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.
Our Experts
| FULL NAME | AFFILIATION | INTEREST/EXPERTISE |
|---|---|---|
| Adnan Ali | Computational methods for optimization and interpretation of statistical data gained from the microarray experiments | |
| Allen Delaney | Analysis of High Throughput Data and Pathway Modeling | |
| Alma Barranco-Mendoza | Infogenetica | Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Bioinformatics, Multidisciplinary medical decision support and profiling systems, Biomedical data mining, Biomedical knowledge representation, Bioethics |
| Anamaria Crisan | University of British Columbia | |
| Andrew Roger | Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University | Molecular phylogenetics, comparative genomics, evolution of protistan genomes, protein evolutionary models |
| Anne Condon | The University of British Columbia | Design and analysis of algorithms, biomolecular computation, RNA secondary structure prediction |
| Anne Bergeron | Algorithms in computational biology | |
| Anoop Sarkar | Computing Science, Simon Fraser University | Application of probabilistic language modeling techniques to various problems in bioinformatics |
| Ante L. Padjen | Drug discovery, Target validation, Systems biology, Neuroinformatics | |
| Anthony Bonner | Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto | Artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, gene function prediction, inferring gene networks, tandem mass spectrometry, genome mapping, database systems |
| Anthony J. Kusalik | Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan | Immuno-informatics, RNA structure modelling and prediction, bioinformatics applications of constraint logic programming, microarrays |
| Artem Cherkasov | Vancouver Prostate Centre | Development of bioinformatics and genomics tools, Computer-aided drug design, Structure-activity modelling for bioactive substances |
| Arvind Gupta | Simon Fraser University | Computational phylogeny, combinatorial algorithms especially as they relate to bioinformatics |
| B. Franz Lang | Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal | Comparative and evolutionary genomics, comparative modelling of RNAs, genome assembly and annotation, databases and workbenches, molecular phylogenetics, |
| BF Francis Ouellette | Open Data, Open Source, Open Access and Open Courseware. Providing data provenance and openness of code, data and literature is essential to doing science. | |
| Bin Ma | Computer Science, University of Waterloo | Bioinformatics, homology search, mass spec |
| Bob Hancock | Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia | Analysis of regulatory networks in innate immunity in human cells; Genome annotation; array studies of human cells and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, fungal, human and mouse genes; identification of novel targets for antibiotic intervention |
| Boris Steipe | University of Toronto | Bioinformatics, protein engineering, motifs in protein structure |
| Brad McNeney | Dept. of Statatistics and Actuarial Sci., Simon Fraser University | Biostatistics and computational molecular biology |
| Brendan J. Frey | University of Toronto | Machine learning and generative models applied to problems in molecular biology, specifically transcription, alternative splicing, regulation of transcription and splicing, and systems biology |
| Brendan McConkey | Department of Biology, University of Waterloo | Proteomics, protein structure and interaction modelling, differential in-gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, protein expression pattern analysis |
| Brian Fristensky | Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba | DNA sequence analysis software, gene array analysis, creation and manipulation of local database subsets, statistical properties of databases |
| Carol Cass | Department of Oncology, University of Alberta | Membrane biology, nucleoside transport, nucleotide metabolism;,cancer chemotherapy, tumour bioprofiling |
| Celia Greenwood | McGill | Genetic epidemiology, microarray analysis |
| Chris Upton | University of Victoria | Sequencing and anlysis of viruses (RNA and DNA); development of tools to organize, manipulate and analyze viral genomes (especially large genomes) |
| Chris Farnet | Ecopia Biosciences Inc. | Genomics of microbial secondary metabolism, natural product drug discovery and development, high-throughput gene sequencing and annotations, metabolic pathway deduction, chemi-informatics, sequence and chemical analysis software development |
| Christian Blouin | Dalhousie University | Interest in phylogenetics and robustness issues in phylogenetics, structural evolution, geometry and protein science, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and text-mining of biological literature |
| Christian Jacob | Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Calgary | Emergent Computing in Biological Networks; Collective Intelligence, Swarm Intelligence, Learning and Evolution Immune System Computing; Artificial Immune Systems, Modelling and Simulation Evolutionary Computing; Evolutionary and Swarm Design, Genetic Programming, Genome Programming Bioinformatics; Biocomputing, Swarm-based Modelling of Biomolecular Systems |
