Research Project
Dr
Sonia Hesam-Shariati
Current Appointments
Postdoctoral FellowKey Research Areas
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Sonia studied cellular and molecular biology as her bachelor degree and completed her master’s in medical microbiology at Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2015. After graduation, she worked as a research assistant and was involved in clinical projects which resulted in a couple of publications.
Sonia joined Dr Fullerton’s research group in 2018 to commence her doctoral studies. Her PhD thesis, which she submitted in 2022, was titled "Environmental, genetic and epigenetic contributors to the risk of bipolar disorder" and employed analyses of a cohort of young people at high familial risk of bipolar disorder. Sonia's thesis studies were focused on identifying genetic and epigenetic contributors to bipolar disorder, as well as examining the role of stress and other potentially important environmental factors in contributing to risk of mental illness.
Since graduating Sonia has continued in the Fullerton group as a postdoctoral fellow.
Publications
2022 Dec
Clinical and CT scan findings in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: a comparison based on disease severity
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43168-022-00142-w
2022, 03 Aug
Epigenetic signatures relating to disease-associated genotypic burden in familial risk of bipolar disorder.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC9349272
2022, 20 Jun
Bacterial community of chronic rhinosinusitis patients and therapeutic ultrasound efficacy: clinical trial study
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijm.v14i3.9765
2022, 04 Apr
Genetic and environment effects on structural neuroimaging endophenotype for bipolar disorder: a novel molecular approach.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8980067
2021, 12 Jun
Increased pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19: a case series and literature review.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8196288
2019, 13 Sep
The pulsed ultrasound strategy effectively decreases the S. aureus population of chronic rhinosinusitis patients.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6743179
2018, 01 Dec
Quantitative analysis of <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis under continuous ultrasound treatment.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6414742
2017, 15 Sep
Detection of enterotoxigenic <i>Bacteroides fragilis</i> in patients with ulcerative colitis.
View full journal-article on https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5599888
2016, 31 Aug
Detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Iranian patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus by PCR and ELISA.
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.7473
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