Bioinformatics Experts

The investigators on the people page are those interested in Bioinformatics in Canada. These include practitioners as well as developers of algorithms, databases or resources. Principal investigators and group leaders from academia, government labs and industry are welcome on this page. All present have an interest in the development of bioinformatics resources in Canada.

If you know of any principal investigators or group leaders in the bioinformatics field who are not on the list, please have them fill out the online form so that we can make our directory as complete as possible.

Name Affiliation Interest/Expertise Region
Donald R. Forsdyke Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University Bioinformatics; theoretical biology; nucleic acid evolution;biohistory Ontario
Elisabeth Tillier Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network Comparative genomics; models and algorithms for sequence analysis; molecular evolution; Genomics Ontario
Dan Fieldhouse Seneca School of Biological Sciences and Applied Chemistry DNA microarray design and analysis; SNP and gene expression assay design and analysis; bioinformatics tools development; Ontario
David Chiu Computing & Information Science; Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph Data mining; sequence-function-structure relationship; phylogenetic analysis; multiple sequence analysis; microarray analysis; systems biology Ontario
Gilles Lapointe GeneObUSA, inc. Molecular biology & genetics including bioinformatics as a tool; obesity research, genetic testing and drug target discovery. Business development & technology commercialization in life science based companies. Ontario
Kay C. Wiese School of Computing Science - Simon Fraser University Protein structure visualization for immersive 3D environments; computational methods (algorithms for combinatorial optimization) for RNA secondary structure predictions; Visualization of RNA structure British Columbia
Ken Dewar McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre Large scale sequencing and analysis; comparative genomics; Quebec
Irena Ekiel BRI-NRC and, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University Bioinformatics and structural biology in the area of cancer and pathogenomics Quebec
Peta C. Bonham-Smith Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan Comparative genomics of plant ribosomal protein genes ; Prairies
Jennifer Bryan Department of Statistics and Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC Biostatistics; gene expression and other HTP assays; statistical assessment of cluster analysis British Columbia
Mads Kaern Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology. University of Ottawa systems biology, genetic circuits, transcriptional regulatory networks, dynamical systems, yeast Ontario
Jinko Graham Statistics and Actuarial Science, SFU Statistical and population genetics, biostatistics and computational biology British Columbia
Brad McNeney Dept. of Statatistics and Actuarial Sci. - SFU Biostatistics and computational molecular biology. British Columbia
Sylvie Hamel U of Montreal Pattern matching algorithms, sequences and structures comparison. Quebec
Ulrike Stege Computer Science, UVic Computational biology, parameterized complexity, the design of heuristics, graph theory, applications in cognitive psychology and human decision making British Columbia