mina ahmadi

Mina Ahmadi

mina ahmadi

Mina Ahmadi

Graduate (PhD) Student
M.S., Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2019
Email: mahmadi@sas.upenn.edu
Mina grew up in Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran. In 2014, she graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Tehran. She then entered a Master in Biology program at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center where she worked with Dr. Michaela Jansen on the structural conformation of the non-chimeric intracellular domain of the 5HT3A serotonin receptor. Following her M.S., Mina started her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota working on proteomics analysis to identify and quantify proteins that undergo protein prenylation that are possibly involved in Alzheimer’s disease under the supervision of Dr. Mark Distefano. Mina has been continuing her Ph.D. in Dr. Megan Matthews’s lab since October 2019. Besides science, Mina loves reading, board games, knitting, cooking, and of course, eating. Mina dreams about becoming both a scientist and a writer.