Jurisica Lab
IBM Life Sciences Discovery Center
Principal Investigator | Graduate Students | Research Associates - | Post-doctoral Fellows | Programmers | Technicians | Visiting Scientists | Past Members
Lab picture at IBM Toronto Lab, December 2005.
Principal Investigator
Igor Jurisica, PhD.
Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, IBM Life Sciences Discovery Center
Tier I Canada Research Chair in Integrative Cancer Informatics
Physical Science Lead, Informatics and Communications Technology, TECHNA Institute for the Advancement of Technology for Health
Full Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto.
Adjunct Professor, School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
Adjunct Professor, Graduate Program in Computer Science, York University, Toronto, ON.
Honorary Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, College of Stomatology
Visiting Scientist, IBM Centre for Advance Studies.
Associate Editor, Bioinformatics.
Section Editor, BMC Bioinformatics. Network analysis and biology
.Associate Editor, Proteomes.
Associate Editor, Cancer informatics.
Associate Editor, International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics.
Associate Editor, Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences.
Administrative Assistant
Soleil Miron
Soleil Miron is an assistant to Dr. Igor Jurisica. She overlooks all the administrative operations of the lab.
Project Manager
Liz Sauter
Liz Sauter
Liz has joined the group in July 2012, after years of experience at IBM.
Graduate Students
Sara Rahmati
PhD. candidate, University of Toronto, Department of Medical Biophysics.
Sara is interested in linking protein-protein interactions, disorder and structure
Giuseppe AgapitoGiuseppe work on network analysis of pathways and interactions.
Co-supervised with Dr. Mario Cannataro, University of "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro.
Serene Wong
PhD. candidate, York University, Department of Computer Science.
Serene works on graph theory approach to characterize the relationship between disease and structure of protein-protein interaction networks. Co-supervised with Dr. Nick Cercone, York University.
Abraham Heifets
PhD. candidate, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science.
Abraham works on computational chemistry.
Alison Pon
MSc. candidate, University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science.
Alison is working on developing novel algorithms for systematic prognostic signature identification.
Kristian Cebecauer
MSc. candidate, Comenius University in Bratislava
Kristian is working on developing novel algorithms for systematic analysis and comparison of cancer protein interaction networks. Co-supervised with Dr. Maria Markosova, Comenius University
Lili Wang
PhD. candidate, School of Computing, Queen's University
Lili is working on developing novel algorithms for biomarker discovery.
Co-supervised with Dr. P. Mousavi, Queen's University
Naiara da Costa Cinegaglia
MSc. candidate, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - UNESP
Naiara is working on MicroRNAome of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Co-supervised with Dr. Patricia P. Reis, Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP)
Research Associates
Christian Anders Cumbaa
Christian has been with the lab since August 2001. His research area is machine learning and image analysis in high-throughput protein crystallography
Dan Strumpf, PhD
Dan joined the lab in November 2005. His research focusses on integrative lung cancer data mining and modeling.
Mike Tsay
Mike joined the lab in October 2012. His research focuses on optimized molecular signiture identification.
Max Kotlyar, PhD
Max finished his PhD research on predicting protein-protein interactions and esential genes by data mining, and continues to work on integrative cancer informatics.
Elize Shirdel, PhD
Elize finished her PhD research on microRNA structure and function, and continues to work on integrative cancer informatics.
Qing Chang, PhD
Qing joined the lab in September 2012 and works on ovarian cancer biomarker discovery.
Kalpana Venkat, PhD
Kalpana joined the lab in May 2011, jointly co-supervised with Dr. M. S. Tsao, working on validation of prognostic signatures.
William Klement, PhD
William joined the lab in October 2011, and works on machine learning applications to biomarker discovery.
Anna Lavut, PhD
Anna will join the lab in November 2011, working on dynamic protein-protein interactions.
Research Programmers
Wing Xie
Wing has been with the lab since September 2008. He works on development related to protein-protein interaction network visualization and analysis, and lung cancer integrative data portal.
David Otasek
David has been with the lab since October 2003. He is interested in high content visualization and modeling of protein-protein interaction networks.
Renatas Minkstimas
Renatas joined the lab in May 2012. His interests include advanced network analysis and modeling.
Shima Khoshraftar
Shima joined the lab in November 2012 and works on drug re-positioning
Technicians
Han Li
Han joined the lab in August 2006 as a research technician, working on ovarian cancer.
