Dr. Sajad Rashidi
Monfared
Faculty of Agriculture
Department of Plant Breeding & Biotechnology
E-mail: [email protected]
[email protected]
Last updated: Jun 18, 2016
I. Personal Information:
Name: Sajad
Family Name: Rashidi Monfared
Date of Birth: 23/9/1983
Nationality: Iranian
Address:
Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
P. O. Box: 14115-336 Tehran, Iran
Dept.,
Tel: +98 21 48290 (Ext.: 2138 lab; 2103 room)
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Faculty
of
Agriculture,
II. Educational Records:
Degree
Institution
Place
Field
Date
B.Sc.
Univ. of Lorestan
Iran
Agronomy & Plant Breeding
2001-2005
M.Sc.
Univ. of Tehran
Iran
Agricultural Biotechnology
2005-2007
Ph.D.
Univ. of Tehran
Iran
Molecular Genetics and Genetic
Engineering
2007-2012
III. Research Interests:
1) Secondary Metabolic Engineering
Analysis of secondary metabolites (GC-MS, HPLC), Promoter and Gene isolation,
Gene expression analysis, Transient and stable transformation and Development of
SCAR markers associated with secondary metabolites.
2) Bioinformatics
EST and RNA SEQ analysis, Promoters analysis, Phylogenetic analysis and Systems
biology.
IV. Publications and Journal Papers:
1) Sharifi, R and Rashidi Monfared, S. (2007). Real-time PCR method and
applications in plant pathology. Journal of Modern Genetics. (6-7):26:40-45. (In
Farsi)
2) Rashidi Monfared, S and Naghavi, M.R. (2007). Introducing retrotransposonbased molecular markers. Journal of Modern Genetics. (6-7):26:26-30. (In Farsi)
3) Rashidi Monfared, S., Naghavi, M.R., Mardi, M., and Hosseinzade, A.H. (2008)
Evaluation of genetic variation in durum wheat landraces and cultivars using
protein markers. Iranian Journal of Biology. 21(3):393-399. (In Farsi)
4) Rashidi Monfared, S., Mardi, M., Hoseinzadeh, A.H and Naghavi, M.R. (2008).
Association analysis of important agronomic traits to retrotransposon markers
SSAPs in durum wheat accessions. Journal of Modern Genetic.3:2: 29-35. (In Farsi)
5) Rashidi Monfared, S., Naghavi, M.R., Mardi, M., Hosseinzade, A.H and
Pirseyedi, S.M. (2008). Evaluation of diversity in durum wheat using
retrotransposon markers SSAP (sequence-specific amplification polymorphism).
Journal of Science and Technology of Agriculture and Natural Resources. 12(45
(a)):147-155. (In Farsi)
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6) Naghavi, M.R., Rashidi Monfared, S., Ahkami, A.H and Ombidbakhsh, M.A.
(2009). Genetic variation of durum wheat landraces and cultivars using agronomical
traits and protein markers. International Journal of Biological and Life Sciences.
1(2):68-70.
7) Rashidi Monfared, S., Rezaei, M and Ebrahimi, A. (2009). Safety assessment of
CRY proteins using allergenic databases. Journal of Biosafty.1 (4): 35-47. (In Farsi)
8) Rashidi Monfared, S., Hosseinzade, A.H., Naghavi, M. R and Ebrahimi, A.
(2009). Plant retrotransposons. Journal of Modern Genetics. 4(1):5-15. (In Farsi)
9)
Rashidi Monfared, S., Hosseinzade, A.H., Naghavi, M.R., Mardi, M., Ebrahimi,
A and Brahimi, R. (2011). The study of genetic diversity between population of
durum wheat (Triticum turgidum var. Durum) from west and northwestern of Iran
using SSAP markers. Iranian Journal of Biology. 24(2):185-193. (In Farsi)
10) Mardi, M., Naghavi, M.R., Pirseyedi, S.M., Kazemi Alamooti, M., Rashidi
Monfared, S., Ahkami, A.H. Omidbakhsh, M.A., Alavi, N.S., Salehi Shanjani, P
and Katsiotis, A. (2011). Comparison of genetic variation among landraces of
durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum) using AFLPs, SSRs, SSAPs.
Journal of Agriculture Science Technology. 13: 905-920.
