yeun Ha 
Chemical Biophysics Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada (2008) 

 

17. OP: Binding affinity of antimicrobial peptides for lipid bilayers 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
Physics Department, MIT, Boston, MA (2008) 

 

18. OP: Selective binding affinity of cationic antimicrobial peptides for lipid membranes: roles of peptide charge and hydrophobicity 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
March Meeting of the American Physical Society, New Orleans, LA (2008)

 

19. PP: Physical basis for membrane-charge selectivity of cationic antimicrobial peptides 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
GWPI poster session, Waterloo, ON, Canada (2007)

 

20. OP: Physical basis for membrane-charge selectivity of cationic antimicrobial peptides 
Bae-Yeun Ha* and Sattar Taheri-Araghi 
March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver, CO (2007)

 

21. PP: Physical basis for membrane-charge selectivity of cationic antimicrobial peptides 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
Chemical Biophysics Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada (2006)

 

22. OP: Asymmetrical binding of cationic peptides onto an oppositely-charged lipid-bilayer membrane: area expansion and membrane rupture 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Baltimore, MD (2006) 

 

23. PP: Charge renormalization and inversion of a highly-charged lipid bilayer: Effects of dielectric discontinuities and charge correlations Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
Chemical Biophysics Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada (2005) 

 

24. PP: Charge renormalization and inversion of a highly-charged lipid bilayer 
Sattar Taheri-Araghi* and Bae-Yeun Ha 
GWPI poster session, Guelph, ON, Canada (2004)