Our People

Haiyang Chang

Program: Ph.D.

Advisor: Dr. Steffen Graether

Co-advisor: Dr. Stefan Keller

 

Research:

The adaptive immune response plays a key role in recognizing pathogens and determines health and disease in vertebrates. The protection mechanism of adaptive response is mediated by the antigen receptors (ARs) on the surface of lymphocytes. Specifically, an individual’s AR repertoire helps understand, diagnose and treat diseases. The data are from previously collected Canine immune repertoire sequencing data under normal and pathological conditions. The data analysis for this research will be confined to clustering of AR sequences (clonotypes) and a network map that displays the functional association of clonotypes within a given data set will be constructed. Finally we hope a database that integrates sequencing data from various projects based on variables such as species, disease, tissue, etc.. would be created.

Karl Cottenie

Karl Cottenie

Associate Professor, Integrative Biology

DNA-based species identification; metacommunity ecology; microbial metacommunities

Website:

https://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/cottenie

Lorna Deeth

Lorna Deeth

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Infectious disease modelling; spatial and spatiotemporal disease analysis; environmental effect monitoring and surveillance methods; computational statistics

Website:

https://mathstat.uoguelph.ca/people/deeth

Michael Dube

Michael Dube

Program: Ph.D.
Advisors: Dr. Sheridan Houghten (Brock) and Dr. Steffen Graether
 
Research:
He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science as well as a Master's degree in Computer Science, both from Brock University.  Michael's Master's thesis investigated epidemic modeling, simulation, and deployment of vaccination strategies on personal contact networks using evolutionary computation; work that he continues to pursue as part of his PhD given the reality of COVID-19. He has published 7 peer reviewed scientific publications and served as a reviewer for CIBCB 2018 and TCBB 2019.  Michael enjoys working in an inter-disciplinary fashion both to leverage insights from other fields of research and to satisfy his insatiable curiosity.