Animal Biology
Zoological research studies structure, physiology, behavior, taxonomy and evolution of animals at the biochemical, cellular, organismal, and ecosystem levels.
The Division of Animal Biology engaged in cutting-edge research in animal kingdom from the molecular to the integrative levels. We advance the research of the function and mechanism of animal behavior, systematics, phylogeny, and biogeography of animals, physiology and endocrinology, ecology, and developmental Biology. Our model organisms are diverse from invertebrates to vertebrates.
The Division of Animal Biology offers undergraduate and graduate programs that include both practical and theoretical approaches. Students have an in-depth laboratory component and fieldwork.
The Division of Animal Biology has an outstanding Museum of Zoology used for teaching and research.
Our works provide us with information to improve our life with consideration to health, food security, economy, nature preservation, and societal development.
The Faculty of the Division of Animal Biology are core members of the Center of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms in Iran.
Our research are:
- Aquatic ecosystems of Iran: Diversity and Climate change
- Biology of leeches
- Cancer: cell signaling and drug delivery
- Cell and tissue culture in cancer
- Cell signaling in ovarian cancer
- Crustacean biology
- Developmental Biology
- Entomology: Systematics, physiology and ecology
- Neurobiology of the mesocorticolimbic neurotransmitter systems and signaling pathways in brain cognitive functions
- Reproductive physiology and endocrinology in animals
- Stem cells from basic to biomedical approaches
- Stem cells: cell differentiation
Animal Biology Faculty
| Ali Reza Sari, PhD Professor, Chair Phone: 61112702 e-mail: sari@ut.ac.ir | Marine Zoology Crustacean Biology
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| S. M. Hadi Alavi, PhD Assistant Professor Phone: 61112626 e-mail: hadi.alavi@ut.ac.ir | Molecular and Cellular Biology of Reproduction | | |
| Farnosh Attari, PhD Assistant Professor Phone: 61112626 e-mail: attari@ut.ac.ir | Cancer Drug delivery Immunotherapy and Cancer | Curriculum vitae | |
| Ghamartaj Hossein, PhD Associate Professor Phone: 61112622 e-mail: ghossein@ut.ac.ir | Reproductive Biology Ovarian Cancer
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| Mousa Kehtari, PhD Assistant Professor Phone: 61112626 e-mail: mkehtari@ut.ac.ir |  | ||
| Masoumeh Malek, PhD Professor Phone: 61112702 e-mail: memalek@ut.ac.ir | Biology and Biotechnology of Leeches
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| Reza Naderloo, PhD Associate Professor Phone: 61112701 e-mail: rnaderloo@ut.ac.ir | Biodiversity Phylogeny
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| Hassan Rahimian, PhD Associate Professor Phone: 61112629 e-mail: h.rahimian@ut.ac.ir | Marine Invertebrates Taxonomy Ecology & Biology
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| Ameneh Rezayof, PhD Professor Phone: 61112483 e-mail: arezayof@ut.ac.ir | Neuroscience
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| Maryam Sardari, PhD Assistant Professor Phone: 6111 e-mail: sardari_89@ut.ac.ir | Neuroscience | Curriculum vitae |  |
| Marjan Seiedy, PhD Associate Professor Phone: 61112629 e-mail: mseyyedi@ut.ac.ir | Community Ecology Biodiversity
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| Bahman Zeynali, PhD Associate Professor Phone: 61113237 e-mail: zeynalib@ut.ac.ir | Cell Signaling Stem Cell Differentiation | Curriculum vitae | |
