Dr. Saeid Latifi-Navid earned a Ph.D. degree in Medical Molecular Genetics in 2010 and a post-doc fellowship in 2016. He is an Associate Professor, a Scientific Member at the University of Mohaghegh Ardabili (UMA). His current research focus is on bacterial and host genetic risk factors predisposing to gastrointestinal cancers especially gastric cancer. His areas of expertise include “Cancer Genetics/Genomics and Molecular Biology” and “Cancer Biomarkers” (Bacterial-host genetic risk factors associated with GI cancers; identifying genetic susceptibility genes/variants for GI cancers and performing functional analysis and H. pylori genotyping).
Research/expertise details:
- Genetic Association Studies/GI Cancer Risk
- Genome-Wide Association Analysis and Post-GWAS era/GI Cancer Risk
- NcRNAs Genetic Polymorphism/GI Cancer Risk
- H. pylori Genetic Diversity/GI Cancer Risk
- H. pylori Genotyping/GI Cancer Risk
- Gut Microbiota-H. pylori Interaction/GI Cancer Risk
- Advanced Analyses in Population Genetics (hierarchical analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA), FST estimation, advanced Linkage and admixture analysis to identify the ancestral populations and assign ancestry proportions for each individual strain, Inference of bacterial microevolution using a Bayesian-based neutral coalescent model, MLST scheme to characterize bacteria using sequence analysis of core genome, and meta- analysis)
- NcRNAs Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment/GI Cancers
- Differential Gene Expression and Functional Analysis (qRT-PCR, FACS analysis, siRNA knockdown…) |
