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

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 ...)

Distinct transcriptional responses of RNA polymerases I, II, and III to aptamers that bind TBP (2005), X. Fan, H. Shi, and J. T. Lis, Nucleic Acids Research, 33, 838-845 (more ...)

Probing TBP interactions in transcription initiation and reinitiation with RNA aptamers that act in distinct modes (2004), X. Fan, H. Shi, K. Adelman, and J. T. Lis, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 101, 6934-6939 (more ...)

Evolutionary dynamics and population control during in vitro selection and amplification with multiple targets (2002), H. Shi, X. Fan, Z. Ni, and J. T. Lis, RNA, 8, 1461-1470 (more ...)

RNA aptamers as effective protein antagonists in a multicellular organism (1999), H. Shi, B. E. Hoffman, and J. T. Lis, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 96, 10033-10038 (more ...)


Lab Members with RNA-related projects

Prabhat Mallik (postdoc)

Daiying Xu (graduate student)

Shengchun Wang (graduate student)