Project Leaders
Dr. Bob Hancock, FRSC, OC (web)
Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research (CMDR)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Dr. Lorne Babiuk, FRSC (web)
Director, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO)
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Research Team
Dr. Jan Atkinson-Grosjean, GE3LS Ethics (web)
Senior Research Associate, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Dr. Lorne Babiuk, Mucosal immunology (web)
Director, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO)
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Dr. Chris Bleackley, Cellular immunology (web)
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Dr. Fiona Brinkman, Bioinformatics, Research Director (web)
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
Dr. Michael Burgess, GE3LS Ethics (web)
Chair in Biomedical Ethics, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Dr. Jeak Ling Ding, Host-pathogen surveillance strategies (web)
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Dr. Gordon Dougan, Microbial pathogenesis (web)
Principal Research Scientist, Microbial Pathogenesis Team Leader
Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Dr. Brett Finlay, Microbial pathogenesis (web)
Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Dr. Philip Griebel, Animal host responses
Principal Research Scientist, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Dr. Bob Hancock, Systems biology (web)
Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research (CMDR)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Dr. Karsten Hokamp, Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics Research Officer, Smurfit Institute of Genetics
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. Andy Potter, Microbial pathogenesis
Associate Director (Research), Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Organization
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Dr. Bill Skarnes, Mouse knockouts (web)
Senior Research Scientist, Gene Trap Mutagenesis Team Leader
Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Dr. David Speert, Human diseases
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Project Manager
Ms. Bernadette Mah, Project Manager, UBC
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Tim Caulfield, University of Alberta.
Dr. Julian Davies, University of British Columbia.
Dr. Geoff Hicks, University of Manitoba.
Dr. Vivek Kapur, University of Minnesota.
Dr. John Quackenbush, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Richard Strugnell, University of Melbourne.
Dr. Trevor Trust, AstraZeneca R&D.
Research Organizations
Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research
The CMDR is a multi-faculty, multi-department consortium of world class microbial diseases and immunology researchers at the University of British Columbia. Its scope encompases the molecular mechanisms of bacterial, viral, fungal and microbial parasite pathogenesis, host responses to and defenses against these agents, basic mechanisms of host immunity, and novel therapeutic and clinical approaches to the treatment of microbial and immunological diseases.
Simon Fraser University
Bioinformatics research for this project is headed at SFU, a university in Burnaby, Greater Vancouver, BC that is noted for its interdisciplinary research, early bioinformatics research, support of open source informatics, and home of the Bugaboos Beowulf Computing cluster. SFU is also the central node of WestGrid, an 8-institution project for the development of high-performance computing and advanced visualization and collaboration in Western Canada.
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization
Located within the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, VIDO is an internationally-acclaimed Centre of Excellence in agricultural biotechnology and veterinary infectious diseases. VIDO is involved in the discovery and commercialization of a number of therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostic tools for the livestock industry. Thirty patents have been issued world wide and ten patents are pending in the United States alone.
Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre was established in 1992 to participate in the sequencing of the human genome. Located in Hinxton, a village just outside Cambridge, the centre has grown into the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus and now includes other facilities such as the European Bioinformatics Institute. Since its foundation, the Sanger Centre has become one of the focal points of the global genomics community. As of May, 2006, the centre has seqeunced over 5 billion base pairs.
National University of Singapore
Trinity College
University of British Columbia
University of Saskatchewan
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