Medical Bioinformatics @Western
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Events
Open House
17 Apr 2025 Research Opportunities in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, AI and Data Science
Seminars
Deep Learning Methods for Multimodal Clustering and Outcome Prediction in Knee Osteoarthritis
12 Feb 2025 Divya Sharma
Analysis of Recombination and Genetic Reassortment in RNA Viruses
28 Feb 2025 Hugo G. Castelán-Sánchez
Machine learning methods for protein and peptide design
11 Mar 2025 Philip M. Kim
Representation Learning of Molecules and Proteins and its Applications in Drug Screening
26 Mar 2025 Yan Sun
Building a Generalist Biomedical AI Agent
16 Apr 2025 Kexin Huang
Controlling the Human Microbiome
30 Apr 2025 Yang-Yu Liu
Foundation Models in Healthcare: Advances, Pitfalls, and Path Forward
16 May 2025 Xiaoxiao Li
Papers
Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number and Heteroplasmy in Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Schizophrenia.
Published 01 Sep 2023
Developing OCHROdb, a comprehensive quality checked database of open chromatin regions from sequencing data.
Published 19 May 2023
The EBV Gastric Cancer Resource (EBV-GCR): A Suite of Tools for Investigating EBV-Associated Human Gastric Carcinogenesis.
Published 28 Apr 2023
HexSE: Simulating evolution in overlapping reading frames.
Published 28 Feb 2023
Clustering Highly Divergent Homologous Proteins: An Alignment-Free Method.
Published 23 Feb 2023
bayroot: Bayesian sampling of HIV-1 integration dates by root-to-tip regression.
Published 13 Jan 2023
Evaluation of single-cell RNAseq labelling algorithms using cancer datasets.
Published 01 Jan 2023
Optimized phylogenetic clustering of HIV-1 sequence data for public health applications.
Published 01 Dec 2022
Evaluation of single-cell RNA-seq clustering algorithms on cancer tumor datasets.
Published 25 Nov 2022
Mitochondrial genomic integrity and the nuclear epigenome in health and disease.
Published 25 Nov 2022
Faculty
Tallulah Andrews
Assistant Professor

Integration of biological imaging and multiple -omics technologies to understand the structure of diseased tissues.
Pingzhao Hu
Associate Professor

Developing and applying computational and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data for precision medicine.
Jennifer Guthrie
Assistant Professor

Combining bioinformatics, epidemiology, public health, genomics and microbiology to predict antimicrobial resistance, disease transmission and outbreaks.
Greg Gloor
Professor

Compositional data analysis and functional characterization of microbiomes.
Christina Castellani
Assistant Professor

Contribution of mitochondrial nuclear multiomic signalling to cardiovascular disease using bioinformatic approaches.
Art Poon
Professor

Development of computational methods to reconstruct the evolution and epidemiology of human RNA viruses.
Parisa Shooshtari
Assistant Professor

Developing computational, statistical and machine learning methods to understand cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying complex diseases.
Mike Hallett
Professor

Computational biology and bioinformatic approaches to biomarkers based on multi-variate, multi-modal gene signatures, especially in the context of cancer.
Vanessa Dumeaux
Assistant Professor

Genomics and computational approaches to understand the molecular aspects of human physiology and disease incidence/prognosis in the context of the individual (e.g. immune response, microbiome).