Michelle Brazas
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| Thesis | Responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to sub-inhibitory antibiotics (2005) |
Michelle Denise Brazas is a computational biologist and director of adaptive oncology at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.[1]
Education
Brazas gained her PhD in microbiology from the University of British Columbia in 2005, under the direction of Robert E. W. Hancock.[2][3] Her thesis was on the responses of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa to sub-inhibitory antibiotics.[4]
Career and research
Brazas held a research faculty position at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, before moving to Toronto.[1] She joined the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in 2007 as a manager of research and knowledge exchange, becoming director of adaptive oncology in 2024.[5] Since 2021, she has also been scientific Director of Bioinformatics.ca, a national bioinformatics training and community building program.[1] She has served as secretary, executive committee member and chair of the nominations committee in the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).[6]
Awards and honours
In 2026, Brazas was named by the ISCB as an ISCB Fellow.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 "IG Institute Advisory Board Members – Biographies - CIHR". cihr-irsc.gc.ca. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "Alumni Theses - Hancock Lab". Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "Indigenous Trainee Circle for Bioinformatics Training". itcbt.ca. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "Responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to sub-inhibitory antibiotics - UBC Library Open Collections". open.library.ubc.ca. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
- 1 2 "April 21, 2026: ISCB Announces the 2026 Class of Fellows!". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 22 July 2026.