Our Students

Current Students:

2020 Cohorts

  • Pouya Ahmadvand – M.Sc. student with Ali Bashashati
  • Aguirre, Alejandro – M.Sc. student with Wyeth Wasserman
  • Rhiannon Cameron – M.Sc. with Will Hsiao – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Angus Campbell – M.Sc. student with  Paul Pavlidis
  • Yixuan Chen – M.Sc. student with Ryan Brinkman
  • Sara Dada – Ph.D. student with Steven Jones
  • Ghazal Ebrahimi – M.Sc. student with Faraz Hach –CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Jeremy Fan – M.Sc. student with Steven Jones- CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Ivan Gill – M.Sc. student with Will Hsiao –CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Jorge Holguin – M.Sc. student with Jorge Gsponer – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Sebastian Hunter – M.Sc. student with Brett Finlay and Sara Mostafavi
  • Madeline Iseminger – M.Sc. student with Will Hsiao – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Faeze Keshavarz-Rahaghi – Ph.D. student with Steven Jones – 4YF awardee
  • Tiffany Leung – M.Sc. student with Wyeth Wasserman
  • Theodora Lo – M.Sc. student with Inanc Birol-CREATE Scholarship awardee
  •  Matthew Nguyen – M.Sc. student with Will Hsiao –CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Mariia Radaeva – Ph.D. student with Art Cherkasov
  • Cara Reisle- Ph.D student with Steven Jones
  • Ryan Riley – M.Sc. student with Gregg Morin and Ryan Morin
  • Reza Soltani – M.Sc. student with Faraz Hach
  • Ye Su – Ph.D. student with Philipp Lange
  • Derek Tam – M.Sc. student with Aly Karsan and Andrew Roth
  • Marco Tello- M.Sc. student with Keegan Korthauer- CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Jenkin Tsui – Ph.D. student with Andrew Roth –4YF awardee

2019 Cohorts

  • Abhijit Chinchani – Ph.D.  student with Todd Woodward
  • Sean Formby – Ph.D. student with Steven Hallam and Guus Bakkeren – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Nicole Knoetze – Ph.D. student with Robert Holt
  • Ishika Luthra – M.Sc. student with Sara Mostafavi – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • TJ McColl – Ph.D. student with David Clarke – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Angela McLaughlin – Ph.D. student with Jeff Joy – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Sebastiano Montante – Ph.D. student with Ryan Brinkman-CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Tunc Morova – Ph.D. student with Faraz Hach – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Aishwarya Sridhar – Ph.D. student with Will Hsiao – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Shanwei Tong – M.Sc. student with Will Hsiao and Xiaonan Lu
  • Shaocheng Wu – Ph.D student with Andrew Roth – 4YF awardee

2018 Cohorts

  • Ben Cardoen – Ph.D. student with Ghassan Hamarneh – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Ryan McLaughlin – Ph.D. student with Steve Hallam – 4YF awardee

2017 Cohorts

  • Alex Morin – Ph.D. student with Paul Pavlidis –  CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Ali Mizra – Ph.D. student with Helen Tremlett and William Hsiao
  • Chenkai Li – Ph.D. student with Inanc Birol – 4YF awardee
  • Enes Ergin – Ph.D. student with Philipp Lange – 4YF awardee
  • Ka Ming Nip – Ph.D. student with Inanc Birol – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Luka Culibrk – Ph.D. student with Steven Jones
  • Saber HafezQorani – Ph.D. student with Inanc Birol
  • William Cassazza – Ph.D. student with Sara Mostafavi – CREATE Scholarship awardee

2016 Cohorts:

  • Albina Rahim – Ph.D. student with Ryan Brinkman – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Eric Chu – Ph.D. student with Paul Pavlidis – CREATE Scholarship awardee
  • Lisa Wei – M.Sc. student with Marco Marra

 

  • Alumni:
  • Kristen Grey: Ph.D. – April 30, 2023: A Population-Based Approach to Genomic Island Analysis (Dr. Fiona Brinkman) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Justin Jia: Ph.D. – Dec 30, 2022: Advancing Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance: Characterizing AMR Mobility and Improving AMR Prediction from Metagenomics Data  (Dr. Fiona Brinkman) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Emma Garlock: M.Sc. – August 30, 2022: Impacts of Medications Use on Child Gut Microbiota Outcomes in the CHILD Cohort Study (Dr. Fiona Brinkman) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Ogan Mancarci: M.Sc. – June 27, 2022: Identification cell type marker genes of the brain and their use in estimation of cell type proportions. (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Almas Khan: M.Sc. – June 10, 2022: Investigating and correcting for the technical, clinical and biological contributors to variation in placental methylation (Dr.s Elodie Portales-Casamar and Wendy Robinson) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Janet Li: M.Sc. – May 31, 2022: Genomic and transcriptomic signatures of virulence and UV resistance in Beauveria bassiana (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Saelin Bjornson: M.Sc. – May 27, 2022: Elastic net regression for the selection of orthogroups predictive of trophic mechanisms in diverse eukaryotes (Dr. Patrick Keeling)(NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Venus Lau: Ph.D. – May 2022: Identifying and characterizing bacterial pathogen-associated genes for antivirulence drug development. (Dr. Fiona Brinkman) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Rachel Miller: M.Sc.- April 22, 2022: Phylodynamic quantification of pathogen transmission dynamics (Dr. Jeff Joy) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Arjun Baghela: Ph.D.- April 6, 2022: Identifying predictive gene expression signatures of sepsis severity (Dr.  Robert Hancock and Dr. Gabriela Cohen Freue)
  • Connor Morgan-Lang: Ph.D. March 31 2022: Linking function and phlogeny in microbiomes using TreeSAPP (Dr. Steven Hallam)(NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Kristina Gagalova: Ph.D. – March 9, 2022: Annotation of complex genomes for comparative genomics. (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Christine Yang: M.Sc. – February 28, 2022: Genome-wide association study of Pseudomonas aeruginosain swarming and biofilm formation. (Dr. Robert Hancock)
  • Rashedul Islam: Ph.D. – December 6, 2021: Epigenetic dysregulation in lymphoid leukemias (Dr. Martin Hirst)
  • Eric Lee: M.Sc. – December 1, 2021:  SpatialSort: Characterizing cellular heterogeneity in the tumour microenvironment with spatially aware clustering (Dr. Andrew Roth
  • Diana Lin: M.Sc. – September 29, 2021: High throughput in silico discovery of anti-microbial peptides in amphibian and insect transcriptomes. (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Will (Yue) Huang: M.Sc. – September 27, 2021: Single-cell analytics for phospho flow cytometry reveals dynamic interactions between molecular pathways (Drs. Paul Pavlidis and Kurt Haas)
  • Qinkai Wu: M.Sc. – September 23, 2021: Cellular composition variation drives coexpression-based gene function prediction (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)(NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Nicole Zhang: M.Sc. – August 6, 2021: Cell-conditional generative adversarial network. (Drs. Wyeth Wasserman and Sara Mostafavi)(NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Kristina Wright: M.Sc. – August 5, 2021: Seasonal and sex-dependent gene expression in Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) fat tissue. (Dr. Ianc Birol)
  • Jordan Sicherman: M.Sc. – August 5, 2021: Large-scale mining of differential expression data for insight into gene function. (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)(NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Denitsa Vasileva: M.Sc.- August 3, 2021: Assessing accuracy and utility of epigenetic age prediction algorithm in a large-scale  targeted methylation sequencing study. (Dr. Denise Daley)