| Clement Lam | Dept. of Computer Science, Concordia University | Bioinformatics algorithms, software |
| Damian Labuda | CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center | Population and molecular genetics, genomic evolution, databases and statistical genetic analysis, in vitro evolution, SELEX |
| Dan Fieldhouse | DNA microarray design and analysis, SNP and gene expression assay design and analysis, bioinformatics tools development | |
| Daniel Kobler | Combinatorial problems, graph theory, design of algorithms, computational biology | |
| Daniel G. Brown | Computer Science, University of Waterloo | Comparative genomics, algorithms for sequence analysis, evolutionary modelling, gene finding, haplotype inference |
| Daniel Sinnett | Research Center, Sainte-Justine Hospital | Molecular genetics, genetic epidemiology, oncogeneonomic and database |
| Dave Clarke | Simon Fraser University | Cell signal transduction, computational biology, statistical modeling, exercise physiology |
| David Baillie | Simon Fraser University | Comparative genomics, expression analysis, pathogenomics, ecogenomics, envirogenomics |
| David Bryant | Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago | Computational biology, molecular Evolution |
| David Sankoff | University of Ottawa | Algorithms, models, comparative genomics, evolution |
| 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 |
| Denise Clark | Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick | Expression analysis, genome evolution |
| Derrick E. Rancourt | Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary | Gene Discovery, Functional Genomics, Mouse Developmental Biology, ES Cell Differentiation, Targeted Mutagenesis, Pathogenomics |
| Dixie Mager | Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Institute | Comparative genomics of multigene families, distribution and functions of mammalian retroelements, molecular evolution, epigenetics, endogenous retroviruses, immunogenetics |
| Donal Hickey | Concordia University | Comparative genomics, genome evolution, population genomics, models of multi-locus recombination, the hapmap |
| Donald R. Forsdyke | Department of Biochemistry, Queen’s University | Bioinformatics, theoretical biology, nucleic acid evolution, biohistory |
| Douglas Campbell | Department of Biology, Mount Allison University | Designing Peptide Sequence Tags diagnostic for key protein families, tracking protein allocations in natural communities |
| Duane Szafron | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | High throughput prediction of annotations such as subcellular localization and function of proteins from primary sequence data |
| Edward Susko | Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University | Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, EST analysis, microarrays |
| Eldon Emberly | Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University | Computational biology, protein design, gene networks and regulation |
| Elisabeth Tillier | Comparative genomics, models and algorithms for sequence analysis, molecular evolution, genomics | |
| Fazel Famili | AI/Machine Learning, Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Data Pre-processing, Gene Expression/Microarray Data Analysis, Clinical Decision Support/Knowledge based Systems | |
| Fiona Brinkman | Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University | Genomic epidemiology, microbial evolution, metagenomics, microbiome analysis, bacterial protein subcellular localization, genome annotation, ontologies and data standards, data integration |
| Francois Major | Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer of the Université de Montréal | RNA and protein structure determination and prediction, RNA pattern, motif and function searching, RNA interference |
| Frederic Pio | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University | Apoptosis, proteomics, bioinformatics |
| Frederick S.B. Kibenge | Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island | Virus phylogenetic relationships, virus classification, gene expression, biomarkers |
| G. Brian Golding | Department of Biology, McMaster University | DNA sequence analysis, spontaneous mutation and natural selection |
| Gary Bader | Departments of Computer Science & Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto | Biological network and pathway analysis |
| Gertraud Burger | Département de biochimie, Université de Montréal | Genome and EST sequencing; comparative and evolutionary genomics; development of sequence analysis tools, integrated databases and workbench environments. |
| Gregory Butler | Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University | Bioinformatics technology, algorithms, software, databases |
| Gregory Gloor | Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario | Evolution of proteins, structural and functional consequences of positional coevolution in protein families, cellular consequences of double strand break repair in Drosophila melanogaster |
| Guohui Lin | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Design and Analysis of Algorithms |
| Hans J. Vogel | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary | Structure and function studies of regulatory calcium binding proteins; Bacterial iron uptake processes involving siderophores; the TonB system; Mechanism of action of antimicrobial peptides such as the defensins, hepcidin and chemokines |
