Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics combines computational and biological disciplines.
Faculty Members
| 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 | human genetics, cancer genetics, cancer families, longevity, Super seniors, genetic susceptibility |
| Brown, Carolyn Janet | Gene Regulation and Expression, Chromosomes: Structure / Organization, Applied Genetics, 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 | Complex Trait Genetics, Genetic Diseases, Asthma, Susceptibility Genes, Genetics of Aging, genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, Epigenetics, gene-gene and gene-environment interactions |
| Dennis, Jessica | Complex Trait Genetics, Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases, Epidemiology, Mental Health and Psychopathology in Children and Youth, Bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics, Precision Health, Electronic health records, Administrative health data, Machine Learning |
| Eaves, Constance Jean | Normal and leukemic stem cells, normal and malignant breast stem cells |
| Edelstein-Keshet, Leah | Mathematics, Modelization and Simulation, Cell Signaling, Cell Signaling and Cancer, Differential Equation, 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 | Genetics and Heredity, Developmental Genetics, Genomics, Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease, Clinical genomics, Neurofibromatosis, Birth defects epidemiology |
| Garbi, Rafeef | Biomedical Technologies, Imaging, Artificial Intelligence, Medical Image Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, image analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Deep Learning |
| 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 | Carcinogenesis, Leukemia, Cellular Differentiation, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Molecular Genetics, 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 | Embryonic Development, Genomics, Heart Valve / Valvular Diseases, Liver, Stem Cells and Organogenesis, Developmental Genetics, Embryology, transcriptional regulation, Epigenetics, Heart valve formation, Liver development |
| 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 | 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 |
| Korthauer, Keegan | Statistical genomics, Epigenomics, Single-cell analysis |
| Kronstad, James | Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Genomics and Proteomics, 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 | Cell Signaling and Cancer, Bioinformatics, Proteomics, pediatric cancer, post translational protein modification, personalized medicine, mass spectrometry |
| 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 | Genomics, Bioinformatics, Molecular Genetics, Cancer Genetics, Genes, Genetic Mapping, Cancer biology, Epigenomics, Genetics |
| Measday, Vivien | Chromosome segregation in the budding yeast using molecular biology and genomic tools |
| Mostafavi, Sara | machine/statistical learning applied to disease genetics |
| Munzner, Tamara | Computer Systems, visualization, information visualization, visual analytics, data science |
| Murphy, Michael | Microbiology, Functional and Structural Proteomics, Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms, Microbial metal metabolism, Bacterial pathogenesis, Alternatives to antibiotics |
| Ng, Raymond Tak-yan | Data mining and analysis, health informatics, text summarization, text mining |
