Current Students Enrolled in the Program:

2009 Cohorts:

•  Timothy Au-Yeung - UBC student - rotation in Paul Pavlidis lab - CHiBi, UBC

•  Fong Chan - UBC student - rotation in Mark Wilkinson lab - St. Paul's Hospital, UBC

•  Yaojie Chen - UBC student - rotation in Dan Goldowitz lab - CMMT, UBC

•  Bhav Khaira - SFU student - rotation in Jack Chen lab- MBB, SFU

•  Andrew Roth - SFU student - rotation in Ryan Brinkman lab- BCCRC, BCCA

•  Kendric Wang - UBC student - rotation in Steve Jones lab- GSC, BCCA

2008 Cohorts:

•  Nima Aghaeepour - PhD student with Ryan Brinkman (BCCRC, BCCA) and Holger Hoos (CS, UBC)

•  Anamaria Crisan- MSc student with Sam Aparicio (BCCRC, BCCA)

•  Gavin Ha - PhD student with Sam Aparicio (BCCRC, BCCA)

•  Rodriga Goya- PhD student with Marco Marra (GSC, BCCA) and Irmtraud Meyer (CS, UBC)

•  Raymond Lim- MSc student with Paul Pavlidis (CHiBi, UBC)

•  Andrew McPherson- MSc student with David Huntsman (BCCRC, BCCA)

•  Mark Okada - MSc student with Martin Ester (CS, SFU)

•  Bora Uyar - MSc student with Jack Chen (MBB, SFU)

2007 Cohorts:

•  Adrian Cortes - MSc. student with Ryan Brinkman (BCCRC, BCCA)

•  Adam Hall - MSc. student with Steven Jones (GSC, BCCA)

•  Denil Wickrama - MSc. student with Steven Jones (GSC, BCCA)

•  Nick Wiebe - MSc. student with Irmtraud Meyer (Computer Science, UBC)

2006 Cohorts:

•  Thomas Hentrich - MSc student with Arvind Gupta (Computing Science, SFU) and Peter Unrau (MBB, SFU)

•  Meeta Mistry - PhD student with Paul Pavlidis (UBiC, UBC)

•  Olena Morozova - PhD student with Marco Marra (GSC)

•  Tim Reid - PhD student with Cenk Sahinalp (Computing Science, SFU) and Eldon Emerley (Physics, SFU)

2005 Cohorts:

•  Warren Cheung- Ph.D. student in Wyeth Wasserman Lab (CMMT, UBC)

•  Leon French - Ph.D. student in Paul Pavlidis Lab (UBiC, UBC)

2004 Cohorts:

•  Yvonne Li - Ph.D. student in Steve Jones Lab (GSC, UBC)

•   Kelvin Zhang - Ph.D. student withFrancis Ouellette Lab (Ontario Cancer Research Centre/UBiC)

2003 Cohorts:

•  Debra Fulton - Ph.D. student in Wyeth Wasserman Lab (CMMT, UBC)

•  Carri-Lyn Mead - Ph.D. student in Rob Holt Lab (GSC, UBC)

2002 Cohorts:

•  Michael Hsing - Ph.D. student in Artem Cherkasov Lab (Experimental Medicine, UBC)

A Selection of Student Lab Research Rotations:

•  Data mining to identify groups of genetically-related cancers (with Chris Bajdik, SFU)

•  Identification and characterization of alternative promoters in the human genome (with Wyeth Wasserman, UBC)

•  Identification of conserved cis-regulatory elements in double-stranded 1break repair genes (with Angela Brooks-Wilson,

    BCCA)

•  Gene expression profiling of innate immunity (Inimex, Vancouver)

•  Modeling and simulating cell signaling systems by semantic networks (BioCAD, Vancouver)

•  Investigation of nuclear membrane structure in longevity of Caenorhabditis elegans (with Steve Jones, BCCA)

•  Constructing protein interaction maps for Chlamydia genomes (with Bob Brunham, Centre for Disease Control)

•  Correlation of GeMS flanking sequences with GeMS sequence mutability (with Francis Ouellette, UBC)

•  Transcriptional regulatory networks in apoptotic cascade (with Frederic Pio, SFU)

•  A gene discovery tool for SAGE analysis (with Elizabeth E. Simpson, UBC)

•  Gene expression aided phylogenetic foot printing in Caenorhabditis elegans (with David Baillie, SFU)

•  Analysis of co-regulated genes in biomedically-linked pathways and processes (Merck Frosst, Montreal)

•  Identification of regulatory mutations in the SNAP -25 gene in schizophrenia (with Robert Holt, BCCA)

•  Inverse protein folding (with Arvind Gupta, SFU)

•  Computationally predicting cell-surface exposed proteins (with Fiona Brinkman, SFU)

•  In silico search for Salmonella typhimurium effectors (with Brett Finlay, UBC)

•  Detection of regulatory module candidates in sets of co-expressed genes (Merck-Frosst, Montreal)

•  Web services for international crop information systems (International Rice Research Institute, Philippines)

•  Structural differences confer from indels as novel drug targets (with Artem Cherkasov, UBC)

•  Upstream sequence conservation between groups of orthologous vertebrate genes (European Bioinformatics Institute,

    Cambridge, UK)

Conferences:

West Coast Worm Meeting, University of Santa Barbara, California, USA

Canadian Genetic Diseases Network (CGDN) Annual Scientific Meeting. Kimberley, Ontario, Canada

RECOMB 2004, San Diego, California, USA

Pseudomonas 2003 International Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

American Society for Microbiology Northwest Meeting,. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2004 Northwest Crystallography Workshop, Seattle, Washington, USA

Annual Seminar on Human Health Research, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Glasgow, Scotland

American Society of Microbiology 104th Annual General Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Swiss Proteomics Society 2003 Congress, Basel , Switzerland

Biology of Genomes Conference, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA

Advanced Systems Institute Exchange, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Chicago, Illinois, USA