Department of Biology
The Department of Biology was established in 1967. The aim of this department in the B.Sc. program is to acquaint students with the basics of Biology, different theories, and applications of Biology in other fields. The minimum duration of study is 7 semesters, i.e. 3.5 years. There are 136 credit hours offered in this program.
The Department of Biology also offers Masters and Ph.D. programs. Currently, there are 8 areas of specialization (educational areas of specializations) offered at the M.Sc. level: Cell and Molecular Biology, Animal Physiology, Animal Biosystematics, Plant Systematic-Ecology, Plant Physiology, Microbiology, Microbial Biotechnology, Cell and Developmental Biology.
At the Ph.D. program, students can choose Cell and Molecular Biology, Animal Physiology, Animal Biosystematics, Plant Ecology, or Plant Physiology to continue their education. More
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Masoumeh Bahreini |
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| mbahreini@um.ac.ir |
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Academic staff
Research
Recent journal articles
Mazangi, A., Ejtehadi, H., Farzam, M., Mirshamsi, O., & Rahmanian, S. (2025). Impact of abiotic environmental factors on Pistacia vera L. density in woody rangelands: a case study in Northeastern Iran. Journal of Rangeland Science, 15 (1), 1-8.
Moazzeni, H., Pirani Osguei, A., Memariani, F., Hosseini, S., Erfanian, B., Amiri Ardahae, M., Joharchi, M. (2025). Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of Lophanthus and its allies (Lamiaceae). Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 66 (), 125843-125859.
Nakhlahmadi, A., Ganjeali, A., Rashed Mohassel, M., & Mashreghi, M. (2025). Controlled release of trifluralin herbicide using luminescent Vibrio-derived polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) microcapsules. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 289 (), 138845-138856.
Hosseini, M., Mashreghi, M., Eshghi, H., & Koosanjian, F. (2025). Antibacterial and antibiofilm activity of biogenic Se-Au nanoparticles against most prevalent pathogenic bacteria. Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 16 (1), 015009-015017.
Nazari, M., Azizi, M., Nemati, S., & Moazzeni, H. (2025). Effects of IBA and NAA on rooting of malesterile and hermaphroditic type of three Iranian thymus species. International Journal of Horticultural Science and Technology, 12 (2), 297-314.
Al-hachami, A., Zenhari, A., Koosanjian, F., Yousefi, S., & Mashreghi, M. (2025). Combining Bacteriogenic Fluorescent Carbon Nanoparticles with ZnO Nanoparticles: A Novel Approach Against Antibiotic-Resistant Clinical Escherichia coli Strains. BioNanoScience, 15 (1), -.
Taghizade Salari, M., Khani, L., Behnam Rassouli, M., Gholami, K., Ahmadnia, H. (2025). Neuroprotective Effect of Urolithin A against Cerebellum Changes in Streptozotocin‐Induced Alzheimer’s Disease Rat Model. Alzheimers and Dementia, 20 (), -.
Moghaddam Matin, M. (2025). Unraveling the role of the P2X7 receptor in cancer radioresistance: Molecular insights and therapeutic implications. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research, 1872 (3), 119910-119921.
Moghaddam Matin, M., Nejabat, M., Allahverdizadeh, H., Jamali, H., Gharedaghi Kloucheh, S. (2025). Exploring the anti-metastatic potential of sunitinib and novel analogs in colorectal cancer: insights into HIF-1α mediated metastasis. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 16 (), -.
Hossaini, F., Nasiri Sarvi, Z. (2025). 7-Geranyloxycoumarin modulated metastatic potential of osteosarcoma cells via interaction with MMPs and JAK1/2. Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology, 398 (8), 10139-10153.
Ghaffari, S., Karimi, J., Cheniany, M., Seifi, A. (2025). Endophytic entomopathogenic fungi enhance plant immune responses against tomato leafminer. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 209 (1), 108270-108285.
Fereidoni, M. (2025). Editorial: Glial cells in health and disease: impacts on neural circuits and plasticity. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 19 (), -.
Alshikhradhi, M., Karrabi, S., Shahnavaz, B. (2025). Enhancing bio-methane yield in anaerobic co-digestion of waste engine oil with sewage sludge through Fenton’s reagent pretreatment. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 15 (11), 17355-17367.
