Judith D. Saide, PhD

Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Expertise includes: Physiology instruction, Softchalk interactive lesson preparation; Kaltura video production. Former research on muscle proteins included techniques in polyclonal and monoclonal antibody production, gene cloning, and electron microscopy.

Publications

  • Published 1/1/2006

    Saide, J.D. Nature’s Versatile Engine: Insect Flight Muscle Inside and Out, ed. Jim Vigoreaux . The Insect Z-Band. Springer US; Jointly published with Landes Bioscience. Austin, TX, USA. 2006; 150-166.

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  • Published 11/4/2005

    Patel SR, Saide JD. Stretchin-klp, a novel Drosophila indirect flight muscle protein, has both myosin dependent and independent isoforms. J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 2005; 26(4-5):213-24. PMID: 16270160.

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  • Published 1/1/2005

    Ayme-Southgate A, Saide J, Southgate R, Bounaix C, Cammarato A, Patel S, Wussler C. In indirect flight muscles Drosophila projectin has a short PEVK domain, and its NH2-terminus is embedded at the Z-band. J Muscle Res Cell Motil. 2005; 26(6-8):467-77. PMID: 16465474.

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  • Published 3/1/2004

    Cammarato A, Hatch V, Saide J, Craig R, Sparrow JC, Tobacman LS, Lehman W. Drosophila muscle regulation characterized by electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction of thin filament mutants. Biophys J. 2004 Mar; 86(3):1618-24. PMID: 14990488.

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  • Published 2/1/1995

    Ayme-Southgate A, Southgate R, Saide J, Benian GM, Pardue ML. Both synchronous and asynchronous muscle isoforms of projectin (the Drosophila bent locus product) contain functional kinase domains. J Cell Biol. 1995 Feb; 128(3):393-403. PMID: 7844153.

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Other Positions

  • Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

Websites

Education

  • Boston University School of Medicine, PhD
  • Vassar College, BA