  • Alice Kaye: Ph.D. – July 27, 2021: Approaches to genome analysis through the application of graph theory. (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Chen Yang: Ph.D. – June 7, 2021: Computational modelling, simulation, and prediction of biological sequences. (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Kate Gibson: M.Sc. – May 2021: Explorative analysis of the mechanisms of Phaeocystic globosa blooms in the Beibu Culf, China. (Dr. Jack Nansheng Chen) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Mohammad Saberian: M.Sc. – April 2021: Drug efficacy estimation against SARS-CoV 2 based on cell morphology with deep multiple instance learning. (Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Vladimir Nikolic: M.Sc. – April 19, 2021: Scalable methods for improving genome assemblies. (Dr. Inanc Birol)(NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Yee Fay Lim: M.Sc. – February 26, 2021: Copy number estimation for high-throughput short read shotgun sequencing de novowhole genome assembly contigs. (Dr. Inanc Birol)(NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Teyden Nguyen: M.Sc.- February 25, 2021: Evaluating feature selection techniques for finding microbial signatures in 16S microbiome sequencing data (Drs. Raymond Ng and Sara Mostafavi)
  • Michael Disyak: M.Sc. – February 3, 2021: A multi-task machine learning pipeline for the classification and analysis of cancers from gene expression data (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Javier Castillo Arnemann: M.Sc. – January 25, 2021: Network-based Integration and Visualization of High-throughput Datasets in Pseudomonas aeruginosa(Dr. Robert Hancock)
  • Sohrab Salehi: Ph.D.- January 25, 2021: Quantitative fitness modelling in cancer using single-cell time series population dynamics (Drs. Sohrab Shah and Alexandre Bouchard-Cote)
  • Neda Shokraneh: M.Sc. – December 2020: Unsupervised annotation of regulatory domains by integrating functional genomic assays and Hi-C data. (Max Libbrecht) (NSERC-CREATE awardee)
  • Elizabeth Chun: Ph.D. – December 9, 2020: Molecular characterization of rhabdoid tumours from multiple anatomical sites. (Dr. Marco Marra)
  • Sina Jafarzadeh: M.Sc: December 4, 2020: Interpretable clustering of epigenetic marks by incorporating their relationships to genes and their functions. (Dr. Sara Mostafavi)
  • Shamsuddin Bhuiyan (NSERC-CREATE): Ph.D. November 24, 2020: Prioritizing genes with functionally distinct splice isoforms. (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Phillip Richmond: (NSERC-CREATE) Ph.D. – October 8, 2020:Expanding the utility of whole genome sequencing in the diagnosis of rare genetic disorders (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Elijiah Willie: (NSERC-CREATE) M.Sc. – October 5, 2020: Robust methods for inferring cluster structure in scRNA-seq data (Dr. Sara Mostafavi)
  • Abdur Rahman Modh Abul Basher: Ph.D.- September 18, 2020: Machine Learning Methods for Metabolic Pathway Inference from Genomic Sequence Information (Dr. Steven Hallam)
  • Jenny Yang: M.Sc.- September 2, 2020: Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Predict NRG1-Fusions from PDAC Biopsy Images (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Divya Bafna: M.Sc. – August 26, 2020: Rational design of Notch2 and ER-AF2 inhibitors for bladder cancer and breast cancer therapy. (Dr. Art Cherkasov)
  • Figali Taho (NSERC-CREATE): M.Sc. – August 20, 2020: Antimicrobial peptide host toxicity prediction with transfer learning for proteins (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Jasleen Grewal: Ph.D. – August 13, 2020: Utility of machine learning approaches for cancer diagnosis and analysis from RNA sequencing (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Shing Zhan: Ph.D. – August 8, 2020 :Phylogenetic analysis of chromosome numbers and genetic markers (Dr. Sarah Otto)
  • Mariia Radaeva (NSERC-CREATE): M.Sc.- August 6, 2020: The use of computer-aided drug design methodology to target DNA-protein, RNA-protein and protein-protein interactions implicated in cancer. (Dr. Art Cherkasov)
  • Emre Erhan (NSERC CREATE): M.Sc. – July 23, 2020: Support vector machines predict advanced cancer patient reponse to therapies from bulk RNA sequencing data (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Michelle Kang: M.Sc.- June 12, 2020:Linking CIS-regulatory regions using transcription factor binding signatures. (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Evan Gatev: Ph.D.- April 20, 2020: DNA methylation microarray data reduction for co-methylation analysis (Drs. Micheal Kobor and Sara Mostafavi)
