Shirin Bahmanyar, PhD
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Dr. Bahmanyar received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She was a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Karen Oegema at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at UC San Diego where she recognized the advantages of the early C. elegans embryo as a tractable model system to dissect mechanisms that control nuclear envelope dynamics to ensure genome protection. Her post-doctoral work with elucidated an important new principle involving local regulation of phospholipid synthesis in specifying the nuclear envelope domain within the continuous endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Her work now is focused on elucidating mechanisms underpinning regulatory roles for lipid composition and dynamics in nuclear envelope and ER membrane remodeling and genome protection.
Education & Training
- Post-doctoral ResearcherLudwig Institute for Cancer Research/UCSD (2013)
- PhDStanford University (2008)
- BAUniversity of California, Berkeley (2001)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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Women in Cell Biology (WICB) Junior Award for Excellence in Research | American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) | 2022 |
NSF CAREER Award | NSF | 2018 |
The Hartwell Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | 2011 | |
First Bank of America Fellow of the A.P. Giannini Foundation | 2009 | |
A.P. Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | 2009 |