User profiles for H. Zarkoob

Hedayat Zarkoob

University of British Columbia
Verified email at cs.ubc.ca
Cited by 39

Pharmacological activation of STING blocks SARS-CoV-2 infection

…, G Uhr, H Zarkoob, YC Chen, H Ramage… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
… Furthermore, STING does not have constitutive antiviral activity in Calu-3 cells because
treatment with the STING covalent antagonist H-151 did not affect infection as measured by …

Scaling up single-cell mechanics to multicellular tissues–the role of the intermediate filament–desmosome network

JA Broussard, A Jaiganesh, H Zarkoob… - Journal of cell …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
… Cell monolayers were then subjected to cyclical stretch for 24 h, fixed, and stained for keratin
14 to demonstrate reorganization of the IF cytoskeleton. Control cells were not stretched. …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the link between molecular subtypes of glioblastoma, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and CD133 cell surface protein

H Zarkoob, JH Taube, SK Singh, SA Mani, M Kohandel - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
In this manuscript, we use genetic data to provide a three-faceted analysis on the links between
molecular subclasses of glioblastoma, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and …

[PDF][PDF] Collective cell behavior in mechanosensing of substrate thickness

CG Tusan, YH Man, H Zarkoob, DA Johnston… - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
h, commencing 6 h from the start of the timelapse experiment (n ¼ 5 colonies). Only
pseudopodia greater than 3.5 mm were counted. Values are expressed as extensions or retractions/…

Fast and scalable feature selection for gene expression data using hilbert-schmidt independence criterion

MJ Gangeh, H Zarkoob, A Ghodsi - IEEE/ACM transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Goal : In computational biology, selecting a small subset of informative genes from microarray
data continues to be a challenge due to the presence of thousands of genes. This paper …

Substrate stiffness affects human keratinocyte colony formation

H Zarkoob, S Bodduluri, SV Ponnaluri, JC Selby… - Cellular and molecular …, 2015 - Springer
… removed from culture and fixed at 0 and 24 h. Fixative was then removed and the samples
were … Anti-involucrin antibodies were allowed to incubate for 2 h at 37 C as opposed to the 1-h

[HTML][HTML] Modeling SARS-CoV-2 and influenza infections and antiviral treatments in human lung epithelial tissue equivalents

H Zarkoob, A Allué-Guardia, YC Chen… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
… or PR8 IAV for 48 h (top, green), or with mock media or SARS-CoV-2 for 72 h (bottom, purple…
or PR8 IAV for 48 h (top, green), or with mock media or SARS-CoV-2 for 72 h (bottom, purple…

[HTML][HTML] Matching papers and reviewers at large conferences

K Leyton-Brown, Y Nandwani, H Zarkoob… - Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - Elsevier
Peer-reviewed conferences, the main publication venues in CS, rely critically on matching
highly qualified reviewers for each paper. Because of the growing scale of these conferences, …

Better peer grading through bayesian inference

H Zarkoob, G d'Eon, L Podina… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Peer grading systems aggregate noisy reports from multiple students to approximate a" true"
grade as closely as possible. Most current systems either take the mean or median of …

Synthesis, characterization and bioactivity evaluation of porous barium titanate with nanostructured hydroxyapatite coating for biomedical application

H Zarkoob, S Ziaei‐Rad, M Fathi… - Advanced engineering …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… held at that temperature for 1 h to burn out the PU completely. … and were held there for 8 h
to complete the sintering process… together and were stirred for 1 h (group A) and 3 h (group B). …