Ghambarali, Z., & Moghaddam Matin, M. (2025). Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells enrich breast cancer stem cell population via targeting metabolic pathways. Medical Oncology, 42 (4), -.
Chitgaran, S., Khatami, S., Nasrabadi, F., Bahrami, A., Moghaddam Matin, M. (2025). Heterogeneous expression of long noncoding RNA i>RP11-109D20.2/i>: Insights into regulatory gene expression roles in colon cancer. Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, (), -.
Haddad-mashadrizeh, A., & Haddad Mashadrizeh, A. (2025). In-silico analysis of CYP1A2 (cytochrome P450 1A2) missense mutations: Implications for pharmacogenetics. Heliyon, 11 (6), e42955-15.
Tabarifard, M., Cheniany, M., & Khalilian Movahhed, M. (2025). Artificial Neural Network Prediction and Elicitation of Flavones and Rosmarinic Acid in Teucrium polium Calli by Methyl Jasmonate and Nano-Sized TiO₂. Iranian Journal of Science, 49 (5), 1191-1208.
Vaezi, J., Jandaghi, M. (2025). Subspecies delineation of Ziziphora clinopodioides complex (Lamiaceae) based on morphological, sequence-related amplified polymorphism and essential oils analyses. Phytotaxa, 684 (1), 55-77.
Aghasizadeh , M., Moghaddam, T., Bahrami, A., Kazemi, T., & Moghaddam Matin, M. (2025). Evaluation of several farnesyloxycarbostyril derivatives as potential 15-LOX-1 inhibitors for prostate cancer treatment. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 498 (), 117293-117306.
Mirshamsi, O., Amiri, M. (2025). Integrative taxonomy reveals the existence of a new species of fat-tailed scorpions, Androctonus (Buthidae), in Iran. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 49 (2), 48-74.
Abbasi, E., Behnam Rassouli, M., Moghimi, A., & Neshati, Z. (2025). The restorative effect of platelet-rich plasma on estrous cycle disruption induced by arcuate nucleus lesion in female Wistar rats: An experimental study. International Journal of Reproductive BioMedicine, 23 (1), 55-66.
Ejtehadi, H., Karami, S. (2025). Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity. Nature, 641 (8064), 917-924.
Lotfi, M., Jamali, H. (2025). Network pharmacology and
in silico
study of quercetin and structurally similar flavonoids as osteogenesis inducers that interact with oestrogen receptors. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 131 (4), 658-669.
Khoshnood, A., Farhadian, N., Moghaddam Matin, M., & Ziaee, N. (2025). Polyethyleneimine/gold nanorods conjugated with carbon quantum dots and hyaluronic acid for chemo-photothermal therapy of breast cancer. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 13 (16), 4893-4909.
Javaheri Tehrani, S., Rezazadeh, E., Alaie Kakhki, N., Nourani, L., Ebadi Damdol, V., Karimi, S., Ashouri, F., & Aliabadian, M. (2025). DNA barcoding of passerine birds in Iran. Zookeys, 1236 (), 19-39.
Soleimani Porgou, S., Moghaddam Matin, M., Haghighitalab, A., Pourhamedi, S., & Bahrami, A. (2025). Unleashing the potential of UiO-66-NH2 nanozyme: A novel approach to exosomal biomarkers detection in body fluids. Sensors and Actuators Reports, 9 (9), 100329-100340.
Nasiri Sarvi, Z. (2025). Urolithins’ interaction with hepatocyte growth factor receptor: a mechanistic basis for anticancer activity in gastric adenocarcinoma cells. Discover Oncology, 16 (1), -.
Nasiri Sarvi, Z. (2025). Harnessing the metastatic potential of human osteosarcoma cells by natural coumarin galbanic acid. Naunyn-Schmiedebergs Archives of Pharmacology, 398 (9), 12633-12646.
Joharchi, M., & Memariani, F. (2025). Astragalus ferdowsi-toosii (sect. Dissitiflori, Fabaceae), a new species from northeastern Iran. Botanicheskii Zhurnal, 110 (2), 212-219.
Amjadi, E., Ganjeali, A., Lahouti, M. (2025). Ecophysiological and Phytochemical Insights in to Silybum marianum: Geographic Variations in Antioxidant Activity and Silybin Content. Russian Journal of plant physiology, 45 (72), 1-12.
