Faculty Directory
Our Faculty has grown to over 100 exceptional researchers focused in a variety of research specialties
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Our group generates and analyzes multi-omics data to improve our current knowledge of cancer's etiology, discover new biomarkers and facilitate personalized cancer treatments
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Research interests include genetic network mapping in yeast and human cells, using systems biology approaches that include single cell image analysis.
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The lab studies molecular alterations in cancer and the clinical importance of these changes with a focus on the tumour immune microenvironment.
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Our research investigates the underlying genetic and environmental determinants of human disease, with a focus on aging, cancer, chronic diseases, and infectious agents
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The ‘Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms’ is focused on deciphering how genetic information encodes itself into RNA genes and viruses.
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We develop computational methods and an ecosystem theory of tissue function to help understand development, cancer and regenerative wound healing.
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We study the regulation, function and evolution of RNA networks with critical roles in development and disease.
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Developing and applying functional genomics approaches for mapping genetic, chemical-genetic, and protein-protein interactions using a yeast model system
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Using the fruit fly to study the development and function of the nervous system and establish models of human disease.
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My lab investigates the roles of PIPs using molecular genetics in the fruit fly and the roles of long noncoding RNAs in sperm development.
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Structure-function relationship of human enteric adenovirus interactions with host cells. Antiviral host response. Antiviral effect of digoxin.
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Our research examines the interactions of pathogenic bacteria with cells of their host.
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The Campbell Lab is a group of data scientists working at the interface of statistics, machine learning, and translational biomedicine.
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The Campos Lab is interested in epigenetics & chromatin biology. Focus is placed on histones, and how their functions go awry in certain diseases.
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We utilize zebrafish precision models of disease to discover novel genetic causes, pathogenic mechanisms and therapies; a current focus is scoliosis.
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We study how small RNA pathways related to microRNAs and RNA interference regulate gene expression during animal development.
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My research focuses on manipulating cellular processes essential for replication of multiple viruses as an alternative approach to novel therapeutics.
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Our research aims to develop treatments for rare inherited diseases using novel gene editing and gene modulation technologies.
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We are interested in RNA and mitochondria, especially a naturally-occurring Neurospora mitochondrial plasmid that encodes a catalytic RNA called the VS ribozyme.
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We study mechanisms underlying neuronal development and function in behavioral and mood disorders using genetic, molecular, and cellular strategies.
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The Costain Lab is focused on discovering and characterizing new genetic diseases that impact children.
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Research in the Cowen lab focuses on the biology and evolution of fungal pathogens
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My laboratory is focusing on the mechanisms underlying the ability of various stress factors to rescue cell migration defects in C. elegans mutants
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Research in the Davidson Lab is aimed at phages, systems used by bacteria to resist phage attacks and how phages overcome these systems
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We investigate the epigenetic mechanisms controlling development of the cardiovascular system, and how they are disrupted to cause disease.
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We study the role of nutrient transporters, in signalling and metabolic homeostasis.
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Mechanisms of cell fate specification, epigenetic inheritance, paediatric diseases models such as cerebral cavernous malformation and neuroblastoma.
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We use zebrafish and human stem cell models to study genetic liver disorders and novel mendelian diseases.
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Dick’s research focuses on hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells, providing insights into human blood development and leukemogenic origins.
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Our lab is interested in applying stem cell biology to the study of brain cancer.
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Our lab seeks to understand the pathogenic mechanisms of and develop therapies for childhood muscle diseases.
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We study how cells maintain the integrity genome and how this process is dysregulated in cancer, aging and genetic disorders.