Research Team
Principal Investigators
- John MacKay, Project Leader
Wood Professor of Forest Science, University of Oxford
Formerly of the Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval
E-mail : john.mackay@plants.ox.ac.uk - Joerg Bohlmann, Project Leader
Professor, Michael Smith Laboratories/ Departments of Forest Sciences and Botany,
University of British Columbia
E-mail : bohlmann@msl.ubc.ca - Jean Beaulieu
Invited Professor, Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval
E-mail : jean.beaulieu@sbf.ulaval.ca - Inanç Birol
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia
E-mail: ibirol@bcgsc.ca - Jean Bousquet
Professor, Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval
E-mail : jean.bousquet@sbf.ulaval.ca - Gary Bull
Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia
E-mail: gary.bull@ubc.ca - Janice Cooke
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
E-mail: janice.cooke@ualberta.ca - Nancy Gélinas
Professor, Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval
E-mail : nancy.gelinas@sbf.ulaval.ca - Nathalie Isabel
Researcher, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
E-mail : nathalie.isabel@canada.ca - Steven Jones
Associate Director and Head Bioinformatics, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency
E-mail : sjones@bcgsc.ca - Kermit Ritland
Professor, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia
E-mail : kermit.ritland@ubc.ca - Armand Séguin
Researcher, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
E-mail : armand.seguin@canada.ca - Alvin Yanchuk
Senior scientist, Forest genetics, British-Columbia Forest Service
E-mail : alvin.yanchuk@gov.bc.ca
Project Management
- Sophie Laviolette, Co-Project Manager, Université Laval
- Carol Ritland, Co-Project Manager, University of British Columbia
E-mail: critland@mail.ubc.ca
Postdoctoral Research Associates
- Sylvie Carles
- José Celedón
- Trevor Doerkson
- Emmanuel Duchateau
- Katrin Geisler
- Julie Godbout
- Jill Hamilton
- Benjamin Hornoy
- Yu Huang
- Chris Keeling
- Patrick Lenz
- Hai-Lan Liu
- Melissa Mageroy
- Julien Prunier
- Tim Sexton
- Justin Whitehill
Graduate Students
M.Sc. & Ph.D.
- Suborna Ahmed
- Amanda Gregoris
- Mebarek Lamara
- Kyle Lochhead
- Véronique Maltais
- Chelsea Nilausen
- Elie Raherison
- Christopher Roach
- Atef Sahli
- Kate Storey
- Jukka-Pekka Verta
Research Assistants
- Sylvie Blais
- Sébastien Caron
- Angela Chiang
- Marie Deslauriers
- Catherine Dhont
- France Gagnon
- Sébastien Gérardi
- Isabelle Giguère
- Marie-Claude Gros-Louis
- Hannah Henderson
- Sharon Jancsik
- Walid El Kayal
- Alfonso Lara Quesada
- Betty Pelgas
- Harpreet Sandhu
- Mylène Savard
- Agnes Yuen
Bioinformaticians
- Sébastien Clément
- Astrid Deschênes
- Nima Farzaneh
- Joel Fillon
- Vincent Huang
- Patricia Lavigne
- Evan Morien
- Anh Nguyen
- Nathalie Pavy
- Dominik Royko
- Mack Yuen
Project / Facility / Lab Manager
- Gabrielle Bouchard, Administrative Assistant, Université Laval
- Dominique Déchène, Management Assistant, Université Laval
- Karen Reid, Lab Manager, University of British Columbia
- Béatrice Riché, Co-Project Manager, Université Laval
- Sauphie Senneville, Co-Project Manager, Université Laval
- Kate Wilczak, Administrative Assistant, University of British Columbia
E-mail: bohlmann.office@ubc.ca