Education

• Ph.D., Developmental Biology, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
• M.Sc., Developmental Biology, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
• B.Sc., Zoological Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Research interests

• Stem cells differentiation and regenerative medicine
• Cell signaling in development

Selected publications

Kehtari M, Beiki B, Zeynali B, Hosseini FS, Soleimanifar F, Kaabi M, Soleimani M, Enderami SE, Kabiri M, Mahboudi H. (2019) Decellularized Wharton's jelly extracellular matrix as a promising scaffold for promoting hepatic differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells. J Cell Biochem .120(4):6683-6697

Beiki B, Zeynali B, Taghiabadi E, Seyedjafari E, Kehtari M. (2018) Osteogenic differentiation of Wharton's jelly-derived mesenchymal stem cells cultured on WJ-scaffold through conventional signalling mechanism. Artif Cells Nanomed Biotechnol, 46(sup3):S1032-S1042

Mirfazeli ES, Arefian E, Nadri S, Rezazadeh Valojerdi R, Kehtari M, Zeynali B. (2019) DKK1 expression is suppressed by miR-9 during induced dopaminergic differentiation of human trabecular meshwork mesenchymal stem cells. Neurosci Lett. 2019 Jun 4;707:134250

Akhlaghpour A., Parvaneh Tafreshi A., Roussa E., Bernard C., Zeynali B. (2020) TGFβ and Wnt Signaling Pathways Cooperatively Enhance Early Dopaminergic Differentiation of the Unrestricted Somatic Stem Cells. J Mol Neurosci. 70(5):769-777.

Kehtari, M., Zeynali B, Soleimani, M., Kabiri, M., Seyedjafari, E., 2018. Fabrication of a co-culture micro-bioreactor device for efficient hepatic differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology 27, 1-10. doi: 10.1080/21691401.2018.1452753

Beiki, B., Zeynali, B., Seyedjafari, E., 2017. Fabrication of a three dimensional spongy scaffold using human Wharton's jelly derived extra cellular matrix for wound healing. Materials Science & Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications 78, 627-638.  DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2017.04.074

Mirakhori, F., Zeynali, B., Rassouli, H., Shahbazi, E., Hashemizadeh, S., Kiani, S., Salekdeh, G.H., Baharvand, H., 2015. Induction of Neural Progenitor-Like Cells from Human Fibroblasts via a Genetic Material-Free Approach. Plos One, 10 (8), Article Number: e0135479. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135479

Mokhtarzadeh Khanghahi, A., Zeynali, B., Akhlaghpoor, A., Parvaneh Tafreshi, A., Krieglstein, K., 2014 Activation of TGFβ1 signaling enhances early dopaminergic differentiation in Unrestricted Somatic Stem Cells. Neuroscience Letters 583,60–64. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2014.08.055

Mirakhori, F., Zeynali, B., Parvaneh Tafreshi, A., Shirmohammadian, A., 2013. Lithium induces follicular atresia in rat ovary through a GSK-3β/β-catenin dependent mechanism. Molecular Reproduction and Development 80(4): 286-296.

Dastjerdi, F.V., Zeynali, B., Parvaneh Tafreshi, A., Shahraz, A., Chavoshi, M.S., Najafabadi, I.K., Vardanjani, M.M., Atashi, A., Soleimani, M., 2012. Inhibition of GSK-3β enhances neural differentiation in unrestricted somatic stem cells. Cell Biology International 36(11):967-972. doi: 10.1042/cbi20110541.