Research assistant
Dalhousie Univesrsity
Karim Karimi is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture (at Agriculture campus of Dalhousie University). Karim is from a lovely city in Iran called Shiraz. He works on a project titled “Application of genomics to improve performance traits in mink” in association with Dr. Younes Miar. The main objective of this project is to develop tools required to implement genomic selection in Nova Scotia mink. He completed his Ph.D. in Animal Breeding and Genetics at Kerman University of Iran. Much of his work has been on the genetic diversity, population structure and CNV analysis in Iranian native cattle. His research interests lie on the area of population genomics, genomic selection and GWAS in domestic animals. He loves to watch football games especially premier league. He also loves to watch movies, hiking and cooking.