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 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.