Saman Najmi, PhD

Education

• FIRST Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2019 - present
• PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2019
• BA, Biology & Psychology, Austin College, Sherman, TX, 2014

Research

• Research Title: Investigating the role of post-translation modification on AAA+ ATPase Rvb1/2 on its role in snoRNP assembly

• Research Mentor: Homa Ghalei, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry

Publications

• Najmi, S.M., Schneider, D.A. RNA polymerase I abundance is regulated with growth phase in
  Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (in preparation)
• Wei, T., Najmi, S.M., Liu, H., Peltonen, K., Kucerova, A., Schneider, D.A., Laiho, M. (2018) Small-molecule targeting of RNA Polymerase I activates a novel, conserved transcription elongation checkpoint. Cell Reports.23 (2):404-414. PMID: 29642000
• Zhang, Y. *, Najmi, S.M.*, Schneider, D.A. (2017) Transcription factors that influence RNA polymerases I and II:To what extent is mechanism of action conserved?  Biophys. Acta - Gene Regul. Mech. 1860(2):246–255. PMID: 27989933 *: equal contribution