Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics combines computational and biological disciplines.
Explore our Programs in Bioinformatics
Faculty Members in Bioinformatics
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Accili, Eric | molecular mechanisms responsible for cellular pacemaking behavior |
| Adams, Keith | Molecular evolution, genome evolution, and gene expression |
| Aparicio, Samuel | Breast cancer, genome sequencing |
| Bashashati Saghezchi, Ali | Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Breast Cancer; Cancer Genomics; Computational Biology; Digital Pathology; Image Processing; Machine Learning; Ovarian Cancer; Signal Processing |
| Birol, Inanc | bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, transcriptome analysis, next generation sequencing, cancer, Bioinformatics, sequence assembly, transcriptomics, gene regulation networks, high throughput informatics for big data |
| Bohlmann, Joerg | plant biochemistry, forestry genomics, forest health, conifers, poplar, bark beetle, mountain pine beetle, natural products, secondary metabolites, terpenes, floral scent, grapevine, Conifer genomics Forest health genomics Mountain pine beetle, fungus, pine interactions and genomics Chemical ecology of conifer, insect interactions |
| Bouchard-Cote, Alexandre | machine/statistical learning; mathematical side of the subject as well as in applications in linguistics and biology |
| Brinkman, Ryan | Bioinformatics, flow cytometry, high throughput data analysis, data standars, GvHD biomarker identification, cluster identification |
| Brooks-Wilson, Angela | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Genomics; cancer families; cancer genetics; genetic susceptibility; human genetics; longevity; Super seniors |
| Brown, Carolyn Janet | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Applied Genetics; Chromosomes: Structure / Organization; DNA methylation; Epigenetic control of gene expression; Gene Regulation and Expression; Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation; Long non-coding RNAs; X-chromosome inactivation; XIST RNA |
| Cherkasov, Artem | Drug design; Bioinformatics, Molecular modeling; Proteomics; Artificial intelligence; Antibiotics |
| Cohen Freue, Gabriela | statistical genomics (focus in proteomics), robust estimation and inference, linear models with endogeneity |
| Collins, Colin | translational genomics where mathematics, genomics, computer science, and clinical science converge in diagnostics and therapeutics |
| Condon, Anne | Algorithms; Molecular Programming |
| Daley, Denise | Bioinformatics; Asthma; Complex Trait Genetics; Epigenetics; gene-gene and gene-environment interactions; Genetic Diseases; genetic epidemiology; Genetics of Aging; statistical genetics; Susceptibility Genes |
| Dennis, Jessica | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Administrative health data; Complex Trait Genetics; Electronic health records; Epidemiology; genetic epidemiology; Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases; Machine Learning; Mental Health and Psychopathology in Children and Youth; Precision Health; statistical genetics |
| Eaves, Constance Jean | Normal and leukemic stem cells, normal and malignant breast stem cells |
| Edelstein-Keshet, Leah | Bioinformatics; Mathematics and statistics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Cell signaling; Cell Signaling and Cancer; cell polarity, cell migration, developmental and cellular biology; Differential Equation; Mathematics; Modelization and Simulation; Rho GTPases; swarming and aggregation |
| Finlay, B Brett | Infectious agents, bacteria, microbial infections and how humans react to it |
| Friedman, Jan Marshall | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease; Birth defects epidemiology; Clinical genomics; Developmental Genetics; Genetics and Heredity; Neurofibromatosis |
| Garbi, Rafeef | Bioinformatics; Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Technologies; Computer Vision; Deep Learning; image analysis; Imaging; Machine Learning; Medical Image Computing |
| Goldowitz, Daniel | Genetic basis of brain disease, neurobiology of autism, Huntingtong's gene, mouse/mice epigenetics, gene regulatory network |
| Gsponer, Joerg | Protein-DNA, protein-RNA and protein-protein interactions |
