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Participating students will learn how to fuse the modeling and design expertise of engineers with tools of molecular and cellular biologists under the supervision of professors from Concordia University, University of Ottawa, and Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)-Institut Armand Frappier.

Department of Biology

Christopher Brett
Associate Professor, Biology
Co-Director, Centre for Microscopy & Cellular Imaging

Aashiq Kachroo
Expertise
Gene network repositioning between organisms.

Projects

  • Engineering protein co-localization
  • DNA assembly and transformation
Elena Kuzmin

Elena Kuzmin
Expertise
Complex genetic interaction networks in yeast and human cells.

Projects

  • Functional genomics approaches
  • Genome engineering; CRISPR screens
  • Trigenic interaction screens

David Kwan
Expertise
Engineering enzymes and enzyme pathways.

Projects

  • DNA assembly and transformation

     

Jin Suk Lee
Expertise 
How different peptide signals control developmental processes in plants.

Projects

  • Synthetic protein interactions

Vincent Martin
Expertise
Engineering microbial genomes and developing tools to faciiltate genome engineering.

Projects

  • Modeling of cellular dynamic control
  • DNA assembly and transformation

Alisa Piekny
Associate Professor, Biology
Co-Director, Centre for Microscopy at Concordia
Concordia University Research Chair in Cancer Cell Biology

Laurent Potvin-Trottier
Expertise
Bottom-up approach to understanding biology.

Projects

  • Engineering of precise and robust synthetic circuits

Adrian Tsang
Professor and Director, Center for Functional and Structural Genomics

Malcolm Whiteway
Expertise
Transcriptional regulation and analysis of signal and transduction pathways in fungi.

Projects

  • Synthetic protein interactions
  • Engineering protein co-localization

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nawwaf Kharma
Expertise
Evolutionary Computing for automated design and optimization and SynBio as a means of biocomputing.

Projects

  • Circuit design

Steve Shih
Expertise
Microfluidic devices and automated engineering.

Projects

  • DNA assembly and transformation

Other participating academic institutions

Kristin Baetz, Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary

Jonathan PerreaultInstitut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Expertise
RNA regulatory elements to develop high-throughput parallel sections of RNA aptamers/riboswitches.

Projects

  • Circuit design
  • RNA engineering
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