People | bioinformatics.utoronto.ca

Many of the people in the following table are cross-referenced in terms of their Research Areas, Research Organisms, and Departmental Affiliations on the Collaborative Graduate Program in Genome Biology and Bioinformatics website.

Mainly computational

Philip Awadalla	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research	genomics for precision health
Artem Babaian	Molecular Genetics	RNA-Based Lifeforms
Gary Bader	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics, Computer Science	Single cell genomics, multiscale human, biomolecular interaction networks and pathways, molecular profiles, cancer
Anthony Bonner	Computer Science	Computational biology algorithms, machine learning
Michael Brudno	Computer Science, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research	Computational biology algorithms
Kieran Campbell	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	Machine learning, cancer genomics, single-cell
Belinda Chang	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cell & Systems Biology	Evolutionary genomics
Asher Cutter	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Evolutionary genetics
Hue-Sun Chan	Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics	Computational protein folding
Brendan Frey	Electrical and Computer Engineering, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research	Bayesian networks, machine learning algorithms
Federico Gaiti	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Medical Biophysics	Single-cell multi-omics, epigenomics, evolution
Jesse Gillis	Department of Physiology, Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research	Coexpression networks for understanding cellular and organismal variability
Aleksandrina Goeva	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Machine Learning, Neuroscience, Single-Cell Transcriptomics, Spatial Transcriptomics, Statistics
Anna Goldenberg	Hospital for Sick Children, Computer Science	Machine learning
Sidhartha Goyal	Physics	Biophysics, evolutionary dynamics
Benjamin Haibe-Kains	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Medical Biophysics	Developing new predictive models using large 'omic data sets to improve disease management
Michael Hoffman	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Medical Biophysics, Computer Science	Machine learning, epigenomics, functional genomics
Igor Jurisica	Krembil Research Institute, UHN	Cancer informatics
Philip M. Kim	Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Department of Molecular Genetics, and Department of Computer Science	Interaction networks, genetic variation, copy number variants, signaling pathways, genome evolution
Sushant Kumar	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Medical Biophysics	Computational cancer genomics
Jordan Lerner-Ellis	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	Hereditary Cancer Diagnostics, genome/exome sequencing, Panel testing, Rare disease diagnostics
Radhakrishnan Mahadevan	Chemical Engineering, IBBME	Systems analysis and engineering of biological processes, bacterial metabolic flux analysis
David McMillen	UofT, Mississauga	Quantitive biology, cell system simulation
Alan Moses	Cell and Systems Biology, Computer Science	Sequence analysis, evolution
Shraddha Pai	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Medical Biophysics	Solving paediatric and adult brain cancer through epigenetics: epigenomics, neurodevelopment, biomarker discovery, machine learning, pharmacogenomics, functional genomics
John Parkinson	Hospital for Sick Children, Molecular Genetics	Comparative genomics, cell system simulation
Regis Pomes	Hospital for Sick Children	Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins
Nicholas Provart	Cell and Systems Biology	Arabidopsis thaliana gene expression analysis, data visualization tool development, hypothesis generation with large 'omic data sets
Jüri Reimand	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Medical Biophysics	Cancer, Network Biology
Hannes Röst	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Mass spectrometry, systems biology, personalized medicine
Fritz Roth	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Molecular Genetics, Computer Science, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research
Luca Scardovi	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Systems and control theory
Gregory Schwartz	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Medical Biophysics	Computational cancer biology
Matthieu Shapira	Structural Genomics Consortium	Research informatics, epigenetics, medicinal chemistry
Jared Simpson	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Computer Science	Computational genomics
Lincoln Stein	Ontario Institute for Cancer Research	Pathway analysis and databases, model organism databases
Boris Steipe	Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics	Structural bioinformatics, protein engineering
Shreejoy Tripathy	Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, CAMH	Computational Genomics, Neuroscience
Michael Wainberg	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	Computational approaches for identifying the genetic causes of brain diseases
Bo Wang	Vector Institute, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Computer Science, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology	Machine learning algorithms for precision medicine
Shu Wang	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Big Data, Cancer, Computational Biology, Dynamical Systems, Geometry, Networks
Ryan Yuen	Hospital for Sick Children & Molecular Genetics, U. Toronto	Large-scale genome sequencing analysis and genomic variant interpretation
Zhaolei Zhang	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Comparative genomics, evolution, regulatory element prediction

Mainly wet lab

Brenda Andrews	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Genetic and physical interactions in yeast
Anne Bassett	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Genomics of schizophrenia
Charlie Boone	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Genetic and physical interactions in yeast
Alan Davidson	Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics	Protein folding, protein interactions
John Dick	Molecular Genetics	Genetic models of development and disease, molecular medicine and human genetics
Peter Dirks	Hospital for Sick Children	Normal and neural stem cell biology
Aled Edwards	Medical Biophysics	Structural Genomics
Elizabeth Edwards	Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry	Metagenomics of biodegradation
Julie Forman-Kay	Biochemistry, Hospital for Sick Children	Structural Studies of Disordered Proteins
Anne-Claude Gingras	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Molecular Genetics	Proteomics
Jack Greenblatt	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Proteomics, transcription regulation
David Guttman	Cell and Systems Biology	Comparative and evolutionary genomics, molecular evolution
Walid Houry	Biochemistry	Molecular chapersones
Tim Hughes	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Functional genomics using gene expression microarrays, protein binding arrays, RNA-seq etc.
Jordan Lerner-Ellis	Mount Sinai Hospital	Molecular diagnostics, as applied to breast and colon cancer, integrating whole genome sequencing into the general practice of medicine.
John Morris	Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research, Molecular Genetics	Bioinformatics, CRISPR Screening, Genome-Wide Association Studies, Human Genetics, Single-Cell Sequencing
Gil Privé	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre	X-ray crystallography
Arneet Saltzman	Cell and Systems Biology	Chromatin regulation in development
Steve Scherer	Hospital for Sick Children, The Centre for Applied Genomics, Molecular Genetics	Human genetics
John Vincent	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Genomics and molecular pathways involved with autism and other disorders
Jim Woodgett	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Molecular Genetics	Protein kinases, DNA microarrays
Jeff Wrana	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Molecular Genetics	TGF-beta pathway, protein interaction networks
Christopher Yip	Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering	Single molecule imaging, protein assembly
Scott Yuzwa	Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology	single-cell and spatial transcriptomics for molecular neurobiology

Biostats and epidemiology

Laurent Briollais	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	Genetic interactions, graphical models
Shelley Bull	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	Statistical genetics, microarray analysis
Rayjean J. Hung	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	Molecular and genomic epidemiology for complex diseases
Rafal Kustra	Public Health Sciences	Mining large datasets, gene expression analysis
John McLaughlin	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	Statistical genetics and cancer
David Tritchler	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre	Interest in gene expression analysis