Erfanian, B., Moazzeni, H., Shemirani, G., & Pirani Osguei, A. (2025). Endemic cushions of the Khorassan-Kopet Dagh floristic province show differential responses to future climate change. Scientific Reports, 15 (1), -.
Nakhaeirad, S. (2025). From Quiescence to Activation: The Reciprocal Regulation of Ras and Rho Signaling in Hepatic Stellate Cells. Cells, 14 (9), 674-686.
Saffar, A., Bahrami, A., Shokooh Saljooghi, A., & Moghaddam Matin, M. (2025). ZIF-8/doxorubicin nanoparticles camouflaged with Cucurbita-derived exosomes for targeted prostate cancer therapy. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 13 (19), 5705-5722.
Vaezi, J., & Jafari, A. (2025). Phylogenetic relationships of Bellevalia species (Asparagaceae), inferred from morphology and molecular systematics. Phytotaxa, 700 (2), 196-204.
Zali, H., Dianat, M., & Siahsarvie, R. (2025). The karyotype along with molecular data of the Iranian lineage of the bicolored shrew Crocidura leucodon (Hermann, 1780) provides evidence of the species level of C. persica Thomas, 1907. Mammalia, 89 (4), 418-425.
Yazdani Moghaddam, F., Damadi, E., & Jahani Gharehsou, A. (2025). An Integrative Insight Into the Taxonomic Validity and Morphological Variation in the Malay Puntius Complex (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae). Acta Zoologica, (), -.
Noruzi, Z. (2025). Entinostat and novel analogs: preclinical evidence for anti-proliferative activity in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. Medical Oncology, 42 (7), -.
Teymouri, M., Kheirabadi, M., & Nabipour, A. (2025). Morphological development of the ovary in the Alectoris chukar at embryonic and pre-pubertal stages. Veterinary Research Forum, 16 (6), 339-344.
(2025). Melphalan improves toxicity of arsenic trioxide in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma cells. Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports, 43 (1), 102109-102120.
Hosseini Pouya, H., Cheniany, M. (2025). Insights into TtCIPK gene family and its roles in durum wheat in response to PEG and ABA treatments. Scientific Reports, 15 (1), -.
Aliabadian, M. (2025). Genomic evidence of hybridization between two species of Penduline Tits reveals postzygotic reproductive isolation. Avian Research, 16 (3), 100271-100272.
Hosseini Pouya, H., Cheniany, M. (2025). Decoding the CBL gene family in durum wheat: Insights into dual ABA signaling pathways and calcium‐mediated drought tolerance. Plant Genome, 18 (3), -.
Ijbari, H., Vaezi, J., & Ejtehadi, H. (2025). Impact of Climate Change on the Distributional Potential of the Endemic Species
Tamarix dubia
Bunge and Conservation Implications for the Irano‐Turanian Region. Ecology and Evolution, 15 (8), -.
(2025). Urolithin A suppressed osteosarcoma cell migration and invasion via targeting MMPs and AKT1. Scientific Reports, 15 (1), -.
Aghasizadeh , M., Bahrami, A., & Moghaddam Matin, M. (2025). Polyunsaturated fatty acids in kidney diseases: Navigating the fine line between healing and damage. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, 1870 (7), 159668-159687.
Hasan Nia Roshan, J., Moghimi, A. (2025). Auditory Salience Detection Across Wake and Sleep States: Mismatch Negativity and Event‐Related Spectral Perturbation in the Rat Superior Colliculus. Journal of Sleep Research, (), -.
Ghanbari, Z., & Makhdoumi, A. (2025). In vitro photodynamic therapy of Candida albicans, the cause of vulvovaginal candidiasis, is enhanced by Bacillus and Enterococcus probiotics. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy, 51 (1), 104483-8.
Ghayour Babaei, F., Moghimi, A., Makhdoumi, A., & Behnam Rassouli, M. (2025). Effects of the Probiotics
Lactobacillus rhamnosus
DM163 and
Lactobacillus delbrueckii
DPUL‐F36 on Anxiety‐Related and Emotional Behaviors in Male Wistar Rats Under an Altered Light–Dark Cycle. Brain and Behavior, 15 (9), -.
Ghaemi Talab, V., Aliabadian, M., & Mirshamsi, O. (2025). The Impact of Environmental Factors and Host Migration on Avian Haemosporidians Prevalence: A Molecular Survey in Southern Iran. Acta parasitologica, 70 (4), -.
