Trainees
STAGE Trainees are the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are active in the program.
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PhD Students | ||||
![]() | Lisa Strug (primary) | University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics | Investigating human nasal epithelia as a respiratory model for Cystic Fibrosis using RNA-Sequencing | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
![]() Sangook Kim | Lisa Strug (primary) Shelley Bull Johanna Rommens Anne Stephenson | University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and The Hospital for Sick Children | Development of a phenotype for Lung Disease in Cystic Fibrosis: applications to genetic association across cohorts and countries | Nov 2017 |
![]() Michael Lebenbaum | France Gagnon (primary) Laurent Briollais | University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation | Genetic endowments and social capital: An examination of the association between Polygenic scores for educational attainment and adult social capital | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
![]() | Lisa Strug (primary) Lei Sun Johanna Rommens | University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics | Incorporating Robust Statistical Procedures into Model Selection Using Genomic Features with Small Effect Sizes | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
![]() Victoria Marshe | James Kennedy (primary) Anna Goldenberg Andrew Paterson | University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Sciences, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Applying machine learning to genomic data to identify diagnostic subtypes in late-life depression | Sep 2016 |
![]() | Lisa Strug (primary) Lei Sun Johanna Rommens | The Hospital for Sick Children | Co-localization Method with Application in Cystic Fibrosis | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
![]() | Shelley Bull (primary) Irene Andrulis | University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics | Improving mixture cure modelling of multiple molecular factors in cancer prognosis | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
![]() Dongyang Yang | Wei Xu (primary) Andrew Paterson Geoffrey Liu | University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics | Partition of Human Microbiome Sequencing Data and Analysis of genome-wide Genetic Association through a Distance-based Unsupervised Learning Model | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
![]() Lin Zhang | Lei Sun (primary) Lisa Strug Johanna Rommens | University of Toronto Department of Statistical Sciences | A robust and unifying regression framework for allele-based association test | Dec 2017 - TBD |
![]() | Lei Sun (primary) Lisa Strug Johanna Rommens | University of Toronto, Department of Statistical Sciences | A unified regression framework for polygenic risk score, PrediXcan, and TWAS tests | Dec 2017 - TBD |
Postdoctoral Fellows | ||||
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![]() Myriam Brossard | Shelley Bull (primary) Radu Craiu Rayjean Hung | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | Development of novel statistical methods for genetic analysis of complex traits | Dec 2017 - Nov 2019 |
![]() Kexin Luo | Shelley Bull (primary) Andrew Paterson Irene Andrulis | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | Statistical methods for region-based genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of common and rarevariants | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
![]() Elham Khodayari Moez | Rayjean Hung (primary) Stephen Lye Lisa Strug | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | Investigating host genomics and epigenomics for early childhood cytomegalovirus sequelae based on birth cohort | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
![]() | Wei Xu (primary) Andrew Paterson Geoffrey Liu | University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics | Application of machine learning in longitudinal microbiome data analysis for disease prediction | Sep 2020 - Aug 2022 |
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Alumni
STAGE Alumni are the graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars who have participated in the program over the years.
Master's Student | ||||
![]() Tabitha Kung | France Gagnon (primary) and Katherine Siminovitch ( | Genetic Predictors of Response to Treatment in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology | May 2011 - Jun 2012 | Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Queen's University and Clinician-scientist at KGH Research Institute (2021) |
PhD Students | ||||
![]() Darren Brenner | Shelley B. Bull Rayjean Hung (primary) Geoffrey Liu | A histology specific genome-wide investigation of lung cancer University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology | Jan 2011 - Jun 2012 | Assistant Professor, University of Calgary (2021) |
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![]() Jessica Dennis | France Gagnon (primary) Zdenka Pausova Lisa Strug | Genetic and epigenetic factors in the regulation of tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) plasma levels and role in venous thromboembolism University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology | Oct 2011 - Jan 2016 | Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Genetics at UBC and Investigator at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute (2021) |
![]() Andriy Derkach | Andrew Paterson Johanna Rommens Lei Sun (primary) Jerry Lawless | Statistical methodologies for genetic association studies with rare variants University of Toronto, Department of Statistical Sciences | Jan 2011 - Jun 2014 | Assistant Attending, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2021) |
