This list shows researcher who have indicated interest in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
Last name | First name | Type | Research Interests | Department(s) |
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Haas | Kurt | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical and biomedical engineering; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Autism; Brain Circuit Development; Dendritogenesis; Epilepsy; Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Neurological diseases; Neuronal Communication and Neurotransmission; Neuronal Computation; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Neuronal and Synaptic Activity; Plasticity / Neuronal Regeneration; Synaptic Plasticity | Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences, School of Biomedical Engineering | Faculty of Medicine |
Friedman | Jan Marshall | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine |
Pavlidis | Paul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Engineering and technology; genomics; Bioinformatics; cellular and molecular neuroscience; Genetics; disorders of the nervous system; single-cell genomics; Computational Biology; Gene regulation | Department of Psychiatry, Michael Smith Laboratories | Faculty of Medicine |
Guenette | Jordan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Respiratory diseases; Other biological sciences; Clinical exercise physiology; Cardiorespiratory physiology; Mechanisms and management of breathlessness and exercise intolerance; Chronic respiratory diseases | Department of Physical Therapy | Faculty of Medicine |
Ge | Ruiyang | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Neuropsychology; Mood Disorder; Big Data; mental illness | Faculty of Medicine | |
Staples | John | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Clinical sciences, n.e.c.; Other medical sciences; 'Before medically advised' hospital discharge; Unplanned hospital readmission; Problematic substance use (including opioids and cannabis); Medical risk factors for motor vehicle crash | Faculty of Medicine | |
Zhong | Huan | Postdoctoral Fellow | Bioinformatics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Computational Biology; Machine Learning | Faculty of Medicine | |
Kalua | Khumbo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Population health interventions; Infectious diseases; Global health; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Neglected Tropical Eye Diseases; Global Eye Health; Cluster Randomized Trials; Implementation Science; International Global Health; Community Based Research; Clinical trials | School of Population and Public Health | Faculty of Medicine |
Li | Vicky | Postdoctoral Fellow | Cancer progression and metastasis; Molecular and cell biology; Integrins; Breast Cancer; Cell signaling; Mouse models; Chick embryo models; Invadopodia; Cancer invasion and metastasis; Neuroblastoma; GD2 | Faculty of Medicine | |
Ryu | Min Hyung | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Basic medicine and life sciences; Respiratory sciences; Transcriptomics; Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Environmental Respiratory Diseases; Genomics and Transcriptomics; Bioinformatics and Data Science; Personalized Medicine in Respiratory Care; Application of Next-generation Sequencing | Division of Respiratory Medicine | Faculty of Medicine |
Morgan | Steven | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health policy; Economics of health care; Health services and systems; Access to medicines; Health care policy; Pharmacare; Pharmaceutical pricing; Prescribing appropriateness; Comparative policy analysis; Health care financing | School of Population and Public Health | Faculty of Medicine |
Reid | Gregor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Basic medicine and life sciences; paediatric cancer; cancer immunology; animal models of cancer | Department of Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine |
Viau | Victor | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Basic medicine and life sciences; Sex differences; Stress responses; Glucocorticoids; Inflammation; Behavior; Central Nervous System; Endocrinology | Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences | Faculty of Medicine |
Roberts | Morgan | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Tumour immunology; Applied immunology (including antibody engineering, xenotransplantation and t-cell therapies); Solid cancer tumours; Immunology; Bladder cancer; Immuno-oncology; Sex differences in cancer immunobiology | Faculty of Medicine | |
Jevitt | Cecilia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Midwifery; perinatal obesity; weight management in pregnancy; obesity prevention; breastfeeding/lactation; prenatal nutrition | Department of Family Practice | Faculty of Medicine |
Black | Alexis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Developmental psychology; Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory | School of Audiology and Speech Sciences | Faculty of Medicine |
Fast | Danya | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; Substance Use; Substance Use Care; Adolescents and Young Adults; urban health; Urban Poverty; Medical Anthropology; Canada; East Africa | Division of Social Medicine | Faculty of Medicine |
