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Sofia I. Sheikh

University of Chicago
Verified email at uchicago.edu
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The complex genetics of common variable immunodeficiency

…, HW Schroeder III, SM Sheikh - Journal of …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
Immunoglobulin (lg)A deficiency and common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) are the
most common primary immunodeficiency disorders in North America and Europe. These …

[HTML][HTML] Precise measurements of self-absorbed rising reverse shock emission from gamma-ray burst 221009A

…, AW Pollak, PH Premnath, PF Scott, SZ Sheikh… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The deaths of massive stars are sometimes accompanied by the launch of highly relativistic
and collimated jets. If the jet is pointed towards Earth, we observe a ‘prompt’ gamma-ray …

The Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center. I.

…, C Ng, I de Pater, DC Price, SZ Sheikh… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A line of sight toward the Galactic Center (GC) offers the largest number of potentially habitable
systems of any direction in the sky. The Breakthrough Listen program is undertaking the …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework

SZ Sheikh, S Smith, DC Price, D DeBoer, BC Lacki… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The aim of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to find technologically capable
life beyond Earth through their technosignatures. On 2019 April 29, the Breakthrough Listen …

A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars

…, DHE MacMahon, I de Pater, DC Price, SZ Sheikh… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The goal of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to quantify the prevalence of
technological life beyond Earth via their ‘technosignatures’. One theorized technosignature is …

[HTML][HTML] A radio technosignature search towards Proxima Centauri resulting in a signal of interest

S Smith, DC Price, SZ Sheikh, DJ Czech, S Croft… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The detection of life beyond Earth is an ongoing scientific pursuit, with profound implications.
One approach, known as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), seeks to find …

The case for technosignatures: Why they may be abundant, long-lived, highly detectable, and unambiguous

…, R Kopparapu, M Lingam, SZ Sheikh - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The intuition suggested by the Drake equation implies that technology should be less
prevalent than biology in the galaxy. However, it has been appreciated for decades in the SETI …

The Breakthrough Listen search for intelligent life: a 3.95–8.00 GHz search for radio technosignatures in the restricted earth transit zone

SZ Sheikh, A Siemion, JE Enriquez… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a search for artificial narrowband signals of 20 stars within the restricted Earth
Transit Zone (rETZ) as a part of the ten-year Breakthrough Listen (BL) search for …

Acute and Long-Term Consequences of Co-opted doublesex on the Development of Mimetic Butterfly Color Patterns

NW VanKuren, MM Doellman, SI Sheikh… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Novel phenotypes are increasingly recognized to have evolved by co-option of conserved
genes into new developmental contexts, yet the process by which co-opted genes modify …

Nine axes of merit for technosignature searches

SZ Sheikh - International Journal of Astrobiology, 2020 - cambridge.org
It can be difficult to develop an effective and balanced search strategy in SETI, especially from
a funding perspective, given the diverse methodologies and myriad orthogonal proposals …