About

Ali Mousavi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology at UCLA, specializing in the archaeology of Iranian empires from the Achaemenids to the Sasanian period. He studied in Lyon, France, earning his B.A. in Art History and M.A. in Archaeology from the University of Lyon, and obtained his Ph.D. in Near Eastern archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley. Mousavi has extensive field experience, having excavated in France, Turkey, and Iran, and contributed to the nomination of numerous archaeological sites and monuments on the UNESCO World Heritage List. He is the author of the book 'Persepolis: Discovery and Afterlife of a World Wonder' and co-editor of 'Ancient Iran from the Air' and 'Excavating an Empire.' His research interests include Iranian art and archaeology, the history of archaeology in Iran and the Near East, and the archaeology of ancient Iranian cities and sites. Mousavi has also worked as a curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and currently directs the Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran in the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Surgery
• Bioinformatics
• Anesthesia
• Chemistry
• Psychiatry
• Biology
• Organic chemistry

Selected publications

• Oral Dissolution Therapy of Uric Acid Stones: A Systematic Review

  2024 · 1 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Medicine
  • Internal medicine
  • Chemistry
  DOI

• Exploring Condition-Specific Variability in the Ureteral Stent Microbiome

  Pathogens · 2024

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Medicine
  • Biology
  • Surgery

  (1) Background: Indwelling ureteral stents are commonly used urological devices to maintain ureteral patency, yet they have been associated with complications such as infections. Some studies have shown that bacteria adhere to and create an antimicrobial-resistant biofilm on stents. One factor that may impact biofilm formation is the original condition informing stent placement, such as kidney stones and renal allografts. Both kidney stones and renal allografts are independently associated with infection, yet the differential stent microbiomes of these populations remain poorly characterized. Our objective was to characterize these microbiomes in order to inform urological health practice and help prevent ureteral stent-associated infections. (2) Methods: Stents were collected from kidney stone and renal transplant recipients undergoing routine cystoscopic stent removal. Microbial DNA was extracted from stents and analyzed using 16S Next Generation Sequencing. Descriptive statistics, alpha diversity, and beta diversity methods were used for statistical analysis. (3) Results: The microbiome of ureteral stents in kidney stone and transplant patients is composed of unique species, each with different biofilm-forming abilities. (4) Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that the microbiome of stents differs based on preceding condition. It is important to conduct future studies that explore this microbiome further to understand what type of stent-associated infection someone may develop based on their initial condition.

  DOI

• The Surgical Method of Craniectomy Differentially Affects Acute Seizures, Brain Deformation and Behavior in a TBI Animal Model

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024

  • Medicine
  • Anesthesia
  • Surgery

  Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Multiple injury models have been developed to study this neurological disorder. One such model is the lateral fluid-percussion injury (LFPI) rodent model. The LFPI model can be generated with different surgical procedures that could affect the injury and be reflected in neurobehavioral dysfunction and acute EEG changes. A craniectomy was performed either with a trephine hand drill or with a trephine electric drill that was centered over the left hemisphere of adult, male Sprague Dawley rats. Sham craniectomy groups were assessed by hand-drilled (ShamHMRI) and electric-drilled (ShamEMRI) to evaluate by MRI. Then, TBI was induced in separate groups (TBIH) and (TBIE) using a fluid-percussion device. Sham-injured rats (ShamH/ShamE) underwent the same surgical procedures as the TBI rats. During the same surgery session, rats were implanted with screw and microwire electrodes positioned in the neocortex and hippocampus and the EEG activity was recorded 24 hours for the first 7 days after TBI for assessing the acute EEG seizure and Gamma Event Coupling (GEC). The electric drilling craniectomy induced greater tissue damage and sensorimotor deficits compared to the hand drill. Analysis of the EEG revealed acute seizures in at least one animal from each group after the procedure. Both TBI and Sham rats from the electric drill groups had a significant greater total number of seizures than the animals that were craniectomized manually (p<0.05). Similarly, EEG functional connectivity was lower in ShamE compared to ShamH rats. These results suggest that electrical versus hand drilling craniectomies produce cortical injury in addition to the LFPI which increases the likelihood for acute post-traumatic seizures. Differences in the surgical approach could be one reason for the variability in the injury that makes it difficult to replicate results between preclinical TBI studies.

  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• Kymora B. Scotland

  5 shared

• Richard J. Staba

  Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

  2 shared

• Gerard C. L. Wong

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2 shared

• Mohamad Shamas

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2 shared

• Rebecca Takele

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2 shared

• Neil G. Harris

  University of California, Los Angeles

  2 shared

• Cesar Santana‐Gomez

  UCLA Health

  2 shared

• Karan Thaker

  2 shared

Awards & honors

• The Ehsan Yarshater Book Award for the Best Book in Iranian…
• The World Book Award of the Iranian Ministry of Culture for…
• Leon Levy – Shelby White award for the publication of Ali Ha…
• Member of Société asiatique, France (since 2008)
• The Global Heritage Fund award for the restoration project a…

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