MacAskill | Don | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Health services and systems; Medicine, nursing and health curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; paediatric audiology, paediatric hearing loss and balance function; Innovative practice; Leadership | Faculty of Medicine | |
Delaidelli | Alberto | Postdoctoral Fellow | Medical, health and life sciences; pediatric cancer; Brain tumors; Neurodegenerative diseases | Faculty of Medicine | |
Sladen | Douglas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; cochlear implantation among children and adults | School of Audiology and Speech Sciences | Faculty of Medicine |
Capon | Francesca | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Basic medicine and life sciences; Autoimmune Diseases; Pericardial Disorders; Rare diseases; Skin Conditions; Skin inflammation; Bioinformatics | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine |
Cazottes | Emmanuel | Postdoctoral Fellow | Genomics; Gene regulation; Synthetic biology; Stem Cells; Machine Learning | Faculty of Medicine | |
Chen | Carol | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Pediatric cancer; Epigenetics and epigenomics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Brain Cancer; Brain development; Epigenetics; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Developmental biology | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Faculty of Medicine |
Taubert | Stefan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other health sciences; Gene regulation and expression; Transcriptomics; Genomics; Aging; beta cells; C. elegans; Diabetes; Gene Regulation and Expression; Gene regulation; Genetics of Aging; genomics; Hypoxia; Metabolism; Molecular Genetics; Mouse; stress; Stress and Cancer; Stress responses; Toxin and Toxicant Metabolism; Transcription | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine |
McKeown | Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurology; novel treatments for Parkinson's; Video Monitoring Parkinson's; Brain Stimulation; Biomedical Engineering; Machine Learning; fMRI; EEG | Division of Neurology | Faculty of Medicine |
Sutherland | Jason | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Health care administration; Access to care; Healthcare costs; Health systems; Patient-Reported Outcomes; Quality; Surgery | School of Population and Public Health | Faculty of Medicine |
Tamber | Mandeep | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Surgery; clinical epidemiology; registry research; epilepsy surgery; Hydrocephalus; Craniofacial surgery; pediatric neurosurgery | Department of Surgery | Faculty of Medicine |
Wang | Ying | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cardiology and circulatory sciences (including cardiovascular disease); Cell differentiation, proliferation and death; Drug discovery, design and delivery; atherosclerosis; Diabetic cardiomyopathy; Vascular biology; Spatial 'Omics'; Drug repurposing and therapeutic design; Disease modeling; Digital Pathology | Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | Faculty of Medicine |
Hacihaliloglu | Ilker | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bio-signal processing and analysis; Medical biotechnology; Biomedical signal processing; Image guided surgery systems; Medical and biomedical engineering, n.e.c.; Data analytics and signal processing, n.e.c.; Artificial intelligence (AI); Extraction of relevant information from 3D medical images; Image Guided Surgery; computer assisted diagnosis; Deep Learning; point of care ultrasound; ultrasound image processing; Brain Health; orthopedic surgery; liver disease; lung disease; traumatic Brian injury; neurosurgery; Biomedical Engineering | Department of Radiology, Department of Medicine | Faculty of Medicine |
Afshari | Reza | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Environmental and occupational health and safety; Critical care medicine and emergency medicine; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Epidemiology,; Toxicology,; Pharmacology,; Environment; Risk assessment | Faculty of Medicine | |
Ardern | Clare | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electronic health (e-Health); Mobile health (mHealth); Patient and citizen engagement research; Health equity; Physical therapy; Sports medicine; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Orthopedics; Sex and gender-based analysis; musculoskeletal conditions; Digital health; eHealth; orthopaedics; sports medicine; rehabilitation; meta-science; peer review; research impact | Department of Physical Therapy | Faculty of Medicine |
Mitra | Souvik | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Neonatology; Neonatal intensive care; Extreme prematurity; Preterm hemodynamics; Randomized Controlled Trials; Evidence-based medicine | Faculty of Medicine | |
Jan | Eric | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biochemistry; Virus; Nucleic Acids; Proteomics; Antiviral innate immunity; Zika; coxsackievirus; enterovirus; Innate immunity; molecular biology; picornavirus; protease; Protein synthesis; RNA; RNA structure function; RNA virus; ribosome; SARS; tRNA; translation; Virology; virus host interactions; mRNA therapeutics | Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Faculty of Medicine |
