Loren Rieseberg, PhD
Professor
Plant evolution, evolutionary genomics, invasive plants, plant domestication, speciation, sunflower
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,
Prof. Judy Wong, PhD
Professor
cancer biology, aging, genetics, pharmacology, telomere, telomerase, G-quadruplex,
Scott J. Tebbutt, PhD
Associate Professor
Genotyping, genomics, microarray, asthma genetics, diagnostics, biomarkers, allergic disease, human genome, gene mutation
Matthew J. Farrer, PhD
Professor of Medical Genetics
Senior Scientist, Brain Research Centre
Parkinson’s disease, parkinsonism, movement disorders, genetics, neuroscience, brain, neuron, biology, bioinformatics, neurodegeneration, neurology
Kermit Ritland
Professor
Genomics, statistical genetics
Tongli Wang
Assistant Professor, Centre for Forest Conservation Genetics
Research Associate, Dept. of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Climate models, climate change adaptation, ecosystem climate projection, species range projection, assisted migration, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Jehannine Austin, PhD CGC
Professor
psychiatric disorders; genetics; genetic testing; genetic counseling; depression; bipolar; schizophrenia; mental illness; stigma; empowerment
Inanc Birol
Associate Professor
Bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, transcriptome analysis, sequence assembly, next generation sequencing, cancer, human genome, gene mutation
Dr. Catriona Hippman, PhD, CGC
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetic counselling, genetic counseling, psychiatry, mental illness, postpartum depression, reproductive mental health, perinatal mental health, prenatal genetic screening, Down syndrome, disability, pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, antidepressants, antidepressant use in pregnancy, decision making in pregnancy,
Suzanne Lewis, MD, FRCPC
Clinical Professor
Clinical genetics, neurodevelopmental disorders, genes and phenotypes of autism spectrum disorders, clinical genomics, molecular cytogenetics, personalized medicine, human genome, gene mutation
Kelly McNagny, PhD
Professor
Immunology, stem cell biology, inflammation, allergy, asthma, cancer, Crohn’s disease, fibrosis, kidney disease, immunotherapy, animal models, innate lymphoid cells
Blair Leavitt, MD, CM
Professor
Genetic brain diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, Huntington disease, frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ataxia
Martin Dawes, FRCGP
Professor
pharmacogenetics, primary care, medication decision support software
Alexander Wyatt, D.Phil
Assistant Professor
Senior Research Scientist, Vancouver Prostate Centre
Cancer genomics, precision medicine, personalized medicine, prostate cancer, next-generation sequencing, therapy resistance, circulating tumor cells, cell-free DNA, human genome, gene mutation
Weihong Song, MD, PhD
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease, Down syndrome, aging
Kerry Jang, PhD
Professor
Urban health, drug policy with regards to marijuana/cannabis, overdoses
Dr. Mads Daugaard, PhD
Associate Professor
Cancer Research, Translational cancer research, DNA damage response, Glycobiology, Cell death, Experimental therapeutics, Experimental diagnostics
Bruce Carleton, BSc, PharmD
Professor
Human drug therapy, clinical pharmacology, adverse drug reactions, side effects, drug outcomes, pharmaceuticals, pediatric drug use, genetics of drug action, pharmacogenomics
Anthony Bailey, MBBS, FRCPC
Professor
Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), genetics, neurobiology, brain imaging, mental health