Shawn Ahmed

Shawn Ahmed is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology. His research focuses on telomere biology, genome silencing, epigenetic inheritance, and cellular immortality using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans.

Research Interests: Ahmed's work explores how telomeres are maintained through telomerase and small RNAs, mechanisms of transposon silencing via piRNAs, and transgenerational epigenetic stress that affects fertility and aging. His studies also investigate telomere-associated nuclear foci and their inheritance across generations.

Publication Trends: Over three decades, Ahmed's publications span chromosomal stability, stress response pathways, small RNA dynamics, and imaging technologies like light sheet microscopy. Recent work (2023-2024) emphasizes aging modulation and insulin signaling in C. elegans.