Biography:
Dr. Mahshid Hodjat studied biochemistry at the Alzahra University, Tehran Iran and graduated as MS in 2005. She then joined the research group of Prof. Sadeghi at Avicenna Research institute. She received her PhD degree in 2014 at Hannover Medical School in Germany. After one year postdoctoral fellowship supervised by prof. Mohammad Abdollahi at the Toxicology and Diseases Group, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran, she obtained the position of an Associate Professor at the TUMS. Of particular importance in her research is assessing the influences of different environmental stressors on aberrant epigenetic changes affecting cell physiological function.
Title : Lead inhibits the odontogenic differentiation potential of dental pulp stem cells by affecting WNT1/?-catenin signaling and related miRNAs expression