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 | Bioinformatics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Computational Pathology; Cancer Genomics; Computational Biology; Digital Pathology; Image Processing; Machine Learning; Ovarian Cancer; Signal Processing; Multi-modal Learning |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Carlsten, Christopher | Environment and Respiratory Diseases |
| Cembrowski, Mark Steven | Molecular neuroscience; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Mechanisms of memory in the brain; Anxiety; Big Data; Bioinformatics; Cell types; Computation; CRISPR-Cas9; Fear; Genetics; modeling; Neural circuits; neuroscience; Neuroscience of memory; PTSD; RNAseq |
| 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 |
| Coombs, Daniel | Mathematical biology; Cellular immunology; Complex physical systems; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Cell biophysics; Disease models; Epidemiology; Immune cell signalling; Mathematics |
| 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 |
| Dao Duc, Khanh | Genomics; Mathematical biology; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling; combine mathematical,computational and statistical tools to study fundamental biological processes; regulation and determinants of gene expression and translation; Machine Learning for Biological Imaging and Microscopy; Database development and management; Biological and Artificial Neural Networks for geometric representation |
| de Boer, Carl | Gene regulation |
| 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 |
| Ding, Jiarui | Bioinformatics; Basic medicine and life sciences; Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Probabilistic Deep Learning; single-cell genomics; visualization; Cancer biology; Computational Immunology; Food Allergy; neuroscience |
| Eaves, Constance Jean | Normal and leukemic stem cells, normal and malignant breast stem cells |
| Finlay, B Brett | Infectious agents, bacteria, microbial infections and how humans react to it |
| Frangou, Sophia | the study of the human brain in health and disease |
| Friedman, Jan Marshall | Other clinical medicine; 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 |
| Greenblatt, Ethan | |
| Gsponer, Joerg | Protein-DNA, protein-RNA and protein-protein interactions |
| Hallam, Steven | Microbiome; Microbial ecology; metagenomics; Biological engineering; Synthetic biology; Bioinformatics; Machine Learning; Entrepreneurship |
| 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 | Computational cell biology; Cancer; Genomics; Medical and biomedical engineering; Nucleic acids studies; Developmental Genetics; Embryology; Embryonic Development; Epigenetics; Heart Valve / Valvular Diseases; Heart valve formation; Liver; Liver development; Stem Cells and Organogenesis; transcriptional regulation |
| Huan, Tao | Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Analytical spectrometry; Metabolomics; Separation science; Cancer progression and metastasis; Human nutrition and metabolism; Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; Machine Learning; Bioinformatics |
| Huntsman, David | hereditary cancer, molecular pathology, cancer biomarkers, Pancreas centre |
| 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; Mycology; 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 |
| Leslie, Sabrina | |
| 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 |
