Research - Suhail Ghafoor

Academic Profiles

Publications

Childhood skeletal lesions common in prehistory are present in living forager-farmers and predict adult markers of immune function (2025)
Samuel Wann; Adel Allam; Bret Beheim; Wendy Mack; Aaron Blackwell; Suhail Ghafoor; Thomas Kraft; Daniel Cummings; Margaret Gatz; Gregory Scott Thomas et al. Science Advances . 10.1126/sciadv.adw3697
Importance of undergraduate institution prestige in physics faculty hiring networks (2024)
Grunspan, D. Z., Komperda, R., Offerdahl, E. G., Abraham, A. E., Etebari, S., Maas, S. A., Roberts, J. A., Ghafoor, S., & Brownell, S. E. Physical Review. Physics Education Research , 20(1) . 10.1103/physrevphyseducres.20.010144
Targeted enrichment of whole genome SNPs from highly burned skeletal remains (2024)
Emery, M. V., Bolhofner, K., Spake, L., Ghafoor, S., Versoza, C. J., Rawls, E. M., Winingear, S., Buikstra, J. E., Loreille, O., Fulginiti, L. C., & Stone, A. C. Journal of Forensic Sciences . 10.1111/1556-4029.15482
The impact of sample size and population history on observed mutational spectra: a case study in human and chimpanzee populations (2023)
Suhail Ghafoor, João Santos, Cyril J Versoza, Jeffrey D Jensen, Susanne P Pfeifer Genome Biology and Evolution . 10.1093/gbe/evad019
Whole Mitochondrial Genomes Assembled from Thermally Altered Forensic Bones and Teeth (2022)
Emery MV, Bolhofner K, Ghafoor S, Winingear S, Buikstra J, Fulginiti L, Stone AC Forensic Science International: Genetics , 56 . 10.1016/j.fsigen.2021.102610
NeoScore integrates characteristics of the Neoantigen:MHC class I interaction and expression to accurately prioritize immunogenic neoantigens (2022)
Borden, E. S., Ghafoor, S., Buetow, K. H., LaFleur, B. J., Wilson, M. A., & Hastings, K. T. The Journal of Immunology , 208(7) , 1813–1827. 10.4049/jimmunol.2100700

Conference Presentations

Using the Starfish Storage management tool to automate research data management (2025)
McCaffrey D, Ghafoor S, Shaeffer I Oral Presentation. RDAP Summit 2025 . Slides available here
NeoScore integrates characteristics of the neoantigen:MHC class I interaction and expression to accurately prioritize immunogenic neoantigens (2023)
Borden ES, Ghafoor S, Buetow KH, LaFleur BJ, Wilson MA, Hastings KT Oral presentation. MathOnc23 Conference , Phoenix Arizona .
NeoScore integrates characteristics of the neoantigen:MHC class I interaction and expression to accurately prioritize immunogenic neoantigens (2022)
Borden ES, Ghafoor S, Buetow KH, LaFleur BJ, Wilson MA, Hastings KT Poster presentation. Cancer Research: Present & Future , University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ .
Evaluating the use of ancient DNA Laboratory Protocols in the Downstream DNA Identification of Burned Forensically Derived Samples (2022)
Parker C, Emery MV, Bolhofner KL, Ghafoor S, Rawls E, Winingear S, Oldt R, Kanthaswamy S, Buikstra JE, Vidoli G, Devlin J, Fulginiti L, and Stone AC Poster. International Society for Applied Biological Sciences Annual Scientific Meeting , Dubrovnik, Croatia , June 22nd – 27th, 2022.
A Multifaceted Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Assessment of Burned Human Remains Using Comparative Extraction and In-Solution Hybridyzation Capture (2022)
Emery, MV, Bolhofner, KL, Ghafoor, S, Wissler, A, Rawls, E, Winingear, S, Oldt, RF, Kanthaswamy, S, Buikstra, J, Fulginiti, L, Stone, AC Oral presentation. American Academy of Forensic Science Annual Scientific Meeting , Seattle, Washington , February 24th, 2022.
Characterizing DNA Degradation in Severely Burned Human Skeletal Remains Using STR Genotyping and NGS Targeted Capture Techniques (2020)
Emery, MV, Bolhofner, KL, Ghafoor, S, Winingear, S, Oldt, R, Kanthaswamy, S, Buikstra, JE, Fulginiti, L, and Stone, AC Podium presentation. American Association of Physical Anthropologists , Los Angeles, California , April 15th – 18th, 2020.
Knowledge Mobilization: Quantitative Ancient and Forensic DNA Techniques for Maximum DNA Recovery From Thermally Altered Bones and Teeth (Redux) (2020)
Emery, MV, Bolhofner, KL, Ghafoor, S, Winingear, S, Oldt, R, Kanthaswamy, S, Buikstra, JE, Fulginiti, L., and Stone, A.C. Poster and podium. Knowledge Mobilization Awards Ceremony , Arizona State University , March 4, 2020.
Quantitative Ancient and Forensic DNA Techniques for Maximum DNA Recovery From Thermally Altered Bones and Teeth (2020)
Emery, MV, Bolhofner, KL, Ghafoor, S, Winingear, S, Oldt, R, Kanthaswamy, S, Buikstra, JE, Fulginiti, L, and Stone, AC Poster. American Academy of Forensic Science , Anaheim CA , February 17th – 22nd, 2020.

Invited Presentations

Reconstructing Forensic Profiles From Burned Human Remains using Ancient DNA and Next-Generation Sequencing Techniques (2022)
Emery, MV, Bolhofner K, Ghafoor S, Buikstra J, Fulginiti L, and Stone AC SUNY Binghamton, Department of Biological Sciences Seminar Series, April 15th, 2022.
Recovering DNA from Burned Forensic Bones and Teeth using Ancient DNA Techniques (2021)
Emery, MV, Bolhofner K, Ghafoor S, Buikstra J, Fulginiti L, and Stone AC Brown Bag Speaker Series, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, October 25th, 2021.

Research & Academic Work

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