Instructors
Along with the CBW Leadership, the core faculty members are responsible for the ongoing curriculum development and the management of the CBW workshops.
The following is a list of the CBW core faculty, and past and present instructors and invited lecturers.
Current Faculty and Instructors
Past Faculty and Instructors
Aaron Quinlan
Assistant Professor, Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia
Andreas Baxevanis
Director, Computational Genomics and Associate Director for Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Anna Lapuk
Head Bioinformatics Scientist, Prostate Centre/Vancouver General Hospital
Axel Ducret
Sr. Research Biologist, Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research
Carl Virtanen
Director, Research Lead UHN Digital, Associate Director, HPC4Health
Christina Yung
Vice President, Data Science at Indoc Research
Christopher Hogue
Daniel Figeys
Senior Scientist, MDS Ocata Inc.
David Baillie
Professor, Simon Fraser University
David Morais, PhD
Bioinformatician and software developer, Université de Sherbrooke
Donal Hickey
Professor, Biology, University of Ottawa
Fong Chun Chan
PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia
Fouad Yousif
Senior Data Scientist, Yelp
Franois Major
Professeur Agrégé/Associate Professor, Département d’Informatique et Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal
George Mihaiescu
Senior Cloud Architect, Informatics and Biocomputing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Igor Jurisica
Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, IBM Life Sciences Discovery Center
Jamie Cuticchia
Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Jennifer Bryan
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC
Joanne Fox
Instructor, University of British Columbia
John McPherson
Deputy Director, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Joseph Ryan
National Human Genome Research Institute
Larry D. Greller
Director of Mathematical Biology and Systems Modeling, Molecular Mining Corporation
Marco Marra
BC Genome Sequencing Centre
Megan Richters
PhD candidate in Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine
Michael Brudno
Chief Data Scientist, University Health Network
Michael Stromberg
Bioinformatics scientist, Illumina
Michelle Brazas
Associate Director, Adaptive Oncology, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Mike Hallett
Director, McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Associate Member, Department of Biochemistry, McGill
Pascale Marquis
Bioinformatics Consultant, McGill University
Paul Boutros
Director of Cancer Data Science, UCLA
Peter Ronning
Graduate student, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis
Phil Hieter
Michael Smith Laboratories
Rachade Hmamouchi (Past Project Manager)
Raphael Gottardo
Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Roberto Sanchez
Medical Biophysics, Rockefeller University
Ryan Brinkman
Senior Scientist, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Research Centre
Sohrab Shah
Bioinformatics group leader, BC Cancer Agency
Stefanie Butland
Research Associate, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia
Steve Jones
Director of Data Analysis and Informatics Group, BC Genome Sequencing Centre
Steve Scherer
Senior Scientist, Department of Genetics and Associate Director, The Centre for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children; Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Walid Houry
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Warren Gish
Associate Professor, Genetics, Washington University, St. Louis
Wyeth Wasserman
Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, Senior Scientist, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia
Yoshua Bengio
Professeur Agrégé/Associate Professor, Département d’Informatique et Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal