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Vafa Bayat

Developmental Biology

Undergraduate Institution: University of Houston

Year: Fourth-Year Graduate Student

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

Thesis Title: Role of Drosophila MARS2 in neurodegeneration

Publications:

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 USA. 2003; (100)19:10860-5.