Vafa Bayat

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Research Interests

Formerly having worked with Dr. Hamed Jafar-Nejad and Dr. Melih Acar on a project to clone and characterize several novel PNS mutants including sec15 and rumi, I am presently an MD/PhD student in the Developmental Biology Program studying mutants with synaptic transmission defects.

Publications

Jafar-Nejad H, Andrews HK, Acar M, Bayat V, Wirtz-Peitz F, Mehta SQ, Knoblich JA, Bellen HJ (2005) Sec15, a component of the exocyst, promotes Notch signaling during the asymmetric division of Drosophila sensory organ precursors. Developmental Cell 9:351-363.

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 (2003) Mapping Drosophila mutations with molecularly defined P element insertions. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:10860-10865.