Nona Farbehi

About

Dr. Nona Farbehi is a university lecturer and researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at UNSW in 2018, supported by the prestigious International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) and Stem Cells Australia (SCA), under the supervision of Prof. Richard Harvey and A/Prof Robert Nordon. Her field of research involved large-scale single-cell transcriptomic analysis of cardiac stromal and stem cells at health and disease by applying different technologies and bioinformatics tools and designing and fabricating novel microfluidics systems. Her post-doc career at the GWCCG (Prof Powell's lab) focused on population-scale stem cell technology, where she took induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from patients and differentiates them towards neural and cardiac cells to understand how common DNA variation shapes cellular phenotypes and behaviour. She has secured more than $2.4M in research funding since 2017 and has published in high-tiered journals such as Nat Genetics, Cell Stem Cell, Nat Comm, etc.

Work

UNSW Sydney

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Lecturer

Australia

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Garvan Institute of Medical Research

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Postdoctoral fellow

Australia

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Garvan Institute of Medical Research

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Developmental Molecular Scientist (R&D)

Australia

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UNSW Sydney

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Research Assistant

Australia

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UNSW Sydney

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Research Officer and councillor

Australia

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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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Research Assistant

Spain

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Islamic Azad University, East Tehran Branch

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Lecturer

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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Education

UNSW Sydney

Australia
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PhD

Amirkabir University of Technology

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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MSc

SRBIAU

Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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BSc (Honours class I)

Publications

Evaluating Flow-Focused Microfluidic Device Fabrication Techniques for Silk Fibroin Microgel Production

preprint

Invited talk

ASBTE Regional NSW Showcase

conference-presentation

Invited talk

14th International NanoMedicine Conference

conference-presentation

Cell cultures and methods of use thereof

UQ eSpace

patent

Deep sequencing of proteotoxicity modifier genes uncovers a Presenilin-2/beta-amyloid-actin genetic risk module shared among alpha-synucleinopathies

bioRxiv

other

How chromatin interactions shed light on interpreting non-coding genomic variants: opportunities and future directions

arXiv

other

Integrating Computational and Biological Hemodynamic Approaches to Improve Modeling of Atherosclerotic Arteries

Advanced Science

journal-article

Integrating Computational and Biological Hemodynamic Approaches to Improve Modeling of Atherosclerotic Arteries

Advanced Science

journal-article

Integrating population genetics, stem cell biology and cellular genomics to study complex human diseases

Nature Genetics

journal-article

Integrating population genetics, stem cell biology and cellular genomics to study complex human diseases

Nature Genetics

journal-article

Photocrosslinked Silk Fibroin Microgel Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials

journal-article

Photocrosslinked Silk Fibroin Microgel Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials

journal-article

Invited talk

CVMM workshop at UNSW

conference-presentation

Invited talk

Cellular Genomics Seminars

conference-presentation

Invited talk

PolyNSW ECR Symposium 2023

conference-presentation

Talk

ASBTE CONFERENCE IN NEWZEALAND 2023

conference-presentation

A village in a dish model system for population-scale hiPSC studies

Nature Communications

journal-article

A village in a dish model system for population-scale hiPSC studies

Nature Communications

journal-article

Hif-1a suppresses ROS-induced proliferation of cardiac fibroblasts following myocardial infarction

Cell Stem Cell

journal-article

Hif-1a suppresses ROS-induced proliferation of cardiac fibroblasts following myocardial infarction

Cell Stem Cell

journal-article

Mimicry of embryonic circulation enhances the hoxa hemogenic niche and human blood development

Cell Reports

journal-article

Retinal ganglion cell-specific genetic regulation in primary open-angle glaucoma

Cell Genomics

journal-article

Transcriptomic and proteomic retinal pigment epithelium signatures of age-related macular degeneration

Nature Communications

journal-article

Facs enrichment of total interstitial cells and fibroblasts from adult mouse ventricles

Bio-protocol

journal-article

Retinal ganglion cell-specific genetic regulation in primary open angle glaucoma

bioRxiv

other

Role of PDGF-A/B Ligands in Cardiac Repair After Myocardial Infarction

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

journal-article

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals involution mimicry during the specification of the basal breast cancer subtype

Cell Reports

journal-article

Transcriptomic and proteomic retinal pigment epithelium signatures of age-related macular degeneration

bioRxiv

other

Single Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Involution Mimicry during the Specification of the Basal Breast Cancer Subtype

SSRN

other

Single-cell expression profiling reveals dynamic flux of cardiac stromal, vascular and immune cells in health and injury

eLife

journal-article

Single-cell expression profiling reveals dynamic flux of cardiac stromal, vascular and immune cells in health and injury

eLife

journal-article

Droplet-based single cell RNAseq tools: a practical guide

Lab on a Chip

journal-article

Droplet-based single cell RNAseq tools: A practical guide

Lab on a Chip

journal-article

Single-cell RNAseq uncovers involution mimicry as an aberrant development pathway during breast cancer metastasis

bioRxiv

other

Single-cell RNAseq uncovers involution mimicry as an aberrant development pathway during breast cancer metastasis

other

PDGFRα signaling in cardiac fibroblasts modulates quiescence, metabolism and self-renewal, and promotes anatomical and functional repair

bioRxiv

other

A rapid co-culture stamping device for studying intercellular communication

Scientific Reports

journal-article

A rapid co-culture stamping device for studying intercellular communication

Scientific Reports

journal-article

A rapid microfluidic stamping device for studying cardiac stem cells and endothelial cells co-culture

20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2016

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