Prof. Mohammad Reza Shakibaie earned his PhD from University of Pune India from 1992 to 1997. His thesis was entitled "Molecular genetics of Plasmid Mediated Silver and Antibiotic Resistances in Acinetobacter baumannii”. Furthermore, He completed one-year postdoctoral research training in the Aquatic Microbial Lab of Mysore University, India during 2006. My research title was "Horizontal Gene Transfer in Gram Negative Bacteria". Moreover, he is working for 26 years in the Department of Microbiology and Virology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

He published more than 110 original research peer reviewed papers in different international journals with high impact factors in microbiology and biotechnology. The total impact factor of his research is more than 27, with h-index 17 and hi-index 27. The research gate score index is 27.18 with total citation 854, Publon H-index-21 and Scopus H-index 17. His research has also been cited in 5 textbooks of microbiology published in the USA and Europe. Similarly, he presented more than 42 papers in International and National Conferences and have fundamental contributions in the area of gene transfer, plasmid biology, molecular microbiology, nanotechnology and bioinformatics. At present he is reviewers of biomed central and Elsevier journals and supervised 4 Ph.D., and 1 post-doctoral scholar for their research.

• Molecular Biology
• Cloning
• Sequencing
• Real Time PCR
• Gene Mapping Prokaryotes
• Unicellular Eukaryotes
• Gene Transfer in the Environment
• Conjugation Transformation
• Bioremediation
• Waste Water Effluents
• Metals Resistance
• Biosorption
• Bacterial Gene Expression
• Molecular Quorum Sensing
• Microbial Identification by PCR
• Biotechnology
• Nanotechnology

• Ganeshan S, Shakibaie MR*, Rajagopal B. Insights of the molecular docking analysis of colistin with the PmrA protein from Acinetobacter baumannii. J. Bioinformation 2022; 18(1): 41-49.
• Shakibaie MR. In silico Characterization of Biofilm-Associated Protein (Bap) identified in a multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Med. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2021; 9 (4):1-10.
• Kandehkar Ghahraman MR, Hosseini-Nave H, Azizi O, Shakibaie MR, Mollaie H, Shakibaie S. Stereochemical Trajectories of a Two-Component Regulatory System PmrA/B in a Colistin-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolate Iranian Biochemical Journal 2021; 25 (3):193-201.
• Kandehkar Ghahraman MR, Hosseini-Nave H, Azizi O, Shakibaie MR, Mollaie H, Shakibaie S. Molecular characterization of lpxACD and pmrA/B two-component regulatory system in the colistin resistance Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates. Gene Reports 2020;21: 00952.
• Ziasistani M, Shakibaie MR, Kalantar-Neyestanaki D. Genetic characterization of two vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Kerman, Iran. Infect Drug. Resist. 2019; 12:1869-1875.
• Taghadosi R, Shakibaie MR, Hosseini Nave H. Antibiotic resistance, ESBL genes, integrons, phylogenetic groups and MLVA profiles of Escherichia coli pathotypes isolated from patients with diarrhea and farm animals in south east of Iran. Comp. Immunol. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2019; 63, pp.117-126.
• Sharifi H, Pouladfar GH, Shakibaie MR, Pourabbas B, Mardaneh J, Mansouri SH. Prevalence of β-lactamase genes, class 1 integrons, major virulence factors and clonal relationships of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from hospitalized patients in southeast of Iran. Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences 2019; 22(7):806-812.
• Monirzadeh F, Shakibaie MR, Gholamrezazadeh M, Masoumia S. Susceptibility of catheter-related Klebsiella pneumoniae strains to quaternary ammonium compounds under biofilm and planktonic conditions. Canadian Journal of Infection Control 2018; 33(4):209-215.
• Taghadosi R, Shakibaie MR, Alizade H, et al. Serogroups, subtypes and virulence factors of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from human, calves and goats in Kerman, Iran. Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Bed to Bench 2018; 11(1):60-67.
• Gholamrezazadeh M, Shakibaie MR, Monirzadeh F, Masoumi S, Hashemizadeh Z. Effect of Nano-silver, Nano-copper, deconex and benzalkonium chloride on biofilm formation and expression of transcription regulatory quorum sensing gene (rh1R) in drug-resistance Pseudomonas aeruginosa burn isolates. Burns 2018; 44:700 -708.
