Grant: Canada Research Chairs

This Tier 2 NSERC Canada Research Chair program applies cutting-edge statistical algorithms to achieve a comprehensive understanding of biological systems. Multi-view datasets are used in bioinformatics to create more accurate representations of individuals by using different sources such as microbiome and metagenomic data. Challenges include the large-scale nature of these datasets, differences between data types, and inability to generalize across biological systems. Dr. Sanjeena Dang has developed powerful statistical models that overcome these difficulties by providing efficient and scalable techniques to identify important biological co-variates, characterize temporal microbiome trajectories, and explore the underlying biological mechanisms driving these large-scale genomic datasets.