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Vafa Bayat, Ph.D.

Medical School

Undergraduate Institution: University of Houston

Year: Third-Year Medical Student

Graduate Program: Developmental Biology

Mentor: Hugo Bellen, Ph.D., D.V.M.

Thesis Title: The Study of Select Drosophila Neurodegenerative Mutants

Publications:

Bayat V, Jaiswal M, Bellen HJ. The BMP signaling pathway at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction and its links to neurodegenerative diseases. Current opinion in neurobiology. 2011;21(1):182-8.
Jafar-Nejad H, Andrews HK, Acar M, Bayat V, Wirtz-Peitz F, Mehta SQ, Knoblich JA, Bellen HJ. Sec15, a component of the exocyst, promotes notch signaling during the asymmetric division of Drosophila sensory organ precursors. Dev Cell. 2005. 9(3):351-63.
Zhai RG, Hiesinger PR, Koh TW, Verstreken P, Schulze KL, Cao Y, Jafar-Nejad H, Norga KK, Pan H, Bayat V, Greenbaum MP, Bellen HJ. Mapping Drosophila mutations with molecularly defined P element insertions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003. 100(19):10860-5.