Visual Processing Laboratory

Shahram Dastmalchi

Education

• 1991 - Bachelor of Science, Genetics. University of California, Davis
• 1996 to present - Doctoral Candidate, Vision Science Program. University of Californa, Berkeley.

Employment or Internship

• 8/96-present - Graduate Student in Vision Science, Department of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
• 1/93-8/96 - Jr. Specialist / Staff Research Associate, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.
• 7/92-1/93 - Staff Research Associate, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143.
• 9/89-12/90 - Student Intern, Department of Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.

Research Experience

• Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley.
  Projects: Developing image processing algorithms and software for corneal topography. Visual evoked potential (VEP) dipole source localization. Optimization of local Laplacian (second derivative) operator for use in processing recorded scalp potentials. Studying human visual processing and cognition using VEP.
• Neurometrics Institute, Berkeley, CA.
  Designed and implemented image processing algorithms for various clinical and research applications. Worked briefly on distributed processing software for analyzing evoked potential data.
• Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California, San Francisco.
  Designed and carried out experiments to identify, clone and localize cell surface proteins that play a role in sensory transduction. Well trained in various molecular biology techniques such as Blotting (Norther, Sothern and Western), PCR, DNA Sequencing, Expression Cloning, In Situ Hybridization, Cell Culture, Cell Hybridization and Recombinant DNA. Played a key role in designing and establishing a novel delivery protocol for antisense oligodeoxynucleotides to block pain trasduction (see Publications section).
• Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco.
  Role of beta-catenin, which is cytoplasmic protein that binds to E-cadherin (a cell-cell adhesion receptor), in regulation of cell adhesion.
• Department of Pathology, University of California, Davis.
  Assisted in construction of a recombinant plasmid containing gp 130 coding sequence in which the leader sequence was replaced with a TPA (Tissue Plasminogen Activator) leader. This construct was used to express large amounts of gp 130 in the CHO cell lines.

Skills and Interests

• Computer programming in C, html, Matlab and UNIX shell.
• Excellent managerial skills and knowledge.
• People-oriented, organized, and responsible.
• Fishing, mountaineering, snow skiing, and bicycling.

Publications

• Gold, Michael S.; Dastmalchi, Shahram and Levine, Jon D.
  Co-expression of nociceptor properties in dorsal root ganglion neurons from the adult rat in vitro.
  Neuroscience, 1996 March, 71(1):265-75.
• Khasar SG; Gold MS; Dastmalchi, Shahram; Levine Jon D.
  Selective attenuation of mu-opioid receptor-mediated effects in rat sensory neurons by intrathecal administration of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides.
  Neuroscience Letters, 1996 Oct 25, 218(1):17-20.
• Gold, Michael S.; Dastmalchi, Shahram and Levine, Jon D.
  a2-adrenergic receptor subtypes in rat dorsal root and superior cervical ganglia neurons.
  Pain, 1997 Jan, 69(1-2):179-90.
• Dastmalchi, Shahram and Klein Stanley A.
  Vep "Laplacian" that optimizes signal-to-noise.
  Poster, Cognitive Neroscience Society, 1998.
• Slotnick, S.; Carney, T.; Klein, Stanley A. and Dastmalchi, S.
  Tracking cortical activity in reitinotopic visual areas.
  Poster, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 1998.
• Carney, T.; Slotnick, S.; Klein, Stanley A.; Sutter, E. E.; Dastmalchi, S. and Baker, S.
  The use of multi-input stimuli to localize sources of the VEP.
  Poster, Society for Neuroscience 28th Annual Meeting, 1998.
• Dastmalchi, S.; Baker, S.; Carney, T.; Klein, S. A.; Slotnick, S. and Sutter, E. E.
  Multisource VEP analysis using common time fuctions.
  Poster, The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 1999.
• Baker, S.L., Baseler, H.A., Klein, S.A., Carney, T., Wandell B., Sutter, E.E., Dastmalchi, E.E. (1999)
  Comparison of visual responses using dipole source localization and fMRI.
  Poster, 5th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain
• Dastmalchi, Shahram and Klein, Stanley A.
  Optimization of the Surface Laplacian for Scalp Potential Data.
  Paper in preparation.
• Dastmalchi, Shahram and Carney, Thom.
  Tracking Irregular Peripheral Image Rings in Videokeratography.
  Paper, SPIE, January 25, 1999.
• Carney, Thom and Dastmalchi, Shahram.
  Eye Movement Tracking Using High Speed Video Capture.
  Paper, SPIE, January 25, 1999.

Email: shahram@berkeley.edu