Genome Science and Technology
Genome Science and Technology combines training in genomics, with intensive training in new leading-edge genome science technologies, such as high-throughput techniques that acquire information from DNA sequence (genomics), protein expression and interactions (proteomics), and gene expression patterns (transcriptomics) to exploit information for a better understanding of biology.
Research Areas
- systems biology
- genomics and proteomics
- chemical biology
- bioengineering
- device and instrumentation development
- computational biology
Faculty Members
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Adams, Keith | Molecular evolution, genome evolution, and gene expression |
| Andersen, Raymond | Chemicals produced by marine organisms |
| 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, 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 | 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 |
| Brumer, Harry | Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis; Enzymes; polysaccharides; carbohydrates; biomass; cellulose; plant cell walls; microbiota |
| Carleton, Bruce | Pharmacogenomics; Adverse drug reactions (ADRs); Drug safety and effectiveness; Clinical pharmacology; Pharmacovigilance |
| Chi, Kim Nguyen | Thrombosis in cancer patients, methemoglobinemia, hemolysis, anticancer drugs, prostate cancer, chemotherapy, cell cancer, breast cancer |
| Collins, Colin | translational genomics where mathematics, genomics, computer science, and clinical science converge in diagnostics and therapeutics |
| Conibear, Elizabeth | Molecular Genetics; Cell Signaling and Cancer; Genomics and Proteomics; Neurodegenerative Diseases; Membranes; Enzymes and Proteins; Parkinson's Disease; Protein Palmitoylation; Vesicle Trafficking |
| Cote, Helene | HIV Infection, blood research, infectious diseases |
| Cullis, Pieter | Molecular biology for therapeutic purposes, lipids, immunological drugs |
| Dao Duc, Khanh | combine mathematical,computational and statistical tools to study fundamental biological processes; regulation and determinants of gene expression and translation |
| Eltis, Lindsay | Microbiology; Enzymes and Proteins; Metabolism (Living Organisms); Bacterial catabolism of steroids and lignin; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; biocatalyst development |
| Finlay, B Brett | Infectious agents, bacteria, microbial infections and how humans react to it |
| Foster, Leonard | Biotechnology; Bioinformatics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; Microbiology; Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Immune System; Agriculture; Proteomics; Honey bees; host-pathogen interactions; antigen presentation; Systems Biology |
| Friedman, Jan Marshall | Genetics and Heredity; Developmental Genetics; Genomics; Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease; Clinical genomics; Neurofibromatosis; Birth defects epidemiology |
| 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 |
| Haney, Cara | genetic and metabolic factors that regulate assembly of host-associated microbial communities ( |
| Haynes, Charles | Protein purification, recombinant proteins, molecular thermodynamics, biocompatible polymers |
| Hieter, Philip | Molecular biology of eukaryotic chromosome transmission |
| Hirst, Martin | Carcinogenesis; Leukemia; Cellular Differentiation; Bioinformatics; Genomics; Molecular Genetics; Epigenomics |
| 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 |
| Jefferies, Wilfred Arthur | Iron transport molecules |
| Johnson, James | diabetes, hormones, cell biology, signal transduction, apoptosis or programmed cell death, heart failure, heart disease, calcium signalling, pancreatic cancer, obesity, longevity, imaging, Causes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes at a molecular level discovery of genes and associated gene networks linked to diabetes risk and by known risk factors that predispose individuals to diabetes |
| Jones, Steven J | Bioinformatics, genome science, mutations, cancer progression |
| Karsan, Aly | Hematological tumours; Cancer molecular targets; Leukemia; Hematopoiesis; Genomics and epigenomics; Noncoding RNAs; Aging |
| Kastrup, Christian | drug delivery, coagulation, biomaterials, atherosclerosis, in-vivo imaging, microfluidics |
| Kieffer, Tim | Diabetes |
| Kobor, Michael | Epigenetics; Social Epigenetics; molecular biology; Chromatin Biology |
| Kopp, Janel | Pancreas; Pancreatic cancer; Pancreatic development; Modeling cancer |
| Korthauer, Keegan | Statistical genomics; Epigenomics; Single-cell analysis |
| Lange, Philipp | Cell Signaling and Cancer; Bioinformatics; Proteomics; pediatric cancer; post translational protein modification; personalized medicine; mass spectrometry |
| Li, Xin | Molecules in plants, plants defence against pathogen infection, plant genes |
| Loewen, Christopher | Membranes and Organelles; Lipid Signalling; Lipid Traffic; Membrane Contact Sites; Genetic Networks; Systems Biology; Super Resolution Microscopy; Cell polarity; Endoplasmic Reticulum; Golgi; Membrane Diffusion Barriers; Cell Biology; Autism; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS); Cancer Cell Metabolism |
| Marra, Marco | Genomics; Bioinformatics; Molecular Genetics; Cancer Genetics; Genes; Genetic Mapping; Genome; genomics; Genetics; Epigenomics; Cancer biology |
| Marziali, Andre | Teaching methods, pedagogy, Robotics in education, Nanotechnology, Engineering Physics, Genomics, Biophysics, Genomics Technologies |
| Matthews, Benjamin | Comparative Physiology; Genome of mosquitoes; Aedes aeygpti mosquitoes; Arboviral pathogens; Dengue fever; Yellow fever; Chikungunya; Zika |
| Mayor, Thibault | Proteostasis; Protein Degradation; Protein Folding; Proteomics; Ubiquitin; Proteasome; Neurodegenerative diseases; Aging; Cell Biology; Yeast Genetics; Biochemistry |
| McIntosh, Lawrence | Protein structure-dynamics-function; Regulation of gene expression; Signal transduction; Cancer; Enzyme mechanisms |
| Measday, Vivien | Chromosome segregation in the budding yeast using molecular biology and genomic tools |
