Iman Hajirasouliha, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics

  • Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine

646-962-7804

1305 York Avenue, Room Y-13.09
New York, NY 10021

Lab website: https://physiology.med.cornell.edu/faculty/hajirasouliha/lab/index.html

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Iman Hajirasouliha, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Computational Biomedicine and an Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Physiology and Biophysics. Dr. Hajirasouliha and his lab team are passionate about developing new algorithms, machine learning, and deep learning methods, and their applications to genomics, metagenomics, and cancer research. Some of the current projects in the lab include characterizing human genomes and metagenomes using multiple sequencing platforms, quantifying cancer evolution, the study of tumor heterogeneity using genomics and imaging, and AI in In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).

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  1. Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing. Mills RE, Walter K, Stewart C, Handsaker RE, Chen K, Alkan C, Abyzov A, Yoon SC, Ye K, Cheetham RK, Chinwalla A, Conrad DF, Fu Y, Grubert F, Hajirasouliha I, Hormozdiari F, Iakoucheva LM, Iqbal Z, Kang S, Kidd JM, Konkel MK, Korn J, Khurana E, Kural D, Lam HY, Leng J, Li R, Li Y, Lin CY, Luo R, Mu XJ, Nemesh J, Peckham HE, Rausch T, Scally A, Shi X, Stromberg MP, Stütz AM, Urban AE, Walker JA, Wu J, Zhang Y, Zhang ZD, Batzer MA, Ding L, Marth GT, McVean G, Sebat J, Snyder M, Wang J, Ye K, Eichler EE, Gerstein MB, Hurles ME, Lee C, McCarroll SA, Korbel JO; 1000 Genomes Project.Nature. 2011. PMID:21293372

  2. A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing.1000 Genomes Project Consortium, Abecasis GR, Altshuler D, Auton A, Brooks LD, Durbin RM, Gibbs RA, Hurles ME, McVean GA.Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1061-73. doi: 10.1038/nature09534. Erratum in: Nature. 2011 May 26;473(7348):544. Xue, Yali [added]; Cartwright, Reed A [added]; Altshuler, David L [corrected to Altshuler, David]; Kebbel, Andrew [corrected to Keebler, Jonathan]; Koko-Gonzales, Paula [corrected to Kokko-Gonzales, Paula]; Nickerson, Debbie A [corrected to Nickerson, Debo. PMID: 20981092 

  3. Detection and characterization of novel sequence insertions using paired-end next-generation sequencing.Hajirasouliha I, Hormozdiari F, Alkan C, Kidd JM, Birol I, Eichler EE, Sahinalp SC.Bioinformatics. 2010 May 15;26(10):1277-83. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq152. Epub 2010 Apr 12.PMID: 20385726