Carl Virtanen
Bioinformatics Manager
Carl Virtanen received his M.Sc. in Theoretical Biology from the University of Guelph in 1995. Before joining the UHNMAC 5 years ago, he worked at Chugai Pharmaceuticals in Tokyo, Japan as a bioinformatics research scientist in the Gene Discovery and Signalling Division. Carl has extensive experience with microarray data analysis and the integration of genomic and biological information with the use of bioinformatics tools. He has published 13 papers and 3 book chapters . Carl has a broad base of skills: working as a professional programmer, acting as a bioinformatics consultant, and in designing high-performance computational clusters and databases for dealing with large datasets. He is well versed and passionate about biology in general and its application to medicine. Carl is particularly interested in cell signaling, genomics, and evolutionary theory. He currently oversees the analysis of all customer data from microarrays at the UHN Microarray Centre and manages and directs a core group to handle the large throughput at the Centre.
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Bioinformatician
No, the question marks above are not a mistake! We are currently looking for a new full time hire to join our Bioinformatics team. If you think you have what it takes, email Carl Virtanen above! Our best wishes go out to Zhibin Lu, who has moved to new challenges at the OICR. We look forward to continuing to work with Zhibin on projects as a collaboration.
Waterloo Co-op Program
Every 4 months, we have two students from the University of Waterloo join us.
Dedicated coders, they help program databases, software,
searches, and utilities such as the web pages you are looking at right now.
Without them, we would be unable to keep up with all the analyses!