![]() Osvaldo Espin-Garcia | Shellley Bull (primary) Wei Xu Andrew Paterson Geoffrey Liu | Integrative methods for design and analysis of genetic association studies University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics, and Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital | Sep 2016 - Aug 2018 | Assistant Professor, Biostatistics Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (2021) |
![]() Karl Everett | France Gagnon (primary) Michael Wilson | Genetic and epigenetic determinants of apolipoproteins B and A1 plasma levels and their associations with hypercoagulability | Sep 2016 - Aug 2017 | |
![]() Laura Faye | Shelley B. Bull (primary) Lei Sun | Accurate and efficient estimation of genetic effect in genome-wide association and genetic sequencing studies. University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital | Jan 2011 - Jul 2013 | Senior Researcher at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) (2021) |
![]() Sarah Gagliano | Jo Knight (primary) Andrew Paterson Cathy Barr | Identification of risk variants in genome-wide association studies using functional characteristics University of Toronto Institute of Medical Science, and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Neuroscience Research Department | Sep 2014 - Nov 2015 | Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Medicine and Department of Neurosciences, Montreal Heart Institute (from July 2020). |
![]() Linda Kachuri | Rayjean Hung (primary) Lei Sun Geoffrey LIu | Comprehensive investigation of telomere length and its genetic determinants in cancer risk and clinical outcomes. | Sep 2014 - Aug 2016 | Post-doctoral fellow at University of California - San Francisco (2021) |
![]() | France Gagnon (primary) Michael Wilson | Epistatic mechanisms dictating the thrombotic risk factor endogenous thrombin potential University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology | Sep 2016 - Aug 2020 | |
![]() Weili Li | Lisa Strug (primary) Johanna Rommens Rayjean Hung | Developing novel statistical methods under the evidential framework with a focus on analyzing sequence data University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Biostatistics | Oct 2011 - Aug 2015 | Manager of The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) statistical genetics facility (2021) |
![]() Dave Soave | Lei Sun (primary) Lisa Strug Johanna Rommens | Predicting cystic fibrosis-related diabetes using longitudinal measures of pancreatic damage from birth for better patient management | Feb 2013 - Aug 2016 | Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University (2021) |
![]() Matthew Warkentin | Rayjean Hung (primary) Geoffrey Liu Laurent Briollais | University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | Improving lung cancer risk prediction using an epidemiologic, genomic, and radiomic approach | PhD Candidate in Epidemiology at Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto (2021) |
![]() Jingxiong (Amelia) Xu | Laurent Briollais (primary) Wei Xu Stephen Lye Rayjean Hung | Analysis of genome-wide G by E interaction studies through Bayesian graphical modeling | Sept 2014 - Aug 2016 | PhD in progress (2021) |
![]() Nora Zwingerman | France Gagnon (primary) Zdenka Pausova Matthieu Lemire | The association of DNA variants and DNA methylation levels with fibrinolytic protein levels | Jul 2013 - Aug 2015 | PhD in progress |
Postdoctoral Fellows | ||||
![]() Christie Burton | Paul Arnold Andrew Paterson Lisa Strug (primary) | Examining the possible role of dopamine and glutamate gene networks in response to inhibition to understand the genetics of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder The Hospital for Sick Children | Feb 2013 - Jan 2015 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children (2021) |
![]() Zhijian (Charlie) Chen | Shelley B. Bull (primary) Radu Craiu Andrew Paterson | Design and analysis of genome-wide studies of complex diseases and traits. Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital | Jan 2011 - Aug 2013 | Manager, Model Validation and Approval, Bank of Nova Scotia (2013) |
![]() Elizabeth Corfield | Lisa Strug (primary) Andrew Paterson Anne Bassett | Characterizing the genetics of ADHD traits with cognitive deficits in a pediatric community-based sample The Hospital for Sick Children | Dec 2017 - Nov 2018 | Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health (2021) |
![]() Eileen Crowley | Andrew Paterson (primary) Lisa Strug | Whole exome sequencing of veo-IBD patients from the NEOPICS International Cohort Study The Hospital for Sick Children | Jul 2018 - Jun 2019 | Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Clinician Researcher in Pediatric IBD at London Heath Sciences Centre (LHSC) and Assistant Professor, Western University. (2021) |
![]() | Stephen Scherer (primary) Andrew Paterson Lisa Strug | Using genetic variants across the allele frequency spectrum to study autism spectrum disorder The Hospital for Sick Children | Jun 2018 - Jul 2019 | Associate Professor of Statistical and Population Genomics, University of Oxford (2021) |
![]() Gord Fehringer | Laurent Briollais Rayjean Hung (primary) Geoffrey Liu | Genome-wide and post genome-wide studies of lung cancer and head and neck cancer | Jan 2011 - Jan 2012 | Linkage Analyst at Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) (2021) |
![]() Linda Hiraki | Shelley Bull Andrew Paterson (primary) Zdenka Pausova | Identification of genetic variants associated with renal function in type 1 diabetes. The Hospital for Sick Children | Jul 2013 - June 2015 | Staff Physician, Division of Rheumatology, Scientist, Genetics & Genome Biology, SickKids and Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Heath at the University of Toronto (2021) |
