Curtis A. Suttle, PhD
Professor
Bacteria, viruses, marine microbiology, Arctic microbiology, environmental microbiology, bacteriophage
Prof. Yossef Av-Gay, PhD
Professor of Microbiology
Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, Drug discovery, Antibiotics, Tuberculosis, Lung infections, NTM, COVID-19, Inhalation therapies, CF (Cystic fibrosis),
Dr. Carolina Tropini, PhD, PLEng
Assistant Professor
Microbiome, microbiota, inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, microbiology, biophysics, bioengineering, biomedical engineering,
Bob Hancock
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases & Immunity Research
Antibiotics, new antimicrobial treatments, boosting immunity, antibiotic resistance, genomics, cystic fibrosis, biotechnology, drug development
Prof. William Mohn, PhD
Professor
microbiology, microbial ecology, microbiome, bacterial catabolism, lignin degradation, lignocellulose degradation, steroid degradation, aromatic compound degradation, forest soil ecology, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, vaccine response, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bioproducts,
Dr. Morgan Alford
Postdoctoral Fellow
clinical microbiology, antibiotic resistance, pathogenesis, immunology, infectious disease, diagnostics, laboratory medicine, pathology, animal husbandry, high-throughput assays, pandemic, epidemic, endemic
Prof. Karen Cheung, PhD
Professor
Biotechnology, MEMS and BioMEMS, Microtechnology, Lab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics, neural implants, biomedical engineering, 3D printing, tissue engineering,
U. Rashid Sumaila, FRSC
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Tier I, Interdisciplinary Ocean and Fisheries Economics)
Fisheries economics, marine biodiversity, ocean conservation, biological diversity
Kabir Bhalla
Graduate Research Assistant
Fungi, microscopy, fungal pathogens, fungal disease, immunology, immune system
Dr. Steven Hallam, PhD
Professor
Microbial ecology, biological engineering, bioinformatics, entrepreneurship, genomics, single-cell genomics, metabolic pathway inference, metagenomics, environmental genomics, automation systems, synthetic biology, machine learning, information aesthetics, science communication, scholarship of education leadership, functional screening, biocatalyst discovery, bioeconomy, bioenergy, microplastics, anaerobic digestion, cyanobacteria, metabolic interaction networks, symbiosis, climate change, oxygen minimum zones, oceanography, sustainability,
Lindsay Eltis
Professor
Bacterial catabolism, pollutant degradation, steroid degradation, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, biocatalysts
James W. Kronstad
Professor
Fungi, pathogens, genomics, molecular genetics
Siyun Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Food Safety Engineering
Food safety, food microbiology, foodborne disease
Dr. Judy Illes, CM, PhD
Professor
Distinguished University Scholar
UBC Distinguished Scholar in Neuroethics
Ethics, brain, biomedicine, bioethics, neuroscience,
Dr. Illes is a world-reknowned pioneer of the field of neuroethics that was formally established in early 2000 to directly align biomedical ethics with neuroscience in research, clinical practice, and the commercialization of brain health. She received her PhD from Stanford University, and holds faculty appointments at UBC, the University of Washington in Seattle, and Clare Hall at Cambridge University in England. She is co-lead of the Canadian Brain Research Strategy of the International Brain Initiative, and sits on numerous advisory boards, including the Standing Committee on Ethics and the Institute for Neuroscience Mental Health and Addiction of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She also is a newly appointed Director-at-Large of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Dr. Illes is often asked to provide expert consultation and testimony on ethics matters involving conflict of interest, neuroprivacy, and ownership of research data, governance, and regulation. She received the Order of Canada, the country’s highest citizen award, in 2017.
Dennis Danielson
Professor
Cosmology, science and religion, John Milton, Copernicanism
Hanspeter (Hans) Schreier, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Watershed management, water pollution, water and food, urban stormwater
Villy Christensen, PhD
Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
Director, Global Ocean Modeling
Ecosystem modeling, global ocean, IPBES, Ecopath, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Orlando Rojas, PhD
Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Bioproducts
Scientific Director, Bioproducts Institute
Director, Pulp and Paper Center
Biobased Colloids and Materials, Renewable Nanomaterials, Bioproducts