Mentors by Discipline
Bioinformatics
Forthcoming.
Conservation Genetics
Daniel Ruzzante
Professor, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Conservation and Population Genetics, Genomics, Epigenomics, Close Kin Mark Recapture, Fish, Fisheries
Epidemiology
Sanja Stanojevic
Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
Research keywords: Rare Diseases, cystic fibrosis; longitudinal data analysis; phenotypic clusters
Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
Jeanette Boudreau
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Cancer, Spatial Biology, Immunology, Immunotherapy, Immunohistochemistry, Flow Cytometry, Humanized and 3D Cancer Models
Johane Robitaille
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Department of Pathology, Department of Paediatrics, and Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University
Research keywords: Genetics of developmental retinal vascular disorders and inherited retinal dystrophies, patient registry, gene discovery, model organisms
Sevtap Savas
Professor, Human Genetics; Cross appointment with Oncology; Division of Biomedical Sciences, Human Genetics and Genomics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Research keywords: Cancer, Genetics, Genomics, Genetic Variation, Medical and Social Outcomes and Their Predictors
Guangju Zhai
University Research Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Research keywords: Genomic, Epigenomic, Metabolomic Epidemiology, Osteoarthritis, Complex Diseases, Multi-Omics, Population-Based Studies
Genomics and Biomedical Genetics
John Archibald
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Comparative Genomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology, Evolution, Gene Transfer
Karen Bedard
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University
Dan Gaston
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Genomics, Cancer, Clinical Genomics, Transcriptomics, Cancer Genetics, Data Analysis and Visualization, R, Python, Data Analysis, Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing
Christopher McMaster
Scientific Director of the Institute of Genetics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Genetics, Biochemistry, Metabolism, Inherited Disease, Neuromuscular, Ocular
Statistical Genetics
Rob Beiko
Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Bioinformatics, Microbial Genomics, Phylogenomics, Metagenomics, Environmental DNA
Joeph Bielawski
Professor, Department of Biology, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Biological Complexity, Adaptive Evolution, Molecular Evolution, Comparative Genomics, Multi-Level Selection Theory, Models as Theory, Models for Inference, Markov Models, Maximum Likelihood, Metagenomics, Microbiomes, Environmental DNA, Citizen Science, Pro-Social Knowledge Translation
Candemir Cigsar
Professor of Statistics, Deputy Head of Statistics and Data Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Research keywords: Analysis of Survival and Event History Data, Recurrent Event Processes, Outcome Dependent Sample Designs, Incomplete Data Analysis, Causal Inference, Statistical Genetics, Chronic Diseases
Joanna Mills Flemming
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University; Regional Director, CANSSI Atlantic
Research keywords: Marine Conservation, Fisheries Science, Close-Kin Mark-Recapture, Stock Assessment
Morgan Langille
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Dalhousie University
Finlay Maguire
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Pathogen Genomics, Genomic Epidemiology, Clinical Microbiogy, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Antimicrobial Resistance, Emerging Zoonoses
Manuel Mattheisen
Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Victor Martinez
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University
JC Loredo-Osti
Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Research Keywords: Theory and Methods of Statistics, Genetic Epidemiology, Statistical and
Population Genetics, Stochastic Epidemiology, Disease Ecology.
Ed Susko
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
Research Keywords: Evolutionary Inference, Phylogenetics, Adaptive Evolution, Epidemiology, Statistical Inference
Yildiz Yilmaz
Professor of Statistics Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Associate Director Representing Atlantic Canada, Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI)
Research keywords: Methods Development, Survival Analysis, Event History Analysis, Mediation Analysis, Selective Sampling Designs, Cancer Epidemiology