Meet Your Faculty
Instructors
Zhibin Lu
HPC and Bioinformatics Services Manager
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Ontario
Zhibin manages the two UHN clusters under HPC4Health, Compute Canada. He is also members of Compute Canada Bioinformatics team and scheduling team. He is responsible for project management, system administration, NGS data analysis at PMCC.
Ben Fisher
Regional Coordinator, CBH Atlantic
Canadian Bioinformatics Hub, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
Ben has a Master of Science degree in Microbiology and Immunology, completing his bioinformatics training under Dr. Morgan Langille at Dalhousie University. Throughout his training, he has instructed others in genetics, molecular biology, and microbiome data science. Ben is passionate about continued education of trainees and professionals, and firmly believes that enhancing bioinformatics and computational biology competencies will support the success of Canada’s current and future scientists.
Teaching Assistants
Sophie Ehresmann
PhD Candidate
IRCM, Université de Montréal
Montréal, QC, Canada
Sophie Ehresmann is a PhD candidate at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) in the RNA and Noncoding Mechanisms of Disease Laboratory. She previously obtained a MSc in molecular biology at the Université de Montréal where she used omics tools to characterize pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders in patient-derived cell models. She now leverages both bioinformatics and molecular biology to study the development of breast cancer, with a focus on Nanopore sequencing technologies.
David Mahoney
PhD Candidate
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
David Mahoney is a microbiologist and bioinformatician with 6+ years of experience. He has extensive experience in microbiological food safety including laboratory analyses and regulatory environment. Presently, David is a food microbiomics research technician at AAFC on education leave pursuing a PhD in genomic epidemiology focused on AMR surveillance.