Lab Member Expertise

This document outlines various expertise of lab members. Helpful for new recruits, writing personnel skills for funding, and clear communication of individual roles.

Expertise

Scientific things

Statistical modeling & analysis

Farnoosh Abbas Aghababazadeh, James Bannon

Biomarker analysis

Farnoosh Abbas Aghababazadeh, Julia Nguyen, Sisira Kadambat Nair, Nikta Feizi, Nasim BondarSahebi

RNAseq processing

Julia Nguyen, Nasim BondarSahebi

Microarray processing

Sisira Kadambat Nair

ATACseq processing

Julia Nguyen

Circular RNA analysis

Julia Nguyen, Peter Her

Exploratory Data Analysis in R

Julia Nguyen, Farnoosh Abbas Aghababazadeh, Kevin Wang, Sisira Kadambat Nair, Nikta Feizi, Michael Tran, Nasim BondarSahebi

Single cell processing

Almas Khan

Quantitative imaging

Katy Scott, Soolmaz Abbasi, Ruiyan Ni, Sejin Kim, Joshua Siraj

Medical Image Segmentation

Joshua Siraj, Ruiyan Ni, Sejin Kim, Kaitlyn Kobayashi, Soolmaz Abbasi

Radiomic Analysis

Katy Scott, Kaitlyn Kobayashi, Sejin Kim

Machine-learning (ML) models

Katy Scott, Ruiyan Ni, James Bannon, Farnoosh Abbas Aghababazadeh, Nabin Bagale, Shaghayegh Reza, Kewei Ni, Soolmaz Abbasi, Joshua Siraj

Deep learning

James Bannon, Katy Scott, Sejin Kim, Ruiyan Ni, Joshua Siraj, Nabin Bagale, Shaghayegh Reza

Cancer subtype analysis

Foram Vyas, Nikta Feizi

R packages

Michael Tran, Sisira Kadambat Nair

Clinical oncology

Kevin Wang

Full stack web development

Matthew Boccalon, Nicholas Messere

Immunotherapy

Farnoosh Abbas Aghababazadeh, Kevin Wang

Python packages

Joshua Siraj, Katy Scott, Sejin Kim

Cloud services (GCP)

Matthew Boccalon, Nabin Bagale, Shaghayegh Reza

ETL Pipelines (Snakemake)

Michael Tran, Nicholas Messere

High Performance Computing (HPC) on H4H

Katy Scott, Michael Tran, Julia Nguyen, Sejin Kim

Version Control (Git & GitHub)

Katy Scott, Michael Tran, Matthew Boccalon

Lab Operations

Grant & Award proposals

Sisira Kadambat Nair

Includes grant writing such as scientific text, gantt charts, knowledge dissemination review and scientific reporting.

Soleil Miron

Help with submission of grants through agency platforms, Collating documents - CV, Summary of Progress, Submit through Business Hub at UHN, Assist with creating budget for smaller grants (Exception - corporate grants such as Genome Canada, CFI), BUdget Justification, Financial reports

Lab Onboarding and Offboarding

Katy Scott

Lab Inventory

Sisira Kadambat Nair, Katy Scott

Hiring

Sisira Kadambat Nair

Includes preparing job posting, interviewing, coordinate decision making of projects and placements.

Admin

Soleil Miron

Includes Payroll, grant budgets, meeting room scheduling, purchases, international work permits, legal onboarding to UHN (e-learning, Health records, access card, Photo ID, VPN request)

Project Management

Sisira Kadambat Nair (ARPA-H ADAPT), Paul Brogee (PMATCH), Kiana Jenabidehkrodi (AIRCHECK)

AI tools (Blue Vest Initiative)

Paresh Sharma