Work Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (2012-present) - Rutgers University

Education

  • Ph.D. Computational Biophysics (2008-2012) - University of Pittsburgh

  • M.D. Medicine (2000-2008) - Tehran University of Medical Sciences

  • B.S. Cellular and Molecular Biolody (2001-2005) - University of Tehran

Awards

  • 2009 School of Art and Sciences Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2008 Frederick Kaufman Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2007 Ranked 1st, National Medical Internship Entrance Exam
  • 2005 Ranked 1st, National M.Sc. Entrance Exam (Biophysics and Biochemistry)
  • 2002 Ranked 9th, National Exam of Basic Sciences for Medical Students
  • 2001 Outstanding Student Recognition and Permission to Study a Second Major Simultaneously with Medicine
  • 2000 Ranked 89th, National Higher Education Entrance Exam among 400,000 examinees

Exams

  • USMLE Step 1 (257), Step 2CS (Pass) - all first attempts.
  • GRE Chemistry 860
  • GRE V (460), Q (800), E (3.5)

Skills

  • Computational data analysis
  • Computational molecular modeling
  • Programming

Publications

  1. Reza Salari, Jerome Hénin, and Grace Brannigan. Calculation of cholesterol binding affinity to GluCl, a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel. In preparation, 2015.

  2. Brian P. Weiser, Reza Salari, Roderic G. Eckenhoff and Grace Brannigan. Computational investigation of cholesterol binding sites on mitochondrial VDAC. The journal of physical chemistry B, 118(33):9852-60, Aug 2014.

  3. Jerome Hénin, Reza Salari, and Grace Brannigan. A predicted binding site for cholesterol on the GABAA receptor. Biophysical Journal, 106(9):1938-49, May 2014.

  4. Reza Salari, Sruthi Murlidaran, Grace Brannigan. Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels: insights from computation. Molecular Simulation, 40(10-11), 821-829, 2014.

  5. Kaylyn M Oshaben, Reza Salari, Darrell R McCaslin, Lillian T Chong, and W Seth Horne. The native GCN4 leucine-zipper domain does not uniquely specify a dimeric oligomerization state. Biochem- istry, 51(47):9581–91, November 2012.

  6. Reza Salari and Lillian T. Chong. Effects of high temperature on desolvation costs of salt bridges across protein binding interfaces: similarities and differences between implicit and explicit solvent models. The journal of physical chemistry B, 116(8):2561–7, March 2012.

  7. Maria T Panteva1, Reza Salari1, Monica Bhattacharjee, and Lillian T Chong. Direct observations of shifts in the β-sheet register of a protein-peptide complex using explicit solvent simulations. Biophysical Journal, 100(9):L50–2, May 2011. 1 Joined first author.

  8. Reza Salari and Lillian T. Chong. Desolvation Costs of Salt Bridges across Protein Binding Interfaces: Similarities and Differences between Implicit and Explicit Solvent Models. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 1(19):2844–2848, October 2010.