Mohsen
Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi
Plant Breeding | Bioinformatics | Genomics | Phenomics | Plant Genetics | Machine Learning | Optimization Algorithms
Professional career
2021- Present
Ph.D., Research Associate,
Soybean Breeding & Computational Biology
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Main Research: Development and implementation of a toolkit for genomics-assisted breeding in soybean
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Awards and Honors
D.F. Forster Medal at the Doctoral level, most prestigious graduate convocation award at the University of Guelph | 2021.
Prof. Greg Boland International Travel Grant in Plant Health, Guelph, Ontario, Canada | 2020.
Dr. O.M. McConkey Scholarship, Guelph, Ontario, Canada | 2020.
The First place poster presentation competition, Agricultural Science Symposium, University of Guelph | 2020.
Parya Scholarship Award, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 2020.
Robb Graduate Student Grant, Guelph, Ontario, Canada | 2020.
Taffy Davison Memorial Research Grant, Guelph, Ontario, Canada | 2019.
Dr. G.W. Friars Award, Guelph, Ontario, Canada | 2019.
Featured Publications
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Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi, M., Rajcan, I., & Eskandari, M. (2022). Optimizing genomic selection in soybean: An important improvement in agricultural genomics. Heliyon, e11873.
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Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi, M., D., Rajcan, I., & Mahsa Vazin (2022). Targeted Plant Breeding: Moving Along with Plant-Based Food Demands for Pet Food Industries. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 1467.
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Hong, H., Najafabadi, M.Y., & Rajcan, I (2022). Correlations between soybean seed quality traits using a genome-wide association study panel grown in Canadian and Ukrainian mega-environments. Canadian Journal of Plant Science.
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Hong, H., Najafabadi, M.Y., Torkamaneh, D., & Rajcan, I (2022). Identification of quantitative trait loci associated with seed quality traits between Canadian and Ukrainian mega-environments using genome-wide association study. Theoretical and Applied Genetics.
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Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi, M., Eskandari, M., Belzile, F., & Torkamaneh, D. (2022). Genome-Wide Association Study Statistical Models: A Review. Genome-Wide Association Studies, 43-62.
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Yoosefzadeh-Najafabadi, M., Eskandari, M., Torabi, S., Torkamaneh, D., Tulpan, & D., Rajcan, I. & (2022). Machine-Learning-Based Genome-Wide Association Studies for Uncovering QTL Underlying Soybean Yield and Its Components. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 5538. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23105538
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Workshops and Certificates
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Python for Genomic Data Science provided by Coursera (2022).
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Introduction to Genomic Technologies provided by Coursera (2022).
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Experimental Methods in Systems Biology provided by The Icahn School of Medicine (2021).
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Bioinformatic Methods provided by The University of Toronto (2021).
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Data Science: Foundations using R provided by The Johns Hopkins University (2020).
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Exploratory Data Analysis provided by Coursera (2020).
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Getting and Cleaning Data provided by Coursera (2020).
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R Programming provided by Coursera (2020).
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Reproducible Research provided by Coursera (2020).
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The Data Scientist’s Toolbox provided by Coursera (2020).
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Applied Data Science Capstone provided by Coursera (2020).
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Data Analysis with Python provided by Coursera (2020).
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Data Science Methodology provided by Coursera (2020).
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Data Science Professional Certificate provided by IBM (2020).
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Data Visualization with Python provided by Coursera (2020).
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Databases and SQL for Data Science provided by Coursera (2020).
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IBM Data Science provided by Coursera (2020).
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Machine Learning with Python provided by Coursera (2020).
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Python for Data Science and AI provided by Coursera (2020).
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Tools for Data Science provided by Coursera (2020).
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What is Data Science? provided by Coursera (2020).
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The R Programming Environment provided by Coursera (2020).
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Practical Machine Learning provided by Coursera (2020).
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Machine Learning provided by Coursera (2019).
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Introduction to R provided by DataCamp (2018)
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The workshop of Genome Editing and the Canadian Regulatory held on March 7, 2019, Toronto, Canada.
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The workshop of Visualized Data held August 2018 at The University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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The workshop of SAS held April 2018 at The University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Contact Information
Address
University of Guelph, Plant Agriculture Division, Crop science Dept., Room 412, CRSC, University of Guelph
Guelph, ON, Canada
5198244120 #54084
N1G 2W1