Fazel Shabanpoor
BSc (Hons) BBiomed Sci (Melb)
Neuropeptide Group
Peptide Laboratory
Contact Details
Email: fazel.shabanpoor@florey.edu.au
Phone: +61 (0)3 8344 7330
Mobile: +61 (0)4 3844 6723
Supervisor
- A/Prof John D Wade
PhD Project Title
- Molecular design, synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of relaxin family peptides
Research Interests
- Therapeutic applications of relaxin family peptide mimetics
Laboratory Techniques
- In silico drug designing using molecular modelling softwares( Molsoft and Sybyl)
- Solid Phase peptide synthesis
- HPLC purification of peptides and proteins
- MALDI/SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry for characterisation of peptides
- Circular dichroism Spectroscopy for determination of secondary structure in peptides
- amino acid analysis
- Cell culture, Western blot, radioligand cell-based binding assay, cAMP functional assay
Additional Information
- Currently in first year of my PhD
Publications and Articles
Shabanpoor, F., Bathgate, R.A.D., Hossain, M.A., Giannakis, E., Wade, J.D., Hughes, R.A. Design, synthesis and pharmacological evaluation of cyclic mimetics of the insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3) B-chain. J Pept Sci. (2006), 13(2), 113-20.
JuZhang, S., Lin, F., Hossain, A., Shabanpoor, F., Hung, L., Guo, C., van Lierop, B., Otvos, L., Hughes, R.A., Bathgate, R.A. and Wade, J.D. Structure-function relationship of insulin-like peptide 3, a regulator of germ cell maturation. In: Peptides 2006. Proceedings of the 29th European Peptide Symposium. (Rolka, K., Rekowski, P. and Silberring, J., eds). Kenes International, Switzerland (in press).
Hughes, R.A., Scanlon, D.,Shabanpoor, F.,Fletcher, J.F.,Del Borgo, M.D.,O’Leary, P. Design Of Conformationally-Constrained Peptides As Mimetics Of Cellular Growth Factors. In peptide 2006. Proceedings of Japanese Peptide Society. (Hitoshi Ishida and Hisakazu Mihara (Editors)), Tokyo, Japan.(in press).
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