Health Science Research Facility Room 140
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
- Ph.D, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Areas of expertise
molecular motors, intracellular transport in neurons, bidirectional motion and its disruption in neurodegenerative disease
BIO
Dr. Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, where his research focuses on how opposite-polarity molecular motors, kinesin and dynein, coordinate to transport cargo, with particular emphasis on bidirectional motility and its disruption in neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Ali earned his B.Sc. in Physics from Jahangirnagar University in 1990 and his M.Sc. in Physics from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 1993. Dr. Ali received his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Molecular Biology from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, in 2000. Following his doctoral training, Dr. Ali completed postdoctoral research in the Kinosita Laboratory at the Center for Integrative Bioscience, Okazaki National Research Institutes, Japan (2000–2002), where he investigated the stepwise motion of myosin V along helical actin filaments and their role in cargo transport. He then returned to Bangladesh and served as a faculty member in the Department of Physics at Shah Jalal University of Science and Technology, teaching molecular biophysics and related subjects. In 2005, Dr. Ali moved to the United States and joined the Warshaw Lab in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Vermont, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a research associate. In the Warshaw Lab, he continued to study the mechanisms of cargo transport driven by actin-based motors, laying the foundation for his current work on microtubule-based motor coordination.
Publications
Bio
Dr. Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, where his research focuses on how opposite-polarity molecular motors, kinesin and dynein, coordinate to transport cargo, with particular emphasis on bidirectional motility and its disruption in neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Ali earned his B.Sc. in Physics from Jahangirnagar University in 1990 and his M.Sc. in Physics from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 1993. Dr. Ali received his Ph.D. in Biophysics and Molecular Biology from Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, in 2000. Following his doctoral training, Dr. Ali completed postdoctoral research in the Kinosita Laboratory at the Center for Integrative Bioscience, Okazaki National Research Institutes, Japan (2000–2002), where he investigated the stepwise motion of myosin V along helical actin filaments and their role in cargo transport. He then returned to Bangladesh and served as a faculty member in the Department of Physics at Shah Jalal University of Science and Technology, teaching molecular biophysics and related subjects. In 2005, Dr. Ali moved to the United States and joined the Warshaw Lab in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Vermont, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a research associate. In the Warshaw Lab, he continued to study the mechanisms of cargo transport driven by actin-based motors, laying the foundation for his current work on microtubule-based motor coordination.