Research Interests: link to Adam's recent NPR interview
•Evolutionary biology, genetics and genomics, neurobiology and behavior, species interactions,
& chemical and microbial ecology
Education & Experience:
2007-present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
•Genetics and evolution of C. elegans behavior
2012-present: LS100r Project Leader, Harvard College
2001-2007: Ph.D. in Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
•Cross-talk among plant defense pathways encoding resistance to pathogens and herbivores
Advisors: Naomi Pierce & Fred Ausubel
1999-2001: Research Technician, University of California-San Francisco
•Genetic and genomic tools to study the human-pathogenic fungus Histoplasma capsulatum
Advisor: Anita Sil
1995-1999: B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies, University of California-Berkeley
•Self-designed major and honors thesis in Chemical and Fungal Ecology
Advisor: Ignacio Chapela
Publications: link to google scholar profile
Bahrami AK & Zhang Y (2013). When females produce sperm: genetics of C. elegans
hermaphrodite reproductive choice. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 3: 1851-1859.
Groen SC, Whiteman NK, Bahrami AK, Wilczek AM, Cui J, Russell JA, Cibrian-Jaramillo A, Butler
IAE, Rana J, Huang GH, Bush J, Ausubel FM & Pierce NE (2013). Pathogen-triggered
ethylene signaling mediates systemic induced susceptibility to herbivory in Arabidopsis.
Plant Cell 25: 4755-4766. PDF
Sangster TA, Bahrami AK, Wilczek A, Wantanabe E, Schellenberg K, McLellan C, Kelley A,
Kong SW, Queitsch C & Lindquist S (2007). Phenotypic diversity and altered environmental
plasticity in Arabidopsis thaliana with reduced Hsp90 levels. PLOS One 7: e648 (pp 1-15).
Cui J*, Bahrami AK*, Pringle EG, Hernandez-Guzman G, Bender C, Pierce NE & Ausubel FM
(2005). Pseudomonas syringae manipulates systemic plant defenses against pathogens
and herbivores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(5): 1791-1796.
*co-first author
Gebhart D*, Bahrami AK* & Sil A (2006). Identification of a copper-inducible promoter for use in
ectopic expression in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum. Eukaryotic Cell 5(6):
*co-first author
Hwang L, Hocking-Murray D, Bahrami AK, Andersson M, Rine J & Sil A (2003). Identifying phase-
specific genes in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum using a genomic shotgun
Additional Interests:
Brazilian music, folk musical instruments & woodworking
Hometown:
La Cañada, California (Los Angeles)