Diogo ICSB 2023 Presentation
Diogo Pellegrina gave a talk at the International Conference on Systems Biology in Hartford (CT, USA). Diogo presented his recent work on human genetic varia...
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Masroor and Kevin GLBIO 2023 Poster Presentation
Masroor Bayati and Kevin Cheng gave a poster presentation at the GLBIO conference 2023 in Montreal from May 16th to 18th, 2023. Masroor’s poster title: Syste...
Mykhaylo CSHL 2023 Poster Presentation
Mykhaylo Slobodyanyuk (Reimand lab) gave a poster presentation at the 8th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting in NY (USA) on March 16, 2023. Poster title: ...
Mykhaylo ISMB 2022 talk
Mykhaylo Slobodyanyuk (Reimand lab) gave a talk at ISMB 2022 in Madison (WI) on his recent work on directional multi-omics approaches for pathway analysis an...
Kevin’s qualification exam
Congratulations to Kevin Cheng for passing his PhD qualification exam at UofT Department of Medical Biophysics! Kevin’s research focuses on mutational proces...
Alec’s qualification exam
Congratulations to Alec Bahcheli for passing his PhD qualification exam at UofT Department of Molecular Genetics! Alec’s research focuses on glioblastoma, wi...
Juri Seminar Series
Congratulations to Juri who presented “Mining the non-coding cancer transcriptome for biomarkers and functional insights” on March 31, 2022 for a Seminar Ser...
Masroor’s OICR Monday Talk
Congratulations to Masroor who participated in OICR Mondays event on March 28, 2022. The seminar name was “Immuno-oncology (IO): Moving beyond the asymptote”...
Welcome to new graduate students!
Welcome to new graduate students Zoe Klein, Masoom Mohammad, and Michael Slobodyanyuk who have joined our lab through the Departments of Molecular Genetics a...
Masroor’s qualification exam
Congratulations to Masroor Bayati for passing his PhD qualification exam at UofT Department of Medical Biophysics. Masroor’s thesis projects involve a mix of...
publications
Publication: In vivo CRISPR screens reveal Serpinb9 and Adam2 as regulators of immune therapy response in lung cancer
Nina Adler and Jüri Reimand collaborated with Dzana Dervovic and Daniel Schramek at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and UofT Department of Molecul...
Publication: Transcriptomic changes in liver transplant recipients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis indicate dysregulation of wound healing
Diogo Pellegrina co-led a collaboration with Dr. Mamatha Bhat (UHN) on the transcriptomic analysis of post-transplant liver disease that revealed dysregulati...
New preprint: Pan-cancer analysis of the ion permeome reveals functional regulators of glioblastoma aggression
We posted a new preprint on bioRxiv. Our integrative pan-cancer analysis shows that IP genes display highly-elevated expression patterns in subsets of cancer...
New preprint: Mutational processes of tobacco smoking and APOBEC activity generate protein-truncating mutations in cancer genomes
We posted a new preprint on bioRxiv. We analysed the protein-coding impact of single base substitution signatures in 12,341 cancer genomes from 18 cancer typ...
Collaborative study on RNA-binding protein Musashi-1(MSI1) published
Helen Zhu (MSc graduate of Reimand lab) and Jüri Reimand collaborated with Dr. Sheila Singh and team at McMaster University on a comprehensive multi-omics ch...
PPCG collaboration on pathway-based genetic biomarkers of prostate cancer
Jüri Reimand collaborated with the Pan-Prostate Cancer Group (PPCG) on a biomarker study of prostate cancer that was published in European Urology. The team ...
New preprint: Human phospho-signaling networks of SARS-CoV-2 infection are rewired by population genetic variants
We posted a new preprint on medRxiv on our recent study of human genetic variation affecting the phosphorylation signalling networks of SARS-CoV-2 infection....
New publication: Pan-cancer analysis of non-coding transcripts reveals the prognostic onco-lncRNA HOXA10-AS in gliomas
Our pan-cancer study of lncRNAs is now published at Cell Reports! We used a machine learning approach to find prognostic long non-coding RNAs in cancer and c...
Collaborative study on driver and pathway analysis in breast cancer published
Christian Lee and Jüri Reimand collaborated with Prof. Sean Egan’s team at SickKids Research Institute who led a comprehensive functional characterization of...
awards
Awards to Masroor Bayati
Congratulations to Masroor Bayati (Reimand lab) who was awarded the 2023-2024 MBP Excellence Award by the department of Medical Biophysics at the University ...
Award to Alec Bahcheli
Congratulations to Alec Bahcheli (Reimand lab) who was awarded the 2023-2024 Ontario Graduate Scholarship at the University of Toronto, department of Molecul...
Congratulations to Diogo Pellegrina
Congratulations to Diogo Pellegrina (Reimand lab) who received a postdoctoral STAGE HostSeq Project fellowship to continue studying the role of human genetic...
Award to Alec Bahcheli
Congratulations to Alec Bahcheli (Reimand lab) who was awarded the 2022-2023 Ontario Graduate Scholarship at the University of Toronto, department of Molecul...
PhD stipends awarded
Our PhD students Alec Bahcheli, Masroor Bayati and Kevin Cheng were awarded graduate student stipends for 2021-22. Alec received an Ontario Graduate Scholars...
publication
Publication on mutational processes and epigenetics in cancer
Our comprehensive analysis of mutational processes in cancer genomes and their epigenetic associations with tumor tissue of origin is now published in PLOS C...
Publication on human genetic variation of signaling networks of SARS-CoV-2 infection
On our recent proteogenomics study of SARS-CoV-2 infection is now published in Molecular Systems Biology (1). We analysed human genetic variation affecting t...
Preprint on mutational processes in cancer genomes
A new preprint on regional mutational processes in cancer genomes is now available in bioRxiv. The study investigated hundreds of epigenetic profiles of huma...
Publication on local mutational processes in cancer genomes
A new study on local mutational processes in cancer genomes is now published in Genome Biology. We studied the mutational processes affecting regulatory elem...
presentation
Reimand lab at the TFRI Scientific Meeting
Our lab attended the 9th Scientific Meeting of the Terry Fox Research Institute on November 3-6 2022 in Vancouver BC. Our PhD student Masroor Bayati received...
Jüri Reimand talk at the EMBO Modularity Meeting
Jüri Reimand attended the EMBO meeting on Modularity of Signaling Proteins and Networks in the beautiful town of Seefeld in Austria in September 2022. Jüri g...
update
New lab website
The new website of Reimand lab is now available. We are in construction mode and things will be updated daily. The site is based on Jekyll and run on GitHub ...
upgrade
system update
Jüri Reimand was promoted to associate professor at University of Toronto and investigator II at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Thanks to all the cur...
defences
Christian Lee MSc defence
Christian Lee successfully defended his master’s thesis on regional mutation processes affecting regulatory elements in cancer genomes. Christian received a ...