Mofrad Lab

Looking Under the Hood of Cellular Mechanotransduction with Computational Tools: A Systems Biomechanics Approach across Multiple Scales http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00117

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Regulation of RNA-binding proteins affinity to export receptors enables the nuclear basket proteins to distinguish and retain aberrant mRNAs Soheilypour M, Mofrad MRK. Scientific Reports, 6, Article number: 35380 (2016). http://www.nature.com/articles/srep35380

Differential Collective- and Single-Cell Behaviors on Silicon Micropillar Arrays Jahed Z, Zareian R, Chau Y, Seo B, West M, Tsui T, Wen W, Mofrad MRK. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.6b08668

The LINC and NPC relationship: it’s complicated! Jahed Z, Soheilypour M, Peyro M, Mofrad MRK. Journal of Cell Science http://jcs.biologists.org/content/early/2016//15/jcs.184184

Rapid Brownian Motion Primes Ultrafast Reconstruction of Intrinsically Disordered Phe-Gly-Repeats Inside the Nuclear Pore Complex Moussavi-Baygi R, Mofrad MRK. Scientific Reports, 6, Article number: 29991 (2016). http://www.nature.com/articles/srep29991

"On the nuclear pore complex and its roles in nucleo-cytoskeletal coupling and mechanobiology" Soheilypour M, Peyro M, Jahed Z, Mofrad MRK. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering http://www.springer.com/-/0/AVSsNmjh2brxj7RS56z7

Zeinab's work is highlighted by the Medical Research Council as the biomedical picture of the day! http://bpod.mrc.ac.uk/

Dynamic Regulation of -Actinin’s Calponin Homology Domains on F-Actin Shams H, Golji J, Garakani K, Mofrad MRK. Biophysical Journal. 110, no. 6 (2016): 1444-1455. http://www.sciencedirect.com//article/pii/S0006349516002125

Check out Zeinab's explanation on the science behind her image at the Biophysical Society Blog.

Enhanced intracellular delivery of small molecules and drugs via non-covalent ternary dispersions of single wall carbon nanotubes Boyer PD, Shams H, Baker SL, Mofrad MRK, Islam MF, Dahl KN. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. (2016) http://pubs.rsc.org//content/articlehtml/2016/tb/c5tb02016f

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Zeinab's image was selected as the first place in the 2016 Image Contest at the 60th Biophysical Society meeting in LA! Congratulations Zeinab Jahed