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
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
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!