Meet Your Faculty
Guillaume Bourque
Professor, McGill University
Director of Bioinformatics, Genome Quebec Innovation Centre
Director, Canadian Centre of Computational Genomics
Director, McGill initiative for Computational Medicine
Dr. Bourque research interests are in comparative and functional genomics with a special emphasis on applications of next-generation sequencing technologies. His lab develops advanced tools and scalable computational infrastructure to enable large-scale applied research projects.
Martin Hirst
Distinguished Scientist, BC Cancer
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Director, Michael Smith Laboratories
Michael Smith Laboratories
Dr. Hirst’s research focuses on understanding epigenetic dysfunction in cancer and his laboratory develops experimental and computational tools to characterize normal and transformed cell types down to the single cell level. He applies these tools to explore the epigenomic states of normal and transformed cell types to discover and exploit therapeutic vulnerabilities.
David Bujold
Bioinformatics Manager, Data Unit
Canadian Centre of Computational Genomics
He joined the McGill Epigenomic Data Coordination Center at McGill in 2012 to tackle challenges related to epigenomics, and has since developed many data management and discovery solutions, including the IHEC Data Portal. Other projects of interest include CanDIG and EpiShare, platforms to make genomic and epigenomic data under controlled access more accessible, while maintaining study participants’ privacy.
Jose Hector Galvez
Bioinformatics Manager, Tech Dev Unit
Canadian Centre of Computational Genomics
As a Bioinformatics Specialist in the Research and Development team, Jose Hector is involved in maintaining, documenting, and upgrading the RNA-seq pipelines in GenPipes. He also collaborates in several research projects, mostly focusing on transcriptomics, genome assembly, and epigenomics.
Edmund Su
Bioinformatician
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Edmund is a bioinformatician within the genome informatics team at OICR, where he provides technical knowledge and expertise in genomic analysis. His main focus is developing pipelines and data wrangling for ICGC-ARGO (International Cancer Genome Consortium - Accelerating Research in Genomic Oncology).
BF Francis Ouellette
Scientific Director
Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops (CBW)
Montreal, QC, CA
Francis was one of the co-founders of the CBW in 1998. His teams were involved in the development of high throughput sequence analysis methods, as well as the development of platforms to integrate data from various open databases. Francis continues to be interested in computational biology and genomics, and the integration of all data types to help our understanding of biology.
Rachade Hmamouchi
Program Manager
Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops (CBW)
Montreal, QC, CA
As a Program Manager, Rachade is leading the organization of current workshop series as well as the development of new ones. She contributes to the development and implementation of promotional strategies too. Rachade has a background in bioinformatics and project management working in academic and industrial research. She holds an MSc degree in bioinformatics and data analysis from the University of Geneva.