7. Sep 2020

Shayan Shami Pour PhD Defense Talk

Bulk actin dynamics drive phase segregation in zebrafish oocytes

Datum: 7. September 2020 | 14:00 – 16:00
Sprecher: Shayan Shami Pour, IST Austria
Veranstaltungsort: https://istaustria.zoom.us/j/94269834003?pwd=eitrNFY4SDdSRnBadlhBZnpvTnVudz09

The defense will take place on:

Date: Monday, 7th of September, 2020

Time: 2:00 pm

Location: Zoom Meeting
https://istaustria.zoom.us/j/94269834003?pwd=eitrNFY4SDdSRnBadlhBZnpvTnVudz09

Meeting ID: 942 6983 4003
Password: 284480

Committee:

Supervisor: Prof. Carl-Philipp Heisenberg (IST Austria)

Co-supervisor: Prof. Björn Hof (IST Austria)

Committee member 1:  Prof. Guillaume Salbreux (The Francis Crick Institute UK)

Committee member 2:  Prof. Daria Siekhaus (IST Austria)

Defense Chair: Prof. Maximilian Josch (IST Austria)

After obtaining his MSc in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management at the University of Sheffield, UK, Shayan Shami Pour joined the Heisenberg and Hof groups mutually in September 2014. His main research interests lie at the interface between developmental biology and cellular mechanics, where by employing biophysical concepts, he aims at unraveling the forces that shape the embryo. Specifically, in his PhD, he focused on the cell cytoskeleton structures and their function in cytoplasmic reorganizations during early cleavages. In 2019, together with colleagues from the Hof, Hannezo, and Heisenberg groups, he published the study ‘Bulk actin dynamics drive phase segregation in zebrafish oocytes’ in the journal Cell.