Home Department: Biology
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Alan Cheng, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and of Pediatrics

Zahra Sayyid is a rising senior majoring in Biology. She is originally from Fairfax, Virginia about half an hour south of D.C. She is interested in regenerative medicine and hopes to attend medical school after she graduates.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 17, 2011:

Tympanic Border Cells are Wnt-Responsive and Act as Stem/Progenitor Cells in the Postnatal Mouse Cochlea

Zahra Nabi Sayyid^1,2, Taha Adnan Jan³, Renjie Chai³, Anping Xia³, Saku Tapani Sinkkonen³, Jared Ruben Levin³, Yi Arial Zeng^4,5, Stefan Heller³, Roel Nusse⁴, Alan Cheng³
[Departments of Biology¹, Anesthesia², Otolaryngology³, and Developmental Biology⁴, Stanford University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute⁵]