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Learn about our team of talented instructors.

Along with the CBW Leadership, the core faculty members are responsible for the ongoing curriculum development and the management of the CBW workshops.

The following is a list of the CBW core faculty, and past and present instructors and invited lecturers.

Current Faculty and Instructors

Dr. Bader develops biological network analysis and pathway information resources. He created the Bio...
Audrey is an M.Sc. student in the lab of Dr. Guillaume Bourque, in the Department of Human Genetics ...
Professor Nil Basu holds a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Environmental Health Sciences at McGill Un...
Rob (or “Dr. Robert Beiko”, if you want to be all formal about it) is an Associate Professor and...
He received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, in 2002, where he...
Richard has been involved in the implementation and use of high-throughput sequencing analysis pipel...
As a Bioinformatics manager of the TechDev unit, Mathieu ensures the integration and the support of ...
Dr. Bourque research interests are in comparative and functional genomics with a special emphasis o...

Past Faculty and Instructors

Robert Beiko (Past Faculty)
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University

Misha Bilenky (Past Faculty)
Staff Scientist, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centrey

Paul Boutros (Past Faculty)
Principal Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Fiona Brinkman (Past Faculty)
Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU

Michael Brudno (Past Faculty)
Director, Hospital for Sick Children

Florence Cavalli (Past Faculty)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

Anamaria Crisan (Past Faculty)
PhD Student, University of British Columbia

Anna Goldenberg (Past Faculty)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Brian Haas (Past Faculty)
Senior Computational Biologist, Broad Institute

Rachade Hmamouchi (Past Project Manager)

Morgan Langille (Past Faculty)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University

Andrew McArthur (Past Faculty)
Associate Professor, McMaster University

Andrew McPherson (Past Faculty)
Post Doctoral Fellow, BC Cancer Agency

George Mihaiescu (Past Faculty)
Senior Cloud Architect, Informatics and Biocomputing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Quaid Morris (Past Faculty)
Principal Investigator, University of Toronto

John Parkinson (Past Faculty)
Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children

Mark Phillips (Past Faculty)
Academic Associate, McGill University

Trevor Pugh (Past Faculty)
Scientist, University Health Network

Jüri Reimand (Past Faculty)
Principal Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Lincoln Stein (Past Faculty)
Director, Senior Principal Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Boris Steipe (Past Faculty)
Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Fouad Yousif (Past Faculty)
Research Associate, Informatics and Biocomputing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Christina Yung (Past Faculty)
Project Manager, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Peter Ronning (Past Faculty)
Graduate student, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis

Heather Gibling (Past Faculty)
PhD Candidate, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Christopher Miller (Past Faculty)
Assistant Professor, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine

Megan Richters (Past Faculty)
PhD candidate in Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine

Michelle Brazas (Past Faculty)
Senior Program Manager, Adaptive Oncology, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Pascale Marquis (Past Faculty)
Bioinformatics Consultant, McGill University

David Baillie (Past Faculty)
Professor, Simon Fraser University

Andreas Baxevanis (Past Faculty)
Director, Computational Genomics and Associate Director for Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD; Adjunct Professor, The Johns Hopkins University.

Yoshua Bengio (Past Faculty)
Professeur Agrégé/Associate Professor, Département d’Informatique et Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal.

Ryan Brinkman (Past Faculty)
Senior Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, BC

Stefanie Butland (Past Faculty)
Research Associate, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia

Jennifer Bryan (Past Faculty)
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC.

Fong Chun Chan (Past Faculty)
PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia.

Jamie Cuticchia (Past Faculty)
Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto

Axel Ducret (Past Faculty)
Sr. Research Biologist, Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research

Daniel Figeys (Past Faculty)
Senior Scientist, MDS Ocata Inc.

Joanne Fox (Past Faculty)
Instructor, University of British Columbia

Warren Gish (Past Faculty)
Associate Professor, Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis

Raphael Gottardo (Past Faculty)
Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Larry D. Greller (Past Faculty)
Director of Mathematical Biology and Systems Modeling, Molecular Mining Corporation, Kingston, Ontario

Mike Hallett (Past Faculty)
Director, McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Associate Member, Department of Biochemistry.

Donal Hickey (Past Faculty)
Professor, Biology, University of Ottawa.

Phil Hieter (Past Faculty)
Michael Smith Laboratories, Vancouver, BC

Christopher Hogue (Past Faculty)

Walid Houry (Past Faculty)
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

Steve Jones (Past Faculty)
Director of Data Analysis and Informatics Group, BC Genome Sequencing Centre, Vancouver, BC

Igor Jurisica (Past Faculty)
Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, IBM Life Sciences Discovery Center, Toronto, ON

Anna Lapuk (Past Faculty)
Head Bioinformatics Scientist, Prostate Centre/Vancouver General Hospital.

Franois Major (Past Faculty)
Professeur Agrégé/Associate Professor, Département d’Informatique et Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal

Marco Marra (Past Faculty)
BC Genome Sequencing Centre, Vancouver, BC

John McPherson (Past Faculty)
Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.

David Morais, PhD (Past Faculty)
Bioinformatician and software developer, Universite de Sherbrooke.

Aaron Quinlan (Past Faculty)
Assistant Professor, Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, USA

Joseph Ryan (Past Faculty)
National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD.

Roberto Sanchez (Past Faculty)
Medical Biophysics, Rockefeller University, New York

Steve Scherer (Past Faculty)
Senior Scientist, Department of Genetics and Associate Director, The Centre for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Sohrab Shah (Past Faculty)
Bioinformatics group leader, BC Cancer Agency.

Michael Stromberg (Past Faculty)
Bioinformatics scientist, Illumina, San Diego, CA

Carl Virtanen (Past Faculty)
Director, Research Lead UHN Digital, Associate Director, HPC4Health.

Wyeth Wasserman (Past Faculty)
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics,, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC