Morteza Khabiri

• 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

Publications

IN REVIEW

• • 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

PUBLISHED

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vn71FvkAAAAJ&hl=en

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