Marwa Mikati
Program: Neurosciences
Current advisor: Ream Al-Hasani, PhD
Undergraduate university: Mount Holyoke College
Research summary
Graduate publications
Conway SM, Mikati MO, Al-Hasani R. 2022 Challenges and new opportunities for detecting endogenous opioid peptides in reward.. Addiction Neuroscience, 2():.
Minakova E, Mikati MO, Madasu MK, Conway SM, Baldwin JW, Swift RG, McCullough KB, Dougherty JD, Maloney SE, Al-Hasani R. 2022 Perinatal oxycodone exposure causes long-term sex-dependent changes in weight trajectory and sensory processing in adult mice. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 239(12):3859-73.
Minakova E, Sarafinovska S, Mikati MO, Barclay KM, McCullough KB, Dougherty JD, Al-Hasani R, Maloney SE. 2021 Ontogenetic Oxycodone Exposure Affects Early Life Communicative Behaviors, Sensorimotor Reflexes, and Weight Trajectory in Mice. Front Behav Neurosci, 15():615798.
Edwards RL, Heueck I, Lee SG, Shah IT, Miller JJ, Jezewski AJ, Mikati MO, Wang X, Brothers RC, Heidel KM, Osbourn DM, Burnham CD, Alvarez S, Fritz SA, Dowd CS, Jez JM, Odom John AR. 2020 Potent, specific MEPicides for treatment of zoonotic staphylococci. PLoS Pathog, 16(6):e1007806.
Mikati MO, Miller JJ, Osbourn DM, Barekatain Y, Ghebremichael N, Shah IT, Burnham CD, Heidel KM, Yan VC, Muller FL, Dowd CS, Edwards RL, Odom John AR. 2020 Antimicrobial Prodrug Activation by the Staphylococcal Glyoxalase GloB. ACS Infect Dis, 6( 11):3064-75.
Price KE, Armstrong CM, Imlay LS, Hodge DM, Pidathala C, Roberts NJ, Park J, Mikati M, Sharma R, Lawrenson AS, Tolia NH, Berry NG, O’Neill PM, John AR. 2016 Molecular Mechanism of Action of Antimalarial Benzoisothiazolones: Species-Selective Inhibitors of the Plasmodium spp. MEP Pathway enzyme, IspD. Sci Rep, 6():36777.