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Dr. Saveez Saffarian, Nanoscale & Biomedical Photonic Imaging 
Dr. Saveez Saffarian is currently pursuing the virus budding mechanism as an independent investigator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Utah. He received BS and Graduate degrees in Physics from Sharif University in Tehran and Washington University in St. Louis He comes to the U from a postdoctoral position at Harvard University where he was part of a group that researched endocyosis and vesicle formation from the plasma membrane. His research interests stem from a project at Harvard involving the development of new microscopy techniques capable of making sub resolution measurements in an optical microscope on live cells. Using these tools Dr. Saffarian could distinguish between two different kinds of clathrin mediated endocytosis. Many of the toolsets used on clathrin can be transferred and used for understanding the enveloped virus budding.
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