• Masoumi S, Shakibaie MR, Gholamrezazadeh M, Monirzadeh F. Evaluation Synergistic Effect of TiO2, ZnO Nanoparticles and Amphiphilic Peptides (Mastoparan-B, Indolicidin) Against Drug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii. Arch Pediatr Infect Dis 2018; 6(3):e57920.
• Taghadosi R, Shakibaie MR, et al. Role of antigen-43 on biofilm formation and horizontal antibiotic resistance gene transfer in non-O157 Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli strains. Iran. J. Microbiol. 2017; 9(2): 89-96.
• Shakibaie MR, Azizi O, Shahcheraghi F. Insight into stereochemistry of a new IMP allelic variant (IMP-55) metallo-β-lactamase identified in a clinical strain of Acinetobacter baumannii. Infection, Genetics Evolution 2017; 51:118-126.
• Azizi O, Shakibaie MR, Badmasti F, Modarresi F, et al. Class 1 integrons in non-clonal multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from Iran, description of the new blaIMP-55 allele in In1243. J Med Microbiol. 2016; 65(9):928-936.
• Aryanezhad M, Shakibaie MR, Karmostaji A, Shakibaie S. Prevalence of Class 1, 2 and 3 Integrons and Biofilm-Formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii among ICU and non-ICU Patients. Infect. Epidemiol. Med. 2016; 2(4): 1-7.
• Azizi O, Shakibaie MR, Badmasti F, et al. Class 1 integrons in non-clonal multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from Iran, description of the new blaIMP-55 allele in In1243. Journal Medical Microbiology 2016; 65:925-936.
• Azizi O, Shahcheraghi F, Salimizand H, Modarresi F, Shakibaie MR, et al. Molecular Analysis and Expression of bap Gene in Biofilm-Forming Multi-Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Reports of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 2016; 5(1):62-71.
• Ahmadrajabi R, Shakibaie MR, Iranmanesh Z, Mollaei H, & Sobhanipoor MH. Prevalence of mip virulence gene and PCR base sequence typing of Legionella pneumophila from cooling water systems of two cities in Iran. Journal Virulence 2016;7(5):602–609.
• Modarresi F, Azizi O, Shakibaie MR, Motamedifar M, Mansouri S. Cloning and expression of quorum sensing N-Acyl-homoserine synthase (luxI) gene detected in Acinetobacter baumannii. Iran. J. Microbiol. 2016; 8(2):139-46.
• Modarresi F, Azizi O, Shakibaie MR, Motamedi M, et al. Effect of iron on expression of efflux pump (adeABC) and quorum sensing (luxI, luxR) genes in Acinetobacter baumannii. APMIS 2015; 123:959–968.
• Nezarieh R, Shakibaie MR, Hosseini Nave H , Norouzi A, Salajegheh G, Hayatbakhsh M. Distribution of virulence genes, enterotoxin and biofilm formation among enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) strains isolated from stools of children with diarrhea in south east Iran. Arch. Pediatr. Infect. Dis. 2015; 3(3): e29745.
• Modarresi F, Shakibaie MR, Azizi O, Motamedifar M, et al. Iron limitation enhances biofilm formation in Acinetobacter baumannii. Journal of Virulence 2015; 6(2):152-168.
• Azizi O, Shakibaie MR, Modarresi F, Shahcheraghi F. Molecular detection of class- d (oxA) carbapenemase genes in biofilm and non-biofilm forming clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii. Jundishapur Journal of Microbiology 2015; 8(1): e21042.
• Taghadosi R, Shakibaie MR, Masoumi S. Biochemical detection of N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) in biofilm forming uropathogenic E. coli isolated from UTI patients. Reports in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2015; 3(2):1-8.
• Shakibaie M, Forootanfar H, Golkari Y, Mohammadi-Khorsand T, Shakibaie MR. Anti-biofilm activity of biogenic selenium nanoparticle and selenium dioxide against clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Proteus mirabilis. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology 2015; 29:235–241.
• Shakibaie MR, Golkari Y, Salajegheh G. Antimicrobial susceptibility, virulence factors and biofilm formation among Staphylococcus aureus strains from hospital infections in Kerman, Iran. J. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2014; 4(4): 152-158.