| Haydar Sengul | Identification of genes influencing susceptibility to complex human diseases, with a special emphasis on developing statistical methods that will address issues encountered in any area of genomics | |
| Herbert H. Tsang | Departments of Computing Science and Mathematics, Trinity Western University | RNA secondary structure prediction, image analysis & processing, signal processing, biomedical engineering |
| Herv Philippe | Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal | Phylogenomics, Heterotachy, Molecular phylogenetics, Comparative and evolutionary genomics, Protein evolution, Horizontal gene transfer |
| Holger Hoos | Computer Science, University of British Columbia | Combinatorial problems, AI, gene identification, sequence analysis |
| Hong Gu | Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Dalhousie University | Molecular Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics, Phylogenomics, Statistical methods in molecular evolution |
| Ian J. Forsythe | University of Alberta | Bioinformatics, molecular biology, genome annotation, microarray analysis, pathway analysis, data mining, Unix, Perl, Java, SQL, HTML, and web design |
| Ian McQuillan | Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan | Computational modelling, mathematical modelling, information processing systems, string algorithms |
| Igor Jurisica | Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network | Computational biology cancer informatics |
| Irena Ekiel | Bioinformatics and structural biology in the area of cancer and pathogenomics | |
| Jacek Majewski | Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine, McGill University | Detection of functional regions in genomics sequences, Investigation of sequence motifs involved in splicing regulation, Genome evolution and function, Comparative genomics, Detection of mutations responsible for human genetic disease |
| Jack Chen | Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University | Biological databases, gene identification, genome annotation, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, functional genomics, transcriptional regulatory network, neuroscience |
| James Green | Department of Systems & Computer Engineering, Carleton University | Pattern classification, artificial intelligence, nonlinear system identification, protein structure prediction, computational identification of post-translational modification sites |
| Janice Glasgow | School of Computing, Queen’s University | Molecular scene analysis, intelligent systems for crystal growth, microarray analysis |
| Jared Simpson | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; Departments of Computer Science and Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto | Sequence Analysis, Genome Assembly, Sequencing Technology, Algorithms, Software |
| Jean Morissette | Genetic, radiation hydrid and physical map; gene localization; gene expression; microarrays | |
| Jean-Pierre Perreault | Department of Biochemistry, University of Sherbrooke | Study of RNA structure/function, Ribozyme, prediction of small genes |
| Jian Pei | Computing Science, Simon Fraser University | Data mining and machine learning methods for biomedical data processing, microarray and protein interaction data analysis, integration and mining of multiple sources |
| Jinko Graham | Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University | Statistical and population genetics, biostatistics and computational biology |
| Joerg Sander | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | Integrated Data Mining in Biological Databases, Complex/Multidimensional Data Management, Database Technology for Bioinformatics |
| John Parkinson | Hospital for Sick Children; University of Toronto | Comparative genomics, Genome databases, Partial Genomes, Network analysis, Protein classification, Systems Biology, Dynamic simulations, Computational modelling |
| Joseph F. Angel | Trainer of Bioinformatics, metabolic control theory, regulation of gene expression, protein structure and function | |
| Joseph P. Bielawski | Department of Biology; Department of Mathematics & Statistics; Dalhousie University | Molecular Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics, Phylogenomics |
| Kaizhong Zhang | Computer Sscience, University of Western Ontario | Pattern matching and discovery, RNA structural alignment and comparison |
| 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 |
| Ken Barker | Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary | Data aspects of bioinformatics, database integration, Data warehousing technologies |
| Ken Dewar | McGill Genome Centre | Large scale sequencing and analysis, comparative genomics |
| Kirsten Muller | University of Waterloo | Phylogenetic analyses, RNA sequence alignment, comparative sequence analysis, secondary and tertiary structure of RNA in phylogeny |
| Lei Guo | Peptide sequencing and protein identification from tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) data, protein 3D structure prediction | |
| Lewis Lukens | Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph | Plant comparative genomics, quantitative and evolutionary genetics |
