Profile for

Marzieh Asadi Aghbolaghi, Ph.D.

Ad-Interim Instructor

Educational Experience

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Fish Conservation and Culture Laboratory (FCCL), Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department of the University of California, Davis, 2021- 2025
• Ph.D., Environment & Biodiversity, Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, 2020
• MS.c., Natural Resources Engineering – Environment, Tehran University, 2012
• BS.c., Natural Resources Engineering – Environment, Khoramshahr Marine Science and Technology University, 2007

Select Publications

• Asadi Aghbolaghi, M., Rahman, M. M., Lewis, L.S., Hung, T. C. (2025). Morphometric variation and sexual dimorphism of endangered Longfin Smelt (Spirinchus thaleichthys) in the San Francisco Estuary. Endangered Species Research, 59: 1-12. DOI: 10.3354/esr01471
• Asadi Aghbolaghi, M., Maloy, A. P., Coombs J. A., Hung, T. C., Carson E.W. (2023). Phylogenetic relationships and introduction history inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes of four smelts (Osmeridae) of the modern San Francisco Estuary. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 308, (2024), 66-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2023.11.008.
• Asadi Aghbolaghi, M., Keyghobadi, N., Azarakhsh, Z., Dadizadeh, M., Asadi Aghbolaghi, S., & Zamani, N. (2023). An evaluation of isolation by distance and isolation by resistance on genetic structure of the Persian squirrel (Sciurus anomalus) in the Zagros forests of Iran. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e10225. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10225.
• Rahman, M. M., Asadi Aghbolaghi, M., & Hung, T. C. (2023). Evaluate effects of the dilution medium and holding time on various motility parameters of delta smelt semen. Theriogenology, 197, 301-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2022.11.029.
• Ghane-Ameleh, S., Khosravi, M., Saberi-Pirooz, R., Ebrahimi, E., Asadi Aghbolaghi, M., & Ahmadzadeh, F. (2021). Mid-Pleistocene Transition as a trigger for diversification in the IranoAnatolian region: Evidence revealed by phylogeography and distribution pattern of the eastern three-lined lizard. Global Ecology and Conservation, 31, e01839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01839.
• Asadi Aghbolaghi, M., Ahmadzadeh, F., Kiabi, B., Keyghobadi N. 2020. Evolutionary history of the Persian squirrel (Sciurus anomalus): It emerged on the Eurasian continent in the Miocene. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 287, 17-24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2020.04.007.