Nima Sayyadi
Macquarie University, Australia
Biography
Nima Sayyadi is a Research Fellow at the Department of Chemistry and Bimolecular Sciences (CBMS), Macquarie University, Australia. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney, School of Chemistry. In his PhD a new methodology for the synthesis of natural and non-natural small cyclic peptides was developed. After completion of his PhD, he moved to Macquarie University, where he accepted a Post-doctoral position at CBMS. Since then, he has designed and developed a series of novel Europium Luminescent Chelates for the detection of bacterial and cancer cells using different platforms such as Luminescent in situ Hybridization (LISH) and Immunostaining in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence in Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at Macquarie University.