Helena Safavi

Helena Safavi

Associate Professor, Guest Researcher


  1. 2016
  2. Published

    Venom insulins of cone snails diversify rapidly and track prey taxa

    Safavi, Helena, Lu, A., Li, Q., Fedosov, A. E., Biggs, J., Corneli, P. S., Seger, J., Yandell, M. & Olivera, B. M., 2016, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33, 11, p. 2924-2934 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. 2017
  4. Divergence of the Venom Exogene Repertoire in Two Sister Species of Turriconus

    Li, Q., Barghi, N., Lu, A., Fedosov, A. E., Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Lluisma, A. O., Concepcion, G. P., Yandell, M., Olivera, B. M. & Safavi, Helena, 2017, In: Genome Biology and Evolution. 9, 9, p. 2211-2225 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Isolation and characterization of Conohyal-P1, a hyaluronidase from the injected venom of Conus purpurascens

    Möller, C., Clark, E., Safavi, Helena, DeCaprio, A. & Marí, F., 2017, In: Journal of Proteomics. 164, p. 73-84 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. The Venom Repertoire of Conus gloriamaris (Chemnitz, 1777), the Glory of the Sea

    Robinson, S. D., Li, Q., Lu, A., Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Yandell, M., Olivera, B. M. & Safavi, Helena, 2017, In: Marine Drugs. 15, 5, 145.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Venom peptides as pharmacological tools and therapeutics for diabetes

    Robinson, S. D. & Safavi, Helena, 2017, In: Neuropharmacology. 127, p. 79-86 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Hormone-like peptides in the venoms of marine cone snails

    Robinson, S. D., Li, Q., Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Gajewiak, J., Yandell, M., Papenfuss, A. T., Purcell, A. W., Norton, R. S. & Safavi, Helena, 1 Apr 2017, In: General and Comparative Endocrinology. 244, p. 11-18 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Linking neuroethology to the chemical biology of natural products: interactions between cone snails and their fish prey, a case study

    Olivera, B. M., Raghuraman, S., Schmidt, E. W. & Safavi, Helena, Oct 2017, In: Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology. 203, 9, p. 717-735 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  10. 2018
  11. Conopeptides promote itch through human itch receptor hMgprX1

    Espino, S. S., Robinson, S. D., Safavi, Helena, Gajewiak, J., Yang, W., Olivera, B. M. & Liu, Q., 2018, In: Toxicon. 154, p. 28-34 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Discovery of Novel Conotoxin Candidates Using Machine Learning

    Li, Q., Watkins, M., Robinson, S. D., Safavi, Helena & Yandell, M., 2018, In: Toxins. 10, 12, 503.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Ero1-Mediated Reoxidation of Protein Disulfide Isomerase Accelerates the Folding of Cone Snail Toxins

    O'Brien, H., Kanemura, S., Okumura, M., Baskin, R. P., Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Olivera, B. M., Ellgaard, Lars, Inaba, K. & Safavi, Helena, 2018, In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences . 19, 11, 15 p., 3418.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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