Meisam Yousefi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow at Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal
I am a bioinformatician with a joint PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS) and Duke University, specializing in the intersection of complex genetics and functional genomics. Trained in both wet-lab and dry-lab, I can manage and oversee projects from raw data generation and rigorous statistical analysis to experimental validation. My work focuses on integrating multi-modal, high-throughput data to translate computational predictions into biologically meaningful insights for complex hereditary diseases.
Core Expertise:
Multi-Omics Analysis: processing and integrating bulk/single-cell, short/long read genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics (e.g., RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, snMultiome, Fiber-seq)
Statistical Genetics: analyzing biobank-scale GWAS datasets (e.g., UKBiobank) to identify disease associations.
Functional Genomics: design, execution, and downstream analysis of genome-wide CRISPR perturbation screens and targeted CRISPR editing.
Data analysis: proficient in R, python, and bash scripting, as well as data modeling and visualization. Translating massive genomics datasets into biological functional insights for complex trait genetics.
Experience:
Montreal Heart Institute | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2025 - present
Université de Montréal | Postdoctoral Fellow | 2025 - present
Duke-NUS Medical School | Research Fellow | 2024 - 2025
Education:
National University of Singapore | Singapore, Singapore
Doctor of Philosophy (joint PhD) in Integrated Biology and Medicine | 2019-2024Duke University | Durham, NC
Doctor of Philosophy (joint PhD) in Integrated Biology and Medicine | 2019-2024University of Tehran | Tehran, Iran
Continuous Master of Science (BSc/MSc) in Biotechnology | 2012-2019