Hua Shi

Assistant Professor

Department of Biological Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY Albany


Research Interests

Aptamer-mediated multi-pathway control in living organisms. More information on SUNY Albany page


Selected Publications

Knocking down gene function with an RNA aptamer expressed as part of an intron (2010), S. Wang, X. Zhao, R. Suran, V. M. Vogt, J. T. Lis, and H. Shi, Nucleic Acids Res., 38, e154. (more ...)

An RNA-based transcription activator derived from an inhibitory aptamer (2010), S. Wang, J. Shepard, and H. Shi, Nucleic Acids Res., 38, 2378-2386. (more ...)

Commandeering a biological pathway using aptamer-derived molecular adaptors (2010), P. Mallik, K. Nishikawa, A. Millis, and H. Shi, Nucleic Acids Res., 38, e93. (more ...)

Xu, D. and Shi, H. (2009) Composite RNA aptamers as functional mimics of protein. Nucleic Acids Research, 37, e71. Composite RNA aptamers as functional mimics of protein (2009), D. Xu and H. Shi, Nucleic Acids Res., 37, e71. (more ...)

RNA aptamers directed to discrete functional sites on a single protein structural domain (2007), H. Shi, X. Fan, A. Sevilimedu, and J. T. Lis, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 104, 3742-3746. (more ...)


Lab Members with RNA-related projects

Prabhat Mallik (postdoc)

Vamsee Chatakonda (postdoc)

Shengchun Wang (graduate student)

Deepak Thirunavukarasu (graduate student)

Sathishkumar Munusamy (graduate student)

Deblina Biswas (graduate student)