PUBLICATIONS

2023

Lin, Xiaoxuan, Patrick R. Haller, Navid Bavi, Nabil Faruk, Eduardo Perozo, and Tobin R. Sosnick. "Folding of prestin’s anion-binding site and the mechanism of outer hair cell electromotility." Elife 12 (2023): RP89635. 

Zhou, Zijing, Xiaonuo Ma, Yiechang Lin, Delfine Cheng, Navid Bavi, Genevieve A. Secker, Jinyuan Vero Li et al. "MyoD-family inhibitor proteins act as auxiliary subunits of Piezo channels." Science 381, no. 6659 (2023): 799-804.

Bavi, O., M. Hosseininia, M. H. Heydari, and Navid Bavi. "SARS-CoV-2 rate of spread in and across tissue, groundwater and soil: A meshless algorithm for the fractional diffusion equation." Engineering analysis with boundary elements 138 (2022): 108-117.

Bavi, Omid*, Zijing Zhou*, Navid Bavi*, S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei, Charles D. Cox, and B. Martinac. "Asymmetric effects of amphipathic molecules on mechanosensitive channels." Scientific reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 1-13 (*shared first author).

Park, Yein Christina, Bharat Reddy, Navid Bavi, Eduardo Perozo, and José D. Faraldo-Gómez. "State-specific morphological deformations of the lipid bilayer explain mechanosensitive gating of MscS ion channels." eLlife (2022). 

2022

2021

Bavi, Navid, Michael D. Clark, Gustavo F. Contreras, Rong Shen, Bharat Reddy, Wieslawa Milewski, and Eduardo Perozo. "The conformational cycle of prestin underlies outer-hair cell electromotility." Nature (2021) 600, no. 7889: 553-558. 

Xue, Feng, Charles D. Cox, Navid Bavi, Paul R. Rohde, Yoshitaka Nakayama, and Boris Martinac. "Membrane stiffness is one of the key determinants of E. coli MscS channel mechanosensitivity." Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Biomembranes 1862, no. 5 (2020): 183203.  

2020

2019

Bavi, Navid*, Jessica Richardson*, Celine Heu, Boris Martinac, and Kate Poole. "Piezo1 mediated currents are modulated by substrate mechanics." ACS Nano (2019) (*shared first author). 

Reddy, Bharat, Navid Bavi, Allen Lu, Yeonwoo Park, and Eduardo Perozo. "Molecular basis of force-from-lipids gating in the mechanosensitive channel MscS." eLife 8 (2019): e50486. 

Nakayama, Yoshitaka, Kosuke Komazawa, Navid Bavi, Ken-ichi Hashimoto, Hisashi Kawasaki, and Boris Martinac. "Evolutionary specialization of MscCG, an MscS-like mechanosensitive channel, in amino acid transport in Corynebacterium glutamicum." Scientific reports 8, no. 1 (2018): 12893. 

Berger, Joachim, Silke Berger, Mei Li, Arie S. Jacoby, Anders Arner, Navid Bavi, Alastair G. Stewart, and Peter D. Currie. "In Vivo Function of the Chaperonin TRiC in α-Actin Folding during Sarcomere Assembly." Cell reports 22, no. 2 (2018): 313-322. 

2018

2017

Bavi, Navid, Omid Bavi, Manoucher Vossoughi, Reza Naghdabadi, Adam P. Hill, Boris Martinac, and Yousef Jamali. "Nanomechanical properties of MscL alpha helices: A steered molecular dynamics study." Channels 11, no. 3 (2017): 209-223.  

Bavi, Navid, Adam D. Martinac, D. Marien Cortes, Omid Bavi, Pietro Ridone, Takeshi Nomura, Adam P. Hill, Boris Martinac, and Eduardo Perozo. "Structural Dynamics of the MscL C-terminal Domain." Scientific reports7, no. 1 (2017): 17229.  

Martinac, Adam D., Navid Bavi, Omid Bavi, and Boris Martinac. "Pulling MscL open via N-terminal and TM1 helices: A computational study towards engineering an MscL nanovalve." PloS one 12, no. 8 (2017): e0183822.  

Bavi, Navid, D. Marien Cortes, Charles D. Cox, Paul R. Rohde, Weihong Liu, Joachim W. Deitmer, Omid Bavi et al. "The role of MscL amphipathic N terminus indicates a blueprint for bilayer-mediated gating of mechanosensitive channels." Nature Communications 7 (2016).  

Nakayama, Yoshitaka, Radomir Slavchov, Navid Bavi, Martinac, Boris, “The energy of liposome patch adhesion to the pipette glass determined by confocal fluorescence microscopy” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7, no. 22 (2016): 4530-4534.  

2016

2015

Setoodeh, Alireza, Morteza Derahaki, And Navid Bavi. "DQ Thermal Buckling Analysis Of Embedded Curved Carbon Nanotubes Based On Nonlocal Elasticity Theory." Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, an ABCM Journal 12.2 (2015). 

Nomura, Takeshi, Charles D. Cox, Navid Bavi, Masahiro Sokabe, and Boris Martinac. "Unidirectional incorporation of a bacterial mechanosensitive channel into liposomal membranes." The FASEB Journal 29, no. 10 (2015): 4334-4345.  

Bavi, Navid, Yoshitaka Nakayama, Omid Bavi, Charles D. Cox, Qing-Hua Qin, and Boris Martinac. "Biophysical implications of lipid bilayer rheometry for mechanosensitive channels." PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) 111, no. 38 (2014): 13864-13869. 

2014

2013

Shishesaz, Mohammad, & Bavi, Navid. "Shear stress distribution in adhesive layers of a double-lap joint with void or bond separation." Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology 27.11 (2013): 1197-1225. 

Bavi, Omid, Bavi, Navid* and Shishesaz, Mohammad. "Geometrical Optimization of the Overlap in Mixed Adhesive Lap Joints", The Journal of Adhesion, 89:12, (2013) 948-972. (*corresponding author).