Bioinformatics Experts

Jennifer Gardy

Canada Research Chair in Public Health Genomics | Science Television HostUniversity of British Columbia | BC Centre for Disease Control | CBC Television

Sequencing DNA to track infectious diseases, and occasionally appearing on your favourite science TV shows

GenomicsBioinformaticsPublic HealthTuberculosisScience Communication

Don Thushara Galbadage

Associate ProfessorTexas Christian University

Dr. Galbadage investigates innovative therapeutic methods to target multidrug resistant pathogens.

One HealthTuberculosisMicrobiome Long COVIDMonkeypox

Professor Alan Goddard

Professor of Biotechnology and Head of BiosciencesAston University

Prof. Goddard has a particular interest in applying fundamental findings about the cell membrane and its constituent lipids and proteins.

Biological MembranesMembrane ProteinsLipidsLipid NanoparticlesBiotechnology

Dawn Bowdish

Associate Professor, Pathology and Molecular MedicineMcMaster University

Understanding why changes in immunity that occur with age and how this predisposes us to infection and chronic inflammatory diseases.

ImmunologyMicrobiome ImmunosenescenceAging Immune SystemPneumonia

Kristin Bennett

Professor, Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science & Associate Director, Institute for Data Exploration and Application (IDEA)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Extracts information from data using novel predictive or descriptive mathematical models

BioinformaticsData VisualizationMachine LearningData MiningHealth Informatics

Swati Agrawal

Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Mary Washington

Dr. Agrawal's research focuses on protozoan pathogens that cause serious diseases like African sleeping sickness and Toxoplasmosis.

Molecular Biology (CRISPR-cas9 gene editing)Microscopy (Fluorescence, Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy)BiochemistryBioinformaticsBiomolecular Visualization (PyMOL, MolStar, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality)