Benoukraf Lab
Our multi-disciplinary laboratory focuses on omics interplay mechanisms in physiopathology.
Our hybrid (wet & dry) laboratory develops computational methods and an integrative database for sequencing analyses and omics interplay mining. Overall, our research on pan-omics analytics is divided into three axes:
- Understand the chromatin dynamics governed by the transcription factors and DNA methylation,
- Understand the micro-environment molecular changes governed by the microbiome
- Genome-wide mapping of structural variants and transposable elements and interplay with DNA methylation aberrations
NanoVar
Structural variant caller for low-depth Nanopore Sequencing in Patients’ samples
MethMotif
A transcription factor binding motifs database coupled with DNA methylation profiles
TFRegulomeR
Characterization of transcription factors’ context-specific features and functions
Impact de la méthylation de l’ADN sur la régulation transcriptionnelle
Biologie computationnelle des systèmes
9 Novembre 2022 à 14h
Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth
DNA sequencing technologies
Module MED 6591
November 29th 2022, 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Future of Genetics
Class of 2025 / Phase 3 Schedule
Future of Genetics
January 20th, 2023 11.30am (1M101)
Memorial University of Newfoundland
DNA sequencing technologies
Module CDM5104
January 27th 2023 4.00pm – 6.00pm.
National University of Singapore
Medical Genetics/Cancer and Development Seminar Series
Modules MED6400 / MED6412
January 23rd – April 14th, 2023 12.00pm – 1.30pm. (schedule available on D2L)
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Touati Benoukraf, PhD
Group Leader
Canada Research Chair in Bioinformatics for Personalised Medicine & Assistant Professor | Division of BioMedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Visiting Assistant Professor & co-Head: Genomics and Data Analytics Core (GeDaC) at the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore
Dr. Akinola A. Alafiatayo
MoH-TFRI / MITACS Post Doctoral Fellow
Omics in Colorectal Cancer
Zia Hasan
PhD Student (Neuro – Qi lab)
Alzheimer’s single cell omics interplays
Matthew Dyer
PhD Student (Genetics)
DNA methylation dynamics
MethMotif maintenance
Asmaa Mahmoud
PhD student (Genetics)
Characterization of structural variants and repetitive elements
Tian Qin
PhD Student (Neuro – Qi lab)
Dynamics of single-cell brain epigenomics during fear communication
Sofiia Shapoval
Master’s Students (Genetics)
Transcription factors and DNA methylation interplays
Chen Xiang
Master’s Student (Comp. Sci.)
Z-stack images processing
Zahra Vafadoost
Master’s Student (Genetics)
Microbiome analysis
Pipeline development
Gastongay Siu
Master’s Student (Genetics)
Computational epigenomics methods
Jason Huan
Professional Associate (Invited)
Full-stack software developer
Seminar on structural variations in Leukemia. Invited speakers: Touati Benoukraf.
TAGC, Aix-Marseille University, France | December 16, 2022
Conference on Microbiome. Poster presentation: Akinola A. Alafiatayo.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA | October 25 – 29, 2022
Invited speaker (TB) at the Toronto Bioinformatics Users Group seminar.
Toronto, ON, Canada | Feb. 24th, 2021.
Epigenetics in Cancer Symposium 2021. Our team is invited to talk (TB) and Matthew is presenting a poster on MethMotif.org.
NUS – Singapore | Feb. 15-17, 2021