Sakshi Shinghal
Sakshi is a 4th year Genetics and Genome Biology Student, minoring in CompSci. She plans to pursue a PhD in population genetics after graduation. She is currently working in the Provart Lab to help build a gene visualisation tool that will allow researchers to display their information visually in an accessible way. When she's not in lab you can probably find her counting fish under the sea.
Rachel Woo
Rachel is a student of Bioinformatics at UofT. Her fourth-year project at the Provart Lab consists of helping create a tool to display and explore gene regulatory networks. Rachel is passionate about the user experience, data visualization and evolutionary biology.
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Ida Liu
Ida is a 3rd year Mathematics and Statistics student. She spent her summer building a Python package for genomic analysis, and has joined Provart Lab to do more computational biology! She is working on the pathway viewer in ePlant (https://bar.utoronto.ca/eplant/), which generates visualizations of biological pathways. In her spare time, she likes to learn about new technologies, hopefully contribute to more open source projects and eating lots of good food!
Wen Kai Cao
Wen Kai is a third year Bioinformatics and Computational biology student. His project in the Provart Lab is to implement an interspecies nsSNPs viewer. He is willing to try new kinds of food as new technologies. He wants to unzip the myth under the gene.
Bruno Pereira
Bruno is a student in the Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Specialist program at U of T. His third-year project at the Provart Lab involves helping develop a web-based gene regulatory network viewer for Arabidopsis. Aside from biology and coding, he is interested in music, football, and the game of Go.
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YueXin Yu
Yuexin is a 4th year Bioinformatic and Computational Biology undergraduate in University of Toronto, minor in Mathematics. Her fourth-year project in the Provart Lab is to build a protein-ligand docking function webserver with heat map result visualization. She is interested in data analysis and computational biology. LinkedIn
Vinayak Tuteja
Vinayak is a third year Bioinformatics and Computational Biology student. His project at the Provart lab is to analyse VCF files for P. trichocarpa as a data source for the SNP viewer. Aside from BCB, he loves discovering music from different genres and trying new food.
Luke Zhang
Luke is a 4th year student of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. His project with the Provart Lab was to analyze genomic variation data for poplar and tomato, in an effort to build a cross-species nsSNP visualization tool. When he's not cramming his studies, Luke enjoys writing, playing video games, listening to music, and learning new pieces for the piano.
Yue Wei Wang
Yuwei is a 4th-year Bioinformatics and Computational Biology undergraduate student at University of Toronto. Her project in the Provart Lab is to analyze protein structure prediction programs for nsSNP predictions and implement the nsSNP-mutated structure generation endpoint on BAR API. Aside from BCB, she is interested in cooking and listening to music.
Karyn Komatsu
Karyn is Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Specialist student at UofT. She is passionate about data visualization, coding, fishes, and literary devices. Her project at the Provart Lab involved development of B. distachyon metabolite eFP Browser to visualize metabolite data by colour gradient.
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Terrence Amponsah
Terrence's project seeks to annotate and database Soybean (G. max) genetic variation data to extend an existing ePlant tool, SNPer. Interests: Terrence is passionate about software development and enjoys seeking ways to keep up with new technologies.
Rico Zong
Rico is a fourth year BCB student. His project in the Provart Lab is developing a web-based protein-ligand docking application on BAR-API and study the best tool for mutagenesis docking. Other than science, he is also interested in sports, music and cooking.
Isaiah Hazelwood
Isaiah is a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology student. His NSERC Summer Research project investigated nsSNP hotspots in Arabidopsis and poplar homologous proteins. Outside the lab, he enjoys baking, reading science fiction, and playing guitar.
Tian Yan Zhou
Tian Yan is a fourth-year Bioinformatics and Computational Biology student. Her project was to incorporate the rice non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphism and protein structure data of rice into the ePlant molecule viewer. She is also doing her art history minor degree and enjoys visiting art museums and seeing Renaissance paintings.
Shauna Vronces
Shauna is a fifth-year bioinformatics and computational biology specialist and Cell and Molecular Biology major. She is really interested in plant biology and coding, and learning new ways to combine these two fields. She has also worked at Starbucks in Union Station for the last 3.5 years and when she's not there or at school, she likes to read, listen to music, and play video games.
Metyu Melkonyan
Metyu is a fourth year CSB specialist student. He has been involved in development of a web-based protein docking application. He is interested in research in structural biology and genome biology of both plant and animals (Arabidopsis and human) by using bioinformatics and computational methods. He would like to play soccer and cook in his free time. Also he is intereted in learning different programming languages and interested in app development.
Fang Yi Li
Fangyi is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto specializing in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Her project involves Sorghum bicolor RNA-seq analysis and creating a new view in the Sorghum eFP browser. She enjoys playing video games and spending time with her friends and dogs.
Dien Nguyen
Dien is a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Specialist and Computer Science major. Her hobbies include rock climbing, crochet, and cooking.
Emma (Jian Yun) Zhuang
Emma is a 4th-year Computer Science student who is passionately exploring how modern machine learning models can be applied to address real-world challenges. She joined the Provart Lab last year, where she employs large language models to extract and synthesize insights from gene-related publications for GAIA, bridging the gap between computational power and biological research. Emma finds joy in playing badminton and spending time with her adorable cat.
Wet Lab Students
Shiza Shaikh
Wet-lab undergraduate student.
Manal Choudhry
Wet-lab undergraduate student.