11) Naghavi, M.R., Rashidi Monfared, S., Yazdi Samadi, B and Alizade, H. (2011).
Expression of amorpha-4,11-diene synthase (ADS) gene in Iranian Artemisia
annua L.genotypes. Planta Medica.77:1276-1277.(Summary)
12) Rashidi Monfared, S., Naghavi, M.R., Yazdi Samadi, B., Alizade, H. and Soltanlou, H.
(2011). Study of Expression Regulation of the Key Gene Amorpha-4, 11-Diene Synthase
(ADS) of Artemisinin Biosynthesis Pathway in Different Iranain Artemisia annua
Genotypes. Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science. 42(2): 409-419. (In Farsi)
13) Naghavi, M.R., Rashidi Monfared, S and Humberto, G. (2012). Genetic diversity
in Iranian chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) accessions as revealed by microsatellite
markers. Czech Journal of Genetic and Plant Breeding. 48 (3): 131–138.
14) Nayebi, S., Kakeshpour, T., Hasanvand, A., Nadri, M and Rashidi Monfared, S.
(2013). Composition of volatile compounds of extract of Ammi majus from Iran by
GC-MS. Journal of science (JSUT). 24(4): 335 - 338.
15) Asadi, A.A and Rashidi Monfared, S. (2013). Characterization of EST-SSR
markers in Durum wheat EST library and functional analysis of SSR-containing EST
fragments. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 289(4):625-40.
16) Rashidi Monfared, S., Naghavi, M.R., Yazdi Samadi, B., Alizade, Yang, K., Lundegran,
A and Brodelius, P. (2015). Transient expression of transcription factors belonging to
WRKY and MYB family and two enzymes DBR2 and OPR3 in two Artemisia annua
chemotypes (ANAMED and Iranian wild type) in order to increase the artemisinin
production. Iranian Journal of Field Crop Science.46 (3): 339-349. (In Farsi)
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17) Yang K, Rashidi Monfared S, Wang H, Lundgren A, Brodelius P.E (2015).The
activity of the artemisinic aldehyde Δ11(13) reductase promoter is important for
artemisinin yield in different chemotypes of Artemisia annua L. Plant Mol Biol.88(45):325-40.
18) Kakeshpour, T., Nayebi, Rashidi Monfared, S., Moieni, A, Karimzadeh G (2015).
Identification and expression analyses of MYB and WRKY transcription factor genes
in Papaver somniferum L. Physiol Mol Biol Plants. 21(4):465–478.
19) Darvishi Zeidabadi, D., Jalali Javaran, M., Dehghani, H., Rashidi Monfared, S.,
Baghizadeh, A. (2015). Selection of suitable housekeeping genes for gene
expression study in caraway (Bunium persicum). Journal of Biodiversity and
Environmental Sciences (JBES). 7(3):50-58.
20) Darvishi Zeidabadi, D., Jalali Javaran, M., Dehghani, H., Rashidi Monfared, S.,
Baghizadeh, A. (2015). The Effect of Different Combinations of Hormonal Treatments
on Breaking Seed Dormancy in Different Ecotypes of Black Zira (Bunium persicum).
Iranian Journal of Seed Science and Research. 2 (1): 55-67. (In Farsi)
21) Khodadadi, M., Dehghani, H., Jalali Javaran, M., Rashidi Monfared, S., (2016).
Numerical and graphical assessment of relationships between traits of the Iranian
Coriandrum sativum L. core collection by considering genotype× irrigation interaction.
Scientia Horticulturae. 200: 73-82.
V. Papers Presented in Conferences:
1) Rashidi Monfared, S., Hosseinzadeh, A.H., Mardi, M and Pirseyedi, S.M. (2007).
Evaluation of genetic diversity in durum wheat using SSAP (Sequence-Specific
Amplification Polymorphism) markers. The 4th Moscow International Congress
"BIOTECHNOLOGY: State of the Art and Prospects of Development, March 12-16,
Russia.
