Publications

Julie Boerckel, Dana Walker and Shawn Ahmed (2007). The RFC-clamp loader HPR-17 is required for telomere replication in C. elegans. Genetics 176: 703-709.

Shawn Ahmed (2006). Uncoupling of pathways that promote post-mitotic lifespan and apoptosis from replicative immortality of C. elegans germ cells. Aging Cell 5: 559-563.

Theresa Zucchero and Shawn Ahmed (2006). Genetics of proliferative aging. Experimental Gerontology 41: 992-1000.

Japser Harris, Mia Lowden, Iuval Clejan, Monika Tzoneva, James Thomas, Jonathan Hodgkin and Shawn Ahmed (2006). Mutator phenotype of C. elegans DNA damage checkpoint mutants. Genetics 174: 601-616.

Iuval Clejan, Julie Boerckel and Shawn Ahmed (2006). Developmental modulation of non-homologous end-joining in C. elegans. Genetics 173: 1301-1317.

Bettina Meier, Iuval Clejan, Yan Liu, Mia Lowden, Jonathan Hodgkin, and Shawn Ahmed (2006). trt-1 is the C. elegans catalytic subunit of telomerase. PLoS Genetics 2: e18.

Chris Smelick and Shawn Ahmed (2005). Achieving immortality in the C. elegans germline. Aging Research Reviews 4: 67-82.

Jacapo Novelli, Shawn Ahmed and Jonathan Hodgkin (2004). Gene interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans define DPY-31 as a candidate procollagen C-proteinase and SQT-3/ROL-4 as its predicted major target. Genetics 168: 1259-1273.

Shawn Ahmed, Arno Alpi, Michael O. Hengartner and Anton Gartner (2001). C. elegans RAD-5/CLK-2 defines a new DNA damage checkpoint protein. Current Biology 11: 1934-1944.

Bettina Meier and Shawn Ahmed (2001). Checkpoints: Meiotic chromosome pairing takes an unexpected twist. Current Biology 11: R865-R868.

Shawn Ahmed and Jonathan Hodgkin (2000). MRT-2 checkpoint protein is required for germline immortality and telomere replication in C. elegans. Nature 403: 159-164.

Anton Gartner, Stuart Milstein, Shawn Ahmed, Jonathan Hodgkin and Michael O. Hengartner (2000). A conserved checkpoint pathway mediates DNA damage-induced apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in C. elegans. Molecular Cell 5: 435-443.

Shawn Ahmed, Hong Sheng, Luming Niu and Eric Henderson (1998). Tetrahymena mutants with short telomeres. Genetics 150: 643-650.

Shawn Ahmed, Augustin Kintanar and Eric Henderson (1994). Human telomeric C-strand tetraplexes. Nature Structural Biology 1: 83-88.

Shawn Ahmed and Eric Henderson (1992). Formation of novel hairpin structures by telomeric C-strand oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research 20: 507-511.