| Hallam, Steven | methanogenesis, methane oxidation, methyl coenzyme M reductase, metagenomics, environmental microbiology, genomics, proteomics, microbial ecology, systems biology, archaea, energy, bioinformatics, Microbial communities, construction and interpretation of environmental genomic libraries, generation of computational tools and workflows for taxonomic and functional binning, population genome assembly, and comparative community analysis, development and functional screens to interrogate environmental genomic libraries for bioactive small molecules and biocatalysis |
| Hancock, Robert E | Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides, Host Defence Peptides and Innate Immunity, Functional Genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Regulation of Antibiotic Resistance, Array Data, Self-promoted uptake hypothesis |
| Haynes, Charles | Protein purification, recombinant proteins, molecular thermodynamics, biocompatible polymers |
| Hieter, Philip | Molecular biology of eukaryotic chromosome transmission |
| Hinch, Scott | salmon migrations, salmon ecology, salmon fisheries, fish conservation, land use impacts (e.g. forestry) on fish and habitat, Salmon, conservation, ecology, fish ecology, fisheries management, stream, and riperian ecology |
| Hirst, Martin | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genomics; Immunology; Microbiology; Carcinogenesis; Cellular Differentiation; Epigenomics; Leukemia; Molecular Genetics |
| Ho, Kendall | eHealth, knowledge translation, educational research, continuing professional development, interprofessional education, evidence informed policy, eLearning, global eHealth |
| Holt, Robert | Immunogenetics, Metagenomics - Infectious agents in Cancer, Cancer Genomes, Neurobiology, DNA Sequencing |
| Hoodless, Pamela | Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Developmental Genetics; Embryology; Embryonic Development; Epigenetics; Heart Valve / Valvular Diseases; Heart valve formation; Liver; Liver development; Stem Cells and Organogenesis; transcriptional regulation |
| Huan, Tao | Metabolic measurements; Metabolomics; Cellular Metabolism |
| Huntsman, David | Corporate Law; Contracts; Competition Law; legal history |
| Jones, Steven J | Bioinformatics, genome science, mutations, cancer progression |
| Karsan, Aly | Hematological tumours; Cancer molecular targets; Leukemia; Hematopoiesis; Genomics and epigenomics; Noncoding RNAs; Aging |
| Keeling, Patrick John | Molecular evolution and cell biology of eukaryotes |
| Kobor, Michael | Biochemistry; Bioinformatics; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Chromatin Biology; Epigenetics; molecular biology; Social Epigenetics |
| Korthauer, Keegan | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Statistics; Epigenomics; Single-cell analysis; Statistical genomics |
| Kronstad, James | Bioinformatics; Immunology; Microbiology; Plant biology; Fungal diseases of plants; Genomics and Proteomics; Medical Mycology; Molecular Genetics; Pathogenesis of infectious diseases; Plant-Microbe Interactions |
| Lam, Wan | Cancer progression; Genome biology; Epigenetics; Molecular Systems Biology; Lung Cancer; Technology Development |
| Lange, Philipp | Bioinformatics; Genomics; Pathology (except oral pathology); Cell Signaling and Cancer; mass spectrometry; pediatric cancer; personalized medicine; post translational protein modification; Proteomics |
| Maddison, Wayne | Arachnology, Biodiversity, Spiders, Phylogenetic Theory and Programming |
| Mansfield, Shawn | plant metabolism, cellulose biosynthesis, lignin biosynthesis, wood formation, wood quality, cell wall biochemistry, tree biotechnology, transgenics, Tree biotechnology |
| Marra, Marco | Bioinformatics; Clinical oncology; Genetic medicine; Genomics; Health counselling; cancer genetics; Cancer biology; Epigenomics; Genes; Genetic Mapping; Genetics; Genome; Molecular Genetics |
| Measday, Vivien | Chromosome segregation in the budding yeast using molecular biology and genomic tools |
| Munzner, Tamara | Human-centered computing; visualization; information visualization; visual analytics; data science |
| Murphy, Michael | Bioinformatics; Immunology; Microbiology; Alternatives to antibiotics; Bacterial pathogenesis; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Functional and Structural Proteomics; Microbial metal metabolism |
| Ng, Raymond Tak-yan | Data mining and analysis, health informatics, text summarization, text mining |
| Otto, Sarah | evolution, mathematical modeling, population genetics, genomic evolution, evolution of sex, yeast experimental evolution, Population genetics and evolutionary biology, yeast |