2) Rashidi Monfared, S., Rezaei, M and Ebrahimi, A. (2010). Safety assessment of
CRY proteins using allergenic databases. The 3th Iranian Conference of
Bioinformatics. January 5-6, Tehran. Iran. (In Farsi)
3) Naghavi, M.R., Miralee, M., Aboee, F and Rashidi Monfared, S. (2008). The study
of genetic relationship of Durum wheat with morphological markers. 10th Agronomy and
Plant Breeding Congress. August 18-20. Tehran. Iran. (In Farsi)
4) Rashidi Monfared S., Lundgren A., Naghavi M.R., Yazdi-Samadi B., Alizadeh
H., Brodelius, P. (2011). Comparison of the artemisinin, artemisinic acid and
arteanniun B content of ten different wild ecotypes of Artemisia annua from Iran
by GC-MS. 10th international meeting TERPNET, June, School of natural science,
Linnaeus University, Kalmar. Sweden.
5) Rashidi Monfared, S., Naghavi, MR., Yazdi-Samadi, B., Alizadeh, H and
Brodelius, P. (2011). Transient expression of AaWRKY1 transcription factor in
two different ecotypes of Artemisia annua. 10th international meeting TERPNET,
June, School of natural science, Linnaeus University, Kalmar. Sweden.
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6) Hongzhen, W., Rashidi Monfared, S., Lundgren, A and Brodelius P. (2013). Is
artemisinic aldehyde 11(13) reductase a rate limiting enzyme of artemisinin
biosynthesis in Artemisia annua L?. 11th International TERPENET Meeting. June,
Kolymvari, Crete, Greece (presentation).
7) Yang, K., Rashidi Monfared, S., Hongzhen, W and Brodelius, P. (2013). Crucial
role of the DBR2 promoter in the artemisinin biosynthetic pathway and
development of a method for selection of high artemisinin yielding varieties. 11th
International TERPENET Meeting. June, Kolymvari, Crete. Greece.
8) Rashidi Monfared, S., Naghavi, M.R., Mardi, M and Hosseinzadeh, A.H. (2007). High
molecular weight glutenin subunit composition of landraces and cultivars of durum
wheat (Triticum turgidum). The 2nd International Conference on Plant Molecular
Breeding, March 23-27, China.
9) Rashidi Monfared, S., Naghavi, M.R and Mardi, M. (2007). Marker trait association in
durum wheat using SSR, AFLP, SSAP and EST-SSR markers. The 5th National
Biotechnology Congress of Iran, 24-26 Nov., Tehran, Iran (presentation). (In Farsi)
10) Basiri, M., Khanizadeh A.R., Rashidi Monfared, S., GC-MS studies of
phytochemical composition in hexane extract of Dracocephalum kotchyi BOISS.
(2015) Leaves. International Conference on Biological Products (ICBP 2015).
Shanghi, China.
11) Khodadadi, M., Dehghani, H., Jalali Javaran, M., Rashidi Monfared, S., (2014).
Drought tolerance related traits in Coriandrum sativum L. and new multivariate
statistical method for screening drought tolerant genotypes. (2014). Phytotron
research conference analysis of plants in controlled environments. Germany.
VI. Courses Taught:
1) Biochemistry, Biotechnology Course, M.Sc., Tarbiat Modares Univ., Iran
2) Biotechnology in plant pathology, Phyto-pathology Course, M.Sc., Tarbiat Modares
Univ., Iran
3) Biotechnology, Biotechnology Course, M.Sc., Tarbiat Modares Univ., Iran
4) Bioinformatics, M.Sc. and Ph.D. student. Univ. of Tehran., Iran
IX. Referees:
 Prof. Dr. Peter. E. Brodelius, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
 Pro.Dr. Bahman Yazdi Samadi, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
X. Others: Awards, Honorary Degrees, Medals and Positions:
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 The first rank in “Student Year Thesis Festival” in the field of agriculture and natural
resource, Administrated by Jihad Daneshgahi, Tehran, Iran, June, 2009.
 The first rank in“Student Year Book Festival” in the field of agriculture and natural
resource, Administrated by Jihad Daneshgahi, Tehran, Iran, December, 2009.
 The first rank in M.Sc. “Iran Universities M.Sc. Entrance Examination”
Administered by the National Education Measurement Organization, Ministry of
Science Research and Technology of IRAN, May 2005.
 The first rank in Ph.D. Entrance Examination. Administered by University of
Tehran, IRAN, August 2007.
 The first rank student in M.Sc. and Ph.D, University of Tehran, IRAN.
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