Country of Residence
Discipline(s)
Institution
Concordia University
Biology
Department of Biology
Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology
7141 Sherbrooke Street West
Genomics Building (GE), GE-120.15
Concordia University
Montreal, QC, H4B 1R6
Research Interests
Complex Genetic Networks
Systematic analysis of complex genetic interaction networks in yeast, relation of trigenic interactions to genotype-to-phenotype, genome evolution, duplicated gene evolution, high-content screening of duplicated genes, genetic network rewiring, minimal genome design
Cancer Functional Genomics
Large copy-number variant evolution in triple negative breast cancer, integration of genomic and transcriptomic single cell data to construct phylogenetic evolution and identify cancer vulnerabilities, overexpression screens, CRISPR screens
Topics to speak on:
Complex genetic interactions
Biography
I received an undergraduate degree in human biology and zoology at the University of Toronto, M.Sc. in laboratory medicine and pathobiology at the SickKids Research Institute, followed by a Ph.D. in molecular genetics at the Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto. I then conducted postdoctoral work at the Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Applied Synthetic Biology, Concordia University. I am also an Adjunct Professor at the Goodman Cancer Institute, McGill University. My main research area is integrative synthetic and functional genomics, with a focus on complex genetic interaction networks.
Awards
Junior Scholar Award, Faculty of Arts and Science, Concordia University, 2023
Gairdner Early Career Investigator Award, The Gairdner Foundation, 2023
Forbeck Scholar Award in Aneuploidy in Cancer Development, Prognosis and Treatment, Forbeck Foundation, 2021-2024
Canada Research Chair Tier II in Synthetic and Functional Genomics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2021-2026
Scholarship for the Next Generation of Scientists Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cancer Research Society, 2021