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Academic Researchers

Research Interests: Medical Genetics, Cancer Genomics, Personalized Medicine

Angeliki Pantazi

Instructor, University of Manitoba

Administration, Academic

Research Interests: Epidemiology, Veterinary Medicine

Anotoliy Trokhymchuk

Chief Scientific Officer, Prairie Diagnostic Services

Academic

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Computer Science

Arnie Berg

Principle Investigator

Bioinformatician, Academic

Research Interests: RNA Genomics, Bioinformatics, Omics Platforms, Non-Coding RNAs, Degenerative Disease

Athanasios Zovoilis

Academic Lead, BioNet

Administration, Bioinformatician, Academic

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Next Generation Sequencing

Austin Hammond

Platform Coordinator

Academic

Research Interests: Cancer Biology

Deborah Anderson

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Food safety, food borne pathogens

Dongyan Niu

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Genomics Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Edwin Wang

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Biology, Degenerative Disease

Eric Merzetti

Network Manager, BioNet

Administration, Academic

Research Interests: Rare Disease Variants, Genetics, Genomics, Public Health

Francois Bernier

Director, Clinical Genetics Unit, Alberta Children's Hospital

Clinician, Academic

Research Interests: Novel applications of whole genome DNA / RNA sequencing

Gane Ka-Shu Wong

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Neuroscience, brain plasticity, stress and motor system function

Gerlinde Metz

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Ischemic Stroke, Hemorrhagic Stroke, Immune system role in cerebrovascular disease

Glen Jickling

Associate Professor, Neurology

Clinician, Academic

Research Interests: Animal Genomics, Agriculture

Graham Plastow

Principle Investigator

Academic, Agriculture

Research Interests: Genetic and Epigenetic regulation of stress responses in plants

Igor Kovalchuk

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Genomics, Bioinformatics, parasitic helminths

James Wasmuth

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Genomics

Jason de Koning

Principle Investigator

Bioinformatician, Academic

Research Interests: Infectious Disease, Protist Genomics, Bioinformatics

Joel Dacks

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection

Karen Goodman

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Genomics Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology of Disease

Maja Tarailo-Graovac

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: BioEthics, Applied Ethics, Ethics and Health

Michael Stingl

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Regulation of mRNA Translation during Glioblastoma Multiforme Progression

Nehalkumar Thakor

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Cellular Division, Pathology, hereditary Cancer, Oncogenes, Gene Therapy of Cancer, Cell Therapy of Cancer, Cell Signalling and Cancer, Cancer Genetics, Carcinogenesis

Olga Kovalchuk

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Transcriptomics

Paul Gordon

Principle Investigator

Bioinformatician, Academic

Research Interests: Molecular Genetics, Genome Variation and Evolution, Genome Interpretation in Bacteria, Bioinformatics

Paul Stothard

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics

Paulo Nuin

Clinical Bioinformatician

Bioinformatician, Academic

Research Interests: Machine Learning, High-Dimensional Data Mining, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics

Qingrun Zhang

Principle Investigator

Bioinformatician, Academic

Research Interests: Antimicrobial Resistance, Beef Cattle, Agriculture, Molecular Biology, Genomics

Rahat Zaheer

Research Scientist

Academic, Agriculture, One Health

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Machine Learning

Russ Greiner

Principle Investigator

Bioinformatician, Academic

Research Interests: Veterinary Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Resistance, Food Safety

Simon Otto

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Sorana Morrissy

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Computational Chemistry, DNA Repair Enzymes, Disease Prevention

Stacey Wetmore

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Gene Expression, Gene Regulation, Genome Sequence Analysis and Assembly

Steven Jones

Head of Bioinformatics and Co-Director, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

Academic

Research Interests: Veterinary Medicine, Epidemiology, Food Safety, Agriculture Development

Sylvia Checkley

Principle Investigator

Academic

Research Interests: Microbial Genetics, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Clinical Microbiology

Tarah Lynch

Principle Investigator

Clinician, Academic

Research Interests: Epigenetics, Molecular Dynamics, Novel Solid-State NMR Methods

Tony Montina

Facility Manager - NMR

Academic

Research Interests: Protein Biophysics, Viral RNAs, Pathogenic Viruses

Trushar Patel

Principle Investigator

Academic

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