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 |