  • Alexandra Maslova (NSERC-CREATE): M.Sc.- April 15, 2020: Understanding gene regulatory mechanisms of mouse immune cells using a convolutional neural network (Dr. Sara Mostafavi)
  • Sherrie Wang (NSERC-CREATE): M.Sc. – April 8, 2020: Flow cytometry data analysis pipeline -data quality control tool development and biomarker discovery (Dr. Ryan Brinkman)
  • Carl-Adam Mattsson: M.Sc. – April 6, 2020: A bioinformatics workflow to analyze single cell template strand sequencing data (Drs. Peter Lansdorp and Martin Hirst)
  • Marjan Farahbod: Ph.D. – December 11, 2019: The interpretation of gene coexpression in systems biology. (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Margot Gunning (NSERC-CREATE): M.Sc. – December 6, 2019: An investigation into the utility of GBA machine learning algorithms for the prioritization of ASD candidate risk genes (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Justin Chu – Ph.D. – November 22, 2019: Improving sequence analysis with probabilistic data structures and algorithms (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Allison Tai- (NSERC-CREATE) M.Sc. – October 9, 2019: Error-free stable computation with polymer-supplemented chemical reaction networks (Dr. Anne Condon)
  • My-Linh Thibodeau -M.Sc. – October 4, 2019: Using genome sequencing technology to provide insight into cancer biology and their mechanisms. (Drs. Steven Jones and Intan Schrader)
  • Vibudh Agrawal (NSERC CREATE) – M.Sc. – September 30, 2019: The discovery of small molecule inhibitors for TOX1 and ERG oncotargets with the development and use of progressive docking PD2.0 approach (Dr. Artem Cherkasov)
  • Theodore Smith (NSERC CREATE)- M.Sc. – August 23, 2019: Detection of enriched patterns in protein sequence data (Dr. Philipp Lange)
  • Anmol Sharma (NSERC CREATE)- M.Sc. – August 22, 2019: Missing MRI pulse sequence synthesis using multi-modal generative adversarial network. (Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh)
  • Alex Sweeten (NSERC CREATE) – M.Sc. – August 21, 2019: Accurate Alignment-free inference of microbial phylogenies (Dr. Leonid Chindelevitch)
  • Shaun Jackman – Ph.D.- April 16, 2019: Efficient assembly of large genomes (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Nivretta Thatra (NSERC-CREATE) – M.Sc. -April 5, 2019: Comparative genome analysis in rodent models of Parkinson’s disease and spinocerebellar ataxia type 3. (Dr. Joerg Gsponer)
  • Varune Rohan Ramnarine – Ph.D. – March 11, 2019: The long non-coding RNA landscape of neuroendocrine prostate cancer and its clinical implications, biological dysregulation, and functional impact. (Dr. Colin Collins)
  • Saeedeh Afshari (NSERC CREATE) – M.Sc. March 2019: Deep learning for quantitative image analysis of positron emission tomography. (Dr. Ghassan Hamarneh)
  • Rebecca Asiimwe – M.Sc. – March 4, 2019: Database-driven whole genome profiling for stratifying triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) (Dr. Sohrab Shah)
  • Baraa Orabi (NSERC-CREATE) – M.Sc.- December 7, 2018: Alignment-free clustering and error correction of UMI tagged DNA molecules (Dr. Cedric Chauve)
  • Emma Graham (NSERC CREATE) – M.Sc. – October 30, 2018: Integration of genomic and metabolomic data for prioritization of rare disease variants (Dr. Sara Mostafavi)
  • Zaccary Alperstein – M.Sc.- October 19, 2018: Computer-aided drug discovery tools and pipelines for small molecule targeted inhibition of topoisomerases I and II in cancer (Dr. Art Cherkasov
  • Sam Hinshaw – M.Sc. – October 4, 2018: Network-based integrative analysis of multi-omic data (Dr. Robert Hancock)
  • Jake Lever (Vanier Scholar) – Ph.D. – September 21, 2018: Building and inferring knowledge bases using biomedical text mining (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Ranauk Shrestha – Ph.D. – July 27, 2018: Computational prioritization of cancer driver genes for precision oncology (Dr. Colin Collins)
  • Farnush Kiadeh (NSERC CREATE) – M.Sc. -May 31, 2018: Molecular interpretation of genome-wide association studies using multi-omics analysis (Dr. Sara Mostafavi)
