Behzad Mehrafrooz

e-mail:
behzadm2@illinois.edu
phone:
(217) 721-1774
office:
261 LLP, 3039 Beckman Institute
Loomis Laboratory of Physics
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3080
Behzad Mehrafrooz received his B.S. degree in Mechanical engineering from K.N. Toosi University of Technology in 2014, and his Master's in 2017 from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is currently a PhD student in the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology. His research is mainly focused on nanopore-based protein sequencing using solid-state and biological nanopores.
Publications
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Electrical unfolding of cytochrome during translocation through a nanopore constriction." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (2021).
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- Unidirectional single-file transport of full-length proteins through a nanopore." Nature Biotechnology (2023). "