• Shakibaie M, Adeli S, & Salehi MH. Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern and esbl production among uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolated from UTI children in pediatric unit of a hospital in Kerman, Iran. Microbiology Research Journal International 2013; 4(3):262-271.
• Norouzi A, Azizi O, Hosseini H, Shakibaie S, Shakibaie MR. Amino acid substitution mutations analysis of gyra and parc genes in clonal lineage of Klebsiella pneumoniae conferring high-level quinolone resistance. J. Med. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 2014; 2(3): 109-117.
• Jafari E, Shakibaie MR, Poormasoomi L. Isolation of a novel antibiotic resistance plasmid DNA from hospital isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Journal Clinical and Experimental Pathology 2013; 3(2):1-5.
• Shikh-Bardsiri H, Shakibaie MR. Antibiotic resistance pattern among biofilm producing and nonproducing Proteus strains isolated from hospitalized patients; matter of hospital hygiene and antimicrobial stewardship. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 2013; 16 (22):1496-1502.
• Shakibaie MR. Genomics and emergence of pan drug resistance bacteria. Journal Microb Biochem Technol 2013; 5:4. http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/1948-5948.S1.011
• Sheikh-Bardsiri H, Shakibaie MR, AminiKafiabad S. Plasmid pattern of biofilm producing Proteus mirabilis and Proteus vulgaris among clinical isolates in Kerman university hospitals during 2011-2012. Journal Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2013; 20(2):146-156.
• Dokhani A, Shakibaie MR, Khosravan A, Asgarani Z, Moghbeli M. Molecular genetics identification and metal biosorption by a Geobacillus genospecies IRKM1 isolated from Deeymand hot spring, Kerman, Iran. International Journal Environmental Health Engineering 2012; 1(5):1-7.
• Mirkamandar E, Shakibaie MR, Adeli S, Mehrabani M, Hayatbakhsh M. In vitro antimicrobial activity of Salvadora persica extract on Helicobacter pylori strains isolated from duodenal ulcer biopsies. Journal Microbiology Research 2012; 3:e9:38-41.
• Shakibaie MR, et al. Antibiotic resistant pattern and ESBL production among Acinetobacter spp. isolated from ICU of a hospital in Kerman, Iran. Journal Antibiotic Resistance Infection Control 2012; 1(1):1-8.
• K Mozafari Nia, G Sepehri, H Khatmi, Shakibaie MR. Isolation and antimicrobial susceptibility of bacteria from chronic supportive otitis media patients in Kerman, Iran. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal 2011; 13(12):891-894.
• Shakibaie MR, Moradie M. Detection of Carbenicillin hydrolyzing (CARB) type of ESBL in hospital isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii. International Journal Biological and Biomedical Sciences 2011; 1(1):1‐6.
• Shakibaie MR, Shams K, Khalili M. Detection of Legionella pneumophila in cooling water systems of hospitals and nursing homes of Kerman City, Iran by Semi‐Nested PCR. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2011; 52:20-23.
• Shakibaie MR. and Moradie M. Detection of carbenicillin hydrolyzing (CARB) type of ESBL in hospital isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii. International Journal Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 2011; 1(1):1‐6.
• Shahcheraghi F, Shakibaie MR, Noveiri H. Molecular Identification of ESBL Genesbla GES-1,blaVEB-1,blaCTX-M,blaOXA-1,blaOXA-4,blaOXA-10 and blaPER-1 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Isolated from Burn Patients by PCR, RFLP and Sequencing techniques. International Journal of Bioengineering and Life Sciences 2010; 4(1):114-118.
• Nezhad J, Faezi M, Khosravan A, Farahmand A, Shakibaie MR. Bioremediation of cadmium (Cd) using Cd resistant bacteria isolated from activate sludge industrial waste effluent in batch bed reactor. Iran J. Environ. Health. Sci. Eng 2010; 7(4):279‐286.
• Shakibaie MR, et al. Antibiotic resistance genes among Gram-negative bacteria in sewage and lake water and influence of some physico‐chemical parameters of water on conjugation process. Journal of Environmental Biology 2009; 30(1):45‐49.
