Dr. Gane Ka-Shu Wong > Professor and iCORE Chair in Biosystems Informatics
Contact
Room: Z 310, Biological Sciences
Phone: (780) 492-8663
Fax: (780) 492-9234
Email: gane@ualberta.ca
Academic Training
PhD: Cornell University
BASc: University of British Columbia
Research Interests
Professor Wong is jointly appointed in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Medicine. He is also an Associate Director of the Beijing Genomics Institute. The unifying theme behind most of his research is the relentless improvement in our ability to acquire molecular biology data at lower costs. His two biggest programs are in plant sequencing and in viral metagenomics. In the first instance, he is leading an international multidisciplinary consortium to collect gene sequence information for 1000 plant species. In the second instance, he is working with medical doctors at the University of Alberta to develop novel methods to identify pathogens in clinical samples. In all instances, enormous quantities of data are collected and computational analysis plays a central role.
Prospective graduate students and postdoctoral fellows must be fluent in mathematics and computational analysis, as well as in biology.
Visit Professor Wong's website at: http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/gane_wong_lab/
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