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Shahid Karim

Dr. Shahid Karim

Professor

Bio

Dr. Karim conducts fundamental multidisciplinary research focused on decoding the tripartite interactions between tick vectors, their pathobiome (pathogens + microbiome), and the rickettsial pathogens they transmit to their mammalian host using multidisciplinary biochemical, pharmacological, molecular, physiological, and computational biology approaches.

Please click on the link for the list of published work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/shahid.karim.2/bibliography/public/

  • Molecular Entomology (PHD) - University of the Punjab (1999)
  • MS - University of the Punjab (1990)
  • BS - University of the Punjab (1986)

BSC410/510/L - Human Parasitology with Lab
BSC412/512/L - Medical Entomology with Lab
BSC453/553 - Invertebrate Physiology
BSC491/591/L - Introduction to Bioinformatics
BSC476- Molecular Biology
BSC478/578/L - Molecular Biology Lab (Now Methods in Biotechnology)
BSC776- Topics in Gene Regulation
BSC497- Senior Capstone

  • Tick bite-induced alpha-gal syndrome and immunologic responses in an alpha-gal deficient murine model, Frontiers in Immunology, 2024, 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1336883
  • Ehrlichia chaffeensis co-opts phagocytic hemocytes for systemic dissemination in the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum, Journal of Innate Immunity, 2024, 10.1159/000535986
  • Tick innate immune responses to hematophagy and Ehrlichia infection at single-cell resolution, Frontiers in Immunology, 2024, 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1305976
  • Tick salivary glycans - a sugar-coated tick bite, Trends in Parasitology, 2023, 10.1016/j.pt.2023.09.012.
  • A draft of the genome of the Gulf Coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum., Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102090
  • Rickettsia parkeri hijacks tick hemocytes to manipulate cellular and humoral transcriptional responses, Frontiers in Immunology, 2023, https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1094326
  • Rickettsia parkeri infection modulates the sialome and ovariome of the Gulf coast tick, Amblyomma maculatum, Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1023980
  • Recently Evolved Francisella-Like Endosymbiont Outcompetes an Ancient and Evolutionarily Associated Coxiella-Like Endosymbiont in the Lone Star Tick ( Amblyomma americanum) Linked to the Alpha-Gal Syndrome, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022, 10.3389/fcimb.2022.787209
  • Entomological Socociety of America
  • American Heart Association
  • Acarological Society of America
  • English (Full Professional)
  • Urdu (Native or Bilingual)
  • Punjabi (Native or Bilingual)

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Contact Me

Johnson Science Tower (JST) 509A map

Hattiesburg

Email
Shahid.KarimFREEMississippi

Phone
601.266.4748

Areas of Expertise

Vector Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Genomics, Functional Genomics, Microbiome, Bioinformatics, Infectious Diseases,