Nettie Stevens Lecture, Shirin Bahmanyar - “Regulation of lipid metabolism from the nuclear envelope.”

Nettie Stevens Lecture

“Regulation of lipid metabolism from the nuclear envelope.”
 
Shirin Bahmanyar
Yale University/Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology

Shirin was an undergraduate researcher in Jeremy Thorner and Tom Alber’s lab at UC Berkeley and a graduate student in W. James Nelson’s lab at Stanford University. As a post-doctoral associate, Shirin joined the laboratory of Karen Oegema where she studied mechanisms that control organelle biogenesis and membrane dynamics, with an emphasis on the ER and continuous nuclear envelope. As a faculty member at Yale, Shirin has contributed to the understanding of ER reorganization and size control by lipid biosynthesis and has become a leading expert in the emerging field of nuclear envelope lipids. Her interdisciplinary research program combines quantitative high resolution fluorescence live cell imaging with genome engineering (in both vertebrate cells and C. elegans) and the expertise of her collaborators in cutting edge microscopy methods (super resolution and EM tomography) and biophysical approaches. Shirin is an active advocate for increasing diversity in STEM - she serves as a faculty mentor for the organization Women in Science at Yale and partners with the Yale sponsored Pathways to Science to run a summer science workshop for local New Haven high school students, among other activities. She is a recipient of a NSF CAREER Award and the 2022 ASCB Women in Cell Biology Junior Excellence in Research Award.

Host: Jonas Cremer