Principal Investigator
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Research Assistant
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Current Students
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Former PhD Students

1- Maryam Ghorbani, graduated September 2009,
Thesis Title: Study of the Microscopic Conformation of DNA Molecule under External Stress
2- Davood Norouzi, graduated September 2010,
Thesis Title: NanoMechanics of DNA: Modeling and Simulation
3- Laleh Mollazadeh-Beidokhti, graduated October 2010,
Thesis Title: Active Dynamics of Nucleosome
4- S. Mahmoud Hashemi, graduated November 2014,
Thesis Title: Cell Membrane Deformation upon Extracellular Generalized Cylindrical Objects
5- Bahareh Shakiba, graduated December 2014,
Thesis Title: Modeling of the Ribosome and the RNA Polymerase Molecular Motors
6- S. Hashem Fatemi, graduated January 2017,
Thesis Title: Theoretical Modeling of di- and four-Nucleosomes Structure in a Chromatin Fiber
7- Fatemeh Khodabandeh, graduated January 2017,
Thesis Title: Unwrapping Dynamics of a Dinucleosome in a Chromatin Fiber
8- Zahra Eidi, graduated October 2017,
Thesis Title: Modeling of Migration and Chemotaxis in Dictyostelium discoideum
  (co-supervisor: Mohammad Khorrami, Alzahra University)
9- Amir Rezaei-Dereshgi, graduated November 2018,
Thesis Title: Studying the Effect of Dielectric Inhomogeneity in Electrostatic Interactions in Cylindrical Geometry in Debye-Hückel Regime using the Green Function Method
10- Asal Atakhani, graduated December 2018,
Thesis Title: Modeling the Motility of Motile Cells
  (co-supervisor: Azam Gholami, Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization)
11- Amir Khosravanizadeh, graduated July 2020,
Thesis Title: Elastic Deformations of a Cellular Membrane upon an External Object
12- Sedigheh Ghanbarzadeh Nodehi, graduated April 2021,
Thesis Title: The Mechanical and Nonequilibrium Characteristics of the Stem Cell Nucleus


Former MSc Students

1- Amir Mohsen Pourmousa, graduated June 2007,
Thesis Title: Electrostatic Contribution to the Bending Rigidity of DNA
2- Bahareh Shakiba, graduated June 2008,
Thesis Title: The Loop Formation Probability of Short DNA
3- Robabeh Moosavi, graduated September 2008,
Thesis Title: Elastic Deformations of a Bilayer Membrane upon Colloid Binding
4- Shervin Rafatnia, graduated December 2008,
Thesis Title: Nucleosome Dynamics under External Torque
5- Mohammad Hossein Yamani, graduated September 2009,
Thesis Title: Investigation into the Conformation of a Deformed DNA using Numerical Method and Monte Carlo Simulation
6- Amir Rezaei-Dereshgi, graduated September 2010,
Thesis Title: Sequence-Dependent Loop Formation Probability of Short DNA
7- Hashem Fatemi, graduated September 2010,
Thesis Title: Theoretical Study of the Kinesin Motor Protein Motion
8- Weria Pezeshkian, graduated June 2011,
Thesis Title: The Effect of Dielectric Inhomogeneity in Electrostatic Interaction in Biological Systems
  (co-supervisor: Hossein Fazli, IASBS)
9- Aboutaleb Amiri, graduated June 2011,
Thesis Title: Deformation of Thin Elastic Sheets due to the gravitational Force
  (supervisor: Maniya Maleki, IASBS; I was co-supervisor. )
10- Mehdi Bagherpour, graduated April 2013,
Thesis Title: DNA Mechanics in Protein-DNA Specific Interactions
  (supervisor: Davood Norouzi, IASBS; I was co-supervisor. )
11- Saeed Najafi, graduated May 2013,
Thesis Title: Study of Elastic Deformations of (1) A Polymer Adhering to a Surface, and (2) A Membrane Adhering to a Surface and a Cylindrical Object
12- Zahra Alirezaei-Zanjani, graduated February 2014,
Thesis Title: The Effect of 5s rDNA and CLN2 Genes on the Positioning of Nucleosome Core Particle
  (co-supervisor: Laleh Mollazadeh-Beidokhti, IASBS)
13- Farzaneh Shamdani, graduated March 2014,
Thesis Title: Sequence Dependence of DNA Elasticity in 2D
14- Maryam Dayeri, graduated March 2014,
Thesis Title: The Ribosome as a Nanomachine: A Quantitative Model of Ribosome Dynamics
15- Hadise Talebi, graduated March 2014,
Thesis Title: Theoretical Investigation of Electrostatic Interactions in the Nucleosome Structure
  (supervisor: Davood Norouzi, IASBS; I was co-supervisor. )
16- Saeedeh Dolatyari, graduated August 2014,
Thesis Title: Over-Twisting of Actin Filaments within Bundles in the Presence of Multivalent Salts
17- Fayezeh Shamsi, graduated August 2014,
Thesis Title: The Effect of Nucleosome Barrier on Transcription Velocity and RNA Polymerase Backtracking
  (adviser: L. Mollazadeh-Beidokhti, IASBS; I was supervisor.)
18- Parvin Abazari, graduated September 2014,
Thesis Title: Theoretical Modeling of Assembly and Disassembly of Histone Proteins in Nucleosome
  (co-supervisor: Laleh Mollazadeh-Beidokhti, IASBS)
19- Seddigheh Borhani, graduated February 2015,
Thesis Title: Modeling and Theoretical Studying of ACF Remodeller Mechanism and Its Effect on Nucleosome Dynamics
20- Maryam Shafie, graduated February 2015,
Thesis Title: Modeling and Theoretical Studying of the DnaB Helicase Enzyme in the Translation Process
21- Mohammad Sadeq Alizadeh, graduated April 2015,
Thesis Title: Effects of Sequence on the Elasticity and the Cylization of Short DNA
22- Seddighheh Ghanbarzadeh Nodehi, graduated September 2015,
Thesis Title: Theoretical Investigation of Membrane Dynamics of Embryonic Stem Cell's Nucleus
23- Samaneh Rahbar, graduated March 2019,
Thesis Title: Simulation of the Entropic Force exerted on a Flat Wall by a Semiflexible Polymer Chain using the Molecular Dynamics Method