Parsa Zareiesfandabadi

Contact Information:

Room 303, Biological Sciences Building
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
parsa.zareiesfandabadi@duke.edu

Education:

BS, Physics, North Carolina State University (2020)

Research Interests:

I am a physicist in love with biology. What fuels my interest is the innate interdisciplinary nature of the biophysics field to unify different branches of science in pursuit of untangling fundamental biological problems that will positively impact lives.

Publications:

Zareiesfandabadi, P., and M. W. Elting (2020). Force by minus-end motors Dhc1 and Klp2 collapses the S. pombe spindle after laser ablation. Biophysical Journal 121, 263-276.

Zareiesfandabadi, P., and M. W. Elting (2021). Viscoelastic relaxation of the nuclear envelope does not cause the collapse of the spindle after ablation in S. pombe. Journal of Undergraduate Reports in Physics 31, 100013.

Uzsoy, A. S. M., Zareiesfandabadi, P., Jennings, J., Kemper, A. F., and M. W. Elting (2021). Automated tracking of S. pombe spindle elongation dynamics. Journal of Microscopy 284, 83-94.

Zareiesfandabadi, P., and M. W. Elting (2020). The collapse of the spindle following ablation in S. pombe is mediated by microtubules and the motor protein dynein. BioRxiv.