Title
Research Assistant Professor
Department
Department of Food Science and Nutrition
Institution
Illinois Institute of Technology
Education
Research Interests
Biography
Prior to acquiring his doctorate degree, Dr. Behzad Imanian worked as a computational biologist and research fellow in the Genome Sciences Center, BC Cancer Agency, Canada. During this time, he contributed to the quality control of sequencing of the Bovine and Spruce genome and transcriptome sequencing and the Pleiades Promoter Projects. His PhD and postdoctoral research explored the genomic consequences of a long-term endosymbiosis in dinotoms.
Since March 2016, he has been leading the High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Initiative in the Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH), at Illinois Tech (IIT). The IFSH HTS laboratory he helped to establish is equipped with advanced HTS sequencers, capable of conducting Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS), metagenomics (16s rDNA and shotgun sequencing) for environmental monitoring, transcriptomics (RNA-seq) and other HTS applications. In addition to directing the HTS laboratory, Dr. Imanian has established the bioinformatics facility in IFSH. This facility houses four High Performance Computers (HPCs), and a large data storage and backup system. The facility can and do perform HTS and big data analyses from quality control, genome and transcriptome assembly, SNP analysis, to annotation and much more.
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6502 South Archer Road
Bedford Park, IL 60501
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