Find below the Principal Investigators supporting the TOG group as well as the trainees involved. If you have any questions on a particular type of analysis, click the team member's profile for their  contact information.

Interested in joining our Council? TOG always welcomes enthusiastic trainees - email us!

Faculty and Staff Support

Dr. Megan Levings

Principal Investigator/Project Manager

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Childhood Diseases Research Theme Lead

Jeffrey Helm

Theme Research Manager
Childhood Diseases

 

Momina Masud

Research Coordinator
Childhood Diseases

 

Trainee 'Omics Group Council

Abisola Kehinde

Chair

PhD Candidate, Parker Lab
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Research Theme - Healthy Starts

Jiyoung Han

Workshop Co-Director

PhD Student, Robinson Lab
Placental histone modifications
Research Theme - Healthy Starts

Erin Tanaka

Workshop Co-Director

PhD Student, Klein Geltink Lab
Immunometabolism
Research Theme - Childhood Diseases

Melody Cheng

Event director

MSc Student, Levings/Verchere Lab
Experimental Medicine
Research Theme - Childhood Diseases

 

Phoebe McNair-Luxon

Seminar Director

 

Alison Luo

EDI Director

MSc student, Talhouk Lab
Women+ and Children's Health Sciences
Research Theme - Gynecologic Cancer

Maude Comtois-Cabana

Teaching Assistant - Epigenomics

PhD Candidate, Dennis Lab
Social Epigenetics
Research Theme - Healthy Starts

Sidney Saint

Teaching Assistant - R/Rstudio

MSc Student, Panenka Lab
Experimental Medicine
Research Theme - Brain, Behaviour and Development

Gary (Peiyuan) Zhu

Teaching Assistant - Biostatistics

PhD Student, Pieter Cullis / James A. Russell Lab
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology & Faculty of Medicine
Research Theme - AI for Drug Target Discovery

Peipei Wang

Teaching Assistant - R (RNA-seq + WGS from TCGA)

MD/PhD Candidate, Lockwood Lab
Interdisciplinary Oncology
Research theme - Environment and cancer

Nikita Telkar

Executive Member

PhD Candidate, Robinson and Wan Lam Labs
Small RNAs in placental gene regulation
Research Theme - Healthy Starts

William (Will) Casazza

Executive Member

PhD Student, Mostafavi and Dennis Labs
Statistics and machine learning in QTL analysis
Research Theme - Healthy Starts

Join our team!

The Trainee 'Omics Group is always looking for motivated new members from both the dry lab and wet lab with varying levels of expertise! If you are interested in joining our core team and helping coordinate our bioinformatics events and initiatives, or in tutoring a data analysis workshop, click the button below to go to our Contact page and send us a message!

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