Educational Background:

• Ph.D. Physics, Washington University, St. Louis 2003
• B. Sc. Physics, Sharif University of Technology 1997

Research Interests:

Enveloped virus budding.

Selected Recent Publications

1. Thiery J, Keefe D, Saffarian S, Martinvalet D, Walch M, Boucrot E,  Kirchhausen T, Lieberman J. "Perforin activates clathrin- and  dynamin-dependent endocytosis, which is required for plasma membrane  repair and delivery of granzyme B for granzyme-mediated apoptosis"  (2010) Blood. 115(8):1582-93
2. Saveez Saffarian and Tom Kirchhausen "Distinct Dynamics of Endocytic Clathrin Coated Pits and Coated Plaques" (2009) PLoS Biol. 7(9):e1000192
3. Cureton DK, Massol RH, Saffarian S, Kirchhausen TL, Whelan SP.  "Vesicular stomatitis virus enters cells through vesicles incompletely  coated with clathrin that depend upon actin for internalization"  (2009) PLoS Pathog. 5(4):e1000394
4. Saveez Saffarian and Tom Kirchhausen "Differential Evanescence  Nanometry: Live Cell Fluorescence Measurements with 10 nm Axial  Resolution on the Plasma Membrane" (2008) Biophysical Journal 94(6)2333-42