IPM Biological Sciences

Dr. Kevan Shokat
Professor and Chair at University of California, San Francisco
Professor at University of California, Berkeley
Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2009 Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
2011 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Shafiee’s lab aims to integrate biology/medicine with micro- and nanotechnology to develop innovative tools and solve unmet clinical problems, including applications in infectious disease diagnostics and treatment monitoring for global health, vaccine delivery, and fertility. His lab is particularly interested in developing point-of-care diagnostics through utilizing advances in consumer electronics, nanotechnology, and optical/electrical/magnetic sensing modalities.

Dr. Hadi Shafiee,
Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Sanati-Nezhad' primary research interest involves BioMEMS, Microfluidics, Tissue Engineering, Micro and Nano Technology, and Lab-on-Chip. His research group has focus on development of integrated bioinspired microdevices using microfluidics and tissue engineering approaches for disease modeling, biological systems modeling, and drug discovery. Another research interest of his group is to develop point-of-care devices for testing infectious diseases, and portable tools for detection of plant and food pathogens.

Dr. Amir Sanati Nezhad, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Eng/ University of Calgary

با توجه به نزدیک شدن به روزهای پایانی ثبت نام در همایش، پیشاپیش از تمامی شرکت کنندگان بابت مشکلات احتمالی در پرداخت هزینه همایش پوزش می‌طلبیم. این روش پرداخت صرفاً به واسطه پاره‌ای از معذوریت‌ها اتخاذ شده‌است. بنابراین، از شرکت کنندگان گرامی تقاضا می شود، هرچه سریعتر نسبت به نهایی نمودن ثبت نام خود اقدام نمایند.

با توجه به نزدیک شدن به روزهای پایانی ثبت نام در همایش، پیشاپیش از تمامی شرکت کنندگان بابت مشکلات احتمالی در پرداخت هزینه همایش پوزش می‌طلبیم. این روش پرداخت صرفاً به واسطه پاره‌ای از معذوریت‌ها اتخاذ شده‌است. بنابراین، از شرکت کنندگان گرامی تقاضا می شود، هرچه سریعتر نسبت به نهایی نمودن ثبت نام خود اقدام نمایند.

Invited Speakers


Amin Rostami-Hodjegan
Professor of Systems Pharmacology, Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetics Research (CAPKR), University of Manchester, UK and Chief Scientific Officer & Vice President of R&D, Certara, Princeton, USA

Ali Shojaie
Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington

Babak Momeni
Assistant Professor of the Department of Biology at Boston College

Iman Hajirasouliha
Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University

Reza Salavati
Assistant Professor of Department of Biochemistry, McGill University


Ali Ghodsi
Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo


Mohammad Kohandel
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo


Ali Naji
School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)


Amir Sanati-Nezhad
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Eng/ University of Calgary


Hadi Shafiee
Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School


Alireza Mashaghi
Assistant Professor- Leiden University- Netherland

Kevan Shokat
University of California San Francisco



Mohammad Rashidian
CRI Postdoctoral Fellow at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT

Nima Abedpour
postdoctoral researcher at University of Cologne


Changiz Eslahchi
Professor of algorithms in Bioinformatics, Department of Computer Sciences, Shahid Behehsti University


Mohammad Ganjtabesh
Associate professor Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Tehran University



Zahra-Soheila Soheili
Associate professor of cell and molecular biology at National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB)


Davar Siadat
Head of Microbiology Research center and Mycobacteriology & Pulmonary Research Department-Pasteur Institute of Iran


Elahe Elahi
Professor Department of Biology, Tehran University


Mehdi Sadeghi
Associate professor of cell and molecular biology at National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB)

Important dates:

Poster Submission deadline: December 15, 2017
Registration deadline: December 15, 2017
Conference dates: December 25-28, 2017

پژوهشگاه دانش‌های بنیادی از بدو تأسیس محلی برای پیشبرد پژوهش‌های میان‌رشته‌ای بوده‌است. نخستین همایش مرزهای علوم زیستی در راستای چنین هدفی برگزار خواهد شد تا پژوهش‌گران و دانشجویان در حوزه‌های مختلفی چون بیوانفورماتیک، بیوفیزیک، بیوشیمی، زیست‌شناسی مولکولی، زیست‌شناسی سیستم‌ها، ژنتیک و تکامل را گردهم آورد و زمینه را برای بحث و تبادل نظر در خصوص پرسش‌های درهم‌تنیده زیست‌شناسی امروز فراهم نماید.

پژوهشگاه دانش‌های بنیادی (IPM) برگزار می‌کند: نخستین همایش‌ مرزهای علوم زیستی، با حضور پژوهشگران برجسته ایرانی مقیم خارج از کشور.

زمان : 4-7 دی ماه ۱۳۹۶
مکان: ساختمان پژوهشکده علوم زیستی - فرمانیه - تهران
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Reza Salavati
Assistant Professor of Department of Biochemistry, McGill University

Title: From genome annotation to gene regulation and drug discovery for the kinetoplastid pathogens

Biography:
Reza Salavati has a broad background in RNA biochemistry, molecular biology, and bioinformatics. He laid the groundwork for his research program by integrating computational and experimental approaches.


For more info:
http://biofrontiers.ipm.ir/speakers.jsp

Important dates:

Poster Submission deadline: November 30, 2017
Registration deadline: December 15, 2017
Conference dates: December 25-28, 2017

Dr. Ali Naji
School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)

Title: Swimming in shear flow: Rheo-/chemotactic behavior of active particles in confinement

Biography:
Ali Naji is an associate professor of physics at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) in Tehran, Iran. He received his PhD in Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, in 2005 on the theory and simulation of charged polymers. He carried out his postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2006-2009) and, as a Royal Society Newton Fellow (2009-2011), at the University of Sheffield and at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interests include physics of Coulomb fluids and strongly charged macromolecules (such as colloids, polymers and membranes), nano-particle/DNA complexes, electrostatic stability of virus-like nano-capsids, Casimir effect, electrostatics of soft disordered media and, more recently, fluctuating hydrodynamics of strongly confined fluids, and active self-propulsion in fluid media.


For more info:
http://biofrontiers.ipm.ir/speakers.jsp

Dr. Babak Momeni
Assistant Professor of the Department of Biology at Boston College

Title: Synthetic ecology: using microbes as model systems for studies in community ecology

Research:
Complexity of natural microbial communities (involving many species, multitude of interactions, and non-steady environment) has impeded attempts to discover the link between community interactions and functions. To study microbial communities, our lab instead examines communities at different levels of complexity to search for general governing principles. These include simulated in silico communities, synthetic communities of microbes engineered to engage in defined interactions, and simple microbial communities isolated from nature. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we combine quantitative experimentation with mathematical modeling to discover interactions and to explain functions that arise from those interactions. Our long-term goal is to devise strategies to control microbial communities. This will have broad impact in biomedical applications (e.g. managing microbial infections), environmental applications (e.g. degrading waste), as well as industrial applications (e.g. producing biofuels).

For more info:
http://biofrontiers.ipm.ir/speakers.jsp