§ Research programme

The tumor in its host.
The microbe in its community.
One cell at a time.

We profile blood, tumors, and microbes from single cells to whole communities, and build the computational methods that turn those signals into predictions of treatment response and disease progression.

01 / 03
Immunity × Tumor
breast cancerDCISsystemic immunityblood transcriptomics

We profile blood and tumor at single-cell resolution to map the immune–tumor crosstalk, and build molecular predictors of recurrence and treatment response across invasive breast cancer and DCIS.

Methods — bulk + scRNA-seq · WES · spatial transcriptomics
02 / 03
Microbial Communities
gut microbiomeC. albicansfunctional archetypesscRNA-seq

Single-cell and computational approaches to read microbial life across scales: individual fungal cells, multi-species interactions, and the functional configurations that organize the human gut microbiome.

Methods — microbial scRNA-seq · deep learning · archetypal analysis
03 / 03
Computational Methods
systems epidemiologyFFPE RNA-seqmulti-tissue integration

We combine -omics with epidemiology to push complex real-world data toward questions of causation, not just correlation. The tools we've built along the way, such as MIxT, PREFFECT, and Candescence, support the rest of the lab's work.

Methods — probabilistic models · graph neural nets · R / Python packages
Funding sources
NSERCCIHRCancer Research SocietyVector InstituteCCSRISchulich Medicine & DentistryERC