  • Eric Zhao (Vanier Scholar) – MD./Ph.D. – May 7, 2018: The clinical actionability and evolution of mutational processes in metastatic cancer (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Rebecca Johnston – M.Sc. – March 15, 2018: The biology and clinical significance of the micro-environment of pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (Dr. Christian Steidl)
  • Rodrigo Goya (Vanier Scholar) – November 22, 2017: Bioinformatics approaches for identifying single nucleotide variants and profiling alternative expression in cancer transcriptomes (Dr. Marco Marra)
  • Rachelle Farkas – October 5, 2017: “Bioinformatics design of cis-regulatory elements controlling human gene expression” (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Ka Ming Nip – August 4, 2017: RNA-Bloom: de novo RNA-seq assembly with Bloom filters (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • James Topham – July 18, 2017: Comprehensive and integrative analysis of the KMT2D regulome (Dr. Marco Marra)
  • William Evan Durno – June 2, 2017: Precise correlation and metagenomic biomining uncovers fine microbial community structure (Dr. Steven Hallam)
  • Wenqiang Shi – May 23, 2017: Revealing the impact of sequence variants on transcripton factor binding and gene expression (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Hamid Mohamidi – May 23, 2017: Parallel algorithms and software tools for high-throughput sequencing data (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Kyle Lesack – May 9, 2017: Nomenclature errors in public 16S rRNA gene databases: stategies to improve the accuracy of sequence annotations (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Alborz Mazaloomian – April 27, 2017: Analysis of alternative splicing using transcriptome data (Drs. Irmtraud Meyer and Sohrab Shah)
  • Erdi Kucuk – M.Sc. – April 10, 2017: Kollector: transcript-informed targeted de novo assembly of gene loci (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Beryl Zhuang – M.Sc. – March 24, 2017: Meta-analysis of gene expression in mouse models of neurogenerative disorders (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Fong Chun Chan – Ph.D. – March 10, 2017: Analysis of cancer genomes and transcriptomes (Drs. Christian Steidl and Sohrab Shah)
  • Celia Siu – M.Sc. – February 28, 2017: Characterization of the human thyroid epigenome (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Santina Lin – M.Sc. – February 22, 2017: Latent semantic analysis for retrieving related biomedical articles (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Dmitry Tebaykin – M.Sc. – December 12, 2016: Exploring sources of variability in electrophysiology data of mammalian neurons (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Michael Gottlieb – M.Sc. – December 8, 2016: Text-based methods of variant prioritization for TIDE BC (Dr. Aly Karsan)
  • Hamza Khan – M.Sc. – December 7, 2016: De Novo annotation of non-model organisms using whole genome an transcriptome shotgun sequencing (Dr. Inanc Birol)
  • Naman Paul – M.Sc. – November 8, 2016: The use of cheminformatics methods to predict adverse drug responses by human androgen receptor (Dr. Art Cherkasov)
  • Julie Chen – Ph.D. – September 8, 2016: Computational analysis of transcriptional regulation from local sequence features to three dimensional chromatin domains (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Maia Smith – M.Sc. August 29, 2016: E-scape: interactive visualization of single cell phylogenetics and spatio-temperal evolution in cancer (Dr. Sohrab Shah)
  • Rosemary McCloskey – M.Sc. – July 26, 2016: Phylogenetic estimation of contact network parameters with approximate Bayesian computation (Dr. Art Poon)
  • Thuy Nguyen – M.Sc. – June 10, 2016: Overcoming missing data in phylogenetic analysis of shotgun sequencing to detect HIV adaptation to immune response (Dr. Art Poon)
  • Dean Attali – M.Sc. – April 21, 2016: Automatic analysis of dual-channel droplet digital PCR experiments to detect BRAF-V600 mutations (Dr. Jenny Bryan)
