Our Team

My group and VIDO bioinformatians welcoming Professor Gordon Broderick (May 2024).

Mohamed Helmy

Principal Investigator

Leading the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Lab. at VIDO. Interested in wide range in computational applications in vaccine development and infectious diseases research. 

Diogo Pellegrina

Postdoctoral Researcher

Many years of experience analyzing molecular biology data like whole genome sequencing and RNAseq for Cancer and Immunology research.

Sylvia Li

M.Sc. Student

Graduate student at the Department of Computer Science and VIDO, University of Saskatchewan. Interested in bacterial genomics and software development. 

Hamid

Mahafujul H. Ananda

Honors Student

B.Sc. student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan. Interested in viral phylogenetics and software development. 

Daniel Esguerra

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber Collage, Ontario. Developing flow cytometry analysis tool.

Fathia Abdelkader

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber Collage, Ontario. Analyzing RNA-Seq data using RNA-Seq deconvolution methods.

Haoyi Wu

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber Collage, Ontario. Analyzing RNA-Seq data using RNA-Seq deconvolution methods.

Reethigha Uruthiran 

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber Collage, Ontario. Developing flow cytometry analysis tool.

Previous Members

Ugbana Akumute

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber Collage, Ontario

Mohamed Soudy

GSoC Student

Doctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg. Two-years GSoC contributor to our lab projects  

Mixu Jadeja

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber Collage, Ontario

Maryam Ragab

Intern

Third-year Computer Science student at Fayoum University, Egypt. Contributed to openPIP platform.