Meet Our Team
Dr. Samira Mubareka
Samira Mubareka is a Clinician-Scientist and Medical Microbiologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor in Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. The Mubareka Lab operates through three main streams of research: virus biology (genomics), vaccines and therapeutics, and transmission and prevention. Many of our research projects are integrative and touch on more than one of these streams. This allows us to develop a holistic understanding of emerging and respiratory viruses.
Dr. Jeff Bowman
Jeff Bowman is a a government research scientist and adjunct professor at Trent University. His group studies wildlife ecology and evolution. We have a particular emphasis on identifying key ecological and evolutionary processes leading to the generation, maintenance, and loss of mammalian biodiversity in the temperate zone.
Dr. Arinjay Banerjee
Arinjay Banerjee is a virologist and comparative immunologist based at the Vaccine and Infectious Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. The laboratory investigates how zoonotic viruses interact with their wildlife reservoir hosts using a range of novel in vitro and in vivo models and a combination of classical and modern virology and -omics based techniques.
Dr. Finlay Maguire
Finlay Maguire is a jointly appointed faculty member in Computer Science and Community Health & Epidemiology at Dalhousie University. Their research group largely focuses on genomic epidemiology where they develop and apply novel microbial bioinformatics and machine learning approaches to better understand the diagnosis, evolution, and dynamics of infectious
diseases.
Dr. Andrew Doxey
Andrew Doxey is a bioinformatician and Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Waterloo, where he holds a University Research Chair. He is cross-appointed to the Cheriton School of Computer Science, and is also an adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. The Doxey lab focuses on bioinformatics, microbial genomics, and molecular evolution, and applies computational methods to discover new protein families and functions.
Dr. Claire Jardine
Claire Jardine is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathobiology and the regional director of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative for Ontario and Nunavut at the University of Guelph. Dr. Jardine’s research focuses on wildlife health and disease, with a particular focus on investigating the ecology of multi-host pathogens in wildlife populations and assessing the impact of environmental factors on pathogen occurrence.
Dr. Brad Pickering
Brad Pickering is the Head of Special Pathogens at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease (NCFAD) with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. His work focuses on high consequence emerging and re-emerging zoonotic viruses of veterinary importance with an emphasis on pathogenesis, host-virus interactions, and viral transmission.