![]() Yue (Cindy) Jiang | Jayne Danska (primary) Andrew Paterson Lisa Strug | A systems based analytical framework for metatranscriptomic studies of type 1 diabetes The Hospital for Sick Children | Sep 2012 - Aug 2015 | |
![]() Sareh Keshavarzi | Andrew Paterson (primary) France Gagnon Angelo Canty | Multivariate meta genome-wide association of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Type 1 diabetes The Hospital for Sick Children | Sep 2016 - Aug 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hospital for Sick Children |
![]() Agnieszka Krol | Laurent Briollais (primary) | Development of multistate models for rare variant analysis in familial cancer studies Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | Jul 2017 - Nov 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow, AstraZeneca (2021) |
![]() Martin Ladouceur | France Gagnon (primary) Mathieu Lemire Arturas Petronis | Statistical models to characterize genome-wide DNA methylation from multigenerational families University of Toronto | Nov 2012 - Dec 2013 | Director of Statistics, Senior Research Scientist, Real-World Evidence at Evidera and Adjunct Clinical Professor at Université de Montréal (2021) |
![]() Alejandra E. Medina Rivera | France Gagnon Jo Knight Michael Wilson (primary) | Leveraging functional genomics data to enhance GWAS analyses and causal variant identification The Hospital for Sick Children | Sep 2014 - Mar 2015 | Research associate at the International Laboratory for Human Genomics, National University of Mexico (2021) |
![]() Melissa Miller | France Gagnon Lisa Strug (primary) Johanna Rommens | Identifying Genetic Modifiers of Immunoreactive Trypsinogen Levels in a NBS Population in Cystic Fibrosis The Hospital for Sick Children | Mar 2011-Feb 2014 | Director of Human Genetics, Internal Medicine Research Unit, Pfizer (2021) |
![]() | Joanne Knight (primary) | The association between genetic and imaging markers of neurodegeneration across dementias-A data-driven approach Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Sep 2016 - Aug 2018 | Clinical Research Associate at Sunnybrook (2021) |
![]() Vanessa Oliveira | James L. Kennedy (primary) Andrew Paterson Lei Sun | Variability of the DRD4 gene in behavioural phenotypes Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Sep 2011 - Aug 2013 | Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto (2021) |
![]() Marie Pigeyre | Guillaume Paré (primary) | Identification of novel biomarkers to predict vascular complications of Type 2 diabetes: A Mendelian Randomization approach McMaster University, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine | Dec 2017 - Jun 2019 | Assistant Professor of Medicine, McMaster University (2021) |
![]() | Shelley Bull (primary) Irene Andrulis Julia Knight | Pathway-based detection of rare mutations in affected relatives Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | Dec 2017 - Jan 2020 | Biostatistical Consultant at George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba (2021) |
![]() Delnaz Roshandel | Andrew Paterson (primary) Shelley Bull Michael Wilson | Genetics of skin fluorescence: an indicator of long term diabetes complications | Sep 2014 - Aug 2016 | Senior Bioinformatician, The Hospital for Sick Children (2021) |
Fodé Tounkara | Laurent Briollais (primary) Julia Knight | Extending risk prediction models for hereditary breast ovarian cancer (HBOC) families Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | Jul 2018 - Dec 2018 | Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Toronto (2021) |
![]() Yan Yan Wu | Laurent Briollais (primary) Julia Knight Stephen J. Lye | Development of statistical methods for BMI growth curves estimation and analysis on longitudinal GWAS data in relation to metabolic traits in children Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital | Aug 2012 - Aug 2014 | Associate Professor, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa (2021) |
![]() Lizhen Xu | Wei Xu (primary) Andrew Paterson | Latent variable modeling of longitudinal family microbiome data University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health | Jul 2013 - Oct 2014 | Senior Biostatistician, People Health Research Institute, McMaster University (2021) |
![]() Yildiz Yilmaz | Irene L. Andrulis Shelley B. Bull (primary) Julia Knight | Statistical methods for molecular genetic analysis of breast cancer Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital | Jan 2011 - May 2013 | Associate Professor of Statistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland (2021) |
Visiting Faculty | ||||
![]() Hance Clarke | Jo Knight (primary) Andrew Paterson Michael Wilson | Chronic post surgical pain - A pilot genome-wide association study. University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and University Health Network | Jul 2013 - July 2014 | Director of Pain Services and the medical director of the Pain Research Unit at the Toronto General Hospital. Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at University of Toronto (2021) |
![]() Sara Good | Andrew Paterson (primary) Angelo Canty Michael Wilson | Using imputed gene expression values to look for genetic risk factors associated with complications of Type 1 diabetes | Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 | Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg (2021) |
![]() Marc Woodbury-Smith | Andrew Paterson (primary) Stephen Scherer Lei Sun | Identifying functional rare variants in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) families McMaster University | Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 | Clinical Senior Lecturer/Hon Consultant in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University (2021) |