(2025). Natural Polyphenols and Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A New Insight in Bone Regenerative Medicine. Stem Cells International, 2025 (1), -.
Dardmeh, N., Yavarmanesh, M., Moghaddam Matin, M. (2025). Effect of probiotic administration of
Bifidobacterium animalis
subsp.
lactis
BB‐12 and
Lactiplantibacillus plantarum
ATCC 14917 on metabolic profiles in an IBS‐D rat model: a metabolomic analysis approach. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 106 (1), 620-631.
Moosavi Nezhad, S., Nasiri Sarvi, Z. (2025). Farnesiferol C enhances the effects of chemotherapy and ionising radiation in human melanoma cells via targeting topoisomerase II alpha. Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, 40 (1), -.
Younesi, A., Mahdavi Shahri, N., Lari, R. (2025). Usage of the Cell Dissociation Technique in Reproductive Studies; Study on Mechanical Cell Dissociation in Male Mice in Maturity Course. Avicenna Veterinary Research, 1 (3), 7-14.
Ahmadi Shokooh, S., & Fereidoni, M. (2025). Optimization of ginger-derived exosome-like nanoparticle isolation: Synergistic effects of polyethylene glycol, filtration, and pH. Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, 48 (48), 100649-100664.
Azadbeygi, P., Moosavi Nezhad, S. (2025). L-Sarcolysine Reduced the Mobility of Human Glioblastoma Cells, with Potential Involvement of Vimentin. OncoTargets and Therapy, Volume 18 (), 1169-1178.
Jafari, M., Pirani Osguei, A., Shabani, F., & Moazzeni, H. (2025). Climate change drives the retreat of Aethionema spinosum (Brassicaceae) to high-elevation refugia. Scientific Reports, 15 (1), -.
Rashedi, H., Ganjeali, A. (2025). New insights into hidden microbiota landscape of Salvia persepolitana: evidence of host-specific endophytic fungal communities through a molecular survey. Symbiosis, (), -.
Pishro, P., Nasiri, J., Nasiri Sarvi, Z., Saeidi, S. (2025). Predictive modeling of flavonoid efficacy against esophageal carcinoma: a comprehensive approach. Scientific Reports, 15 (1), -.
Aliabadian, M. (2025). A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration. Science, 390 (6770), -.
Ejtehadi, H. (2025). Assessing climate change impacts on the geographical distribution of Cupressus sempervirens in the Mediterranean region. Scientific Reports, 15 (1), -.
Garmabi, H., Moghaddam Matin, M., & Eshghi, H. (2025). Design, Synthesis, In Silico Evaluation, and Biological Assessment of Novel Pyrido[2,3‐d]Pyrimidine Derivatives as Potential Anticancer Agents. ChemistrySelect, 10 (44), -.
Al-lami, M., & Neshati, Z. (2025). generation and characterization of purkinje-like cells from differentiated mouse bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. , 17 (2), 113-121.
Khajeh, A., Siahsarvie, R., & Darvish, J. (2025). Taxonomic study of the House Mouse subspecies (Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758) at southestern Iran with emphasis on the Jaz Murian depression based on geometric morphometric methods. Biodiversity Journal, 16 (4), 571-578.
Qatran, S., Haddad, F. (2025). Ellagic acid derivatives as potential inhibitors of melanoma cell metastasis: Insights into MMP-related mechanisms. Bioorganic Chemistry, 168 (), 109324-.
(2025). Investigating the synergistic cytotoxicity and apoptosis-inducing effects of eugenol derivatives in combination with docetaxel on PC3 human prostate cancer cells. Medical Oncology, 43 (1), -.
Doshvargar, E., Shahnavaz, B., & Karrabi, S. (2025). Biogenic synthesis of CuO-NPs using psychrotolerant Microbacterium sp.: an application for efficient adsorption of RR24/AO7 azo dyes. International journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 23 (2), -.
Zahraee, H., Mashreghi, M. (2025). Development of an ultrasensitive CRISPR-Cas12a-mediated aptasensor using liquid crystal and three-way DNA junction nanoskeleton for the detection of ochratoxin A. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 444 (), 138463-138475.
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Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Faculty of Science, Department of Biology
Phone: +985138762227
Fax: +985138807151