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Mahsa Mofidi, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Biology

Bio

Mahsa Mofidi joined the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in September, 2024. Mahsa received a Ph.D. in material science at the Univerity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in nanotechnology at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran. Her research focuses on the molecular dynamics of proteins and membrane interactions. Mahsa has been awarded a GHC Student Scholarship for the highly prestigious Grace Hopper Celebration 2023 (GHC 23), the largest community of women in tech.

Publications

Study of Protein-Protein Interactions in Septin Assembly: Multiple amphipathic helix domains cooperate in binding to the lipid membrane

bioRxiv, August 12, 2025

M. Mofidi, et al.

Study of Protein-Protein Interactions in Septin Assembly: Multiple amphipathic helix domains cooperate in binding to the lipid membrane

bioRxiv, 2025

M. Mofidi, et al.

Charge distribution and helicity tune the binding of septin’s amphipathic helix domain to membranes

Biophysical Journal, April 15, 2025

C. Edelmaier, et al.

Charge distribution and helicity tune the binding of septin’s amphipathic helix domain to membranes

Biophysical Journal, 2025

C. Edelmaier, et al.

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