User:Alekseyzimin/sandbox/Aleksey (Alexey) V Zimin

Aleksey Zimin is a computational biologist and associate research scientist in the Center for Computational Biology at Johns Hopkins University.

Education
Zimin gained his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Truman State University in 1997. He gained both his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Maryland, supervised by Edward Ott, in 2001 and 2003, respectively.

Career
Zimin is known for developing the MaSuRCA genome assembly software, which implements the Super-reads algorithm for efficient assembly of Illumina short reads along with PacBion SMRT or Oxford Nanopore long reads.

He had a leading role in creating assemblies and publication of challenging genomes starting with domestic turkey , cow , loblolly pine , atlantic salmon , and bread wheat.

Zimin became an associate reasearch scientist at the University of Maryland Institute for Physical Science and Technology in 2013. He then moved on to a position of associate research scientist at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in January 2017.