  • Casper Shyr – Ph.D. – April 21, 2016: Development and evaluation of software interface for applied clinical genomics (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Lauren Chong – M.Sc. – March 23, 2016: Detection of genomic rearrangements in archival lymphoma tissues using targeted capture sequence (Drs. Christian Steidl & Ryan Morin)
  • Daniel Lai – Ph.D. – March 7, 2016: Computational Analysis of Ribonucleic Acid Basepairs in RNA Structure and RNA-RNA Interactions (Dr. Irmtraud Meyer)
  • Emilia Lim – Ph.D. – March 4, 2016: miRNA Sequence Analysis Reveals Cancer Subtypes That Correlate With Tumour Characteristics and Patient Outcomes (Dr. Marco Marra)
  • Sohrab Salehi – M.Sc. – December 14, 2015: dd-PyClone: Improving clonal sub-population inference from single cells and bulk sequencing data (Drs. Sohrab Shah and Alex Bouchard)
  • Andrew Roth – Ph.D. – November 26, 2015: Probabilistic models for the identification and interpretation of somatic single nucleotide variants in cancer genomes (Dr. Sohrab Shah)
  • Katayoon Kasaian – Ph.D. – September 2, 2015: Genomic analysis of head and neck endocrine glands (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Alice Zhu – M.Sc. – August 28, 2015: Beyond the one-sequence one-structure dogma: predicting and analyzing transient and alternative RNA secondary structures that are evolutionarily conserved (Dr. Irmtraud Meyer)
  • Emily Hindalong – M.Sc. – August 10, 2015: A study of methods for learning phylogenies of cancer cell populations from binary SNV profiles (Dr. Sohrab Shah)
  • Andrew McPherson – Ph.D. – July 24, 2015: Characterization of genome rearrangements from tumour sequencing data (Drs. Sohrab Shah and Cenk Sahinalp)
  • Huifang Li – Ph.D. – July 16, 2015: Discovery of novel androgen receptor inhibitors as prospective therapeutics for advanced prostate cancer (Dr. Art Cherkasov)
  • Sarah Perez – M.Sc. – May 22, 2015: Exploring microbial community structure and resilience through visualization and analysis of microbial co-occurrence networks (Dr. Steven Hallam)
  • Calvin Lefebvre – M.Sc. – May 12, 2015: Cis-regulatory somatic mutations and gene expression alteration in B cell lymphomas (Dr. Sohrab Shah)
  • Niels Hanson – Ph.D. – April 1, 2015: MetaPathways: A module pipeline for the analysis of environmental sequence information (Dr. Steven Hallam)
  • Alvin (Xi) Tian – M.Sc. – March 20, 2015: The use of high-throughput amplicon deep sequencing to explore aquatic virus communities (Dr. Curtis Suttle)
  • Tyler Funnell – M.Sc. – December 2, 2014: Transcriptomic consequences of RNA processing disruption via a novel CDC-like kinase inhibitor (Dr. Sohrab Shah)
  • Christine Rebecca Hunt – Ph.D. – November 24, 2014: Improving the detection of transcription factor binding regions (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Adriana Estela Sedeño Cortés – M.Sc. – October 9, 2014: Identification and exploration of gene product annotation instability and its impact on current uses (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Kieran O’Neill – Ph.D. – October 8, 2014: Bioinformatics of flow cytometry and other high through-put single cell methods (Dr. Ryan Brinkman)
  • Gavin Ha – Ph.D. – June 27, 2014: Probabilistic Approaches for profiling copy number aberrations and loss of heterozygosity landscapes in cancer genomes (Drs. Sohrab Shah and Sam Aparicio)
  • Melanie Courtot – Ph.D. – May 12, 2014: Semantic models in Biomedicine: Building interoperating ontologies for biomedical data representation and processing in Pharmacovigilance (Dr. Ryan Brinkman)
  • Carolyn Ch’ng – M.Sc. – August 16, 2013: Meta-analysis of gene expression in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Soroush Samadian – Ph.D. – June 14, 2013: Constructing and applying semantic models of clinical phenotypes to support web-embedded clinical research (Dr. Mark Wilkinson)
  • Young Song – M.Sc. – April 17, 2013: Exploring microbial controls on methane cycling using MLTreeMap (Dr. Steven Hallam)
  • Patrick Tan – M.Sc. – November 22, 2012: Gene expression analysis of human and rodent brains (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Nima Aghaeepour – Ph.D. – November 19, 2012: Computational exploratory analysis of high-dimensional flow cytometry data for diagnosis and biomarker (Dr. Ryan Brinkman)
