Parsa Zareiesfandabadi

Currently Graduate Student, Biophysics, Duke University; Formerly Postbac Researcher, Elting Lab

Email
pzareieobfuscate@ncsu.edu

Parsa Zareiesfandabadi, an NCSU physics major, joined the Elting Lab in the summer of 2018. After graduating in May 2020, he continued in a full time postbac research position in the lab until Fall 2021, when he entered a PhD program in Biophysics at nearby Duke University.

Papers

Force by minus-end motors Dhc1 and Klp2 collapses the S. pombe spindle after laser ablation. Zareiesfandabadi and Elting, Biophys J 2022.

Viscoelastic Relaxation of the Nuclear Envelope Does Not Cause the Collapse of the Spindle After Ablation in S. pombe. Zareiesfandabadi and Elting, JURP, 2021.

Automated tracking of S. pombe spindle elongation dynamics. Uzsoy, Zareiesfandabadi, Jennings, Kemper and Elting, J Micro, 2021.

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

Automated tracking of S. pombe spindle elongation dynamics. Uzsoy, Zareiesfandabadi, Jennings, Kemper and Elting, BioRxiv 2020.