Fabio Accorsi
Fabio joined the lab in November 2012 as a lab technician.
Visiting Scientists
Chiara Pastrello, PhD
Chiara joined the lab in May 2010. She is interested in research involving interaction network and data mining in sarcoma.
Past members
| Students | Deg, Year, Dept. | Title |
| Daniela Rosu | PhD 2013, DCS | Practical Ontologies: Requirements, Design and
Applications to Semantic Integration and Knowledge Discovery |
| Kristen Fortney | PhD 2012, MBP | Bioinformatics approaches to biomarker and drug discovery in aging and disease |
| Elize Shirdel | PhD 2012, MBP | Navigating the micronome A systematic study of both the external effects of microRNAs on gene repression networks, and the contribution of microRNA terminal loops to microRNA function |
| Rui Yan | PhD 2012, DCS | Pattern discovery in DNA sequences |
| Max Kotlyar | PhD 2011, MBP | Prediction of protein-protein interactions and essential genes through data integration |
| Jifang Jiang | MSc 2009, DCS | Investigation of the Correlation Between CNPs in the Human Cancer Genome and Protein-Protein Interactions Using Oligonucleotide SNP Arrays |
| Paul Boutros | PhD 2008, MBP | Integrated molecular prediction of patient prognosis |
| Kevin Brown | PhD 2007, MBP | Interpreting gene expression in human cancer through integration with model organism protein-protein interaction data. |
| Edward Xia | PhD 2007, DCS | Optimal grid scheduling by dynamic selection of scheduling heuristics |
| Niloofar Arshadi | PhD 2007, DCS | Case-based reasoning system maintenance |
| Julia Chae | MSc 2005, DCS | Integration of clustering and statistical analysis of microarray data |
| Linghai Zhang | MSc 2005, DCS | Effective and efficient high-dimensional data clustering using self-organizing maps |
| Natasha Przulj | PhD 2005, DCS | Analyzing large networks: Protein interactions example |
| Marlena Marziarz | MSc 2003, DCS | A computational analysis tool for clinical correlation of microarray data. |
| Kartik Desai | MEng 2002, ME | Effective and efficient data management in life sciences |
| Ian van Toch | MBP | Modeling of protein-protein interaction networks |
| Amr Abu-Zeid | MBP | |
| Programmers | ||
| Varune Rohan Ramnarine | 01-2009 to 10-2011 | Analyzing and integrating CGH and microRNA data |
| Muhammad Ali | 06-2007 to 07-2011 | Protein-protein interaction network visualization and analysis |
| Uzma Khan | 07-2009 to 12-2010 | Design and development of web-based bioinformatics resources for the lab, including high-throughput data analysis |
| Tejaswini Ganapathi | 02-2010 to 08-2010 | Automated cell dynamics analysis |
| Attila Barta | 01-2010 to 04-2010 | IBM DB2 Database Administrator |
| Stephen Grant | 03-2006 to 2009 | Complex data sonification |
| Frederic Breard | 04-2006 to 07-2008 | IBM DB2 database design and administration |
| Mahima Agochiya | 04-2005 to 08-2008 | Integrated computational biology approach to biomarker identification in ovarian cancer |
| Mikhail Soloviev | 06-2006 to 05-2008 | Protein-protein interaction network analysis and modeling |
| Wing Xie | 05-2007 to 02-2008 | Protein-protein interaction network analysis |
| Andrew Morrison | 06-2007 to 11-2007 | Machine learning and visualization techniques for high dimensional datasets |
| Vyacheslav Morozov | 03-2006 to 03-2007 | Protein data analysis |
| Baiju Devani | 08-2004 to 01-2007 | Protein-protein interaction network visualization |
| Salimah Shariff | 04-2006 to 08-2006 | Protein data analysis |
| Cosmin Truta | 10-2005 to 07-2006 | Image analysis and compression in high-throughput protein crystallography |
| Cheryl Chan | 10-2005 to 04-2006 | Integrated ovarian cancer analysis |
| Gareth Morrison | 12-2004 to 07-2005 | Androgen and estrogen metabolic network modeling |
| Xin Zhang | 08-2002 to 06-2005 | Clustering and visualization of high-throughput data in ovarian cancer |
