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Aitken

Sally

Forestry

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Forestry, Genetics

forest genetics

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Anderson

Catherine

Medicine

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Genetics, Teaching

genetics, molecular biology, genomics

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Auld

Vanessa

Science

-

Genetics

development of the nervous system; neurosciences

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Baird

Patricia

Medicine

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Ethics, Genetics

ethics and health policy; genetic and reproductive technologies

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Beavis

Ronald

Medicine

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Genetics

bioinformatics, proteomics, mass spectrometry

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Bobinski

Mary Anne

Law

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Abortion, AIDS, Constitutional Issues, Disabled Persons, Ethics, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Genetics, Health Care, Human Rights, Law, Medicine, United States

legal education (including costs of education/tuition), health law, bioethics, reproductive health law (including cloning, fetal protection, abortion), comparative health law (U.S. and Canada), HIV (legal and policy issues), health care disparities, medical research (legal and ethical aspects of)

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Bohlmann

Joerg

Science

German

Agriculture, Forestry, Genetics, Insects, Plants

plant biochemistry, forestry genomics, forest health, conifers, poplar, bark beetle, mountain pine beetle, natural products, secondary metabolites, terpenes, floral scent, grapevine

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Brock

Hugh

Science

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Cancer, Genetics

development; embryology; model organisms (fruit flies); gene regulation, leukemia

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Cox

Susan

Graduate Studies

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Ethics, Families, Genetics, Sociology

genetic testing, experiences of hereditary risk, social and ethical implications of genetics, interpersonal and family communication, qualitative research, narrative and story

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Cynader

Max

Medicine

French

Addictions, Aging, Alzheimer's, Audiology, Babies, Biotechnology, Brain, Depression, Genetics, Medicine, Mental Health, Psychology, Science

eye diseases; glaucoma; dyslexia; stroke; neurotrauma; memory; vision; learning disabilities; hearing development; recovery after brain damage; ischemia; gene therapy

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Danielson

Peter

CfIS

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Ethics, Genetics, Robots, Technology

applied ethics of technology, ethics & robotics

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Dedhar

Shoukat

Medicine

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Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Brain, Cancer, Drugs, Genetics, Medicine, Research and Development, Science, Teaching, Technology

molecular biology, molecular biology as it relates to disease; developing new theraputics for cancer; how brain cells (neurons)make connections, therapeutics for cancer; molecular genetics and cancer; medical research, cancer, inflammatory diseases, cariovascular diseases

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Ellis

Brian

Land and Food Systems

German

Biotechnology, Genetics, Plants

plant biotechnology; genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

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Farrer

Matthew

Medicine

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Brain, Families, Genetics, Medicine, Statistics

Parkinson disease, parkinsonism, movement disorders, genetics, neuroscience, brain, neuron, biology, bioinformatics, neurodegeneration, neurology

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Friedman

J.M.

Medicine

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Genetics

birth defects, clinical genetics, clinical genomics (application of genomics to clinical medicine), clinical teratology (medications that cause birth defects)

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Gardy

Jennifer

Science

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Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology, Science, Television

Infectious disease, genomics, science documentary television

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Gibson

William

Medicine

French, Spanish

Genetics

Rare obesity disorders, Leptin

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Gordon

Michael

Science

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Biology, Brain, Genetics

Drosophila, feeding, taste, neural circuits, behavior, neuroscience, smell, olfaction, genetics

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Green

Beverley

Science

French

Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Oceanography, Plants, Science

molecular evolution, photosynthesis, molecular biology of marine algae (e.g.diatoms, dinoflagellates)

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Hallam

Steven

Science

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Computers, Environment, Genetics, Microbiology, Oceanography, Science

methanogenesis, methane oxidation, methyl coenzyme M reductase, metagenomics, environmental microbiology, genomics, proteomics, microbial ecology, systems biology, archaea, energy, bioinformatics

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Hammond

Geoffrey

Medicine

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Adolescence, Aging, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Cancer, Environment, Genetics, Nutrition, Research and Development, Sex/Sexuality, Stress

Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, Endocrinology, Steroids, Reproduction, Cancer, Hormones, Animal models of human disease

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Hitkari

Jason

Medicine

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Aging, Alternative Medicine, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Genetics, Gynecology, Health Care, Medicine, Obstetrics, Sex/Sexuality, Women's Issues

Infertility, AMH, egg donation,IVF,sperm, eggs, superovulation, fertility, subfertility, surrogacy, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, PGD, PGS, ICSI

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Huntsman

David G.

Medicine

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Cancer, Genetics

hereditary cancer, molecular pathology, cancer biomarkers

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Illes

Judy

Medicine

French - somewhat fluent

Alzheimer's, Biotechnology, Brain, Ethics, Genetics, Human Behavior, Medicine, Mental Health, Multiculturalism, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Psychology, Research and Development, Schizophrenia, Science, Women's Issues

Neuroethics, Neuroscience and ethics, neurogenetics, neuroimaging, global health, health policy

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Jang

Kerry

Medicine

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Genetics, Human Behavior, Psychiatry, Psychology

twins research; multiple births; cloning; behavior genetics

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Kobor

Michael

Medicine

German

Aging, Biology, Brain, Environment, Genetics, Human Behavior, Science, Stress

social and population epigenetics; Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging; DNA metylation; yeast chromatin; genomic embedding of early life experiences

