Education

• 1999-2003: B.Sc. in Biotechnology at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
• 2003-2006: M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
• 2007-2011: PhD studies at the IMPRS-CBSC supervised by Prof. Dr. A. Bockmayr

Dissertation

• Submitted in April 2011
• Constraint-based Analysis of Substructures of Metabolic Networks

Scientific Interests

• Analysis of factors that shape protein structures
• Analysis of genomes
• Analysis of the structure and function of metabolic and gene regulatory networks.

Selected publications

• SA Marashi, L David, A Bockmayr (2012)
  Analysis of metabolic subnetworks by flux cone projection.
  Algorithms Mol Biol., 7 (1): 17
• SA Marashi, L David, A Bockmayr (2012)
  On flux coupling analysis of metabolic subsystems.
  J Theor Biol., 302: 62-9
• L David, SA Marashi, A Larhlimi, B Mieth, A Bockmayr (2011)
  FFCA: A feasibility-based method for flux coupling analysis of metabolic networks.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 12 (1): 236
• SA Marashi, A Bockmayr (2011)
  Flux coupling analysis of metabolic networks is sensitive to missing reactions.
  BioSystems, 103 (1): 57-66
• A Momen-Roknabadi, M Sadeghi, H Pezeshk, SA Marashi (2008)
  Impact of residue accessible surface area on the prediction of protein secondary structures.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 9: 357.
• A Sheari, M Kargar, A Katanforoush, S Arab, M Sadeghi, H Pezeshk, C Eslahchi, SA Marashi (2008)
  A tale of two symmetrical tails: Structural and functional characteristics of palindromes in proteins.
  BMC Bioinformatics, 9: 274.
• F FarzadFard, N Gharaei, H Pezeshk, SA Marashi (2008)
  Beta-sheet capping: Signals that initiate and terminate beta-sheet formation.
  J. Struct. Biol., 161 (1): 101-10.
• SA Marashi, M Kargar, A Katanforoush, H Abolhassani and M Sadeghi (2007)
  Evolution of "ligand diffusion chreodes" on protein surface models: a genetic algorithm study.
  Chem. Biodivers., 4,(12): 2766-71.
• SA Marashi, R Behrouzi, H Pezeshk (2007)
  Adaptation of proteins to different environments: A comparison of proteome structural properties in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli.
  J. Theor. Biol., 244 (1): 127-132.
• "Improvement of Splice Site Prediction in Genomic DNA Sequences" (2006)
  M.Sc. Thesis at University of Tehran
• SA Marashi, C Eslahchi, H Pezeshk, M Sadeghi (2006)
  Impact of RNA structure on the prediction of donor and acceptor splice sites.
  BMC Bioinformatics., 7: 297.
• SA Marashi, H Goodarzi, M Sadeghi, C Eslahchi, H Pezeshk (2006)
  Importance of RNA secondary structure information for yeast donor and acceptor splice site predictions by neural networks.
  Comput. Biol. Chem., 30 (1): 50-7.
• SA Marashi, R Behrouzi (2005)
  Modeling directed ligand passage toward enzyme active site by a 'double cellular automata' model.
  Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 333 (1): 1-4.
• SA Marashi, Z Ghalanbor (2004)
  Correlations between genomic GC levels and optimal growth temperatures are not 'robust'.
  Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 325 (2): 381-3.