Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)

Shirin Bahmanyar, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology 

Shirin Bahmanyar’s research aims to understand how the biogenesis of membrane bound compartments in eukaryotic cells is coordinated with dynamic cellular processes. In particular, her lab investigates mechanisms involved the formation and dynamics of the nuclear compartment and continuous endoplasmic reticulum using a combination of quantitative fluorescent live imaging, super resolution microscopy, and genome engineering approaches in the experimental model organism C. elegans and in human tissue culture. Elucidation of these mechanisms is critical to our understanding of cellular compartmentalization in normal cells and its disruption in disease. She is also committed to teaching, outreach, and mentorship and has published peer-reviewed articles in major journals with a number of those articles cited multiple times.

The Bahmanyar lab utilizes the advantages provided by the early embryo in C. elegans (whole worm shown on the left and early embryo shown on the right with markers for the endoplasmic reticulum (red) and for the nuclear envelope (green). Photo credit: Shirin Bahmanyar