INSPIRE Faculty Members

 

Faculty Instructors


Claudiu Gradinaru

Claudiu Gradinaru, PhD

Professor of Physics
Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences

Email: claudiu.gradinaru@utoronto.ca

Visit the Gradinaru Lab.

Voula Kanelis

Voula Kanelis, PhD

Associate Professor of Chemistry | Associate Chair, Research
Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences

Email: voula.kanelis@utoronto.ca

Visit the Kanelis Lab.

Josh Milstein

Josh Milstein, PhD

Associate Professor of Physics | Associate Vice-Principal, Research - Facilities
Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences

Email: josh.milstein@utoronto.ca

Visit the Milstein Lab.

 

Alana Ogata

Alana Ogata, PhD

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences

Email: alana.ogata@utoronto.ca

Visit the Ogata Lab.

Scott Prosser

Scott Prosser, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Biophysical Chemistry
Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences

Email: scott.prosser@utoronto.ca

Visit the Prosser Lab.

Sarah Rauscher

Sarah Rauscher, PhD

Assistant Professor of Physics
Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences

Email: sarah.rauscher@utoronto.ca

Visit the Rauscher Lab.

 

 

Invited Speakers


Cecile Fradin

Cécile Fradin, PhD

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University 

Visit the Fradin lab.

Julie Forman-Kay

Julie Forman-Kay, PhD

Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto | Sick Kids Research Institute

Visit the JFK Lab.

Avneet Ghotra

Avneet Ghotra

Co-founder and CTO, ALT TEX

Visit the ALT TEX website.

 

Jonathan Rocheleau

Jonathan Rocheleau, PhD

Percy Edward Hart Professor in Biomedical Engineering & Associate Director, Research, Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME), University of Toronto

Visit the IBME website.

John Rubinstein

John L. Rubinstein, PhD

Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto | Sick Kids Research Institute

Visit the Rubinstein Lab.

 

Ruby Sullan

Ruby Sullan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough | Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

Visit the Sullan Lab.

Tom Masterson

Tom Masterson

Chief of Staff and Director of Operations, Deep Genomics

Visit the Deep Genomics website.

Ignacio Mongrell

Ignacio Mongrell

Assistant Director, ICUBE, University of Toronto Mississauga

Visit the ICUBE website.

 

Vishar Yaghoubian

Vishar Yaghoubian

CEO and Co-founder, U Corp

Visit the U Corp website.

 

 

Module Instructors


Xiaohan Zhou

Gradinaru Lab

Instructor: Xiaohan Zhou

Sarah Quail

Kanelis Lab

Instructor: Sarah Quail 

Understanding the dynamics of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins using fluorescence quenching. 

Agatha Tymczak

Kanelis Lab

Instructor: Agatha Tymczak

Understanding the dynamics of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins using fluorescence quenching. 

 

Daniel Nino

Milstein Lab

Instructor: Daniel F. Nino

Introduction to single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) using DNA origami standards

Jared King

Ogata Lab

Instructor: Jared King

Advanced analytical techniques for single-molecule analysis of enzymes and nanomaterials

Louis-Phillipe Picard

Prosser Lab

Instructor: Louis-Phillipe Picard

NMR-based drug screening experiments and introduction to multidimensional NMR 

 

Eugene Klyshko

Rauscher Lab

Instructor: Eugene Klyshko

Using a "computational microscope" to study protein structure and dynamics