Students and trainees

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Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology

Students and trainees

Presently over 200 trainees are part of the OISB. Our trainees come from across Canada and around the world to gain expertise in this multidisciplinary and collaborative research environment.

Why join an OISB lab?

The classic approach to biomedical research was based on the study of a single gene or protein at a time. However, disease states do not solely impact one protein—they cause a wide range of effects on both the cell and the organism. The advent of “-omics” fields has led to a paradigm shift in biomedical research that allows one to take a holistic view of the complexities of the cell and the disease state. Researchers at the OISB are developing and applying innovative integrative biology approaches to the study of various human diseases. Emerging scientists at the OISB have a unique opportunity to gain valuable multidisciplinary training in a collaborative research environment. The OISB has many International Collaborations, Industrial Collaborations and affiliated training programs (NSERC CREATE programs and the CIHR/Genome Canada funded ''Canadian Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Science Training Platform'').

Students in the Harper Lab — Photo Credit: Harper Lab

Presently over 200 trainees are part of the OISB. Our trainees come from across Canada and around the world to gain expertise in this multidisciplinary and collaborative research environment. The principal investigators of the OISB are members of a wide-range of graduate programs and departments and they foster collaboration through a variety of opportunities including:

OISB retreats and social events
OISB trainee seminars on careers, networking and presentation skills
OISB Paper of the Year Awards
OISB Early Career Researcher Award

“What has made the OISB so fantastic for me is the breadth of accessible expertise, the availability of advanced instruments, and the ongoing help and mentorship by all the members.”

Afnan Azizi

— Master's Student, Kaern Laboratory

OISB students and trainees

Reflecting the diverse and multidisciplinary approaches of the OISB, our principal investigators supervise students from a various graduate programs at uOttawa in both the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science:

Trainees interested in joining the OISB for graduate studies are advised to contact professors whose research interests them. Please consult individual programs for entry requirements.