| Lila Kari | Computer Science, University of Western Ontario | Biomolecular (DNA) computing |
| Lincoln Stein | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto | Bioinformatics |
| Mads Kaern | Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, University of Ottawa | Systems biology, genetic circuits, transcriptional regulatory networks, dynamical systems, yeast |
| Marcel Turcotte | University of Ottawa | Automatic discovery of structural motifs |
| Marco Marra | Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Research Institute | Large scale sequencing and physical mappingl comparative genomics, regulation of transcription |
| Mark Wilkinson | Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia | BioMOBY, Semantic Web Services, Ontologies and Description Logics, GUI tool development, Computational Privacy and Ethics |
| Mark Daley | University of Western Ontario | Natural computing, mathematical and computational modelling of biological processes |
| Martin Ester | School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University | Database Systems, Data Mining, Applications in Bioinformatics |
| Martina Stromvik | Department of Plant Science, McGill University | Bioinformatics, microgenomics, plant promoters, gene expression and functional anatomy |
| Mathieu Blanchette | McGill Centre for Bioinformatics | Sequence analysis, comparative genomics, sequence evolution, gene regulation, motif discovery |
| Matthew Links | College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan | Research in the areas of Bioinformatics / Computational Biology / Genomics / Metagenomics |
| Michael McDonald | The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia | I work in applied ethics with a specialization in research ethics. In the past few years I have focussed on the ethics of research involving humans and created research teams looking at Canadian governance for this area. I am interested in building ethical systems of governance for research. |
| Michael W. Gray | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University | Phylogenetic analysis, Protist EST project |
| Michael J. Smith | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University | Molecular evolution and phylogeny |
| Michael C. Mackey | Department of Physiology, McGill University | Biological, physical and economic systems whose dynamics are described by delay–differential or functional differential equations–especially regulation of gene networks and analysis of their dynamical properties |
| Michael Burgess | School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia | Empirical research to establish moral views and perspective on ethical issues. Areas of research include biobanks, computational approaches to ethical permissions for accessing records, and use of informatics to design approaches to mining qualitative databases. Also interested in evaluating open source against other intellectual property regimes for measures of accessibility to researchers, sustainability of software and databases, and development potential. |
| Michael Brudno | Computer Science, University of Toronto; University Health Network | Comparative genomics, algorithms for biological data |
| Michael Hoffman | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre; University of Toronto | Epigenomics, functional genomics, machine learning, dynamic Bayesian networks, chromatin, graphical models, ChIP-seq, DNase-seq, cancer |
| Michelle Brazas | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research | |
| Miguel Andrade | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; Johannes Gutenberg University | DNA microarray data analysis, data and text mining, genomics, protein sequence analysis |
| Mike Hallett | University of Western Ontario | Gene expression, proteomics, protein interactions, subcellular localization, integrative techniques, endoplasmic reticulum, breast cancer, cystic fibrosis |
| Miklós Csűrös | Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal | Algorithms for comparative genomics and evolutionary tree reconstruction |
| Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf | Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa | Microarray analysis and statistics, application and method development, in silico biology |
| Nabil Belacel | National Research Council of Canada | Bioinformatics, data mining, Fuzzy clustering, New classification methods for gene expression data, operations research, multiple criteria decision analysis |
| Nadia El-Mabrouk | Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal | Comparative genomics, genome rearrangement, haplotype reconstruction, RNA secondary structure identification, algorithmics, Pattern-Matching, Combinatorial optimisation |
| Nematollaah Shiri | Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University | Knowledge base (KB) and database systems (DB), Logic programming and deductive databases, Uncertainty, web mining, Query processing and optimization, information integration |
| Nick Tinker | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Plant structural and functional genomics, Crop data management and statistical analysis – eg performance trials, molecular diversity, linkage mapping, esp. oat and barley |