Sly | Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Innate immunity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammation; macrophages; Cell signalling | Department of Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine |
Sadarangani | Manish | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immunology; Microbiology; Clinical sciences; Antimicrobial resistant bacteria; Bacterial Vaccines; Childhood infections; Epidemiology; Immune System; Vaccine Development; Vaccine immunity; Clinical trials and observational studies | Department of Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine |
Schmidt | Julia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Occupational therapy; Trauma / Injuries; cognition; Neurological diseases; Cognitive impairment; neuroscience; rehabilitation; Self-awareness; Self-identity; Traumatic Brain Injury | Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy | Faculty of Medicine |
Henderson | Sarah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Environmental and occupational health and safety; wildfire smoke; air pollution; Extreme weather events; environmental health; radon gas; Food safety; Water quality | School of Population and Public Health | Faculty of Medicine |
Weber | Alexander | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Central nervous system; Dynamical systems in applications; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Quantitative MRI; Brain Disorders; resting state functional MRI; myelin water imaging; Arterial Spin Labelling; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Fractal based analysis; Concussion; Diagnostic Imaging; Epilepsy; Seizures; Traumatic Brain Injury; open science; Biomedical Engineering | Department of Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine |
Steif | Adi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Algorithms and computational genomics; Genomics; Cancer genetics; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis; Cancer progression and metastasis; Statistical methods for high throughput data; High dimensional data analysis; Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Cancer Genomics; Single cell sequencing; Tumour evolution; Genomic technology development | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine |
Bouchard | Katrina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical sexology; Mental health and wellbeing; Sexual identy, sexual attraction and sexual behaviour; Sexual health; sexual response; sexual well-being; women's health; couples | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology | Faculty of Medicine |
Slaunwhite | Amanda | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Public and population health; illicit drug poisoning (overdose); Substance Use; mental health; prison health; health inequities; health geography | Faculty of Medicine | |
Fong | Anthony | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Media and communications; disaster medicine; health journalism | Faculty of Medicine | |
Eddy | Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cardiorespiratory medicine and hematology; Medical and biomedical engineering; Artificial intelligence (AI); Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Hyperpolarized 129Xe; Computed tomography (CT); Pulmonary imaging; Lung structure-function; Lung health; Respiratory disease | Department of Radiology, Department of Pediatrics | Faculty of Medicine |
Rangel Bousquet Carrilho | Thais | Postdoctoral Fellow | Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); perinatal epidemiology; Nutritional Epidemiology; Maternal and child health | Faculty of Medicine | |
Christenson | James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other clinical medicine; sudden cardiac death; chain of survival; out of hospital cardiac arrest; emergency medical services; resuscitation science | Department of Emergency Medicine | Faculty of Medicine |
Jenstad | Lorienne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other health sciences; hearing aids; Aging; audiology; hearing health; amplification | School of Audiology and Speech Sciences | Faculty of Medicine |
Zandstra | Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical biotechnology; Medical and biomedical engineering; Stem cell bioengineering; Bioengineering; Synthetic biology; Biomedical Engineering; Immuno-engineering; Biotechnology; Computational Biology; Computational modeling; Gene/Cell Therapy Systems; genomics; Immunology; personalized medicine; Regenerative medicine | School of Biomedical Engineering, Michael Smith Laboratories | Faculty of Medicine |
Janssen | Sanne | Postdoctoral Fellow | Other basic medicine and life sciences; Epigenomics | Faculty of Medicine | |
Kuo | Calvin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomechanical engineering; Medical devices; Biomedical instrumentation (including diagnostics); Sensing human motion; How humans make sense of their own motion; Sensorimotor Neutrophysiology; Wearable Sensing; Musculoskeletal Modeling | School of Biomedical Engineering | Faculty of Medicine |
de Jongh Gonzalez | Olivia | Postdoctoral Fellow | Psychosocial, sociocultural and behavioral determinants of health; Parenting practices and styles; Childhood obesity; Health behavior change; Intervention design, implementation, adherence, effectiveness; mHealth apps / interventions; Quantitative Methods; Statistical analyses | Faculty of Medicine |