Genome Science and Technology

Master of Science

Doctor of Philosophy

Research Supervisors

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, 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
Brown, Carolyn Janet Epigenetic control of gene expression, X-chromosome inactivation, Long non-coding RNAs, XIST RNA, Genes escaping X-chromosome inactivation, DNA methylation
Brumer, Harry enzymes, polysaccharides, carbohydrates, biomass, cellulose, plant cell walls, microbiota
Collins, Colin translational genomics where mathematics, genomics, computer science, and clinical science converge in diagnostics and therapeutics
Conibear, Elizabeth Protein Palmitoylation, Vesicle Trafficking
Cote, Helene HIV Infection, blood research, infectious diseases
Cullis, Pieter Molecular biology for therapeutic purposes, lipids, immunological drugs
Eltis, Lindsay Bacterial catabolism of steroids and lignin, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, biocatalyst development
Farrer, Matthew Parkinson's disease, Dementia, Epilepsy
Finlay, B Brett Infectious agents, bacteria, microbial infections and how humans react to it
Foster, Leonard honey bees, host-pathogen interactions, antigen presentation, systems biology
Friedman, Jan Marshall Application of whole genome sequencing to diagnose genetic disease, Clinical genomics, Neurofibromatosis, Birth defects epidemiology
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 (
Hansen, Carl Single-Cell Analysis, Molecular Diagnostics, genomics
Haynes, Charles Protein purification, recombinant proteins, molecular thermodynamics, biocompatible polymers
Hieter, Philip Molecular biology of eukaryotic chromosome transmission
Hirst, Martin Epigenomics
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
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
Karsan, Aly Myelodysplatic syndromes, myeloid malignancies, innate immune signaling in vascular hematopoietic function, genomics for clinical diagnostics
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
Lange, Philipp pediatric cancer, post translational protein modification, personalized medicine
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 Cancer, Genomics, Epigenomics, Bioinformatics
Marziali, Andre Teaching methods, pedagogy, Robotics in education, Nanotechnology, Engineering Physics, Genomics, Biophysics, Genomics Technologies
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
Mohn, William pollutant biodegradation, pollutant bioremediation, biological treatment of forest industry effluents and wastes, microbial ecology, environmental biotechnology, forest soil microbial ecology, tuberculosis, microbial genomics, Microbial ecology
Morin, Gregg
Mostafavi, Sara machine/statistical learning applied to disease genetics
Nislow, Corey genomics and develops biotechnology tools to address both fundamental and applied biological questions; Parallel genome-wide chemical genomic screens; High throughput cell-based screens; Next Generation Sequencing
Overall, Christopher Mark Blood research, antiviral immunity
Pavlidis, Paul Bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, genome, neuroscience, neurobiology, gene expression, microarray, computer science, machine learning, statistics, Bioinformatics and neuroscience, schizophrenia and autism