Christopher Brett
Associate Professor, Biology
Co-Director, Centre for Microscopy & Cellular Imaging
SynBioApps
Canada's first training program for Synthetic Biology
Supported by the NSERC-CREATE program
Research faculty
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
Aashiq Kachroo
Expertise
Gene network repositioning between organisms.
Projects
- Engineering protein co-localization
- DNA assembly and transformation
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, University of Ottawa
Expertise
High-throughput yeast chemical and functional genomic screening.
Projects
- Modeling of cellular dynamic control
- Engineering protein co-localization
Jonathan Perreault, Institut 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
