Graduate Student
Email: monirem@clemson.edu
Biosketch
I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Shahid Chamran University and a master’s degree in Molecular Genetics from Yazd University in Iran. I am passionate about research in the field of Cancer, Epigenetics, and Cardiovascular Genetics. My master’ thesis was about the expression and methylation analysis of the gene promoters related to atherosclerosis. Furthermore, I have been working on another project about assessing the miRNAs expression in a neurologic disorder. I have been trained to analyze chromosome structures in an internship program as well. Another project that I have worked on as a researcher was about the effect of several herbal essential oils loaded by nano drug delivery carriers that regulate gene expression in breast cancerous cell lines.
Research
In January of 2022, I joined the lab of Dr. Andrei Alexandrov in the Clemson Center for Human Genetics as a graduate (PhD) student. My area of research is yet to be decided.
Publications
Relationship of Hypomethylation CpG Islands in Interleukin-6 Gene Promoter with IL-6 mRNA Levels in Patients with Coronary Atherosclerosis. J Cardiovasc Thorac Res (2020). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7581844/
The Synthesis and Characterization of Liposomal Nano-Carriers Loading Lavandula angustifolia Essential Oil to Affect Breast Cancerous Cell-Lines (Persian). Yafte (2020). https://www.magiran.com/paper/2134727?lang=en
Lavandula angustifolia essential oil loaded in Liposomal Nano-carriers regulate the HER2 and CASP3 genes expression in MCF-7 and SK-BR-3 cell-lines. Research Square (Pre-print). https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-40618/v1