Postdoctoral Researcher, Biological Chemistry Department Contact 3315 MSRB III SPC5606, 1150 W. Medical Center Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0600
Education
- Ph.D., Computational Biophysics, University of South Bohemia and ASCR, Czech Republic, Nove Hrady, 2011
- M.Sc., Biophysics, IBB, University of Tehran, Iran, 2007
- B.Sc., Biology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran, 2004
Research Interests
- The role of Polycomb Group Proteins and their corresponding polycomb response elements in epigenetic regulation of gene expression in Drosophila development
- Free energy landscape and large-scale conformational changes of biological macromolecules using Molecular dynamic simulations:
- Permeation, Selectivity, and Gating of Membrane Channels
- Protein-DNA interactions
- Christina E. May, Anoumid Vaziri, Yong Qi Lin, Morteza Khabiri, Olga Grushko, Qiao-Ping Wang., Peter L. Freddolino, G. Gregory Neely, Monica Dus (2019) Reprogramming of Sweet-Taste and Feeding Behavior by Diet, Cell Report (In Press)
- Morteza Khabiri, Peter L. Freddolino (2019) Genome wide prediction of potential Polycomb Response Elements and their function, bioRxiv
- Ming-Tao Lee, Fabrizio Orlando, Morteza Khabiri, Martina Roeselova, Mattew A.Brown, and Markus Ammann (2019) The opposing effect of butanol and butyric acid on the abundance of bromide and iodide at the aqueous solution - air interface, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, Advance Article, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8CP07448H
Professional History
2015 to Present Postdoctoral Researcher, Freddolino Lab, Biological Chemistry Department, University of Michigan 2014 to 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Martina Roeselova, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
2012 to 2014 Lecturer, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran
2007 to 2011 Graduate Student, University of South Bohemia and Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Nove Hrady
2004 to 2007: Graduate Student, University of Tehran, Iran
Awards and Fellowships - Young Scientist Award at the First International MEFOMP Conference of Medical Physics, Shiraz, Iran, 2011
- FEBS Advance Course Fellowship Nove Hrady, Czech Republic, Jun, 2010
- International travel grants of the Biophysical Society's 54th Annual Meeting, San Francisco , USA, Feb, 2010
- The Novartis International Biotechnology Leadership Camp (BioCamp) award, Basel , Switzerland, Aug, 2009
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