| Parvin Mousavi | School of Computing, Queen’s University | Machine learning, Knowledge discovery from microarray data, Systems biology, Medical image processing |
| Patricia Evans | Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick | Bioinformatics, computational biology, algorithm design and analysis, problem complexity analysis, string algorithms, RNA structure comparison, network analysis |
| Paul Pavlidis | Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia | Gene expression, functional genomics, neuroinformatics, meta-analysis, neuroscience |
| Paul Lu | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | High-throughput proteome analysis using machine learning and high-performance computing |
| Paul Payette | Merck Frosst Canada & Co | Drug target identification |
| Paul Young | Department of Biology, Queen’s University | Cell cycle control in yeast, ion transport and pH regulation in cells |
| Paul Higgs | Department of Physics, McMaster University | Molecular Evolution, Phylogenetics, RNA Structure, Mitochondrial Genomes, Biophysics |
| Paul Harrison | Department of Biology, McGill University | Genome annotation, genome & proteome evolution, simple models of protein folding & evolution, bioinformatics & simulation of protein (mis)folding |
| Peta C. Bonham-Smith | Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan | Comparative genomics of plant ribosomal protein genes |
| Peter Tieleman | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary | Membrane proteins, Modelling, Molecular simulation |
| Peter Unrau | Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University | Small RNA databases, RNA interference, non-coding RNAs, RNA catalysis, in vitro selection |
| Phil Hieter | Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia | Comparative genomics, sage |
| Quaid Morris | Vector Institute; Memorial Sloan Kettering | Machine learning and statistical modelling for genomic-scale experimental data, genomic dataset integration, microarray data analysis, protein-protein interaction networks, microRNAs, regulatory networks, transcription factor binding site prediction |
| Quentin Cronk | University of British Columbia | Interested in microarray mapping (i.e. patterns of gene expression or comparative genomic hybridization along chromosomes); Co-developer of microarray mapping web tool, Camas http://statgen.ncsu.edu/camas/ |
| Rafael Najmanovich | Département de pharmacologie et physiologie, Université de Montréal | Molecular Recognition Systems Biology, Structural Biology, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Prediction of Protein Function from Structure, Chemoinformatics |
| Raymond Ng | Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia | Large scale data mining, health informatics problems, high dimensionality with small sample sizes, data quality and robustness, parallel and high performance computing |
| Robert Beiko | Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University | Bioinformatics, Comparative genomics and phylogenetics, Machine learning, Visualization of biological data |
| Robert E. Kearney | Department of Biomedical Engineering, McGill University | Signal analysis and data base methods for high throughput proteomics |
| Robert W. Lee | Department of Biology, Dalhousie University | Molecular evolutionary analysis, protist EST project |
| Roderick Melnik | MS2Discovery Interdisciplinary Research Institute; Wilfrid Laurier University | Systems biology, mathematical models in life science applications, computational biology |
| Rodney Cooper | Faculty of Computer Science and Department of Chemistry, University of New Brunswick | Molecular modelling, QSAR, SVL programming, data security, NET Framework software development |
| Roger C. Lévesque | Institut de biologie Intégrative et des systèmes, Université Laval | Microbial genome annotation, proteomics, in vivo bacterial genome profiling, whole-genome analysis for drug resistance and virulence, characterization of unknown and hypothetical proteins from Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
| Ronald Beavis | Experimental bioinformatics, large-scale proteomics data analysis | |
| Rosemary Redfield | Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia | Natural competence mechanisms bacteria use to take up DNA fragments from their environments, evolution of repeated sequence elements in bacterial genomes |
| Roy A. Gravel | Genetic basis of metabolic disease, gene finding based on phylogenetic comparisons, vitamin B12, biotin metabolism and regulation | |
| Russ Greiner | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | Machine learning, whole proteome analysis, medical informatics, predictive models, SNPs, microarrays, metabolomics |
| Ryan Brinkman | Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Centre | Flow Cytometry Bioinformatics |
| Ryan Hayward | Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta | Phylogeny algorithms |
| Sean Hemmingsen | Plant Biotechnology Facility, National Research Council | Database management, DNA sequence-based identification and classification of microorganisms |
| Sean Graham | Department of Botany, University of British Columbia | Deep green phylogenetics, chloroplast genome evolution |
