Rate My Professor Sheyum Syed

Syed's research centers on biological physics to elucidate complex behaviors in living systems, particularly circadian rhythms, sleep regulation, proteostasis, autophagy, and behavioral studies in Drosophila melanogaster models of human diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and SYNGAP1-related disorders. His earlier investigations addressed molecular motors such as myosin V orientation dynamics and kinesin-dynein peroxisome transport, alongside cyclotron resonance splitting in two-dimensional electron systems and AlGaN/GaN heterostructures. Key publications include “Kinesin and dynein move a peroxisome in vivo: A tug-of-war or coordinated movement?” (Science, 2005), “3-D orientation and position dynamics of myosin V” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006), “Kinetics of Doubletime kinase-dependent degradation of the Drosophila Period protein” (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2011), and “Regulation of proteostasis by sleep through autophagy in Drosophila models of Alzheimer’s disease” (Life Science Alliance, 2024). His scholarship comprises over 60 publications garnering approximately 1,588 citations, impacting biophysics, neuroscience, and chronobiology. Syed has delivered invited lectures at New York University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, and international symposia on bio-nanosystems.