Bioinformatics

Master of Science

Doctor of Philosophy

Research Supervisors

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
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, Jorg 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 human genetics, cancer genetics, cancer families, longevity, Super seniors, genetic susceptibility
Brown, Carolyn Janet Epigenetic control of gene expression, X-chromosome inactivation, Long non-coding RNAs, XIST RNA, Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation, DNA methylation
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 genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, epigenetics, gene-gene and gene-environment interactions
Eaves, Constance Jean Normal and leukemic stem cells, normal and malignant breast stem cells
Edelstein-Keshet, Leah cell polarity, cell migration, developmental and cellular biology, swarming and aggregation, Rho GTPases
Finlay, B Brett Infectious agents, bacteria, microbial infections and how humans react to it
Friedman, Jan Marshall Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease, Clinical genomics, Neurofibromatosis, Birth defects epidemiology
Garbi, Rafeef Medical Image Computing, Machine learning, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Deep Learning
Gardy, Jennifer Tuberculosis, Outbreaks
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
Hayden, Michael Huntington disease, Disease progression, Diabetes, Neurodegenerative disorders, Gene therapy, Drug development
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 Epigenomics
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 Embryology, Transcriptional regulation, Epigenetics, Heart valve formation, Liver development
Huntsman, David hereditary cancer, molecular pathology, cancer biomarkers, Pancreas centre
Jones, Steven J
Karsan, Aly Myelodysplatic syndromes, myeloid malignancies, innate immune signaling in vascular hematopoietic function, genomics for clinical diagnostics
Keeling, Patrick John Molecular evolution and cell biology of eukaryotes
Kobor, Michael Epigenetics, Social Epigenetics, Molecular Biology , Chromatin Biology
Kronstad, James Pathogenesis of infectious diseases, Medical Mycology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Fungal diseases of plants
Lam, Wan Cancer progression; Genome biology; Epigenetics; Molecular Systems Biology; Lung Cancer; Technology Development
Lange, Philipp pediatric cancer, post translational protein modification, personalized medicine
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 Cancer Biology, Genomics, Epigenomics, Bioinformatics, Genetics
Measday, Vivien Chromosome segregation in the budding yeast using molecular biology and genomic tools
Moerman, Donald Formation and function of muscle
Mostafavi, Sara machine/statistical learning applied to disease genetics
Munzner, Tamara visualization, information visualization, visual analytics, data science
Murphy, Michael Microbial metal metabolism, Bacterial pathogenesis, Alternatives to antibiotics
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