  • Jeff Proctor – M.Sc. – September 24, 2012: CoFold : an RNA structure prediction method that takes co-transcriptional folding into account (Dr. Irmtraud Meyer)
  • Evan Morien – M.Sc. – August 29, 2012: Characterization of wild salmon transcriptome (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Warren Cheung – Ph.D. – July 27, 2012: Inferring novel relationships through over-representation analysis of medical subjects in biomedical bibliographies (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Meeta Mistry – Ph.D. – July 6, 2012: Meta-anaylses of expression profiling data in the postmortem human brain (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Ryan Giuliany – Ph.D. – July 5, 2012: Probablistic modeling of RNA-editing in human cancers. (Drs. Sohrab Shah and David Huntsman)
  • Olena Morozova – Ph.D. – May 1, 2012: Genomic studies of the normal and malignant neural crest. (Dr. Marco Marra)
  • Anthony Fejes – Ph.D. – March 30, 2012: Algorithms and Applications of Next-Generation of DNA Sequencing (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Kendric Wang – M.Sc. – March 13, 2012: A Systems Biology Approach for Identifying Predictive Markers of Chemotherapy Response (Dr. Colin Collins)
  • Leon French – Ph.D. – January 27, 2012: Bioinformatics for Neuroanatomical Connectivity (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Fong Chun Chan – M.Sc. – December 16, 2011: Detection of differentially expressed alternative transcripts using conventional microarrays (Dr. Randy Gascoyne)
  • Ryan Morin – Ph.D. – December 15, 2011: Mutation discovery and characterization in lymphoid neoplasms using massively parallel RNA and DNA sequencing. (Dr. Marco Marra)
  • Yvonne Li – Ph.D. – November 21, 2011: Bioinfomatics Approaches to drug Repositioning (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Raymond Lim – M.Sc. – August 19, 2011: Wide-scale comparison of transcriptome data and the role of microRNA in major depression and suicide. (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Hisanaga Mark Okada – M.Sc. – February 28, 2011: Classification of coding and non-coding RNA in RNA-Seq data. (Dr. Martin Ester)
  • Denil Wickrama – M.Sc. – February 23, 2011: Mapping putative regulatory regions using histone H3 lysine 4 monomethylation marks in breast cancer cell lines. (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Ben Vandervalk – M.Sc. – February 3, 2011: The SHARE System: A Semantic Web Based Approach for Evaluating Queries Across Distributed Bioinformatics Databases and Software (Dr. Mark Wilkinson)
  • Bora Uyar – M.Sc. – December 3, 2010: Homology and evidence-based genome annotation of Caenorhabditis species (Dr. Jack Chen)
  • Adam Hall – M.Sc. – November 3, 2010: Short-read DNA sequence alignment with custom designed FPGA-based hardware (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Varun Ramraj – M.Sc. – September 17, 2010: Computational analysis of clinical practice guidelines (Dr. Kendall Ho)
  • Anamaria Crisan – M.Sc. – September 14, 2010: Mutation discovery in regions of segmental cancer genome amplifications from next generation sequencing of tumours (Drs. Sam Aparicio and Sohrab Shah)
  • Nicholas Wiebe – M.Sc. – August 30, 2010: Transat: a method for detecting evolutionarily conserved helices in alignment of RNA sequences and its application inidentifying transient or alternative structures. (Dr. Irmtraud Meyer)
  • Elizabeth (Hye-Jung) Chun – M.Sc. – August 17, 2010: Bioinformatics approach to investigate genetic differences underlying breast tumours with specific outcomes of adoptive T-Cell therapy using a mouse model (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Carri-Lyn Mead – Ph.D. – April 1, 2010: Investigation of Novel Schizophrenia Candidate Genes through Biochemical and Computational Methods (Dr. Robert Holt)
  • Kelvin (Xi) Zhang – Ph.D. – March 30, 2010: Knowledge Discovery from Large-scale Biological Networks and their Relationships (Dr. Francis Ouellette)
