Arash Zamyadi, Polytechnique Montréal

Latest papers

Comparative Assessment of Physical and Chemical Cyanobacteria Cell Lysis Methods for Total Microcystin-LR Analysis.
Toxins · 2021
Diagnosing water treatment critical control points for cyanobacterial removal: Exploring benefits of combined microscopy, next-generation sequencing, and cell integrity methods.
Water research · 2019 · first author
Cyanotoxins and Cyanobacteria Cell Accumulations in Drinking Water Treatment Plants with a Low Risk of Bloom Formation at the Source.
Toxins · 2018

All 12 publications

Latest funding

Un chromatographe en phase gazeuse couplé à un spectromètre de masse pour l'analyse de composés organiques volatils à des niveaux traces dans l'eau potable
NSERC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$150,000
Development of a real time cyanobacterial management model for successful removal of cell-bound toxins and taste and odor compounds
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Combined microbial and chemical contaminants in water during harmful algal blooms: Treatment challenges and advanced oxidation process development
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$63,915

All 4 grants and awards

12 publications.

01

Comparative Assessment of Physical and Chemical Cyanobacteria Cell Lysis Methods for Total Microcystin-LR Analysis.

Greenstein KE, Zamyadi A, Wert EC

Toxins2021

DOI: 10.3390/toxins13090596 PMID: 34564601

02

Diagnosing water treatment critical control points for cyanobacterial removal: Exploring benefits of combined microscopy, next-generation sequencing, and cell integrity methods.

Zamyadi A, Romanis C, Mills T, Neilan B, Choo F, Coral LA, Gale D, Newcombe G, Crosbie N, Stuetz R, Henderson RK

Water research2019First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.01.002 PMID: 30665164

03

Cyanotoxins and Cyanobacteria Cell Accumulations in Drinking Water Treatment Plants with a Low Risk of Bloom Formation at the Source.

Almuhtaram H, Cui Y, Zamyadi A, Hofmann R

Toxins2018

DOI: 10.3390/toxins10110430 PMID: 30373126

04

Fate of toxic cyanobacterial genera from natural bloom events during ozonation.

Zamyadi A, Coral LA, Barbeau B, Dorner S, Lapolli FR, Prévost M

Water research2015First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.01.029 PMID: 25682048

05

Estimating the risk of cyanobacterial occurrence using an index integrating meteorological factors: application to drinking water production.

Ndong M, Bird D, Nguyen-Quang T, de Boutray ML, Zamyadi A, Vinçon-Leite B, Lemaire BJ, Prévost M, Dorner S

Water research2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.02.023 PMID: 24657327

06

Oxidation of Microcystis aeruginosa and Anabaena flos-aquae by ozone: impacts on cell integrity and chlorination by-product formation.

Coral LA, Zamyadi A, Barbeau B, Bassetti FJ, Lapolli FR, Prévost M

Water research2013

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.03.012 PMID: 23561505

07

Degradation of progestagens by oxidation with potassium permanganate in wastewater effluents.

Fayad PB, Zamyadi A, Broseus R, Prévost M, Sauvé S

Chemistry Central journal2013

DOI: 10.1186/1752-153x-7-84 PMID: 23675917

08

Species-dependence of cyanobacteria removal efficiency by different drinking water treatment processes.

Zamyadi A, Dorner S, Sauvé S, Ellis D, Bolduc A, Bastien C, Prévost M

Water research2013First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.02.040 PMID: 23515107

09

Chlorination of Microcystis aeruginosa: toxin release and oxidation, cellular chlorine demand and disinfection by-products formation.

Zamyadi A, Fan Y, Daly RI, Prévost M

Water research2013First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.11.031 PMID: 23245541

10

Toxic cyanobacterial breakthrough and accumulation in a drinking water plant: a monitoring and treatment challenge.

Zamyadi A, MacLeod SL, Fan Y, McQuaid N, Dorner S, Sauvé S, Prévost M

Water research2012First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.11.012 PMID: 22137293

Un chromatographe en phase gazeuse couplé à un spectromètre de masse pour l'analyse de composés organiques volatils à des niveaux traces dans l'eau potable

Co-investigatorNSERC2019Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Barbeau, Benoit

$150,000

Development of a real time cyanobacterial management model for successful removal of cell-bound toxins and taste and odor compounds

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Zamyadi, Arash

$25,000

Combined microbial and chemical contaminants in water during harmful algal blooms: Treatment challenges and advanced oxidation process development

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Zamyadi, Arash

$63,915

Combined microbial and chemical contaminants in water during harmful algal blooms: Treatment challenges and advanced oxidation process development

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Zamyadi, Arash

$12,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Génies civil, géologique et des mines
Civil & Mineral Engineering, Dept of
Engineering (Faculty of Agriculture)

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Sarah Dorner

Génies civil, géologique et des mines

4 shared papers, latest 2015

Benoit Barbeau

Génies civil, géologique et des mines

2 shared papers, latest 2015

Ron Hofmann

Civil & Mineral Engineering, Dept of

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Tri Nguyen-Quang

Engineering (Faculty of Agriculture)

1 shared papers, latest 2014

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