Can human biological processes be engineered in simple cells like baker's yeast?
Aashiq H. Kachroo
- Canada Research Chair in Systems and Synthetic Biology
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Biology
- yeast systems genetics
- synthetic biology18
- systems biology4
- biotechnology31
- orthology
- functional conservation
- gene swappability
- genome engineering
- recombineering
- models of human disease4
- disease mechanisms9
- molecular genetics2
- human genetics
- evolutionary engineering3
- evolutionary biology12
- molecular and cellular biology26
- drug discovery9
- genetics16
- biomedical engineering30
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Michael T. Hallett
computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology
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Malcolm Whiteway
candida albicans, biomedical engineering, cell cycle control
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Steve Shih
microfluidics, synthetic biology, biofuels and biochemicals
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Alisa Piekny
cytoskeleton regulation, cytokinesis, mitosis
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Laurent Potvin-Trottier
synthetic biology, systems biology, microfluidics
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Brandon Findlay
drug discovery, directed evolution, metabolic engineering
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Adrian Tsang
genomics, enzymes for industrial processes, fungal genomics
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Michael Sacher
vesicle recognition, biochemistry of cell membranes, protein complexes
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Vincent Martin
synthetic biology, bioproduct development, microbial genomics
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Lea Popovic
probability theory, randomness in the living world, mathematical biology
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David Kwan
synthetic biology, molecular and cellular biology, directed evolution
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Chiara Gamberi
RNA biology, messenger RNA translation, Drosophila
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Madoka Gray-Mitsumune
pedagogy, educational technologies, academic integrity
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Luc Varin
plant molecular genetics, plant growth and development, stress response signaling pathways
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Reginald Storms
renewable energy, biofuels and biochemicals, bioremediation strategies
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Paul Joyce
tRNA nucleotidyltransferase, biochemistry of cell membranes, protein targeting
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Patrick Gulick
plant abiotic stress tolerance, gene regulation, stress response signaling pathways
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Nawwaf Kharma
soft computing, synthetic biology, image processing
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Chris Wilds
nucleic acid chemistry, X-ray crystallography, organic synthesis
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Christophe Grova
neuroimaging, bioimaging, biomedical engineering
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Muthukumaran Packirisamy
micro/nano devices, microfabrication, MEMS/NEMS
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David Walsh
aquatic ecology, molecular and cellular biology, evolutionary biology
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Dajana Vuckovic
metabolomics, mass spectrometry, solid-phase microextraction
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Peter D. Pawelek
siderophore-mediated iron uptake, bacterial iron uptake, bacterial pathogenesis
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Christopher Brett
endocytic system, biochemistry of cell membranes, mechanisms of autophagy
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Isabelle Benoit
fungal physiology, fungal genomics, lignocellulosic biomass
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John Capobianco
lanthanide-doped nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, luminescence
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Mojtaba Kahrizi
nanosystems, quantum devices, MEMS/NEMS
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Brandon Helfield
therapeutic ultrasound, microbubbles, ultrasound imaging
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William Zerges
photosynthesis, chlamydomonas reinhardtii, chloroplast biogenesis
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Vladimir Titorenko
aging (ageing), mechanics of apoptosis, anti-aging molecules
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Jung Kwon (John) Oh
biomedical engineering, materials science, biomacromolecules
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Pat Forgione
organic chemistry, drug discovery, greener cross-coupling reactions
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Selvadurai Daya Dayanandan
evolutionary genomics, molecular systematics, population genetics
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Tagny Duff
viral media, biomedia, vitalities
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David Secko
science/technology communication, role of journalism, new models of journalism
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Sana Jahanshahi-Anbuhi
biosensors, biomarkers and diagnostics, bioactive paper devices (µPADs)
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Christine DeWolf
surfaces and interfaces, biochemistry of cell membranes, lipid monolayers as model systems