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Kronstad

James

Science

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Genetics, Microbiology

Fungi, pathogens, genomics, molecular genetics

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Lansdorp

Peter

Medicine

-

Aging, Genetics

chromosomes; aging and genetic disorders; stem cells; cancer

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Lewis

Suzanne

Medicine

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Babies, Biotechnology, Brain, Children, Disabled Persons, Families, Genetics, Health Care, Human Behavior, Medicine, Mental Health, Obstetrics, Pediatrics

clinical genetics; molecular genetics; autism spectrum disorders; developmental disabilities; gene therapy; prenatal diagnosis

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Ma

Sai

Medicine

Mandarin

Genetics, Gynecology

reproductive biology; in-vitro fertilization; micromanipulation of human gametes and embryos, Reproductive genetics, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cytogenetics and molecular cytogenetics of gametes and embryos

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Marziali

Andre

Science

Italian

Engineering, Genetics, Physics, Research and Development, Robots, Teaching, Technology

Teaching methods, pedagogy, Robotics in education, Nanotechnology, Engineering Physics, Genomics

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McGillivray

Barbara

Medicine

-

Genetics, Medicine

medical genetics

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Ng

David

Biotechnology Laboratory

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Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Education, Ethics, Genetics, Medicine, Teaching

bioethics; genetics; bichemistry; medical advances

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Pare

Peter

Medicine

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Genetics, Medicine, Smoking

asthma; emphysema; genetics,lung disease

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Pavlidis

Paul

Medicine

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Brain, Computers, Genetics, Statistics

Bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, genome, neuroscience, neurobiology, gene expression, microarray, computer science, machine learning, statistics

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Pelech

Steven

Medicine

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Alzheimer's, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Brain, Cancer, Genetics, Health Care, Heart Disease, Research and Development, Science

general subject and cell communications; drug target discovery and drug development; molecular basis of disease; future of medicine; disease profiling; chemical basis of disease, proteomics, genetics; diseases of the brain - molecular basis; general subject and ethics; general - importance for health and economic development; general subject and philosophy and ethics

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Riddle

Donald

Science

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Aging, Genetics

genetics, animal development, aging, life span, gene regulation, cellular signaling

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Rieseberg

Loren

Science

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Agriculture, Biotechnology, Genetics, Plants

plant evolution, evolutionary genomics, invasive plants, plant domestication, speciation, sunflower

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Riseman

Andrew

Land and Food Systems

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Genetics, Plants

plant breeding; plant genetics; horticulture; roots; stress physiology

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Roskams

Jane

Science

French

Alzheimer's, Biology, Brain, Cancer, Genetics, Medicine, Schizophrenia, Science

neural regeneration; neural degeneration; neural stem cells; spinal cord regeneration;epigenetics; sensory loss; developmental brain disorders; multiple sclerosis; Alzheimer's disease; brain tumours

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Russello

Michael

Barber School of Arts and Sciences

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Environment, Genetics, Wildlife

conservation; population genetics; biological diversity; invasive species; phylogenetic; adaptation; molecular ecology; kokanee; pika

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Sadovnick

Dessa

Medicine

French

Aging, Alzheimer's, China, Genetics, Immigration, Chinese, Teaching

Alzheimer disease,Multiple Sclerosis,Genetic Epidemiology,Genetic Counseling,Genetics

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Simpson

Elizabeth M.

Medicine

some French and American Sign Language

Animals, Brain, Genetics, Human Behavior, Mental Health, Psychiatry

mouse models of disease; transgenic mice; knock-out mice; abnormal brain development; mental illness; behavior; genetics; genomics; violence; human disease; molecular genetics; neuronal stem cells

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Song

Weihong

Medicine

Chinese

Aging, Alzheimer's, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Brain, China, Drugs, Genetics, Mental Health, Microbiology, Psychiatry, Research and Development, Schizophrenia, Stress

Alzheimer's Disease, Down Syndrome, Mental Disorders, Genetics

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Spacey

Sian

Medicine

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Brain, Genetics

genetics of nueurological disease ie. migraine, epilepsy & movement disorders

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Stewart

S. Evelyn

Medicine

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Adolescence, Children, Families, Genetics, Mental Health, Psychology

obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, child and adolescent psychiatry, genetics

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Taylor

Eric

Science

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Animals, Aquaculture, Environment, Fisheries, Genetics, Science

possible threats to native fish; native BC fish biodiversity; fish biology and conservation; evolution

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Tebbutt

Scott

Medicine

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Biotechnology, Education, Genetics, Health Care, Medicine, Research and Development, Science, Technology

Genotyping, Genomics, Microarray, Asthma genetics, Diagnostics, Biomarkers, Allergic disease

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Wang

Tongli

Forestry

Chinese

Forestry, Genetics, Plants

climate models, climate change adaptation, ecosystem climate projection, species range projection, assistant migratoin

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Wellington

Cheryl

Medicine

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Aging, Alzheimer's, Biochemistry, Brain, Genetics, Heart Disease, Medicine, Research and Development, Science

Cholesterol, Alzheimer's Disease, Lipids, Down Syndrome

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Wong

Judy

Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Aging, Cancer, Genetics

Carcinogenesis, cancer, aging, genetics, chromosome stability

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Last reviewed 07-Jun-2010 Env: PROD / USER

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