Fareha Razvi, PhD

Department Affiliations
Senior Scientist, Fey Lab

Other Affiliations  
Supervisor of Undergraduate Research-College of Saint Mary (CSM)
Continuing Education Instructor- Metropolitan Community College (MCC)

Education and Training
BS, Botany, Delhi University, India, 1996
MS, Genetics, Delhi University, India, 1998
Research Scholar, Talwar Research Institute, India, 1999
PhD, Aachen University (Fraunhofer-Munich) Germany, 2003

Honors and Awards
Judge for HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) CERT skills competition, 2019, UNMC
61st Annual 2017 Wind River Postdoctoral Travel Award
Judge for Microbiology Symposium University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL), US
Organizing Team member 10th International Congress of Immunology, India
Topper of BS Botany; Delhi University, India
Awardee of BS Botany Meritorious Scholarship, India
Secretary, BS Botany Society; Delhi University, India
Joint Secretary, BS Botany Society; Delhi University, India
Winner of Inter-college Science Collage competitions, India

Notable Publications
Lehman MK, Sturd NA, Razvi F, Wellems DL, Carson SD, et al. (2023) Proline transporters ProT and PutP are required for Staphylococcus aureus infection. PLOS Pathogens Jan 18;19(1).

Reslane I, Halsey CR, Stastny A, Cabrera BJ, Ahn J, Shinde D, Galac MR, Sladek MF, Razvi F, Lehman MK, Bayles KW, Thomas VC, Handke LD, Fey PD (2022) Catabolic Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase Activity Facilitates Growth of Staphylococcus aureus in Defined Medium Lacking Glucose and Arginine. mBio. Jun 28;13(3).

Christopher Campbell, Claire Fingleton, Merve S Zeden, Emilio Bueno, Laura A Gallagher, Dhananjay Shinde, Jongsam Ahn, Heather M Olson, Thomas L Fillmore, Joshua N Adkins, Fareha Razvi, Kenneth W Bayles, Paul D Fey, Vinai C Thomas, Felipe Cava, Geremy C Clair, James P O’gara (2021) Accumulation of succinyl coenzyme a perturbs the methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (Mrsa) succinylome and is associated with increased susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics- mBio. June 29;12(3).

Ma X., Ibrahim F., Kim E.J., Shaver S., Becker J., Razvi F., Cerny R.L., Cerutti H.  (2020)  "An ortholog of the Vasa intronic gene is required for small RNA-mediated translation repression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii"., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Jan 7;117(1): 761-770    

Gallagher L., Shears R.K., Fingleton C., Alvarez L., Waters E.M., Clarke J., Bricio-Moreno L., Campbell C., Yadav A., Razvi F., O'Neill E., O'Neill A.J., Cava F., Fey P.D., Kadioglu A., O'Gara, J.P.  (2019) “Impaired alanine transport or exposure to D-cycloserine increases the susceptibility of MRSA to β-lactam antibiotics”., The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Oct 19  

Rochat T., Bohn C., Le Lam T.N., Morvan C., Razvi F., Pain A., Toffano-Nioche, C., Ponien P., Jacq A., Jacquet E., Fey, P.D, Gautheret, D., Bouloc P. (2018) “The conserved regulatory RNA RsaE down-regulates the arginine degradation pathway in Staphylococcus aureus”, Nucleic Acids Res. Sep 28;46(17):8803-8816

Chaudhari S., Kim M., Lei S., Razvi F., Alqarzaee A., Hutfless E., Powers R., Zimmerman M., Fey P.D., Thomas V.C. (2017) “Nitrite Derived from Endogenous Bacterial Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity Promotes Aerobic Respiration,” MBio. Aug 1;8(4)

Park H., Weier S., Razvi F., Peña PA, Sims N.A., Lowell J., Hungate C., Kissinger K., Key G., Fraser P., Napier J.A., Cahoon E.B., Clemente T.E.  (2017) "Towards the development of a sustainable soya bean-based feedstock for aquaculture", Plant Biotechnol J. Feb;15(2):227-236

Xu Y.Z., De la Rosa S.R., Virdi K.S., Arrieta-Montiel M.P., Razvi F., Li S., Ren G., Yu B., Alexander D., Guo L., Feng X., Dweikat I.M., Clemente T.E., Mackenzie S.A. (2012) “The chloroplast triggers developmental reprogramming when MUTS HOMOLOG1 is suppressed in plants”, Plant Physiol.Vol.159,pp.710-720

Vogt U., Pélissier, T., Pütz, A., Razvi F., Fischer R., Wassenegger, M. (2004) “Viroid-induced RNA silencing of GFP-viroid fusion transgenes does not induce extensive spreading of methylation or transitive silencing”, The Plant Journal 38(1), pp.107-118

Razvi F., (2003) “Functional Analysis of the cellular RNA-directed RNA polymerase (RdRP) in higher plants”, RWTH Aachen 01 Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften. Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften

Talwar G.P., Diwan M., Razvi F., Malhotra R., (1999) “The impact of new technologies on vaccines”,The National Medical Journal of India, 12(6), pp.274-80

Razvi F., (1998) “Characterisation of Putative Nicotiana tabacum Xanthi L. Trangenics for a) Copy Number and b) T-DNA integration patterns” Department of Genetics. Delhi, India

Razvi F., (1998) “Homology based transgene silencing in plants: Can we learn something from the organization of multigene families in plants?” Department of Genetics. Delhi, India