| Sébastien Lemieux | Institut de recherche en immunologie et en cancérologie, Université de Montréal | Statistical analysis of microarray data, RNA 3-D structure (modeling and analysis), application of machine learning to bioinformatics |
| Serguei Chteinberg | Département de biochimie, Université de Montréal | Analysis of RNA tertiary structure, RNA structure-function relationships |
| Sherif Abou Elela | Département de microbiologie et d’infectiologie, Université de Sherbrooke | RNA structure, curation and analysis of alternatively spliced isoforms, annotation and discovery of non-coding RNA, prediction of ribonuclease cleavage sites |
| Shiv Prasad | Gene expression, microarray analysis | |
| Siamak Rezaei | Application of parallel processing techniques to bioinformatics, computational biolinguistic techniques for modelling biological sequences towards a molecular modelling language | |
| Sohrab Shah | BC Cancer Research Institute; Memorial Sloan Kettering | Computer science/bioinformatics |
| Stephen Michnick | Département de biochimie, Université de Montréal | Structure, dynamics and evolution of biochemical and genetic networks; experimental strategies for large-scale study of protein interaction networks |
| Steven Jones | Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Research Institute | Large scale sequencing and physical mapping, sequence analysis, gene regulation |
| Steven Pelech | Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia | Proteome analysis, signal transduction pathways analysis, disease marker identification, drug target identification |
| Steven M. Carr | Departments of Biology and Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland | Molecular systematics, population & phylogeographic genomics, DNA chip biotechnology for biodiversity, DNA forensics |
| Sudhir P. Mudur | Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University | Bioinformatics visualization, algorithms, usability studies and software tool development |
| Sylvie Hamel | Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal | Pattern matching algorithms, sequences and structures comparison |
| Tamara Munzner | Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia | Information visualization, visualization of phylogenetic trees and genomic sequences |
| Todd Wareham | Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland | Algorithm analysis and design, parameterized complexity analysis, evolutionary tree inference |
| Ulrike Stege | Computer Science, University of Victoria | Computational biology, parameterized complexity, the design of heuristics, graph theory, applications in cognitive psychology and human decision making |
| Virendra C. Bhavsar | Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick | Parallel and distributed computing, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics |
| Vladimir Makarenkov | Département d’informatique, Univerité du Québec à Montréal | Phylogenetic tree reconstruction, algorithms and statistical analyses, bioinformatics software and database development |
| Volker Haarslev | Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University | Bioinformatics software, bioinformatics ontologies, web-based knowledge management |
| Walid Houry | Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto | Protein folding, protein design, chaperone assisted protein folding, proteomics and bioinformatics |
| Walter Scott | Biomolecular simulation (molecular dynamics) at the atomic level, in particular of proteins; development and implementation of efficient simulation algorithms (co-author of the GROMOS96 biomolecular simulation package, used at over 500 sites worldwide) | |
| Warren J. Gallin | Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta | Comparative proteomics, molecular phylogeny, functional protein evolution, protein structure/function studies, machine learning |
| William Crosby | Gene annotation strategies and tools, development of information management tools | |
| William Hsiao | Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University; BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory | Public health, microbial genomics, bioinformatics |
| Wyeth Wasserman | BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute; Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia | Genome sequence analysis, identification of regions regulating transcription, gene expression |
| Xuhua Xia | Department of Biology, University of Ottawa | Molecular evolution and phylogenetics, comparative genomics and software development |
| Yen-Han Lin | Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan | Systems biology, network biology, metabolic pathway engineering |
| Yingwei Wang | School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Prince Edward Island | Genomic Signatures, Chaos Game Represenations, Biological Information Theory |
| Youlian Pan | National Research Council | Data mining, machine learning, development of bioinformatics tools, prediction of transcription factor binding sites, gene prediction |
| Zhaolei Zhang | Departments of Computer Science and Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto | Genome annotation, Comparative genomics, Sequence analysis, Protein structure analysis, Evolutionary Bioinformatics |