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Cell and Systems Biology

Alan Moses

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatics / Computational Biology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Genetics / Genomics
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular biology
  • Molecular evolution
  • Proteomics
  • Systems Biology

Office: +1 (416) 946-3980
Website
Email: alan.moses@utoronto.ca
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John Peever

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Animal Biology
  • Brain disorders
  • Brain Research
  • Dreaming sleep
  • Molecular biology
  • Narcolepsy
  • Neurobiology
  • Neurobiology of sleep
  • Pathology
  • Physiology
  • REM sleep behaviour disorder
  • Sleep
  • Sleep disorders
  • Systems Biology

Office: N/A
Website
Email: john.peever@utoronto.ca

Keiko Yoshioka

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Genetics / Genomics
  • Molecular biology
  • Pathology
  • Plant Biology
  • Plant immunity
  • Plant molecular biology
  • Plant stress responses
  • Plant-microbe interaction
  • Structural Biology
  • Systems Biology

Office: +1 (416) 978-3545
Website
Email: keiko.yoshioka@utoronto.ca
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Mounir AbouHaidar

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Development of recombinant vaccines produced in plants
  • Development of vaccines (e.g. HCV)
  • Development of “transgenic” plants resistant to viruses, mechanisms of resistance
  • Genome organization, self-splicing (Ribozyme) and replication strategies of some viruses and their satellite RNAs
  • Molecular biology of plant and human viruses
  • Molecular mechanisms involved in the translation in Pro- and Eukaryotes, alternative modes of initiation of translation
  • Plant antiviral proteins for gene therapy of AIDS
  • Plant biotechnology
  • Virology

Office: +1 (416) 978-5615
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: mounir.abouhaidar@utoronto.ca
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Nicholas Provart

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Bioinformatic analyses of plants
  • Bioinformatics / Computational Biology
  • Comparative genomics of higher plants and fungi
  • Data mining of biological datasets
  • Data visualization
  • Gene expression profiling of plants
  • Genetics / Genomics
  • Molecular biology
  • Plant Biology
  • Structural Biology
  • Systems Biology

Office: +1 (416) 978-3500
Languages: English,German
Website
Email: nicholas.provart@utoronto.ca
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