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 College, Ontario. Developing flow cytometry analysis tool.

Simran Wilasra

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber College, Ontario. Bioinformatics software development.

Noha El-Haj

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber College, Ontario. Developing pathway enrichment analysis Methods.

Reethigha Uruthiran 

Visiting Student

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

Kenil Dave

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber College, Ontario. Developing pipeline for processing bacterial genomics data.

Tazmeen Gill

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber College, Ontario. Developing pipeline for processing bacterial genomics data.

Nikita Chaudhari

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber College, Ontario. Developing pathway enrichment analysis Methods.

Haji Piriyev

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber College, Ontario. Bioinformatics software development.

Previous Members

Ugbana Akumute

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber College, 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 College, Ontario

Maryam Ragab

Intern

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

Fathia Abdelkader

Visiting Student

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

Haoyi Wu

Visiting Student

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

Fatma Shafie

Intern

Saskatchewan Polytechnic. Bioscience Technology Program. AI in immunology and infectious disease research.

Grace Antwi

Visiting Student

Graduate student, Clinical Bioinformatics Program, Humber College, Ontario. Bioinformatics software development.