Dr. Paul Pavlidis is a Professor of Psychiatry and in the Michael Smith Laboratories at UBC. His lab’s primary research focus is understanding the molecular basis of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders using computational and bioinformatics methods to analyze genomics data. Dr. Pavlidis obtained his BA in biochemistry from Cornell University and did his PhD on neurogenetics and neurophysiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He did postdoctoral work on the molecular basis of synaptic plasticity in rodents before shifting focus to computational biology and genomics. He was on the faculty of Columbia University’s department of Biomedical Informatics prior to moving to UBC, where he has been since 2006. Dr. Pavlidis has a long track record of computational method and tool development in functional genomics, especially in transcriptomics and gene network analysis, and frequently collaborates with basic and clinical researchers.
Website: https://pavlab.msl.ubc.ca/