  • Adrian Cortes – M.Sc. – February 11, 2010: Automated Analysis of High-Throughput Flow Cytometry Data from Hemoatopoietic Stem Cell Experiments (Dr. Ryan Brinkman)
  • Michael Hsing – Ph.D. – January 13, 2010: Developing Bioinformatics Tools and Analyses on Protein Indels and Protein-Protein Interactions – Novel Applications for Drug Discovery in Staphyloccocus aureus (Dr. Artem Cherkasov)
  • Vaneet Lotay – M.Sc. – December 17, 2009: Evaluating co-expression analysis for gene function prediction (Dr. Paul Pavlidis)
  • Debra Fulton – Ph.D. – December 14, 2009: Computational Prediction of Regulatory Element Combinations and Transcription Factor Cooperativity (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Kaida Ning – M.Sc. – September 21, 2009: Biological Insights of Transcription Factor through Analyzing ChIP-Seq Data (Dr. Raphael Gottardo)
  • Daniel Horspool – M.Sc. – August 6, 2009: Gene Synthesis by Assembly of Short Oligonucleotides (Dr. Rob Holt)
  • Morgan Langille – Ph.D. – April 16, 2009: Computational prediction and characterization of genomic islands: insights into bacterial pathogenicity (Dr. Fiona Brinkman)
  • Benjamin Good – Ph.D. – April 3, 2009: Strategies for amassing, characterizing, and applying third-party metadata in bioinformatics (Dr. Mark Wilkinson)
  • Tang Lee – M.Sc. – March 23, 2009: Outcome prediction and genome-transcriptome correlation analysis in classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (Dr. Randy Gascoyne)
  • James Wagner – M.Sc. – August 28, 2008: Gibbs Sampling for Gapped Motif Discovery in Proteins (Dr. Martin Ester)
  • Xiaohui Chen – M.Sc. – August 12, 2008: Comparisons of Statistical Modeling for Constructing Gene Regulatory Networks (Dr. Raphael Gottardo & Kevin Murphy)
  • Recep Colak – M.Sc. – June 23, 2008: Towards finding the complete modulome: density constrained biclustering (Dr. Martin Ester)
  • Chi Kin Ho – M.Sc. – June 12, 2008: Computationally identifying novel essential genes, including non-coding RNAs, in intergenic sequences in bacterial genomes (Dr. Fiona Brinkman)
  • Nels Thorsteinson – M.Sc. – May 26, 2008: Computational Ligand Discovery for the Human and Zebrafish Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (Dr. Artem Cherkasov)
  • Shannan Ho Sui – Ph.D. – March 7, 2008: In silico approaches to investigating mechanisms of gene regulation (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Simon Chan – M.Sc. – November 27, 2007: A Bioinformatics Meta-Analysis of Differentially Expressed Genes in Colorectal Cancer (Dr. Steven Jones)
  • Ryan Morin – M.Sc. – October 4, 2007: Application of Massively Parellel Sequencing to MicroRNA Profiling and Discovery in Human Embryonic Stem Cells (Dr. Marco Marra)
  • Siddhartha Srivastava – M.Sc. – September 28, 2007: D-Grip: DNA Genetic Risk Information Profile (Dr. Wyeth Wasserman)
  • Gozde Cozen – M.Sc. – August 7, 2007: Efficient computational methods for sequence analysis of small RNAS (Dr. Cenk Sahinalp)
  • Chris Thachuk – M.Sc. – August 3, 2007: Novel algorithms for in vitor gene synthesis (Dr. Arvind Gupta)
  • Jessica (Shang-Jung) Lee – M.Sc. – April 24, 2007: Prediction of Graft-versus-Host Disease based on Supervised Temporal Analysis on High-Throughput Flow Cytometry (Dr. Ryan Brinkman)
  • Keith Boroevich – M.Sc. – October 14, 2005: Indentification of cis-acting regulatory elements using orthology biased gibbs sampling (Dr. David Baillie)
  • Byron Kuo – M.Sc. – September 1, 2005: SAGE2Splice: unmapped sage tags reveal novel splice junctions (Dr. Elizabeth M. Simpson)
  • Alison Meynert – M.Sc. – August 3, 2005: Common evidence network: an integrated approach to investigating gene relationships (Dr. Arvind Gupta)
  • Michael Hsing – M.Sc. – February 23, 2005: Modeling of cell signaling pathways in macrophages by semantic networks (Dr. Artem Cherkasov)
  • Fred Yefang Peng – M.Sc. – September 23, 2004: Computational detection of transciptional regulators of protein complexes in apoptosis (Dr. Frederic Pio)
  • Perseus Missirlis – M.Sc. – August 13, 2004: Cis-features mediating CAG/CTG repeat instability, the satellog database, and candidate repeat prioritization in schizophrenia (Dr. Robert Holt)