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
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