Dr Parnayan Syed
Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Research Officer
Queensland Brain Institute

Journal Articles
Joensuu, Merja, Syed, Parnayan, Saber, Saber H., Lanoue, Vanessa, Wallis, Tristan P., Rae, James, Blum, Ailisa, Gormal, Rachel S., Small, Christopher, Sanders, Shanley, Jiang, Anmin, Mahrhold, Stefan, Krez, Nadja, Cousin, Michael A., Cooper‐White, Ruby, Cooper‐White, Justin J., Collins, Brett M., Parton, Robert G., Balistreri, Giuseppe, Rummel, Andreas and Meunier, Frédéric A. (2023). Presynaptic targeting of botulinum neurotoxin type A requires a tripartite
PSG‐Syt1
‐
SV2
plasma membrane nanocluster for synaptic vesicle entry. The EMBO Journal, 42 (13) e112095, e112095. doi: 10.15252/embj.2022112095
Harris, Kurt L., Thomson, Raine E.S., Gumulya, Yosephine, Foley, Gabriel, Carrera-Pacheco, Saskya E., Syed, Parnayan, Janosik, Tomasz, Sandinge, Ann-Sofie, Andersson, Shalini, Jurva, Ulrik, Bodén, Mikael and Gillam, Elizabeth M.J. (2022). Ancestral sequence reconstruction of a cytochrome P450 family involved in chemical defense reveals the functional evolution of a promiscuous, xenobiotic-metabolizing enzyme in vertebrates. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39 (6) msac116. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msac116
Syed, Parnayan, Durisic, Nela, Harvey, Robert J., Sah, Pankaj and Lynch, Joseph W. (2020). Effects of GABA(A) Receptor alpha 3 Subunit Epilepsy Mutations on Inhibitory Synaptic Signaling. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 13 602559, 602559. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2020.602559
Leacock, Sophie, Syed, Parnayan, James, Victoria M., Bode, Anna, Kawakami, Koichi, Keramidas, Angelo, Suster, Maximiliano, Lynch, Joseph W. and Harvey, Robert J. (2018). Structure/Function Studies of the alpha 4 Subunit Reveal Evolutionary Loss of a GlyR Subtype Involved in Startle and Escape Responses. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 11 23, 23. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00023
Thesis
Syed, Parnayan (2023). The role of GABA receptors in synaptic plasticity and disease. PhD Thesis, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/49f7b7a