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.

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.