Ehsan Nourbakhsh
Ehsan Nourbakhsh completed his BSc majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology at UQ in early 2004, he started at the IMB as a research assistant in the Grimmond Lab, working on 'The abundance of short proteins in the mammalian proteome' PLoS Genet. 2006. Having then completed his BSc (hon.) entitled 'Identification of HIF-1 targets' in mid 2005, Ehsan assumed a full-time role in the Grimmond lab with responsibilities in the Microarray Facility. From 2006-early 2008, he worked on a collaborative project between Tom Gonda (DICIM), Sean Grimmond (IMB), Brian Gabrielli (DICIM) and Simon Barry (University of Adelaide) developing an arrayed retroviral expression cloning system (ARVEC); establishing high-throughput lentiviral production and liquid handling methodologies, and the management and maintenance of ARVEC libraries.
Presently, in the Grimmond Expression and Genomics Laboratory, Ehsan is working on SOLiD - Next Generation Sequencing; his roles include:
- Establishing Next Generation Sequencing Technology,
- Developing standard operating procedures for genome and transcriptome sequencing,
- Refining methods to expand the scale of output using SOLiD sequencing,
- Developing and applying novel library strategies for re-sequencing,
- Testing & implementing new optimised library preparative methods compatible with SOLiD sequencing,
- Managing the library construction and sequencing machines, and to
- Building collaborations to generate new datasets, assist in hypothesis development, and develop strategies for performing massive scale sequencing projects.