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Molecular Genetics

Alan Cochrane

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cell biology
  • Development and screening
  • DNA-protein
  • Drug discovery, design
  • Gene regulation and expression
  • Genome analysis and sequencing
  • Imaging and microscopy
  • Infectious disease and microbiology
  • Protein-protein
  • Proteomics and proteins
  • RNA-protein interactions
  • Signalling
  • Viruses

Office: 416-978-2500
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: alan.cochrane@utoronto.ca

Artem Babaian

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

    Office: (416) 978 0336
    Website
    Email: a.babaian@utoronto.ca

    Derek van der Kooy

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Behaviour and mental illness
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
    • C. elegans
    • Developmental biology
    • Disease models
    • Drosophila
    • Evolution and phylogenetics
    • Imaging and microscopy
    • Neurodegeneration and neurodevelopment
    • Neuroscience
    • Optogenetics
    • Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering
    • Single cell and spatial biology
    • Stem cell biology

    Office: 416-978-1960
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: derek.van.der.kooy@utoronto.ca

    Jane Aubin

    Professor Emeritus/Emerita

    Areas of Expertise

    • Arthritis
    • Mesenchymal stem cells
    • Musculoskeletal health
    • Osteoporosis
    • Regulation of bone formation
    • Skeletal development

    Office: 613-668-4219
    Languages: English
    Website
    Email: jane.aubin@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Julie Claycomb

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
    • C. elegans
    • Chromatin
    • Development
    • Developmental biology
    • DNA-protein
    • Epigenetics and epigenomics
    • Functional genomics and systems biology
    • Gene regulation and expression
    • Genome analysis and sequencing
    • Germline
    • Imaging and microscopyProtein-protein
    • Non-coding DNA and RNA
    • RNA-protein interactions
    • Small RNA-mediated gene silencing
    • Translation and post-transcriptional regulation

    Office: (416) 978-3825
    Website
    Email: julie.claycomb@utoronto.ca

    Lori Frappier

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Epstein-Barr virus
    • Herpesviruses
    • Virus-host interactions

    Office: 416-946-3501
    Email: lori.frappier@utoronto.ca
    Preferred method of contact: Email
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

    Peter John Roy

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Parasitic Prodrugs, The Roy Lab has discovered a suite of antiparasitic small molecule scaffolds that are bioconverted by the parasites into lethal products.
    • PEXIL™ Technology, Peter’s group has recently developed a new, high-throughput, massively paralleled drug and pesticide screening technology called PEXIL™.

    Office: 647-881-6594
    Website
    Email: peter.roy@utoronto.ca

    William Navarre

    Professor

    Areas of Expertise

    • Antibiotic resistance
    • Bacterial disease
    • E.coli
    • Microbiome
    • Salmonella
    • Staphylococcus Aureus

    Office: 416-946-5356
    Website
    Email: william.navarre@utoronto.ca
    Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online