Tanzila Mukhtar, PhD
Specialist
Regeneration Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Ramanujan Fellowship, ANRF/CIRI, University of Kashmir, 2025-2030
• IRM Independent Postdoc Grant, UCSF, 2023-2024
• Swiss National Science Foundation, Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship, UCSF, 2018-2021
• Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, University of Basel, 2013-2017
• HSBC-Chevening Scholarship, The University of Sheffield, 2010-2011
• Goldman Sachs Global Leader, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, 2008-2009
• Times News Maker's Award, The Times of India, NIE, 2005-2006

Education & Training

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• Executive Education Women's Leadership- Leading Teams Yale School of Management 2024
• PhD Developmental Neurobiology Dept of Biomedicine, University of Basel 2018
• MSc Stem cell and Regenerative medicine The University of Sheffield 2011
• BSc Biotechnology, Chemistry and Botany Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University 2010

Publications (14)

Top publication keywords:
Clinical Laboratory Servicesalpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine ReceptorSignal TransductionCerebral CortexNeocortexViral TropismNFI Transcription FactorsNeurogenesisNeuronsEpendymoglial CellsDNA-Binding ProteinsTranscription FactorsNuclear Matrix-Associated ProteinsCell DifferentiationNeural Stem Cells

• α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors regulate radial glia fate in the developing human cortex.
  Nature communications 2025 Mukhtar T, Siebert CV, Wang Y, Pebworth MP, White ML, Wu T, Huang TI, Zuo G, Ross J, Baltazar J, Upadhyay V, Shankar M, Zhou L, Lombardi-Coronel I, Mandala I, Adam MA, Wang S, Bi Q, Hoekman MFM, Li J,…
• Fate plasticity of interneuron specification.
  iScience 2025 Mostajo-Radji MA, Leon WRM, Breevoort A, Gonzalez-Ferrer J, Schweiger HE, Lehrer J, Zhou L, Schmitz MT, Perez Y, Mukhtar T, Robbins A, Chu J, Andrews MG, Sullivan FN, Tejera D, Choy EC, Paredes MF, …
• Molecular and cellular dynamics of the developing human neocortex.
  Nature 2025 Wang L, Wang C, Moriano JA, Chen S, Zuo G, Cebrián-Silla A, Zhang S, Mukhtar T, Wang S, Song M, de Oliveira LG, Bi Q, Augustin JJ, Ge X, Paredes MF, Huang EJ, Alvarez-Buylla A, Duan X, Li J, …
• Molecular and cellular dynamics of the developing human neocortex at single-cell resolution.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Wang L, Wang C, Moriano JA, Chen S, Zuo G, Cebrián-Silla A, Zhang S, Mukhtar T, Wang S, Song M, de Oliveira LG, Bi Q, Augustin JJ, Ge X, Paredes MF, Huang EJ, Alvarez-Buylla A, Duan X, Li J, …
• SAFB regulates hippocampal stem cell fate by targeting Drosha to destabilize Nfib mRNA.
  eLife 2024 Forcella P, Ifflander N, Rolando C, Balta EA, Lampada A, Giachino C, Mukhtar T, Bock T, Taylor V

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• Dynamic transcriptional programs define distinct mammalian cortical lineages.
  Neural regeneration research 2024 Mukhtar T, Taylor V
• LIF signaling regulates outer radial glial to interneuron fate during human cortical development.
  Cell stem cell 2023 Andrews MG, Siebert C, Wang L, White ML, Ross J, Morales R, Donnay M, Bamfonga G, Mukhtar T, McKinney AA, Gemenes K, Wang S, Bi Q, Crouch EE, Parikshak N, Panagiotakos G, Huang E, Bhaduri A, …
• Temporal and sequential transcriptional dynamics define lineage shifts in corticogenesis.
  The EMBO journal 2022 Mukhtar T, Breda J, Adam MA, Boareto M, Grobecker P, Karimaddini Z, Grison A, Eschbach K, Chandrasekhar R, Vermeul S, Okoniewski M, Pachkov M, Harwell CC, Atanasoski S, Beisel C, Iber D, van Nimwegen …
• Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for human cortical astrocytes.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2022 Andrews MG, Mukhtar T, Eze UC, Simoneau CR, Ross J, Parikshak N, Wang S, Zhou L, Koontz M, Velmeshev D, Siebert CV, Gemenes KM, Tabata T, Perez Y, Wang L, Mostajo-Radji MA, de Majo M, Donohue KC, Shin…
• Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for Developing Human Cortical Astrocytes.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2021 Andrews MG, Mukhtar T, Eze UC, Simoneau CR, Perez Y, Mostajo-Radji MA, Wang S, Velmeshev D, Salma J, Kumar GR, Pollen AA, Crouch EE, Ott M, Kriegstein AR
• Rapid deployment of SARS-CoV-2 testing: The CLIAHUB.
  PLoS pathogens 2020 Crawford ED, Acosta I, Ahyong V, Anderson EC, Arevalo S, Asarnow D, Axelrod S, Ayscue P, Azimi CS, Azumaya CM, Bachl S, Bachmutsky I, Bhaduri A, Brown JB, Batson J, Behnert A, Boileau RM, Bollam SR, …
• Tead transcription factors differentially regulate cortical development.
  Scientific reports 2020 Mukhtar T, Breda J, Grison A, Karimaddini Z, Grobecker P, Iber D, Beisel C, van Nimwegen E, Taylor V
• Ultra-multiplexed analysis of single-cell dynamics reveals logic rules in differentiation.
  Science advances 2019 Zhang C, Tu HL, Jia G, Mukhtar T, Taylor V, Rzhetsky A, Tay S
• Untangling Cortical Complexity During Development.
  Journal of experimental neuroscience 2018 Mukhtar T, Taylor V