Momal Sharif, Ph.D.
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Momal Sharif, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States
- Postdoctoral Associate
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Baylor College of Medicine
Education
- BS from COMSATS University
- 01/2012 - Islamabad, Pakistan
- MS from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- 05/2015 - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois United States
- PhD from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- 12/2019 - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois United States
Honors & Awards
- T32 Postdoctoral Fellow
- Comprehensive Mechanisms in Reproductive Sciences
- NIH
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Advanced Research and Innovation in Reproductive Health
- Lalor Foundation
- Dean’s Award of Excellence
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Academic Excellence Award
- University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Faculty Development International Graduate Student Fellowship
- COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan
Selected Publications
- "DNA Methylation Dynamics in the Female Germline and Maternal-Effect Mutations That Disrupt Genomic Imprinting.." 2021;
- "Progesterone Induces Porcine Sperm Release from Oviduct Glycans in a Proteasome-Dependent Manner.." 2021;
- "The adverse reproductive outcomes resulting from maternal loss of Nlrp2 are not improved by in vitro fertilization or by embryo transfer into a wild-type uterus, consistent with an oocyte-specific defect.." 2020;
- "Adhesion to Oviduct glycans regulates porcine sperm Ca2+ influx and viability.." 2020;
- "Sperm Cohort-Specific Zinc Signature Acquisition and Capacitation-Induced Zinc Flux Regulate Sperm Oviduct and Sperm-Zona Pellucida Interactions.." 2020;
- "Release of porcine sperm from oviduct cells is stimulated by progesterone and requires CatSper.." 2019;
- "Redistribution of soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive-factor attachment protein receptors in mouse sperm membranes prior to the acrosome reaction.." 2017;
- "Hyperactivation is sufficient to release porcine sperm from immobilized oviduct glycans.." 2022;
- "Loss of the maternal effect gene Nlrp2 alters the transcriptome of ovulated mouse oocytes and impacts expression of histone demethylase KDM1B.." 2023;
- "Comparison of Four Protocols for In Vitro Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Trophoblast Lineages by BMP4 and Dual Inhibition of Activin/Nodal and FGF2 Signaling.." 2023;
- "Take your mother’s ferry: preimplantation embryo development requires maternal karyopherins for nuclear transport.." 2023;
- "Maternal loss of mouse Nlrp2 alters the transcriptome and DNA methylome in GV oocytes and impairs zygotic genome activation in embryos." 2025;
Memberships
- American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
- Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)
- International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis (ISPD)
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine
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