My current position as a Research Associate at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, involves leading the development of InnateDB, a manually curated systems biology database and analysis platform of interactions and pathways involved in the innate immune response of human and mouse, and the development of bionformatics tools to integrate, analyze and visualize this data.

InnateDB is a central component of two major international projects, the Genome Canada funded Pathogenomics of Innate Immunity Project and a project funded under the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initative entitled "Novel Therapeutics that Boost Innate Immunity to Treat Infectious Diseases" .

My research involves utilizing InnateDB and other resources to facilitate systems-level investigations of the innate immune response to several infectious pathogens, including malaria, TB, typhoid and shigella, to identify the key pathways, interaction and regulatory networks and their central regulators as targets for modulating the immune response. InnateDB is available at www.innatedb.ca .

I was also involved in bovine genomics and molecular evolution research as part of the International Bovine HapMap and Bovine Genome Projects.

I currently hold a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Postdoctoral Trainee Award.

Systems Biology

Bioinformatics

Innate Immunity

Infectious Diseases

Population Genetics/Evolution