• Shakibaie MR, Dhakephalker P, Kapadnis P, Chopade BA. Conjugational transfer and survival of plasmid encoding silver and antibiotic resistance genes of Acinetobacter baumannii BL54, E. coli K12 J53.2 transconjugants and pseudomonas transformants in different soil microcosms. African Journal of Bacteriology Research 2009; 1(7): 79‐84. https://academicjournals.org/journal/JBR/article-full-text-pdf/838568D8984
• JabbariNezhad A, Faezi Ghasemi M, Khosravan A, Farahmand A, Shakibaie MR. Cadmium bioremediation by metal-resistant mutated bacteria isolated from active sludge of industrial effluent. Iran. J. Environment. Health. Sci. Engineer. 2010; 7(4):279-286.
• Shakibaie MR, Shahcheraghi F, Hashemi ALI, Saeid Adeli N.A. Detection of TEM, SHV and PER type extended-spectrum β-lactamase genes among clinical strains of pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from burnt patients at shafa-hospital, Kerman, Iran. Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences 2008; 11(38):104-111.
• Shakibaie MR, Khosravan A, Frahmand A, Zare S. Application of metal resistant bacteria by mutational enhancement technique for bioremediation of copper and zinc from industrial Wastes. Iran J. Environment. Health. Sci. Eng. 2008; 5(4): 251‐256.
• Mohammadi A, Gohar AV, Shakibaie MR. Mutations in Tumor suppressor TP53 Gene in Formalin- Fixed, Paraffin Embedded Tissues of Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) of Lung Cancer. American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2008; 4(1):1-6.
• Shakibaie MR, Ardebili A, Alii SH, Ketabchi AA, Shahabinejad N. Antibiotic resistance, β‐ Lactamase production and plasmid profile of Neisseria gonorrhea strains Isolated from urethritis and cervicitis Patients in Kerman, Iran. Medical Journal of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences 2008; 30(3):13-19.
• Mansouri S, Shakibaie MR, Mahbob S. Isolation species distribution, antibacterial resistance pattern and Beta‐lactamase production of enterococci isolated from human samples in southeast of Iran. Iranian Journal Medical Sciences 2005;30(2):68‐72.
• Gholamhoseinian A, Shakibaie MR, Z Jamali. The mechanism of antibacterial effect of methanolic extract of green Myrtus communis on E. coli K12 HB101. Journal Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences 2005;4: 220-227.
• Shakibaie MR, Harati A. Metal accumulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa occurs in the form of nanoparticle on the cell surface. Iran J. Biotechnol. 2004; 2(1):55‐60.
• Shakibaie MR, Dhakephalker BA, Kapadnis BP, Chopade BA. Silver resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii BL54 occurs through binding to a Ag‐Binding Protein. Iran J. Biotechnol. 2003; 1 (1): 41‐46.
• Shakibaie MR, Ehsan ZH. Conjugative plasmids among antibiotic resistance Escherichia coli isolates from hospitals in Kerman, Iran. Modarres Journal of Medical Sciences 2003; 6(2): 75‐83.
• Shakibaie MR. Plasmid mediated metal and antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains isolated from burn patients. Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran 2002; 16(3):159‐163.
• Kiani MA, Shakibaie MR, Kariminejad MH. A 22; 22 Robertsonian translocation in patient with repeated abortions. Archive Iranian Medicine 2000; 3(3):151‐153.
• Shakibaie MR, Adeli S, Nikian Y. Emergence of Ciprofloxacin resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from burn patients. Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences 2001;26 (3&4):155‐159.
• Shakibaie MR, Mansouri S, Hakak S. Plasmid Pattern of antibiotic resistance in β‐lactamase producing Staphylococcus aureus isolated from hospitals in Kerman, Iran. Archive of Iranian Medicine 1999;2(2):93‐97.
• Shakibaie MR, Dhakephalker PA, Kapadnis BP, and Chopade BA. Removal of silver from Waste water effluents using Acinetobacter baumannii BL54. Canadian Journal Microbiology 1999; 45:995‐1000.
• Shakibaie MR, Dhakephalker P, Salajaghe G.A, Chopade BA. Plasmid mediated silver& antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii BL54. Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences 1988; 23 (1&2):30‐36.
• Jabbari Nezhad Kermani A, Shakibaie MR, et al. The isolation of cadmium resistant bacteria from soil and activated sludge and determining of absorption synthetic. Biotechnological Journal of Environmental Microorganisms 2012; 6(1):11-20.

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