| Akhil Patel | 07-2003 to 09-2004 | Time series data analysis and visualization |
| Mujahid Sultan | 05-2001 to 05-2003 | Machine learning and visualization techniques for high dimensional datasets |
| Patrick Rogers | 03-1998 to 12-2003 | TA3-Interactive case-based reasonign system |
| Scientific Associates | ||
| Dr. Fiona Broackes-Carter | 06 2010 to 01 2013 | Protein-protein interaction curation |
| Dr. Amira Djebbari | 07 2010 to 10 2011 | Network modeling and characterization of cancer |
| Dr. Periklis Andritos | 08 2010 to 08 2011 | Text mining |
| Dr. Kevin Brown | 01 2007 to 01 2010 | Integrative computational biology |
| PDFs | ||
| Dr. Levi Waldron | 10 2008 to05 2010 | Dynamics of interactions in head and neck cancer. |
| Dr. Joseph Geraci | 09 2008 to 12 2009 | Mathematical modeling of cancer. Jointly supervised with Dr. Geoffrei Liu. |
| Dr. Yun Niu | 01 2007 to 08 2009 | Computational linguistic approach to automated protein interaction extraction from PubMed. |
| Dr. Ata Ghavidel | 06 2007 to 05 2009 | Dynamics of complex formation in DNA damage repair and relation to cancer. Co-supervised with Dr. T. Kislinger. |
| Dr. Michael McGuffin | 09 2006 to 08 2007 | Advanced graphical user interfaces for biological data visualization. |
| Dr. Natasha Przulj | 03 2005 to 06 2005 | Protein-protein interaction network structure-function relationship.Co-supervised by J. Wrana, SLRI. |
| Technicians | ||
| Christine Frantz | 2008 - 03 2010 | Prognostic and predictive biomarker validation in lung cancer |
| Lina Qi | 04 2010 - 01 2012 | Lab technician |
| Undergraduate and high school trainees | ||
| Andrea Vargas | 2011 | Automated cell dynamics analysis from images |
| Alex Yue | 2011 | Roche-Tecan integration and automation |
| Adilya Rafikova | 2011 | Lung cancer data portal |
| Mukul Raina | 2011 | Protein-protein interaction prediction |
| Rajesh Nair | 2010 | Protein-protein interaction characterization and curation |
| Curtis Foong | 2010-2011 | Network-based prognostic signature optimization |
| Polina Binder | 2010-2011 | GPU-optimized layout algorithms for NAViGaTOR |
| Raymond Chu | 2010 | Topology-directed layout algorithms for NAViGaTOR. |
| Adrien J.Guillon | 2008 | Scalable graph theory algorithms on the linux cluster for protein interaction network analysis |
| Mark Aldham | 2008 | Experiment automation on Tecan robot |
| Christian Popovici | 2008 | High-throughput protein crystallography image analysis |
| Dene Ringuette | 2005-2008 | Protein binding signature discovery using protein-protein interaction profile similarity |
| Joni Iljazi | 2008 | Modeling of cancer signaling |
| Joanna Yeung | 2007 | Prostate cancer data integration and analysis portal |
| Rick Valenzano | 2006, 2007 | Scalable layout algorithms for protein-protein interaction network visualization |
| Ian van Toch | 2006, 2007 | Modeling of protein-protein interaction networks |
| Ruchi Prasad | 2006 | Structural aspects of protein-protein interaction networks |
| Topaz Chiu | 2006 | Predicting dynamic protein interaction network from differential gene expression data |
| Marc Tyndel | 2005 | |
| Chi Hay Tong | 2005 | |
| Alice Ho | 2004 | |
| Conor McKinley | 2004 | |
| Matthew Lam | 2004 | |
| Kate Harris | 2004 | |
| Nasimeh Asharian | 2004 | |
| Wing Xie | 2003 | |
| Minzhi Lu | 2003 | |
| Brian Hacko | 2002 | |
| Colin Kong | 2002 | |
| Alan Grosskurth | 2002 | |
| Akhil Patel | 2002, 2003 | |
| James Bergstra | 2002 | |
| Bilal Ahmed | 2002, 2003 | |
| Satish Mathew | 2002 | |
| Alex Andreoopoulos | 2002 | |
| Stefan Pintilie | 2002 | |
| Roman Podolny | 2002 | |
| Xing Zhang | 2002 | |
| Gerard Quon | 2001 | |
| Aaron Rehaag | 2001 | |
| Jakob Mouka | 2000 | |
| Jing Duan | 1999, 2000 | |
| Jinhe chen | 1998, 1999 | |
| Tungyat Wong | 1998, 1999 |