Co-investigators

Guillaume Bourque, PhD
Professor, Department of Human Genetics
McGill University
Related expertise: Data governance, Data management
Additional context: Worked as part of the CanCOGeN VirusSeq project to support Canada-wide viral genomics data sharing. Deep understanding of FAIR data principles and open science. Member of SecureData4Health.

Philippe Després, PhD
Professor, Department of Physics, Physical Engineering and Optics
Université Laval
Related expertise: Data governance, Data management, Data analytics
Additional context: Deep understanding of FAIR data principles and open science. Member of Digital Research Alliance of Canada.

Laurette Dubé, PhD
Professor Emerita
McGill University
Related expertise: Agriculture and agri-food science
Additional context: Studies complex social problems through convergence research.

Emma Griffiths, PhD
Lead Curator, Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health
Simon Fraser University
Related expertise: Data governance
Additional context: Worked as part of the CanCOGeN VirusSeq project to support Canada-wide viral genomics data sharing.

Lewis Lukens, PhD
Professor, Department of Plant Agriculture University of Guelph
Related expertise: Agriculture and agri-food science Additional context: Focus on maize and other plant species, using bioinformatics and quantitative genomics.

Ghader Manafiazar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture
Dalhousie University
Related expertise: Agriculture and agri-food science, Climate science
Additional context: Expert in feed efficiency, GHG emissions, and resilience traits in livestock production systems.

Athanasios Zovoilis, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics
University of Manitoba
Related expertise: Data analytics
Additional context: Expert in RNA biology, leads the Bioinformatics network in Alberta (BioNet).

Collaborators

Michelle Brazas, PhD
Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Scientific Director Bioinformatics.ca Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops
Related expertise: Education & training
Additional context: Establishing the Canadian Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Data Sciences Training & Community Platform.

Melanie Courtot, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
University of Toronto
Related expertise: Data governance, Data management
Additional context: Former operations committee member of OBO Foundry, team develops software, databases, and other necessary components to store, organize, and compute over large and complex datasets. Worked as part of the CanCOGeN VirusSeq project to support Canada-wide viral genomics data sharing.

Pablo Valdes Donoso, DVM, PhD
Assistant Professor
Université de Montréal
Related expertise: Data governance, Data analytics, Agriculture and agri-food science
Additional context: Leads the Plateforme IA-Agrosanté (PIAAS), a team that has developed and applied AI tools to animal health studies.

Graham King, PhD
Member & Former Executive Director DivSeek International Network
Related expertise: Data governance, Data management, Agriculture and agri-food science
Additional context: Research management experience in crop plant genetics, genomics, genetic resource characterization, and data management.

Seok-Bum Ko, PhD
P. Eng Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
Related expertise: Data analytics
Additional context: Expert in deep learning and efficient hardware implementation.

Matthew Links, PhD
Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
University of Saskatchewan
Related expertise: Data analytics, Agriculture & agri-food science
Additional context: Research areas include microbiome, microbiology, bioinformatics, genomics, and metagenomics.

James Macklin, PhD
Research Scientist, Botany and Biodiversity Informatics
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | GRDI | GenARCC
Related expertise: Data governance, Climate Science
Additional context: Co-lead for GenARCC (Genomic Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change), a federally-funded initiative that aims to inform climate change adaptation, to help protect Canada’s biodiversity, ecosystem resiliency, food security, and health.

Rodrigo Ortega Polo, PhD
Biology Study Leader – Bioinformatics
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Related expertise: Data analytics, Agriculture & agri-food science
Additional context: Collaborator of the BeeCSI project whose goal is to discover stress-specific biomarkers in honeybees from a multi-omics perspective (proteome, transcriptome, microbiome). Research areas include metagenomics, comparative genomics of bacterial pathogens, fungal genomics, and bioinformatic method development and workflow management systems.

Ian Stavness, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
Related expertise: Data analytics
Additional context: Expert in image processing, team focused on deep learning, computer vision, and simulation for biological and biomedical applications.